The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared.
“There are superior”: John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993), p. 217. “plant the blood”: Ibid., p. 277. Military-run schools, soldier training: Chang, pp.
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