Chapter 25: B-29
1 Louie taking wheelbarrow to Tokyo: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
2 State of Tokyo: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005; Bush, pp. 213, 222–23; Weinstein, p. 248.
3 Graffiti: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
4 B-29: “Boeing B-29 Superfortress,” Military Factory, http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=82 (accessed October 15, 2009).
5 Steakley’s flight: E. Bartlett Kerr, Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Forces’ Incendiary Campaign Against Japan, 1941–1945 (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991), p. 92.
6 Earlier B-29 raids on mainland Japan: Ibid., pp. 57–60, 64–68.
7 B-29 flying over Omori: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Tom Wade, telephone interview, September 17, 2005; Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005; Martindale, pp. 166–67; Wade, pp. 138–39; Clarke, p. 147; Robert Martindale, telephone interview, January 2, 2005; Tom Wade, telephone interview, January 2, 2005.
8 “It was not their Messiah”: Martindale, p. 176.
9 Smuggling newspapers: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.
10 Distortions in Japanese press: Weinstein, p. 242.
11 Plane downed with rice ball: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
12 “Lone enemy B-29 visits Tokyo area”: Norquist, p. 287.
13 FLED IN CONSTERNATION: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
14 “Niju ku!”: Wade, p. 139.
15 The Bird beats Louie with belt: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Robert Trumbull, “Zamperini, Olympic Miler, Is Safe After Epic Ordeal,” NYT, September 9, 1945.
16 The Bird forces Maher to burn letters: Affidavit, Francis Harry Frankcom, from files on Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vol. 1, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.
17 Radio Tokyo visit: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Martindale, pp. 129–30; “42nd Bombardment Squadron: Addendum to Squadron History,” September 11, 1945, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
18 Writing radio address: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
19 Lynn Moody: Lynn Moody Hoffman, letter to Louis Zamperini, August 14, 1998.
20 DeMille interviews Zamperinis: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004; “Sixth War Bond Drive,” November 19, 1944, interview transcript.
21 Harvey’s wounding: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
22 Moody hears new broadcast: Lynn Moody Hoffman, letter to Louis Zamperini, August 14, 1998.
23 Text of address: From papers of Louis Zamperini.
24 Visit with caller from San Marino: Handwritten notes from papers of Louis Zamperini.
25 “I was thinking”: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
26 Telegram concerning broadcast: telegram, provost marshal general to Louise Zamperini, undated, from the papers of Louis Zamperini.
27 Uncle hears broadcast: “Louis Zamperini Radio Talk Heard by Uncle,” Des Moines Register, December 12, 1944.
28 Detail about guns: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.
29 “Payt! He’s alive!”: Payton Jordan, telephone interview, August 16, 2004.