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Chapter 5: Hell

1. Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher (New York: Washington Square Press, 2000), 53.

2. Richard Firstman, “Werner Kleeman’s Private War,” The New York Times, November 11, 2007.

3. Gordon A. Harrison, “The Sixth of June,” Cross Channel Attack (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2002 [1951]), 329.

4. Salinger, Dream Catcher, 45.

5. U.S. Center of Military History, Combatant Reports for the Fourth Infantry Division (hereafter USACMH), June 6, 1944–July 1945, Division Report for June 8, 1944.

6. Sergeant Jim McKee, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, January 12, 2003.

7. USACMH, Fourth Infantry Division Report for June 12, 1944.

8. Salinger to Whit Burnett, June 12, 1944.

9. USACMH, Fourth Infantry Division Report for June 25, 1944.

10. Burnett to Harold Ober, June 9, 1944.

11. Ibid.

12. Salinger to Whit Burnett, June 28, 1944.

13. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, September 25, 1945.

14. Charles R. Corbin (391 Field Artillery Battalion Third Armored Division), “100 Yards to Mortain 1944.”

15. USACMH, Fourth Infantry Division Report for August 25, 1944.

16. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 9, 1944.

17. Ibid.

18. Salinger to Ernest Hemingway, July 27, 1945.

19. The capitalization is by Burnett.

20. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, December 30, 1945.

21. J. D. Salinger, “The Magic Foxhole,” unpublished (but 1944).

22. USACMH, June 6, 1944–July 1945.

23. Colonel Gerden E. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II (Boston: National Fourth Division Association, 1947), 215–216.

24. Shelby W. Wood, Company I, 12th Infantry Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division, December 15, 2000.

25. Hugh M. Cole, The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge (Washington, D.C.: USACMH, 2000), 238.

26. USACMH, Fourth Infantry Division Report for the end of October 1944.

27. Salinger, Dream Catcher, 65.

28. Marc Pitzke, “Verschollene Salinger-Briefe: Wir gingen durch die Hölle” (Unknown Salinger Letters: “We Went Through Hell”), Der Spiegel, March 17, 2010, www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,683492,00.html.

29. Salinger to Werner Kleeman, April 25, 1945.

30. J. D. Salinger, “Contributors,” Story, November–December 1944, 1.

31. Phoebe Hoban, “The Salinger File,” New York, June 15, 1987, 40.

32. J. D. Salinger, “A Boy in France,” The Saturday Evening Post, March 31, 1945, 21, 92.

33. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 121.

34. Cole, The Ardennes, 238.

35. USACMH, Fourth Infantry Division Report for December 16, 1944.

36. Cole, The Ardennes, 242–257.

37. Whit Burnett/Story Press office memo, January 9, 1945.

38. J. D. Salinger, “This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise,” Esquire, October 1945, 54–56, 147–149.

39. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, September 25, 1945.

40. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction, 202.

41. J. D. Salinger, “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” unpublished, 1944.

42. Diary of Sergeant Ichiro Imamura, April 29, 1945; Pierre Moulin, Dachau, Holocaust, and US Samurais: Nisei Solidiers First in Dachau? (Bloomington, Ind.: Authorhouse, 2007), 125.

43. “Concentration Camp Listing,” Jewish Virtual Library, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org, 2008.

44. Salinger, Dream Catcher, 156.

45. Salinger to Herb Kauffman, June 7, 1943.

46. Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life (unpublished October galley, 1986).

47. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, May 13, 1945.

48. Donald M. Fiene, A Bibliographical Study of Salinger: Life, Work, and Reputation (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962), 96.

49. J. D. Salinger, “Backstage with Esquire,” Esquire, October 24, 1945, 34.

50. Salinger to Ernest Hemingway, July 27, 1945.

51. J. D. Salinger, “The Stranger,” Collier’s, December 1, 1945, 18, 77.

Chapter 6: Purgatory

1. Salinger to Ernest Hemingway, July 27, 1945.

2. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, December 30, 1945.

3.