| | | | Part l |
| 1 | | | The One-Boy Insurgency |
| | Lou | Gehrig | American baseball first basement. |
| | Babe | Ruth | American baseball player. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Edith | Frank | Anne Frank's mother. |
| | Anne | Frank | Holocaust diarist. |
| | Louie Silvie | Zamperini | Son of an Italian immigrant. Aka: Toots. |
| | Anthony | | Louie's father. |
| | Louise | | Louie's mother. |
| | Pete | | Louie's older brother. |
| | Sylvia | | One of Louie's sister. |
| | Virginia | | One of Louie's sister. |
| | Margie | | Louie's aunt. |
| | Hugh | | Louie's schoolmate. |
| | Zane | Grey | American actor. |
| | Tom | Mix | Star of many early Western movies. |
| | Tony | | Tom's wonder horse. |
| 2 | | | Ran Lake Mad |
| | Glenn | Cunningham | Greatest miler in American history. |
| | Paint | | Obliging horse. |
| | Toots | Bowersox | Cheerleader. |
| 3 | | | The Torrance Tornado |
| | Norman | Bright | Old school teacher. |
| | Don | Lash | American long-distance runner. |
| | John | Casey | Runner. |
| | Tom | Dekard | Lash's teammate. |
| | Ed | Shields | Former track and field record holder. |
| | Chesley | Unruh | Runner. |
| | Bob | Seaman | American football coach. |
| | Georgie | Bright Kunkel | Norman Bright's sister. |
| 4 | | | Plundering Germany |
| | Jesse | Owens | American track and field player. |
| | James | LuValle | American athlete. |
| | Jack | Torrance | Shot putter. |
| | Wolfgang | Furstner | German Wehrmacht captain. |
| | Lauri | Lahtinen | Finnish long-distance runner. |
| | Gunner | Hockert | One of Lahtinen's teammates. |
| | Ilmari | Salminen | One of Lahtinen's teammates. |
| | Jack | Lovelock | One of Lahtinen's teammates. |
| | Iris | Cummings | American aviator. |
| | Joseph | Goebbells | Hitler's minister of Propaganda. |
| | Frank | Lubin | American basketball player. |
| 5 | | | Intro War |
| | Payton | Jordan | Louie's best friend. |
| | Kunichi James | Sasaki | Louie's friend. |
| | Brutus | Hamilton | American coach and athletic administrator. |
| | Charlie | Paddock | Olympic champion sprinter. |
| | Chuck | Fenske | Wisconsin track and field's player. |
| | Nikajima | Chikuhei | Japanese politician. |
| | Iris | Chang | Historian. |
| | Franklin | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| | Errol | Flynn | Australian-born American author. |
| | Olivia | de Havilland | American-British-French actress. |
| | J. Edgar | Hoover | FBI director. |
| | Mitsuo | Fuchida | Fighter pilot. |
| | | | Part ll |
| 6 | | | The Flying Coffin |
| | Fiorello | La Guardia | Former mayor of New York City. |
| | Eleanor | Roosevelt | Former First Lady of U.S. |
| | Anna | | Eleanor's daughter. |
| | Russell Allen | Phillips | Pilot. Louie's friend. Aka: Phil; Allen. |
| | Cecile | Perry | Russell Allen's
fiancé. Aka: Cecy. |
| | Chopper | | Cat. |
| | Stanley | Pillsburg | Turret gunner. |
| | Clarence | Douglas | Engineer. |
| | Robert | Mitchel | Navigator and nose gunner. |
| | Frank | Glassman | Radioman and belly gunner. |
| | Ray | Lambert | Tail gunner. |
| | Harry | Brooks | Radioman and waist gunner. |
| | George | Moznette Jr. | Allen's co-pilot. |
| | Jeannette | Burtscher | Harry Brook's
fiancé. |
| | Willie | Maker | Sailor. |
| 7 | | | "This Is It, Boys" |
| | William | Matheny | 307th Bomb Group Commander. |
| | Charleton Hugh | Cuppernell | Moznette's replacement. |
| | Marge | | Payton Jordan's wife. |
| | Howard K. | Ramey | U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War ll |
| | James | Carringer Jr. | Bombardier. |
| | Chester | Nimitz | Fleet Admiral of the U.S. Navy. |
| 8 | | | "Only The Laundry Knew How Scared I Was" |
| | Jonathan | Coxwell | Pilot. |
| | Edward | Walsh Jr. | Radar operator. |
| | Frank | Rosynek | Staff sergeant of the 11th Bomb Group. |
| | Martin | Cohn | Ordnance officer on Oahu. |
| | Robert | Strong | Piloted the right wing tip of the plane. |
| | Lt. | Robinson | Pilot. |
| | Jesse | Stay | Pilot. |
| | Everett | Almond | Reading's navigator. |
