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

Louie begs the Bird for work: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

7

“Goat die, you die”: Ibid.

8

Marvin steals rope: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 31, 2005.

9

Goat dies: Tom Wade, telephone interview, January 2, 2005; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience.

10

The Bird forces Louie to hold beam: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005; Wade, p. 166; Tom Wade, telephone interview, January 2, 2005; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience; Affidavit, Louis Zamperini, from files on Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

11

Thirty-seven minutes: Wade, p. 166.

12

B-29 flyover on August 1: “Record Raid Hits Four Jap Cities,”

Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

, August 1, 1945.

13

Biggest World War I raid by tonnage: Kerr,

Flames

, pp. 269–70. 296 Nagaoka civilians think napalm is rain: “Nagaoka Air Raid, August 1, 1945,”

http://www.echigonagaoka.com/index.html

(accessed October 5, 2009).

14

The Bird beats men on August 1: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

15

Skyline glowing: Wall, p. 300.

16

Leaflets, Japanese government forbids people from keeping, sharing leaflets: Josette H. Williams, “The Information War in the Pacific, 1945: Paths to Peace,” Central Intelligence Agency Center for the Study of Intelligence, May 8, 2007,

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi- studies/studies/vol46no3/article07.html

(accessed April 29, 2010).

17

Louie sicker: Louis Zamperini, POW diary; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

18

Boot licking: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Affidavit, Louis Zamperini, from files of Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP; Louis Zamperini, POW diary; “42nd Bombardment Squadron: Addendum to Squadron History,” September 11, 1945, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB, Ala.

19

Push-ups over latrine: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,”

NYT

, September 9, 1945.

20

Bird threatens to drown Louie: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,”

NYT

, September 9, 1945.

21

Murder plot: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.