(Characters with names in CAPS are historical, others fictional)

Aloysius captive in Fiat, Indiana

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI guerrilla leader in the Warsaw ghetto

Arenswald, Michael engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bagnall, George flight engineer in RAF bomber crew

Bauer, Klaus hull gunner in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Becker, Karl engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bell, Douglas bomb-aimer in RAF bomber crew

BOR-KOMOROWSKI, TADEUSZ general, Polish Home Army

Brodsky, Nathan Jewish laborer at Warsaw airport

Burkett, Dr. biology professor at University of Chicago.

Chase, Otto cement plant worker at Dixon, Illinois

CHURCHILL, WINSTON prime minister of Great Britain

Collins, Colonel U.S. Army officer

COMPTON, ARTHUR supervisor, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Daniels Pete “Mutt” manager, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Daphne barmaid at the White Horse Inn, Dover, England.

David child of Jewish fighter, Warsaw

Doi, Colonel Japanese interrogator of Teerts

Donlan, Kevin U.S. Army private in Naperville, Illinois

Embry, Ken pilot of RAF bomber crew

FERMI, ENRICO nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Finkelstein, Sam doctor

Fiore, Bobby second baseman, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Fuchs, Stefan loader in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman in Dover England