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26 “That day”: Ibid.
27 Louie remains in Okinawa: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.
28 Hospital parties: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
29 Louie startling USC recruiter: Ibid.
30 Typhoon: Ibid.
31 Louie flies in B-24: Ibid.; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.
32 Overloaded B-24 crashes: Martindale, p. 243.
33 “This is Kwajalein”: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
34 One tree left on island: Ibid.
35 Hospitalization mandatory: Bernard M. Cohen and Maurice Z. Cooper, A Follow-up Study of World War II Prisoners of War (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955), p. 40.
36 Garrett and Louie stay together: Ibid.
37 Louie loses beloved shirt: Ibid.
38 Louie and Garrett wrestle on beach: Ibid.
39 “I just thought I was empty”: Ibid.
40 Wade goes home: Wade, p. 179; Tom Wade, letter to Louis Zamperini, August 20, 1946.
41 Phil’s homecoming: Kelsey Phillips, “A Life Story,” unpublished memoir; telegram and photographs from Phillips scrapbook.
42 Pete and Louie meet: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
43 Louie flown home: Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946; “Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004.
44 “Cara mamma mia”: “Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN.
PART V
Chapter 34: The Shimmering Girl
1 “This, this little home”: “Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN.
2 Homecoming: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
3 Louie hears record: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
4 Nightmare about the Bird: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
5 Wade named Watanabe: Wade, p. 176.
6 MacArthur arrest list: “MacArthur’s Round Up of Criminals,” Argus (Melbourne), September 25, 1945; “Tojo Shoots Self to Avoid Arrest; MacArthur Orders 39 Other Criminals Arrested,” Port Arthur News, September 11, 1945.
7 Tojo suicide attempt: “Think Tojo Had Planned Suicide,” Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, September 11, 1945; “Blood of Men He Sought to Destroy May Save Life of Man Ordering Pearl Harbor Attack,” Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, September 11, 1945; Robert Martindale, telephone interview, January 2, 2005.
8 Watanabe flees: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,” Bingei Shunjyu, 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,” Bingei Shunjyu, 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, The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951 (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 Los Angeles Times dinner, drinking: Ibid.
20 Zamperini Invitational Mile: “Hero Takes Mile