Unbroken_ A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand [207]
30 Phil runs from meeting to write home: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, October 7, 1942.
31 Training for crashes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Service Department, Emergency Procedure: B-24 Airplane (San Diego: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1944), pp. 21–25.
32 “kind of silly”: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
33 “a damn swell pilot”: “Son of Pickett ‘Sky Pilot’ Pilots Bomber Over Wake I,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN.
34 Phil’s B-24: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
35 Phil’s dream of Cecy: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, August 15, 1942.
36 Phil misses Cecy by three days: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, November 2, 1942.
37 B-24 names: “Warpaint Photo Album,” Something About Everything Military, http://www.jcs-group.com/military/war1941aaf/warpaint1.html (accessed September 26, 2009).
38 Moznette names plane: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, February 13, 1943.
39 Phil says plane masculine: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, March 25, 1943.
40 Japan’s empire: West Point Atlas for the Second World War, Asia and the Pacific, map 22.
Chapter 7: “This Is It, Boys”
1 Oahu in 1942: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Cleveland, p. 158.
2 “one sees only about ⅓”: Cleveland, p. 158.
3 Barracks: Jesse Stay, “Twenty-nine Months in the Pacific,” unpublished memoir.
4 “You kill one”: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, December 8, 1942.
5 “like a dozen dirty”: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, April 2, 1943.
6 Water fight: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, May 12, 1943.
7 Beer fight: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
8 Pornography: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, December 29, 1942.
9 Greenhouse windows froze: Cleveland, 103.
10 Phil hits pole: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, March 27, 1943.
11 Gunnery, bomb scores: Louis Zamperini, war diary, January 20, 30, February 2, and March 21, 1943 entries.
12 Sea search: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 27, 2004; Louis Zamperini, war diary, March 14, 1943, entry; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
13 Diving over sub: Louis Zamperini, diary, March 14, 1943.
14 Practical jokes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.
15 “kind of daring”: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
16 Leisure-time activities: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, war diary, November 1942–May 1943 entries.
17 Wake attack: Louis Zamperini, war diary, December 22–25, 1942, entries; Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 27, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Jesse Stay, telephone interviews, July 23, 2004, and March 16, 2005; “Son of Pickett ‘Sky Pilot’ Pilots Bomber over Wake I,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; Walter Clausen, undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Delphi Flyer Is Given Medal for Pacific Bombing,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Former La Porte Youth Helps to Bomb Wake Isle,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Fledglings’ Raid on Wake Token of Things to Come,” Berkshire Evening Eagle, January 2, 1943; St. Louis Globe, undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Their Raid on Wake Biggest of Year,” Mansfield News-Journal, January 2, 1943; “Tells of Raid on Wake Island,” Mansfield News-Journal, January 2, 1943; “Nobody Scared in Raid on Wake Island, Ace Says,” Ada Evening News, January 2, 1943; Walter Clausen, “Hawaii Fliers Get Jap Planes in Wake Raid,” undated article