| | Joe | Deasy | Fighter pilot. |
| 9 | | | Five Hundred and Ninety-Four Holes |
| | Amelia | Earhart | American aviator. |
| | Donald | Nelson | A lieutenant. |
| | John | Jacobs | Piloted the left wing of the plane. |
| | Edna | | Harry Brook's mother. |
| | Charlie | Pratte | Pilot. |
| | | Belle | Pratte's bomber. |
| 10 | | | The Stinking Six |
| | Herman | Scearce | Deasy's radioman. |
| | Fonnie | Black Ladd | Marine. |
| | Francis | McNamara | Tail gunner. Aka: Mac. |
| | George | Smith | Rookie pilot. Aka: Smitty. |
| | Clarence | Curpening | Pilot. |
| | | | Part lll |
| 12 | | | Downed |
| | Hap | Arnold | American general of the Army and Air forces. |
| 13 | | | Missing At Sea |
| | Reverend | Phillips | Russell Allen's father. |
| | Jack | Krey | Second Lieutenant who packed Louie's belongings. |
| | Esther | Williams | American swimmer. |
| | Kelsey | | Allen's mother. |
| | Martha | | Kelsey's daughter. |
| | Harvey | Flammer | Firefighter. Sylvia's husband. |
| 14 | | | Thirst |
| | Samuel T. | Coleridge | English poet, theologist. |
| | Eddie | Rickenbacker | World War l ace pilot. |
| | Poon | Lim | Chinese sailor. |
| 16 | | | Singing In The Clouds |
| | Askin | | A dog. |
| 17 | | | Typhoon |
| | Robert | Allard | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Dallas | Cook | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Richard | Davis | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Joseph | Gifford | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | John | Kerns | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Alden | Mattison | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Richard | Olbert | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | William | Pallesen | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | Donald | Roberton | One of the marines captured by the Japanese. |
| | | | Part lV |
| 18 | | | A Dead Body Breathing |
| | | Kawamura | Japanese general. |
| 19 | | | Two Hundred Silent Men |
| | Glenn | McConnell | 89th lieutenant governor of South Carolina. |
| | Frederick | Douglass | American social reformer. |
| | Sucharu | Kitamura | Medical officer. Aka: Quack |
| | | Hirose | Japanese guard. |
| | Yukichi | Kano | Camp interpreter. |
| | Jean | Balch | One of the POWs. |
| | Hiroetsu | Narushima | Japanese guard. |
| 20 | | | Farting For Hirohito |
| | Arthur | Maher | Rear Admiral of the U.S. Navy. |
| | John | Fitzgerald | American politician. |
| | William | Harris | Marine officer. |
| | Field | Harris | Marine general. William's father. |
| | Howard | Hughes | American business magnate. |
| | Gaga | | A duck. |
| | "Pappy" | Boyington | Ofuna survivor. |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. |
| | Al | Mead | One of the kitchen laborers. |
| | Ernest | Duva | One of the kitchen laborers. |
| | Tatsumi | Hata | A cook. Aka: Curley. |
| | Anton | Minsaas | Navigator. |
| | John Arthur | Johansen | One of the Japanese's captives. |
| | Thorbjorn | Christiansen | Norwegian sailor. |
| | Fred | Garrett | Pilot. |
| | Frank | Tinker | Bomber pilot. |
| | Edgar | Whitcomb | Former governor of Indiana. |
| 21 | | | Belief |
| | Willis | Hale | Commander of the 7th Air Forces. |
| | Delia | Robinson | Otto Anderson's sister. |
| | Otto | Anderson | Green Hornet gunner. |
| | Leslie | Dean | Crewman. |
| | Mable | | Leslie's mother. |
| 22 | | | Plots Afoot |
| | Bill | Harris | One of Japanese's captives. |
| | Marlene | Dietrich | German-American actress and singer. |
| | Kakuzo | Iida | Camp commander. Aka: Mummy. |
| | Hideko | Tojo | Prime minister of Japan and war architect. |
| | Jimmy | Doolittle | American general and aviation pioneer. |
| 23 | | | Monster |
| | Mutsuhiro | Watanabe | Japanese corporal. Aka: The Bird; Mu-cchan. |
| | Shizuka | | Mutsuhiro's mother. |
| | Tom | Wade | One of the POWs. |
| | Lewis | Bush | British photographer, writer. |
| | Derek | Clarke | One of the POWs. |
| | Yuichi | Hatto | Camp assistant. |
