Childhood/Life as an Athlete
Louis Zamperini's ethnicity
What is Italian?
Louis was trained as this while he was at the Houston base for the Army Air Corps
What is a Bombardier?
The number of crewmen in the plan crash
What is 12?
This was encouraged and celebrated in Japanese soldiers
What is extreme brutality?
The reason Captain Fitzgerald stayed behind with the sick POWs after the war is over and the men are liberated
What is he wanted to make sure no one was left behind?
Louis' brother
Who is Pete?
Louis' family called him this because he was a difficult behavior as a child
What is untamable?
The place that the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941 officially declaring war on the United States
What is Pearl Harbor?
The names of the only 3 survivors
Who is Louis, Mac, and Phil?
Kwajalein, the first POW camp Louis and Phil were taken to, was known as this
What is Execution Island?
Louis' age when he is liberated from the camp
What is 28?
The leader of Germany during the 1936 Olympics
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Louis was banned from athletic and social activities for doing this
What is sneaking kids into the gym with his housekey?
The month and year Louis graduated flight school
August 1942
The number of life rafts the men had
What is 2?
The medical experiments Louis and Phil are forced to go through
What are chemical injections?
Louis' mother declares September 9th as a new date for this national holiday
What is Mother's Day?
The name of Louis' pilot and eventual best friend
Who is Russel Allen Phillips (Phil)
The science (now deemed fake) that scared Louis into behaving
What is Eugenics?
This plane was known as "The Flying Bick/Coffin"
What is a B-24?
The reason the men could not drink the sea water
What is the salt makes it poisonous?
The two main characteristics of the guards at Ofuna POW camp?
What is stupidity and cruelty?
On Louis' first day home, his sister Sylvia plays this, which causes Louis to scream in horror
What is a recording of his Postman Calls message?
One of the 3 survivors of the crash who ate all the chocolate but died of starvation before capture
Who is Mac?
The person that pushed Louis into running track
Who is Pete, Louis' brother?
The nickname Louis' crew gave their B-24?
What is Superman?
The second cause of death in ocean crashes
What is sharks?
POW's were afraid of being rescued by allies because of this
What is the Japanese Kill-All Order?
Louis became dependent on this to manage his anxieties
What is alcohol?
This person wrote their name on a cell wall next to the names of 9 marines who were executed on Execution Island
Who is Louis Zamperini?
The traditional prize awarded to track stars
What is a wristwatch?
The percentage chance Pacific Airmen had of surviving the war
What is 50%?
This is how the survivors got their drinking water
What is they collected rain water?
Louis, Tinker, and Harris abandon their escape plan because of this
What is the guards would kill other innocent POWs?
Louis strangles this person in his sleep while he was having a nightmare about The Bird
Who is his wife Cynthia?
The name of Phil's fiancé whom a fortune teller predicts that Phil is safe and will be home before Christmas
Who is Cecy?
The amount of weight Louis gained on his way to the Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
What is 12 pounds?
The name of the most fearsome Japanese bomber plane
What is the Zero?
The only part of a shark the men could eat
What is the liver?
The final POW camp that Louis is taken to and eventually rescued from
What is Naoetsu?
The reason The Bird hid for 7 years and eventually got away for his war crimes against humanity
What is war criminals could not be arrested after 7 years?
The name of the guard to tortured and haunted Louis for years (extra credit if you can give real name)
Who is Mutsuhiro Watanabe (The Bird)?
The reason Louis could not compete in the 1940 Olympics in Finland?
What is World War II?
The name of the plane Louis' crew crashed in on their search and rescue mission
What is The Green Hornet?
The number of miles the survivors drifted to the Marshall Islands
What is 2,000 miles?
The name of the atomic bomb that struck Hiroshima and began the end of World War II
What is Little Boy?
The special honor and place Louis gets to perform at on January 22, 1998
What is to run the Olympic torch in the 1998 Olympics in Japan?
The full name of Louis' wife
Who is Cynthia Applewhite?