Cecy moves to D.C., visits fortune-teller: Terry Hoffman, telephone interview, March 6, 2007.
17
“This year sure”: Delia Robinson, letter to Louise Zamperini, June 23, 1944.
18
“We thought surely”: Mrs. A. J. Deane, letter to Louise Zamperini, June 27, 1944.
19
Death notice: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
20
“None of us”: Ibid.
21
Plan to find Louie: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004.
1
Escape plot: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
2
Rations cut: John A. Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
3
Louie stealing food, starching shirts: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
4
Barbering job: Ibid.
5
Official says POWs will be killed: John A. Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
6
Stealing map from Mummy: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
7
Getting info about Saipan: Ibid.
8
Sasaki’s sudden change: Ibid.
9
Murder on Tinian: Eric Lash, “Historic Island of Tinian,”
, October 2008, vol. 1, 2nd edition; Major General Donald Cook, “20th Air Force Today,”
, Fall 1998.
10
Infestation, leeches, “You should be happy”: John Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
11
Fitzgerald sees stealing: John Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
12
Putrid fish, Quack beating: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.
13
Murder of Gaga: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
14
Louie thinking of home: Ibid.
15
Plan to escape by boat: Ibid.
