Rice stealing: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
22
Marvin teaching Bad Eye: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 21, 2005.
23
Leg injured: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, POW diary.
24
Louie’s fever spikes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
25
Louie tailors clothes: Ibid.
26
Pig duty: Ibid.; Wade, p. 149; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience.
1
May 5, 1945, B-29 raid: Wall, p. 299; John Cook, email interview, October 30, 2004.
2
Four hundred POWs arrive: John A. Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
3
“You must be sober!”: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 21, 2005.
4
The Bird at Mitsushima: Weinstein, pp. 287–94; Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
5
Murder plots at Mitsushima: Weinstein, pp. 287–94.
6
“whimpering,” “almost hysterically”: Ibid.
7
Beating after theft of fish: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005; Wade, pp. 163–64; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience, 1946; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,”
, September 9, 1945.
8
Some 220 punches: Wade, p. 163.
9
“the Lone Ranger”: Wall, p. 300.
10
“all lit up”: Ibid.
11
Man dies after work: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
12
The Bird breaks man’s jaw: Affidavit, Arthur Klein, from files on Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
13
POWs ask for meat, dog killed: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
14
Rations to be cut in winter: Wade, p. 165.
15
“hanging on from day to day”: Wall, p. 300.
16
“Frisco dive in ’45”: Knox, p. 417.
