## page was renamed from Unbroken = Louis Zamperini = ----- == Unbroken == === Laura Hillenbrand 2010 === ==== Beaverton Lib 940.5472 HIL ==== . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbroken_(film) | Unbroken (film) ]] . USAAF Pilot [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini | Louis Zamperini ]] , Japanese POW Camps . scrambled timeline preface .xvii preface 1943/6/23 raft in Pacific, 27 days after crash .xviii strafed by Japanese bomber .003 1929/8/26 12yo LZ childhood home [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California | Torrance CA ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin#Round-the-world_flight_(1929) | Graf Zeppelin ]] overhead at night .005 LZ born 1917/1/26 in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olean,_New_York | Olean NY ]] f. Anthony railway electrician, m. Louise .005-007 hellion, scared of airplane flights 008 older brother Pete, younger sisters Silvia and Virginia .013 1931 Louis steals tickets, brother Pete convinces school principal to let Louis run track, Pete coached him .015 Louis surrenders to Pete, seriously runs, 016 builds lungs, 225 seconds underwater .017 swivelling hips, seven foot stride, 1933 high school class president, wins races, breaks records .018 wins 1933 UCLA Cross Country two-mile race by more than a quarter mile .020 1934 National high school 4:21.3 mile, beating 4.23.6 record, broken by Bob Seaman in 1953 .025 Wins 1936 Olympic trials 5000 meter race in New York, overeats on ship .034 7th in race, 14:46.8, fastest American 5000 in 1936, fastest last lap ever 56 seconds .035 Hitler says (translated) "Ah, you're the boy with the fast finish" .036 Steals chancellery flag, allowed to keep it .040 USC, Jimmy Sazaki p46 Japanese spy .041 June 1938, NCAA championship, attacked and boxed by other runners, still wins mile with 4:08.3, NCAA record until 1973 .044 1940 Olympics Japan host withdraws, Finland alternate attacked, leaves USC a few credits short, welder at Lockheed .044 early 1941 joins Army Air Corps, washes out, joins army again September 29 .052 Japan attacks Wake Island air base Dec 11, lose two destroyers and 1153 men, Americans lose 52, 98 captured Dec 23 .053 kludge bombsight and an $8000 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight | Norden bombsight ]] .054 Louis visits home, then to Ephrata (WA) Army Airfield .055 pilot [[ https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/12/25/deceased-indiana-teacher-featured-in-unbroken/20892455/ | Russell Allen Phillips ]] "Phil" Indiana, Purdue U .058 Top turret gunner & engineer Stanley Pillsbury, Maine .058 Waist gunner & engineer Clarence Douglas, Virginia .058 Nose gunner & navigator Robert Mitchell, Illinois .058 Belly gunner & radioman Frank Glassman, Chicago .058 Tail gunner Ray Lambert, Maryland .058 Waist gunner & radioman Harry Brooks, Michigan .058 Co-pilot George Moznette .059 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/372nd_Bombardment_Squadron | 372nd Bomb Squadron ]] 307th Bomb Group Seventh Air Force, B-24D .059 no steering, taxi with engine power and brakes, Flying Coffin || Aircraft || [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator | B-24J Liberator ]] || [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress/ | B-17 Flying Fortress ]] || || Production || 18,188 || 12,731 || || Crew || 11 || 10 || || Length || 67 ft 2 in || 74 ft 4 in || || Wingspan || 110 ft || 103 ft 9 in || || Height || 17 ft 7.5 in || 19 ft 1 in || || Wing area || 1,048 sq ft || 1,420 sq ft || || Aspect ratio || 11.55 || 7.57 || || Zero-lift drag coefficient CD || CD 0.0406 || || || Frontal area || 42.54 sq ft || || || Airfoil: root || Davis (22%) || Airfoil: NACA 0018 || || tip || Davis (9.3%) || || || Empty weight || 36,500 lb || 36,135 lb || || Gross weight || 55,000 lb || 54,000 lb || || Max takeoff weight || 65,000 lb plus || 65,500 lb || || Fuel capacity normal || 2,344 US gal || || || long-range tanks in bomb bay || 3,614 US gal || || || Oil capacity || 131.6 US gal || || || Powerplant || 4 × 1,200 hp || 4 × 1,200 hp || || Propellers diameter || 3-bladed 11 ft 7 in || 3-bladed || ||<-3> Performance || || Maximum speed || 297 mph at 25,000 ft || 287 mph || || Cruise speed || 215 mph || 182 mph || || Stall speed || 95 mph || || || Range: 1,540 mi || 1,340 nmi at 237 mph || 2,000 mi || ||<-2)> normal fuel,maximum internal bomb load || with 6000lb bombload || || Ferry range || 3,700 mi || 3,750 mi || || Service ceiling || 28,000 ft || 35,600 ft || || Rate of climb || 1,025 ft/min || 900 ft/min || || Time to altitude || 20,000 ft in 25 minutes || || || Lift-to-drag || 12.9 || || || Wing loading || 52.5 lb/sq ft || 38.0 lb/sq ft || || Power/mass || 0.0873 hp/lb || 0.089 hp/lb || ||<-3> Armament || || Guns || 10 × .50 caliber M2 || 13 × .50 in M2 || || || Browning machine guns || Browning machine guns || ||<-3> Bombs: || || Short range || 400 mi : 8,000 pounds || 400 mi : 8,000 lb || || Long range || 800 mi : 5,000 pounds || 800 mi : 4,500 lb || || Very long range || 1,200 mi : 2,700 pounds || || || Wing placement || high, unstable flotation || low, stable floation || .61 Army Air Force AAF 52,651 stateside accidents, 14,903 personnel killed, mostly trainees .65 November 1942 372nd flies to Hickam Field Oahu, crew names plane ''Super Man'' (184 D model upgraded to E) .68 aerial gunning 3x squadron average, Louie bomb scores outstanding, target dead center 7/9 times .68 10h/day boring sea patrol .72 Deploy to Midway, December 23, 1942 attack Wake .76 Admiral Chester Nimitz presents Distinguished Flying Crosses to pilots, Air Medals to crewmen .80 WWII, 35,933 AAF planes lost to combat and (mostly) accidents, 70% KIA from operational accidents, not enemy action .82 fuel leaks and cigarettes blow up planes .84 Tour of duty 40 combat missions, 50% survived that long .85 B-24 High wing and protruding bomb bay doors, broke up in 2/3 of ditchings, sharks arrive quickly, rescue unlikely .87 mid 1994, better-provisioned rafts with radios, but 1945 Jan only 13% of downed airmen rescued .87 half of Catalina flying boats crash hitting the ocean, for every man rescued, several rescuers die .91 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Island | Canton Island, ]] "one tree", 7000x150 foot runway, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati | Kiribati ]] .95 bombed Nauru, shot down all the Zeros .103 ''Super Man'' shot up, lands at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funafuti | Funafuti ]], 594 holes, Harry Brooks dies .106 Japanese air raid, planes destroyed, church evacuated before destruction .112 New crew for Louie and Phil; tail gunner Francis !McNamara "Mac" .116 Crew flies Green Hornet, search and rescue mission 225 miles north of Palmyra, engine fail, wrong engine feathered .119 crash, sinking with plane, Mae West works, surfaces .125 inflated raft, probably released by engineer before death .126 Louie barely catches raft, paddles to catch second raft, then pick up Phil and tail gunner Mac .127 [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtaBrQ-3EA | Ration D bars ]] , rafts grossly underprovisioned .129 Sharks around raft .132 Mac ate all the chocolate, plane overhead .133 plane high overhead, flare gun and dye no response, probably drifting west .134 May 30 search 42nd squadron B-24 Daisy Mae overhead, drifting west towards Marshalls and Gilberts, Japanese held . approximately 160 east near equator? .138 "missing" telegrams 139 Louis Z. loss headline news in California .143 catch albatross, use as fishing bait Sharks take some of the hooks .145 Phil and Louis reminisce and quiz each other to stay sane .. eventually, home recipes .149 Phil prays, Louis learns to. 151 Louis ties hooks to fingers, catches fish by hand .153 Japanese bomber strafes rafts, time of day suggested their location .157 hole patch kit sandpaper - glue and sand washed off .161 Mac clubbed a shark, reclaimed his sanity .162 Louis grabs 4 foot shark by tail, kills it with screwdriver through eyes, liver edible, they eat it .163 Great white shark .165 Mac dies on 33rd day .167 memories of early life .167 40th day, Louis vision of 21 singers in a cloud .168 46th day, see islands .171 Capture by Japanese patrol boat 172 first food in 8 days .172 