42
Occupying forces don’t arrive: John Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
43
Fitzgerald hits official: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 31, 2005.
44
POWs walk to train: Wall, p. 304; Wade, p. 170; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
45
Fitzgerald stays: John Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.
46
Japanese saluting: Wall, p. 304.
1
POWs on train: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 21, 2005; Wade, p. 171; Knox, p. 452; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
2
“First there were trees”: Knox, p. 451.
3
“Welcome back, boys”: Wade, p. 171.
4
“Before me in immaculate khaki uniform”: Ibid.
5
Women like goddesses: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 21, 2005.
6
Trumbull encounters Louie: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; “Zamperini Gives Sidelights of His Dramatic Trip Back,” October 1, 1945, NPN, from papers of Louis Zamperini; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.
7
“Zamperini’s dead”: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
8
“If I knew”: Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,”
, September 9, 1945.
9
Hoarding K rations: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.
10
Rosynek watches men deplane: Frank Rosynek, email interview, June 21, 2005.
11
POW told his wife married his uncle: “Sends Love Message to Soldier Husband,”
, September 11, 1945.
12
Louie interviewed: Frank Rosynek, written interview, December 8, 2007.
13
“Well, I’ll be damned”: Jack Krey, telephone interview, August 18, 2005.
14
11th Bomb Group, 42nd squadron men lost: Cleveland, pp. 484–85.
15
Only four of sixteen men from barracks alive: Jesse Stay, “Twenty-nine Months in the Pacific,” unpublished memoir.
