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5 Murder plots at Mitsushima: Weinstein, pp. 287–94.
6 “whimpering,” “almost hysterically”: Ibid.
7 Beating after theft of fish: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005; Wade, pp. 163–64; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience, 1946; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,” NYT, September 9, 1945.
8 Some 220 punches: Wade, p. 163.
9 “the Lone Ranger”: Wall, p. 300.
10 “all lit up”: Ibid.
11 Man dies after work: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
12 The Bird breaks man’s jaw: Affidavit, Arthur Klein, from files on Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
13 POWs ask for meat, dog killed: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
14 Rations to be cut in winter: Wade, p. 165.
15 “hanging on from day to day”: Wall, p. 300.
16 “Frisco dive in ’45”: Knox, p. 417.
17 beriberi in civilians: Wade, p. 158.
18 men stop stealing: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 21, 2005.
19 Women with sharpened sticks, children with wooden guns: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.
20 Batu Lintang: Ooi Keat Gin, ed., Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945 (Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 612, 648.
21 Written death orders in camp offices: Ibid., p. 648.
22 Omori POWs told of death plan: Martindale, p. 223; Robert Martindale, telephone interview, January 2, 2005; Affidavit, Arthur Laurence Maher, from files on Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
23 Preparations for killing: Ken Marvin, telephone interview, January 31, 2005; Wade, p. 167; Daws, pp. 324–25; Tom Wade, telephone interview, January 2, 2005.
24 Rokuroshi: George Steiger, “Captain George Steiger: A POW Diary,” http://www.fsteiger.com/gsteipow.html (accessed October 2, 2009); K. C. Emerson, Guest of the Emperor (Sanibel Island: 1977), pp. 77–79; Donald T. Giles, Jr., ed., Captive of the Rising Sun: The POW Memoirs of Rear Admiral Donald T. Giles (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994), pp. 146–54.
25 This is the place: Giles, p. 154.
26 Naoetsu POWs to be taken into the mountains: Wade, p. 166; Wall, p. 300.
27 Civilian gives death date: John Cook, “Japan: C Force,” unpublished memoir.
Chapter 30: The Boiling City
1 B-29s coming over every night: Wall, p. 300.
2 The Bird tormenting men after raids: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience.
3 Face slapping: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, 1946 notes on captive experience.
4 Louie clubbed on ankle: Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.
5 Port closed, shipping hit: Wall, p. 300; “Jap Shipping, Planes Hard Hit in July,” Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, August 1, 1945.
6 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