Kindly doctor .173 each man had lost half his body weight .174 Freighter takes them to Kwajalein July 16 expecting execution .180 Kwajelein native says all POWs were executed .185 Christian guard Kawamura gives Louie and Phil candy .188 Interrogated for base locations, Louie identified the fakes, sent to Japan August 26 1943 .191 Arrives Yokahama, taken to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cfuna_prisoner-of-war_camp | Ofuna ]] and Jimmie Sasaki, head interrogator for all POWs in Japan .196 most brutal Sueharu Kitamura .198 kill-all rule, POWs killed to prevent Allied recapture .202 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Harris | William Harris ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington | Pappy Boyington ]] .206 Japanese civilian camp cook steals food .214 1943/10/06 Louie's army trunk delivered to parents .215 1944 Feb? US captures Kwajalein, find LOUIS ZAMPERINI graffiti .218 ''Green Hornet'' crewmen mothers correspond .222 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan#World_War_II | Saipan ]] taken, B-29 range to Japan .223 Distant air raid sirens .229 1944/09/30 transferred to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cmori#World_War_II_POW_Camp | Ōmori POW camp ]] .233 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsuhiro_Watanabe | Mutsuhiro Watanabe ]] the Bird .241 officers assigned to empty latrines .242 while guards distracted, POWs remove track pins and tipped over train .243 POWs stole sugar fish booze .246 1944/10/18 Louie's whereabouts on Japanese radio, reaches Torrance 1945/01 .249 1944/11/01 B-29 from Saipan to Japan, photographs Tokyo .253 Louie broadcasts ''Postman Calls'' Radio Tokyo 1944 Nov 18 transcript p256 .261 Louie refuses to broadcast propaganda .261 1944/11/29-30 81 bombers, 2773 Tokyo industrial structures burned .264 Bird manic 265 Phil in Zentsuji camp .269 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitomo_Tokugawa | Prince Yoshitomo Tokugawa ]] tours Omori, has Bird transferred .273 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawan_massacre | Palawan Philippines prisoner massacre ]] 1944/12/15 .274 Carrier aircraft attacks, by 1945/02/17 aircraft works badly hit, >500 Japanese planes lost, 80 US planes lost .275 Transfer to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Detsu,_Niigata | Naoetsu ]] camp 4B, where Bird was .285 Louie steals 10 pounds of rice in his pants .285 friend teaches guard to answer "How are you" with "What the fuck do you care" .289 POW physicians infect Bird with dysentery .293 civilian says all Naoetsu prisoners would be killed on August 22 .298 prepare to murder Bird .299 August 6 Hiroshima .301 August 9 Nagasaki .303 August 15 guards disappear .306 August 20 aircraft signals end of war .308 Bird vanishes .313 Food drops .316 Enormous box of cocoa obliterates Bird's office .318 Sept 5 train to Yokohama .320 Yokohama: Red Cross nurses, reporter Robert Trumbull interviews Louie, who hoards [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-ration | K rations ]] .324 Los Angeles Times, Trumbull headline story ZAMPERINI COMES BACK FROM DEAD .326 Okinawa to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoag | Laoag ]] to Manila to Kwajalein to Honolulu .335 Bird flees .338 Louie drinks heaviliy .339 meets Cynthia Applewhite .346 former Pacific POWS die four time expected rate for two postwar years.85% PTSD .351 running training, clocks 4:18 miles, fastest 2 mile run, badly damaged ankle .355 Watanabe hiding in Nagano village as Saburi Ohta .357 Jimmie Sasaki sentenced 6 years hard labor .362-367 Louie unravels, p372 attends Billy Graham tent revival .373 remembers raft promise ''If you will save me, I will serve you forever'' .376 For the first time in five years, the Bird hadn't come into his dreams. .380 the war is over, Louie forgives former guards imprisoned at Sugamo .383 Louie cares torch before 5 Olympic games .385 Allen Phillips and wife Cecy teach at La Porte Indiana junior high, died in 1998 .393 All Japanese war criminals granted amnesty in 1958 .397 unrepentant Watanabe died April 2003 Zamperini helped Hillenbrand for 7 years, died in 2014 age 97, 3 years after publication ------ == Devil at my Heels == ==== Louis Zamperini and David Rensin, 2003 ==== ==== 940.5472 ZAMPERINI, West Slope Library ==== ---- ==== Map: Louis Zamperini's Wartime Journey ==== .