1
Heat: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,”
, September 9, 1945.
2
Rain falls, catching water: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
3
Phil cold at night: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
4
Phil thought birds must have thought them jetsam: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
5
Catching albatross: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
6
Fishing: “42nd Bombardment Squadron: Addendum to Squadron History,” September 11, 1945, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB, Ala.; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
7
What more bad luck could they have?: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
8
Sniffing wax: Ibid.
9
Phil’s thoughts of Rickenbacker: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997; Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, March 10, 1943.
10
Rickenbacker’s ordeal: Edward Rickenbacker, “Pacific Mission, Part I,”
, January 25, 1943, pp. 20–26, 90–100; Edward Rickenbacker, “Pacific Mission, Part III,”
, February 8, 1943, pp. 94–106; Edward Rickenbacker,
(Garden City: Doubleday, 1951).
11
Navy men survive on raft in 1942: Robert Trumbull,
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1942).
12
Poon Lim: “Tells of 132 Days on Raft,”
, May 25, 1943 (title was incorrect as to number of days); “Poon Lim,” Fact Archive,
http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Poon_Lim
(accessed September 15, 2009).
13
Phil thinking of how long they’d been floating: Russell Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
14
Quizzing: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Russell Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
15
Mac’s withdrawal: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
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