Word: zamperini
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...September, they arrived in Yokohama, where a Jap officer struck Zamperini's nose with a flashlight because, when they were transporting him in a sedan, he could not get his long legs under a jump seat...
...began to see more planes, which they identified in the distance as Japanese. Then one day a storm broke over them, flung them up on the crest of a wave and gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
Prisoners of War. One ordeal was over. The fishermen treated them decently. And when Zamperini and Philips were delivered to the base at Wotje, Japs there also treated them decently. But when they were moved again to Kwajalein, another ordeal began...
Guards, jabbing them with pointed sticks, made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
They were shifted to Truk, put aboard a transport for Japan. Men in the crew, infuriated when the flyers said they thought Japan would lose the war, punched them in the face, broke Zamperini's nose. For weeks he held the broken bones in place until they had healed...