![]() She became a victim of domestic violence, which resulted from Louie’s struggle with PTSD, and decided to divorce Louie. However, she changed her mind about the divorce after a religious conversion at a Billy Graham crusade. She was responsible for bringing Louie to hear Billy Graham, where he, too, underwent a religious conversion that saved their marriage. Louie and Cynthia remained married to each other for the rest of their lives.įrancis “Mac” McNamara The tail gunner on the Green Hornet’s ill-fated search-and-rescue mission, he survives the crash but later dies adrift with Louie and Phil.īob Martindale The American commander imprisoned and forced into slave labor with Louie in the Omori POW camp.Ĭecile “Cecy” Perry The fiancée of Russell Allen “Phil” Phillips, who sang in the choir at Phil’s father’s church and married Phil at the war’s end.Ĭommander Arthur Maher The highest-ranking POW and commanding officer of the prisoners at the Ofuna interrogation center.Ĭommander John Fitzgerald The second-ranked commanding officer among the POWs at the Ofuna interrogation center. He was cruelly tortured-his fingernails were ripped out by Japanese interrogators-and was later imprisoned with Louie in the Omori and Naoetsu POW camps as well.įrank Tinker An American dive-bomber pilot (and opera singer) imprisoned with Louie at the Ofuna interrogation center and at the Omori and Naoetsu POW camps. A friend of Louie’s, they plotted an escape that was unsuccessful.įred Garrett An American B-24 pilot from Burbank, California, whose plane was shot down. His Japanese captors amputated much of his leg in unnecessary surgery. Harry Brooks Radioman and waist gunner on Louie’s B-24 flight crew. ![]() At age 22, in 1943, he was killed by enemy fire during the raid on Nauru. ![]()
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