(map 1) Oahu home base .(map 2) Midway Islands 1942/12 base .(map 3) Wake Island 1942/12 raid .(map 4) Funafuti Atoll 1942/04 base .(map 5) Nauru 1942/04 raid (fertilizer) .(map 6) Crash site near Palmyra atoll, 1943 May 27 .(map 7) drifted 1900 miles, "rescued" by Japanese, taken to Wotje Atoll in Marshalls 1943 July 13 .(map 8) Transferred to Tom Wade Prisoner of the JapaneseKwajalein Atoll 1943 July 15 .(map 9) Truk Island 1943 August 25 .(map 10) Yokohama 1943 September 13, Ofuna secret interrogation camp .(map 11) Omori prison 1944 September 30 .(map 12) Naoetsu camp 4B 1945 March 1 .(map 13) Yokohama, Okinawa September 6 .(map 14) Manila, Oahu, San Francisco 1945 October 2, Long Beach 1945 October 19 ---- .002 father Anthony Zamperini born 1889 came from [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Verona,+VR,+Italy/@45.592145,10.5118715,10z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x477f5f68699be0e3:0x53f85a636882595b!8m2!3d45.4383842!4d10.9916215!16zL20vMDFuNDNk?entry=ttu | Verona Italy ]] grew up on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda | Lake Garda ]], immigrated at 13 .002 mother Louise Dossi Austrian/Italian born Dagus Mines, Elk County, Pennsylvania 4 feb 1898 .002 Louis born 1917 Jan 26 (brother Pete born 1915 May 24) .003 house fire Long Beach, [[ https://www.redondo.org/depts/recreation/recreation_facilities/seaside_lagoon/default.asp#:~:text=The%20Seaside%20Lagoon%20is%20a,it%20to%20cool%20the%20turbines. | Redondo Beach salt water swimming pool ]] ''[[ https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/dechlorination.pdf | subsequent dechlorination ]]'' .004 father bench machinist Pacific Electric Railway [[ https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/the-big-red-cars/ | Big Red Cars ]] .005 [[ https://tinyurl.com/zamptorrance | House on 2028 Gramercy Avenue ("street") in Torrance ]] .006 smoked, sold "slightly used" tobacco for "half price" 5 cents per Prince Albert can ( $0.88 2023 inflation ) .011 Nativity? Catholic church 8 blocks away .015 night in a boxcar, watches sleeping bum fall onto tracks and cut in two .018 first competitive run, "Come on Louie" from classmates stimulates third place, continued to train and run .021 train escapade, returned home, told Pete "You win. I'm going all out to be a runner" .022 wins UCLA cross country race, broke course records, still most thrilling race he ever won .024 Riddell leather running shoes, 3x heavier than modern shoes, won 1320 with 3:17 state record .024 Pete: "Isn't one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?" .026 dates, recognition, junior-class president . . .027 ran 4:28 and 4:29 miles .029 ran 4.21.2, broke 18 year World Interscholastic Mile record, record would stand for another 20 years .029 Senior student body president 031 races 5000 meter, collided with misdirected runner, lost first race in 3.5 years .031 Olympic tryouts Randalls Island 033 shares first place for 5000 meter, makes Olympic team .034 ''SS Manhattan'', second class. "must have gained ten pounds" on superb food .036 mentions [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holm | Eleanor Holm ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe | Jim Thorpe ]] losing amateur status .039 qualified for 5000m, though seriously overweight 040 final quarter mile 56 seconds .040 Goebbels "Hitler wants to see you", Hitler "Ah, you're the boy with the fast finish" .042 stole Nazi flag from Chancellery perimeter wall, questioned by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Fritsch | Von Fritsch ]], given flag .043 banquet, necking with German girls, "Please take us to America!" .043 London for British Olympic Games, billeted in slum, protested, moved to Grosvenor with Olympic Committee .045 USC 1936 Sept . 