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Unbroken. Chapter 7 “This Is It, Boys” Summary  Crew is stationed in Kahuku, Hawaii, Louie and Phil spend their days drinking, wrestling, and decorating.

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2 Chapter 7 “This Is It, Boys” Summary  Crew is stationed in Kahuku, Hawaii, Louie and Phil spend their days drinking, wrestling, and decorating their barracks.  Moznette, the copilot, is transferred and replaced by Charleton Hugh Cuppernell, who is an ex-football player  The whole crew is doing well in training, accuracy rate is 3 times the squadron average.  3 days before Christmas, they get first dive bomb mission. They are headed for Midway, and ordered to bomb a Japanese base on Wake Atoll that night, the mission would take 16 hours.

3 Chapter 7 summary cont.  In honor of his friend Payton Jordan, who just wed, Louie writes “Maggie and Payton Jordan” on a bomb  They bomb Wake, not knowing that there are 98 American POWs on base  The mission is a success and all American captives survive.  Louie and his crew feel that the war will be over soon.

4 Chapter 9 Summary…954 holes  Japan seizes the island of Nauru in August 1942, and the Super Man is ordered to bomb the phosphate works on the island.  They get into an intense air battle. Their left wing is hit, but Louie stays focused and hits his targets.  When Phil takes control, they're surrounded by nine Zeros.  Men are hit by shrapnel and gunfire and lie bleeding all over the plane. Harry Brooks is covered with blood.  The plane is leaking hydraulic fluid, which leaves the plane without breaks

5 Chapter 9 Cont…  Louie and Cuppernell tend to everyone's wounds as fast as they can.  As Louie is bandaging Stanley Pillsbury's foot, Pillsbury manages to blast a Zero out of the sky.  Despite being in critical condition, the Super Man survives the battle. Not one Zero makes it back to Nauru.  Now it's time for Phil to land the plane. Funafuti is five hours away, and Super Man has no brakes.  Louie ties a parachute cord to each man to serve like a seatbelt, keeping them from being ejected from the plane.

6 Chapter 9 cont.  Phil touches down at 110 miles per hour. The left tire is flat, and the plane spins around in a crazy circle… but it stops.  There are 594 holes in the plane.  Unfortunately, Harry was bleeding inside his skull and died.

7 Chapter 10 “The Stinking 6” Summary  Even though Phil managed to land it safely, Super Man will never fly again.  To make matters worse, while Louie and the crew of Super Man are recovering from their injuries, bombs fall on Funafuti.  Poor Stanley Pillsbury is forgotten in the infirmary and is too weak to stand on his own.  Phil and Louie hide under a hut that is up on flood stilts.  Two bombs strike the B-24s, which causes a chain reaction of machine gun fire and bomb explosions.

8 Chapter 10 continued…  Someone managed to drag Pillsbury to safety, but his injured foot isn't healing, and he needs a rudimentary skin graft.  Somehow the Super Man also escaped unscathed (not a single bullet hole added to its 594) and Phil is hailed "as a miracle worker”  Pillsbury and Lambert are retired from war, and Louie, Phil, Mitchell, and Cuppernell are sent back to Hawaii.  Louie takes a short ride on the Green Hornet, a plane which he dubs "the craziest plane" and "hopes he'd never have to fly in it again”

9 Chapter 11…Nobody’s Going to Live Through This  Louie and his crew are put on the Green Hornet and sent on a search mission.  Before he leaves, Louie leaves a note on his locker: "If we're not back in a week […] help yourself to the booze"  The Green Hornet sets out with the Daisy Mae, but is such a crappy plane it can't keep up.  The Green Hornet is failing fast, the engines are burning fuel unequally and quickly fail.  They try to save the plane by "feathering" the engines, but that tactic doesn't work—the men prepare to crash.

10 Chapter 11 Cont…  When the plane hits the water, Louie is sucked under.  He gets tangled in cords and debris and passes out momentarily.  When he wakes up, he's floating inside the fuselage, in water filled with blood, gasoline, and oil.  His USC ring catches on something and cuts his finger, but he realizes that he's stuck to the window, which orients him.  He kicks away from the sinking plane and bursts out of the water, into the sunlight. Louie has survived.


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