Retribution_ The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings [379]
31. “We realised that Japan” AI Ando.
32. “In Japan, one felt very conscious” AI Funaki.
33. “In October 1944 Lt. Masaichi Kikuchi” AI Kikuchi.
34. “I imagined the Americans” Meirion and Susie Harries, Soldiers of the Sun, Heinemann 1991, p. 314.
35. “We have just started” IWM Thompson Papers 87/58/1, letter of 4.11.44.
36. “If brought out, public opinion” Eisenhower Diaries, ed. Robert Ferrell, Norton 1981, p. 49.
37. “From everything I saw of him” The Alanbrooke Diaries, ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001, p. 476.
38. “joy or sorrow” Charles Lockwood and Hans Adamson, Battles of the Philippine Sea, New York 1967, p. 7.
39. “At the risk of being naïve” USAMHI Harmon Papers Box 1a/2c, memo from Streett to Handy 31.10.42.
40. “The violence of inter-service rivalry” Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, The Central Blue, Cassell 1956, p. 494.
41. “If it were not for his hatred” USAMHI Eichelberger letters, op. cit.
42. “It is generally believed” New York Times, 13.4.44.
43. “ruthless, vain, unscrupulous” Churchill College, Cambridge: Journal of Lt.-Gen. Gerald Wilkinson.
44. “The humiliation of forcing me” Quoted Clayton James, The Years of MacArthur, Houghton Mifflin 1975, Vol. II, p. 527.
45. “Pearl was mostly brass and hookers” LC Hardy interview.
46. “There were dinner parties” MCHC Smith Papers.
47. “No matter how a war starts” U.S. Infantry Journal, April 1945.
48. “conceived of war as something” On to Westward, New York 1945, p. 234.
49. “warned me that it was well” MCHC Smith Papers.
50. “I am a doctor” Cato D. Glover, Command Performance with Guts, New York 1969, p. 46.
51. “the one great leader” Admiral J. J. Clark, with G. Clark, Carrier Admiral, Reynolds McKay, New York 1967, p. 242.
CHAPTER TWO • JAPAN: DEFYING GRAVITY
52. “Even at that stage” AI Kikuchi.
53. “I found that I jumped” AI Miyashita.
54. “It’s only to be expected” Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–45, Pittsburgh 1991, p. 437.
55. “Money-making is the one aim” Quoted Christopher Thorne, The Issue of War, Oxford 1985, p. 124.
56. “Whereas racism in the West” John Dower, Japan in War and Peace, p. 204. I am indebted to Dower’s works for much information in this passage.
57. “didn’t really feel that I was in a foreign country” AI Sugano.
58. “To our distress, it became evident” Masatake Okumiya and Jiro Horikoshi, Zero!: The Story of the Japanese Navy Air Force, Cassell 1957, p. 187.
59. “We would like to obtain” Dower, op. cit., pp. 55–87.
60. “Führer Hitler was an enlisted man” John Toland, The Rising Sun, Cassell 1971, p. 474.
61. “Arrests for ‘peace preservation’” Dower, War Without Mercy, passim.
62. “I contemplated the hardships” Ugaki diary, op. cit., 2.12.44, p. 527.
63. “It would be nice to say” AI Hashimoto.
64. “His father made occasional visits” AI Watanuki.
65. “Why do we need this?” AI Iki.
66. “Before World War II, Japan’s experience” AI Nakamura.
67. “We were far too influenced” AI Funaki.
68. “people understood that we were poorly prepared” AI Funaki.
69. “Only in 1944 did the war situation” AI Takahashi.
70. “Intelligence became a backwater” AI Hando.
71. “the most formidable fighting insect” Quoted Ronald Lewin, Slim: The Standard Bearer, Leo Cooper 1976, p. 381.
72. “first-class soldiers” Gordon Graham, The Trees Are Young on Garrison Hill, Kohima Educational Trust, p. 49.
73. “I thought of joining the army” AI Nakamura.
74. “Personality ceased to exist” AI Kikuchi.
75. “The first year as a recruit” AI Inoue.
76. “You are soldiers” AI Ajiro.
77. “I saw innumerable ways of killing people” Laurens van der Post, The Night of the New Moon, Hogarth Press 1970, p. x.
78. “After dealing with a score or two” AI Ebisawa.
79. “When a destroyer’s cutter” Mitsuru Yoshida, Requiem for Battleship Yamato, Constable 1999, p. 144.
80. “Right was what a soldier” Robert Harvey, The Undefeated, London 1994, pp. 220–21.
81. “If we were told to defend this position” AI Inoue.
82. “It is the Ishiwara-Tsuji clique” Quoted Harries, op. cit., p.