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45 “If you can find something you really believe in”: Inga wrote to Jack, Leaming, p. 131.
46 “I want to go over”: Author interview with Paul Ferber.
46 “I have applied for torpedo boat school”: Pitts, pp. 95–96.
46 Bulkeley was looking: The makeup of the PT officers, Goodwin p. 747.
46 He and Joe had: Harvard intercollegiate sailing team, O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 80.
46 After they completed: JFK orders to stay stateside, Goodwin, p. 749.
46 This time, political rescue: Senator David I. Walsh, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 89.
47 Even going at half speed: Goodwin, p. 748.
47 “I’m rather glad to be on my way”: Jack letter to Lem, Pitts, p. 96.
47 “I had been praising the lord”: Ibid., pp. 96–97.
48 Lieutenant (JG) Kennedy found: United with fellow officers in South Pacific, Hamilton, p. 534.
48 “Do you realize that if what you did”: Red Fay quote, ibid., p. 516.
49 One day Bill Battle: Visiting the chaplain, William Battle, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
49 “Jack was a big letter writer”: Johnny Iles quote, Goodwin, p. 751.
49 But Jack would join other: Account of going to church near Sesape Island, Donovan, p. 39.
49 “Getting out every night on patrol”: Letter from JFK to parents, Goodwin, p. 752.
49 “That laugh of his”: Red Fay quote, Hamilton, p. 629.
49 “There was an aura around him”: Jim Reed quote, ibid., p. 544.
49 “Get acquainted with this damn war”: JFK to Johnny Iles, ibid., p. 518.
50 “Just had an inspection by an Admiral”: Letter to Inga, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 93.
50 “His back was troubling him, he wasn’t well”: Jim Reed quote, Hamilton, p. 629.
50 Jack Kennedy often slept with a plywood board: Johnny Iles quote, ibid., p. 518.
50 In another officer’s: Recalling Jack’s corset, Joan and Clay Blair, Jr., The Search for JFK (New York: Putnam, 1974), pp. 179–81.
50 “I’ve been shafted”: Dick Keresey quote, Kennedy Library Panel, June 27, 2005.
50 “What’s the purpose of having the conflict”: Red Fay recalled, Hamilton, p. 629.
50 “We’d sit in a corner and I’d recall”: Blair, p. 191.
51 “He had a way of really picking”: Goodwin, p. 752.
51 “He loved sitting around talking”: Hamilton, p. 543.
51 There were twelve crewmen: Description of Jack’s command vessel, thirteen men including JFK on PT-109, Donovan, p. 128.
51 “Lenny, look at this”: JFK tells executive officer, ibid., p. 210.
51 “Sound general quarters!”: JFK quote, ibid., p. 212.
51 “Who’s aboard?”: JFK quote, Goodwin, p. 758.
52 “You go on”: Pappy McMahon quote, Hamilton, p. 578.
52 When dawn came: Goodwin, p. 759.
53 Each man was well aware: Japanese treatment of prisoners, Donovan, p. 160.
53 “There’s nothing in the book”: Maguire account, ibid., p. 158.
53 Their skipper’s solution: Ibid., p. 162.
53 “The rest of you can swim together”: Ibid., p. 162.
54 As McMahon floated on his back: McMahon’s account of JFK saving his life, ibid., p. 166.
54 Plum Pudding Island: Ross description, Hamilton, p. 582.
54 And when he went to stand: Vomiting source, Donovan, p. 165.
54 “George Ross has lost his life”: Red Fay’s prematurely eulogizing JFK, ibid., pp. 169–70.
54 “The next morning we heard”: Jim Reed quote, Hamilton, pp. 575–76.
54 “How are we going to”: JFK quote, Donovan, p. 170.
55 Hanging his .38 pistol: Going on patrol, ibid., p. 172.
55 Kennedy reached his destination: Out on patrol, ibid., p. 177.
55 He arrived at noontime: Ibid., p. 177.
55 “Barney, you try it tonight”: Ibid., p. 177.
55 The day after that: Ibid., p. 181.
55 There, they came upon: Finding canoe, water, crackers, Goodwin, p. 760.
55 Exhausted, Ross fell asleep: Hamilton, pp. 587–88.
55 This time he was greeted: Donovan,