Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“a volcano-like mass”: Charles P. Arnot, “Raid on Nauru Told in Detail by Eyewitness,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN.

10

Eight hundred rounds per minute: “Pistol Packin’ Warplanes,”

Popular Mechanics

, April 1944, p. 2.

11

If he’d just:

Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 26, 2004.

12

“

Ow!”:

Ibid.

13

One more pass:

Louis Zamperini, diary, April 1943, memoranda page.

14

I have to kill:

Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 26, 2004.

15

Japanese never retrieved phosphates: Jane Resture, “Nauru: A Short History,”

http://www.janeresture.com/nauru_history/index.htm

(accessed September 13, 2009).

16

Pillsbury’s injuries: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 26, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, diary, April 20–22, 1943, and memoranda page.

17

Manual alternatives to flaps, gear:

Flight Manual: B-24D

, pp. 71–75.

18

standard landing speed: Charlie Tilghman, B-24 pilot, Commemorative Air Force, telephone interview, February 14, 2007;

B-24 Liberator Pilot Training Manual

.

19

B-24 without brakes needed 10,000 feet: Charlie Tilghman, B-24 pilot, Commemorative Air Force, telephone interview, February 14, 2007.

20

“all torn to pieces” Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 26, 2004.

21

Parachute idea: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 26, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, diary, April 1943, memoranda page.

22

Belle of Texas:

Cleveland, pp. 183, 464; 11th Bomb Group (H),

The Gray Geese

(Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing, 1996), p. 73.

23

594 holes: Charles McMurtry, “Liberator, Hit 594 Times, Wings Home Safely,”

Richmond News Leader

, May 14, 1943.