5-Chapter+8

1. Important events:
 * One of the planes in a a three-plane training run over Pearl Harbor crashed into the ocean and all of the crew members died. Of the men that survived the crash, Louie said, "literally ripped to pieces."
 * 400 AAF crews were lost en route to their theaters, planes caught fire, flew into mountains, lost engines planes completely exploded; In WW II 35,933 AAF were lost in combat and accidents
 * //Super Man// ad many mechanical problems including brake failures, gas leek, and oil pressure problems
 * Zero Japanese planes would fly their planes into their targers to blow it up, kamikaze
 * 52,173 AAF men died in combat in WW II
 * Ditching a plane that was a bout to crash was difficult because the men had to worry about sharks, almost as soon as they hit the water sharks swarmed to them
 * Finding lost men on rafts in the Pacific was nearly impossible because they couldn't use radio to tell their location and the rafts were so small that they could be mistaken as something else from the planes above
 * Men stranded would either die or go insane waiting to be rescued
 * Another fear was being captured by the Japanese while stranded
 * Japanese officers had issued a written order: ALL PRISONERS OF WAR ARE TO BE EXECUTED
 * Louie took classes on how to survive being stranded
 * Louie would find, steal, and hide alcohol because it was the only way to briefly forget deceased crew members
 * When men died they would open up that mans footlocker and each take a shot of his alcohol in his honor

2.Unfamiliar words: __**Attrition**__ (Hillenbrand, 78)-a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength __**Buffeted**__ (Hillenbrand, 80)-a violent shock or concussion __**Flanked**__ (Hillenbrand, 81)-to menace or attack the flank of __**Tempests**__ (Hillenbrand, 81)-violent windstorm; violent commotion __**Squall**__ (Hillenbrand, 81)-a sudden disturbance or commotion __**Porpoising**__ (Hillenbrand, 81)-to leap clear of the after after striking a wave __**Talismans**__ (Hillenbrand, 90)-anything whose presence exercises a powerful influence on human feelings or actions

3. Questions: Level 1- What were some failures planes had to face? How many AAF men dies in combat in WWII?

Level 2- Why would men go insane after being stranded in the raft in the ocean? Why would Louie take courses on how to survive being stranded?

Level 3- How could people cope with knowing that they could crash and die in their planes? Why would poeople become friends with people and get close with people knowing there's a possibility that they could lose that person?