047 trained doctor-discouraged "agony runs" , coach [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Cromwell | Dean Cromwell ]] .048 watched Count of Monte Cristo with Robert Donat (1934) ... not available .049 East Coast runners spike Zamp, still won mile with 4:08.3 national collegiate record, but might have broke 4 min .050 friend James Sazaki at USC (previously Harvard, Princeton, Yale) .051 quit school on Friday, race on weekend, re-register Monday to keep scholarship .052 1940 pleurisy, Manchuria invasion, Tokyo Olympics cancelled .054 Army Air Corps, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hancock_College | Hancock College ]] of Astronautics .056 back to Torrance, $7/day movie extra, flunked physical with sugar, finished movie, joined army 1941 Sep 29 .057 bombardier school Ellington Field Houston .058 Japanese bombardment of tidewater field 1943 Feb 23, no damage, but first US mainland attack since 1912 .059 graduates 1942 August 13, set to Hickam on Oahu as 2nd Lt., [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahuku_Army_Air_Field | Kahuku Air Base ]] on Oahu north shore .059 B-24 bombing unit 42nd squadron 11th Bombardment Group 7th Air Force; 6000 sorties by 11th during war .060 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross | Gooney birds ]] clumsy fliers, nickname for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain | C-47 Skytrain ]] .061 Wake Island "five thousand miles one way" ... no, 2300 miles one way. 1600h to 0005h at Wake, returned 0800 (290 mph) .065 table of 9 planes lost since arriving, only one from enemy action .066 gremlins - imaginary elflike creatures that supposedly trouble warplanes .068 pleurisy gone, back to running, 4:12 .070 fighting while wounded, as if saying "You can hit me, but you can't make me cry" .074 brakes gone, landed with parachutes as air brakes .077 Japanese attack on Funafuti .078 Will and Ariel Durant: "Most history is guessing, the rest is prejudice" .082 May 27 1943 "musher" aircraft ''Green Hornet'' .084 engine fails, inexperienced new engineer feathers wrong engine on same side, crash into sea 2 minutes later .087 some life jacket inflation cartridges stolen for soda water with Scotch, Z's weren't .088 LZ catches raft, rescues Phil and Mac .090 no knife in the patch kits. 6 chocolate bars and 8 half-pint water tins. .091 200 miles 90 minutes north of Palmyra, 800 miles south of Hawaii .092 LZ survival unlikely, prayed to thank God 093 Mac eats all the chocolate .095 fires flare at searching B-24, not seen 096 drifted west of air lanes, no quick rescue .098 caught rainwater in 6x24 inch canvas pump cover ... prayed a lot .099 '...I promise if I get home through all this and whatever is to come, I'll serve You for the rest of my life." .099 rain squall an hour later. Waves throw small fish into raft, used as bait for larger fish .100 Mac helps LZ ward off shark with second oar .102 capture 4 foot shark, only liver edible. Also albatrosses, first discarded, ate second with difficulty, third with gusto .103 gray tern, with lice 104 make believe meals .105 proof is (fictional?) Robinson Crusoe(??) Phil's dad preacher, led LZ and Mac singing church songs .106 despair only during storms with 30 foot waves ... no diseases to catch in mid-ocea n .109 imagined meals, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiramisu | Tiramisu ]] italian desert .109 signaled plane overhead, but Japanese Sally bomber, machine guns punctured raft, dropped dud depth charge .110 30 minutes of strafing, depth charge dud .111 abrade away canvas over raft rubber for patching .112 bet on landing day in Marshall or Gilbert islands, 46th or 47th day 113 bumped by great white shark .114 after war marine biologist claims no great whites in tropics, but in 2002 shown to visit tropics .115 Mac dies after midnight 33rd day . . . storm with 45 foot waves .116 July 12 sees island, atoll lagoon ... actually two masted Japanese patrol ship .118 on board, raft turned to gum, ready to pop, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotje_Atoll | Wotje ]] two hours alter .119 landed at Kwajalein 120 dumped in separate cells, food leftovers from men's mess .121 cell formerly held captured Marines, 9 names carved on