MacArthur arrest list: “MacArthur’s Round Up of Criminals,”
(Melbourne), September 25, 1945; “Tojo Shoots Self to Avoid Arrest; MacArthur Orders 39 Other Criminals Arrested,”
, September 11, 1945.
7
Tojo suicide attempt: “Think Tojo Had Planned Suicide,”
(Iowa)
, September 11, 1945; “Blood of Men He Sought to Destroy May Save Life of Man Ordering Pearl Harbor Attack,”
(Iowa)
, September 11, 1945; Robert Martindale, telephone interview, January 2, 2005.
8
Watanabe flees: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”
, April 1956, translated from Japanese.
9
Watanabe hears name listed with Tojo, resolves to disappear: Ibid.
10
Manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
11
Fake letter: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”
, April 1956, translated from Japanese.
12
Watanabe said he’d rather die than be captured: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
13
Wave of suicides: Philip R. Piccigallo,
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979), p. 45.
14
Affidavits: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331,0020NACP.
15
Two thousand letters: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 5, 1946.
16
Ringing phone, ninety-five speeches: Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.
17
“It was like he got hit”: Payton Jordan, telephone interviews, August 13, 16, 2004.
18
Louie drives to forest: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
19
dinner, drinking: Ibid.
20
