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83. “A lot of our men in that conflict” AI Funaki.
84. “A Japanese POW named Shiniki Saiki” USNA RG337 Box 59 X Corps POW interrogation reports.
85. “The understandable reluctance” J. Broadbent of 1/17th Australians USNA RG337 Box 59.
86. “a Formal Examination of Myself” LHA POW reports 10I610–15.
87. “the Japanese possessed” LHA POW reports 10IR579.
88. “His own reaction” LHA POW reports 10IR648–52.
89. “An aircrew lieutenant captured” LHA I01R599–602.
90. “We felt that it was a mistake” AI Ito.
91. “The whole thing’s so silly” Harries, op. cit., p. 171 and passim.
92. “What a sorry spectacle” Arthur Swinson, Four Samurai, Hutchinson 1968, passim.
CHAPTER THREE • THE BRITISH IN BURMA
93. “I have noted a regrettable” Quoted Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind, Hamish Hamilton 1978, p. 452.
94. “The majority of American officers” BNA FO371 F2983/1/61.
95. “The Americans…have rather behaved” Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall, ed. Brian Bond, Leo Cooper 1974, Vol. II, 14.12.43, p. 125.
96. “Our anti-Americanism” John Hill, China Dragons, Blandford 1991, pp. 94–95.
97. “A sheaf of contemporary” BNA WO203/4524.
98. “It would be a brave man” BNA WP(44)326, CAB66/51.
99. “We tried to say” AI Wen Shan, loc. cit.
100. “Some British people even hit them” AI Wu Guoqing.
101. “I began to wonder” Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries, 1939–45, ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, London 2001, 17.3.44.
102. “The American method” BNA CAB120/707 to Ismay.
103. “The hard fact is” Pownall diaries, op. cit., 29.9.44.
104. “If our operations formed merely” BNA COS 13.3.44 CAB79/84.
105. “I did not hold two articles” Slim, op. cit., p. 249.
106. “It is indeed a disgrace” BNA CAB120/707 7.5.44.
107. “A remarkable and complex character” Pownall diaries, op. cit., p. 201.
108. “I only quote this story” Alanbrooke diaries, op. cit., p. 452.
109. “Mountbatten is in the seventh heaven” Pownall diaries, op. cit., p. 187.
110. “Enjoy yourself” Christopher Somerville, Our War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998, p. 273.
111. “If…we are relegated” Pownall diaries, op. cit., p. 191.
112. “Imphal…yes” Swinson, op. cit., p. 125.
113. “The whole time” Lt. Col. J. Balfour-Oates, The Jungle Army, Kimber 1962, p. 176.
114. “Uncle Bill will fight a battle there” Slim, op. cit., p. 374.
115. “His appearance was plain enough” George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here, HarperCollins 1992, p. 36.
116. “We make the best plans” John Masters, The Road Past Mandalay, Michael Joseph 1971, p. 44.
117. “The scenery was superb” Raymond Cooper, op. cit., pp. 53, 59.
118. “Despair became rife” BNA WO203/6320.
119. “The air was thick” Captain Gerald Hanley, Spectator, 29.9.44.
120. “The Jap retreat” TL letters of 6.9.44 and 22.9.44, Lethbridge Papers LHA.
121. “Sometimes it is impossible” BNA WO203/279.
122. “There’s not much time” Pownall diaries, op. cit., p. 184, 29.8.44.
123. “that the minimum of effort” BNA CAB99/29 15.9.44.
124. “In the UK…I found everywhere” Michael Anglo, Service Newspapers of the Second World War, London 1977, p. 117.
125. “I was a pale white thing” Brian Aldiss, The Twinkling of an Eye, Little, Brown 1998, p. 151.
126. “When our lorry was labouring” ibid., p. 153.
127. “Gurkhas were wonderful chaps” AI Horsford.
128. “The fact that he sung in Welsh” Slim, op. cit., p. 468.
129. “Today I shall win the Victoria Cross” AI Ronnie McAllister.
130. “One can’t help feeling very humble” LHA Lethbridge Papers, op. cit.
131. “beard glistening” Gordon Graham, op. cit., p. 74.
132. “Reports of dissension” Pownall diaries, op. cit., p. 148.
133. “An army psychiatrist’s report” LHA Stockwell Papers 5/7/4.
134. “I remember dinner parties” AI McAllister.
135. “Sir, that thing is not coming” Randle, op. cit., p. 97.
136. “We thought nothing of the British Army” AI Horsford.
137. “They appeared mildly surprised” BNA WO232/35.
138. “With the Japanese, you could never see” AI John Cameron-Hayes.
139. “A Borderer in Raymond Cooper’s company” Cooper, op. cit., p. 102.
140. “He smelt pretty