wall .122 native worker recognizes LZ, says 9 marines decapitated as directed by Vice Admiral Koso Abe .126 Christian guard Kawamura .127 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever | dengue fever ]] .128 day 143 shipped west to Truk, then Yokahama 1943 September 15 .131 Ofuna camp, former USC classmate James Sasaki .133 "That's one reason the government relocated the Japanese to internment camps (perhaps) homes set on fire and lives lost" .133 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) | fighting 442nd in Europe ]] .138 after 3 months, Phil sent to south Honshu officer's camp, show camp for Red Cross .139 Spring 1944 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington | Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington ]] arrives next cell . Medic Kitamura "the Quack" removes shrapnel from Boyington's leg . 1958 autobiography Baa Baa, Black Sheep ( not available IA or local libraries ) .140 Ofuna guards third rate dummies, good men on front lines .141 volunteer camp barber, earn rice ball for shave or haircut, guard "Weasle" didn't pay, eyebrows shaved like Marlene Dietrich .142 information relayed to chaplain [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Lempri%C3%A8re | Geoffrey Lempriere ]] and Lt. Bill Harris w/ photographic memory. .148 (aside) ZLZ listed KIA Nov 1943, condolence letter June 1944 .150 1944 September 30 marched to Omori camp / Tom Henling Wade, "Prisoner of the Japanese" .151 Sergeant Matsuhiro Watanabe "the Bird" 152 drill-friction fire 153 beating .158 hated officers because he could not be one .155 American officer in charge [[ https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/almaher.htm | Arthur L. Maher ]] .163 1944 November 18 broadcast for "Japanese Postman" radio program .165 day after, Zamperini family interviewed by Cecil B. !DeMille .171 50 prisoners put in uniform, race to food tables, filmed as "American marine cowards" running desperately .171 US air attack, "Above I could see Zero's exploding, popping like little firecrackers." .172 1945 March 1 Transfer to Camp 4-B Naoetsu on Aba River, two km from Sea of Japan .177 unload coal from ships .180 etc. many humiliating tasks .184 Scuttlebutt about allied invasion .185 War is over - then small airdrops of goodies .186 two weeks earlier, guard with tale of cholera quarantine in Hiroshima .186 1945 September 2 official Japan surrender, many supplies dropped into marked rice paddy nearby .187 two years later, LZ connects with airdrop pilot Byron W. Kinney. They met in person 1985 Nov 1 .189 Left Naoetsu station 1945 Sep 5 .192 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/13/obituaries/robert-trumbull-dies-at-80-reported-on-war-for-times.html | Robert Trumbull ]] of the New York Times .193 Okinawa, but not on POW list, eventually general connects LZ to Dr. Eli Lippman .195 connects to Eleventh Bomb Group on Okinawa, and then nurses .197 delayed going home (nurses!) then Manila (200, delayed) then Kwajelein on the way to Honolulu (party!) .197 Small red pamphlet ''Coming Home'' for distribution to AAF returnees . "Good? Bad? Mixed Up? Or Can't You Tell" .202 1945 October 2 San Francisco Letterman Hospital for week of observation, now up to 160 pounds (flab!) .204 flew from SF to Long Beach on special B-25 assigned by General Arnold .206 bottles of liquor in living room from friends for LZ to share when he got home .208 Birmingham Hospital in Van Nuys for a month of observation .209 Will Rogers Jr. radio show, other guest Ronald Reagan ("I was ''born'' for politics") .209 Torrance airstrip "Zamperini Memorial Field" and New York race "Zamperini Memorial Mile" deleted "Memorial" .210 Befriended by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hardy | Oliver Hardy ]], unlimited tab at Lakeside Country Club .210 Did town with Phil (huh? Why wasn't he home in Indiana?), college friend Harry Read .213 pummelled drunk jerks dissing POWs . should have reread ''Coming Home'' pamphlet which described symptoms exactly .214 Zampirini Mile race the next day, full flight to New York .215 TWA owner Howard Hughes offers his own seat on the