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Married. Captain Louis Zamperini, 29, onetime University of Southern California track star, 1936 Olympic miler, wartime Army Air Corps bombardier who survived 47 days on a life raft and 27 torture-filled months in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 17); and Cynthia Applewhite, 20, of Miami Beach, Fla.; in Los Angeles...
Such is the condition of treatment of the Japanese by the occupation forces in Japan. After reading your articles on treatment of Runner Zamperini, Lieut. Colonel Boyington, and other American P.O.W.s, we of the occupation forces are thoroughly disgusted with the way our superiors want this mess handled. We predict another war against the conquerors of the American occupation force within 30 years...
...Zamperini was shifted to Naoetsu and to Naoetsu went The Bird, still practising his cruelties and abominations. When prisoners came out of the glutted, maggoty toilets, he forced them to lick clean their fouled shoe soles. At other times he lined up a handful of U.S. officers, ordered U.S. enlisted men to go down the line, punching each officer in the face, while he stood there crying, "Next, next" until it became a chant that haunted prisoners' dreams...
...Naoetsu that Zamperini finally heard the news that Japan had surrendered. The Bird had already flown. Solicitous guards bowed Zamperini and Philips to freedom...
Last week, almost 28 months after he had crashed, Zamperini was headed home. If he knew he had to go through it again, he said bitterly, "I would kill myself...