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

, November 28, 1946.

15

Louie’s nightmares, drinking, decline, resolution to kill the Bird: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

Chapter 36: The Body on the Mountain

1

Manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

2

Officer’s visit: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

3

Watanabe’s flight and quotes in this section: Ibid.

4

Conviction rates: John W. Dower,

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

(New York: Norton, 1999), p. 447.

5

Ofuna convictions: “Jap Officers to Be Hanged for POW Brutality,”

San Mateo

(Calif.)

Times

, October 13, 1948; William R. Gill and Davis P. Newton, “A Compilation of Biographical Source Documents Concerning Major William Herald Walker, U.S. Army Air Force (1919–1945), a Prisoner of War in Japan During World War II,” 1999; “8th Army Commission Court Gives Sentence to POW Torturers,”

Pacific Stars and Stripes

, February 29, 1948.

6

Naoetsu convictions: Lyon, pp. 49–51.

7

Sasaki’s capture, trial, imprisonment: Kunichi Sasaki and James Kunichi Sasaki records from RG 331, RAOOH, WWII, 1907–1966, SCAP, Legal Section, Administration Division and Prosecution Division, NACP: Kunichi Sasaki, Isamu Sato, Kazuo Akane, 1945–1948, Investigation and Interrogation Reports; Nakakichi Asoma et al., trial, exhibits, appeal, and clemency files; Nakakichi Asoma et al., 1945–1952, POW 201 File, 1945–1952, Charges and Specifications, 1945–1948.

8

Kano: Martindale, pp. 230, 240; Gamble, p. 339; Yukichi Kano, “Statement of Yukichi Kano, Tokio P.O.W. Camp H.Q. (Omori),” undated, from papers of Robert Martindale; Yukichi Kano, SCAP, Legal Section, Administration Division (10/02/1945–04/28/1952), File Unit from RG 331: RAOOH, WWII 1907–1966, Series POW 201 File, 1945– 1952, NACP.

9

Kato accused of kicking a man nearly to death: Martindale, p. 141.

10

“Cross my heart”: Yukichi Kano, “Statement of Yukichi Kano, Tokio P.O.W. Camp H.Q. (Omori),” undated, from papers of Robert Martindale.

11

“I thought I”: Yukichi Kano, letter to Robert Martindale, December 23, 1955.

12

Watanabe in hiding: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

13

Intensified manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.