| | Jack | Brady | One of the POWs. |
| 24 | | | Hunted |
| | Bob | Martindale | American lieutenant. |
| | Milton | McMullen | American captives. |
| | Winston | Churchill | Former British Prime minister. |
| | Kaname | Sakaba | Camp commander. |
| | E. H. | Stephan | Worked on the radio station in Claremont, South Africa. |
| 25 | | | B-29 |
| | Ralph | Steakley | Pilot. |
| | Ernest | Norquist | One of the POWs. |
| | Lynn | Moody | Worked at the Office of War Information. |
| | Cecil B. | DeMille | Film director. |
| | Geston | | One of Louie's friends. |
| | Harvey | | One of Louie's friends. |
| | Elden | | One of Louie's friends. |
| | Henry | | One of Louie's friends. |
| | Lorren | Stoddard | One of Louie's acquaintances. |
| | Stanley | Maneivve | One of Louie's acquaintances. |
| | Peter | Hryskanich | One of Louie's acquaintances. |
| | William | Hasty | One of Louie's acquaintances. |
| | Bob | Llewellyn | American photographer. |
| | Gildo | Dossi | Louie's uncle. |
| 26 | | | Madness |
| | Sadie | | Frank Glassman's mother. |
| | | Mansfield | Insane kleptomaniac. |
| | Yoshitomo | Tokugawa | Great-grandson of the last shogun. |
| 27 | | | Falling Down |
| | | Oguri | Civilian guard. |
| 28 | | | Enslaved |
| | Jimmy | Rafferty | American best miler. |
| | Hiroaka | Kono | Watanabe's henchman. |
| | Ken | Marvin | Marine. Louie's friend. |
| 29 | | | Two Hundred and Twenty Punches |
| | Richard | Whitfield | One of POWs physicians. |
| | Alfred | Weinstein | One of POWs physicians. |
| | Joe | Byrne | One of the POWs. |
| | G. W. | Pringle | One of the POWs. |
| | Hubert | Van Peenan | POWs physician. |
| 30 | | | The Boiling City |
| | Paul | Tibbets | Veteran bomber pilot. |
| | Ferron | Cummins | Japanese prisoner. |
| 31 | | | The Naked Stampede |
| | Matt | Clift | Australian POW. |
| | Ray | Hawkins | American naval aviator and flying ace of World War ll. |
| 32 | | | Cascades of Pink Peaches |
| | Marion | Unruh | U.S. Army Air Forces captain. |
| | J. O. | Young | One of the POWs. |
| | | Hirohito | Former emperor of Japan. |
| | Yank | | One of the POWs. |
| | Byron | Kenney | Pilot. |
| | Douglas | MacArthur | American general. |
| | Charles | Stenger | American POWs of World War ll |
| 33 | | | Mother's Day |
| | John | Falconer | Survivor of Bataan Death March. |
| | Donald | Knox | Historian. |
| | Robert | Trumbull | Journalist. |
| | | | Part V |
| 34 | | | The Shimmering Girl |
| | Masahuru | Homma | Lt. General in the Imperial Japanese Army
- World War ll. |
| | Michiko | | Watanabe's sister. |
| | Yo | | Watanabe's friend. |
| | Cynthia | Applewhite | Louie's wife. |
| | Mac | | Cynthia's suitor. |
| | Laurence | Olivier | English actor and director. |
| | Mrs. | Applewhite | Cynthia's mother. |
| | Harry | Read | Louie's friend. |
| | Ric | | Cynthia's brother. |
| | Mr. | Applewhite | Cynthia's father. |
| 35 | | | Coming Undone |
| | Raymond | Halloran | Navigator. Aka: Hap. |
| | Jean | Amery | Holocaust survivor. |
| 36 | | | The Body In The Mountain |
| | Saburo | Ohta | Mutsuhiro Watanabe's alias. |
| | Mosajiro | Hirayabashi | Beaten a countless prisoners. Aka: Shithead. |
| | Tetsutaro | Kato | Japanese official. |
| 37 | | | Twisted Ropes |
| | Henry | Eriksson | Swedish Olympic athlete. |
| | Little Cynthia | | Louie and Cynthia's daughter. Aka: Cissy. |
| 38 | | | A Beckoning Whistle |
| | Billy | Graham | Evangelist. |
| Epi | Luke | | Cissy's brother. |
| | Chris | | Allen's son. |
| | Karen | | Allen's daughter. |
| | Katey | | Bill Harris's daughter. |
| | Doris | | Pete's wife. |
| | Roger | Bannister | British middle-distance athlete. |
| | Draggan | Mihailovich | Producer for CBS television. |
| | Nobusuki | Kishi | Former prime minister of Japan. |
| | Osamu | Satano | Japanese Army officer. |
| | Peter | Hadfield | Reporter. |
| | Shoichi | Ishizuka | Veteran who had been held as a POW by the Americans. |
| | Mrs. | Watanabe | Mutsuhiro Watanabe's wife. |
| | Bob | Simon | CBS correspondent for the story. |