flight, LZ sat next to Frank Sinatra .216 Number 3 motor on Constellation leaking oil, fire risk, plane returns to Saint Louis .216 two weeks R&R in Miami .218 Met 19yo debutante Cynthia Applewhite (CA) 220 proposes .222 Married 1946 May 25 in Episcopal church of Cynthia's childhood .223 Honeymoon two weeks in wilderness on the Eel River near Red Bluff, alone .223 Severe housing shortage, stayed with Harry Read and his mother, . then room at [[ https://www.apartments.com/edgemont-banbury-manor-apartments-los-angeles-ca/p54j3st/ | Edgemont Manor ]] near Vermont Ave and Hollywood Blvd .224 separated from AAF in August 1946(?), alcoholic blackouts, fight and make up .227 Training in Griffith Park, first (1/4 mile) lap in 68 seconds, second lap 2:17, sharp pain .228 drinking, brooding, resentment .229 Seeking fast money, buys 30 Quonset huts and sells them to movie studios .230 purchased hold-for-shipment [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D8 | D8 Caterpillars ]] in Philippines for $7000, seller absconded .231 Cynthia pregnant, worries, LZ turns to prayer, secretly so she doesn't worry .232 More get rich quick stuff .233 1949 Jan 7 Cynthia Battle Zamperini .234-6 more fights, Cynthia wants divorce .237 1949 Sep new neighbor invites her to Billy Graham tent meeting .238 "Billy Graham mentions science in Bible" says Cynthia, knew science fascinated LZ .239 BG read strictly from Scriptures, no holy roller .240 fear replaced anger, took Cynthia home .242 BG touched on many LZ doubts. LZ got up to walk out, struggled, then turned towards BG, away from exit .242 LZ taken to prayer room , prays for forgiveness, feels weightlessness and enveloping calm .243 returns to Cynthia; through with drinking, smoking, revenge .244 at home, trashes cigarettes, pours liquor down drain, except 300yo cognac returned to importer father-in-law .244 no more Bird nightmares .245 trial period self examination, elation to despair, start of struggle, applies for honest work .247 two high profile conversions same week, Hearst papers publicize Dr. Graham .250 Jesus freak pressure tactics gave Christianity a bad name. Too many die-hard fundies keeping score .251 World Vision's Bob Pierce "why no missionary teams going to Japan?" .255 Raised money, arrived in Japan with little, lived cheap. Standard talk 30 minutes .257 Waseda, 300 converts, Tokyo spoke to 18000 with 5000 outside, repeated program .257 Met mother of Japanese officer on Kwajalein who spared LZ's life, to broadcast from Tokyo . ''but why was Phil also spared?'' .259 Hiroshima burn victim says "honored this happened to me, to save millions of lives" .259 In Ofuma, James Sazaki said invasion would have killed 10% of 75M Japanese and half a million invaders .259 US Navy ensign gives LZ $250 and takes Hiroshima-melted souvenir rifle back to US for LZ .260 visits Ofuma, Omori 262 permission from !MacArthur to visit Sugamo Prison .264 James Sasaki tells LZ he was hidden for a year and a month so US goverment would declare him dead, ''then'' LZ radio broadcasts would be surprising .265 Watanabe still missing, $25000 reward .268 speaks at church in Havana, young Fidel Castro did not like LZ comments about communism .268 Victory Boys Camp, downsized to 35 kids a week in the Sierras .271 1954 ''This is your life!'' 272 1955 ''Devil at my Heels'' for Dutton publishers .272 Movie offer; [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Hess | Dean Hess ]] suggests extra contract to protect faith .273 wife Cynthia Applewhite's [[ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Cynthia+Applewhite&itemType=book&itemSubType=book-printbook%2Cbook-digital%2Cbook-thsis%2Cbook-mss%2Cbook-braille%2Cbook-largeprint%2Cbook-mic%2Cbook-continuing&author=Applewhite%2C+Cynthia | books ]] .275 Climbed then skied down Wyoming's [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett_Glacier | Gannett Glacier ]] .276 CBS Draggan Mihailovich .277 Jimmy Sasaki was spy, powerful radio transmitter, left US by boat before FBI/CIA raid - BS, CIA founded 1947 .278 Tom Wade ''Prisoner of the Japanese'' .283 Olympic torch run from Joetsu .286 Visits Kwajalein