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141. “The screams of the patients” John Leyin, Tell Them of Us, Lejins Publishing 2000, p. 159.
142. “The war in Burma was fought” Randle, op. cit., p. 58.
143. “the Japanese still considers himself” BNA WO203/632.
144. “All experience…has demonstrated” LHA Messervy Papers.
145. “The Jap selects the most unlikely” LHA Gracey Papers, op. cit.
146. “It seemed a terribly old-fashioned” Fraser, op. cit., p. 26.
147. “but NOT to such an extent as” LHA Gracey Papers, op. cit.
148. “A six-month breakdown of” LHA Medical History of 20th Indian Division, Gracey Papers.
149. “One orderly was deputed” John Hamilton, War Bush, Michael Russell 2001, p. 332.
150. “John Leyin’s crew sang” Leyin, op. cit., p. 178.
151. “Back in harbour we faced” T. Grounds, Some Letters from Burma: The Story of the 25th Dragoons at War, privately published, p. 41.
152. “Has he got a chance?” AI Horsford.
153. “A saddler with an Indian Army” AI J. C-H.
154. “Perhaps the reason why the old soldier” Cooper, op. cit., p. 151.
155. “The thought went through my head” Daniels MS, op. cit.
156. “infidelity of soldiers’ wives” BNA WO203/4536.
157. “Waiting in the dark” Cooper, op. cit., p. 124.
158. “Anxiety about domestic affairs” BNA WO203/4537.
159. “does not like India or Burma” ibid.
160. “I get reports that certain officers” LHA Stockwell Papers Box 4/2.
161. “Stockwell deplored the poor quality” ibid.
162. “a small outbreak of desertion” BNA WO203/4524.
163. “they would go out on patrol” AI Horsford, loc. cit.
164. “On his own, in the dark” Hamilton, op. cit., p. 226.
165. “Bamboo ladders were built” ibid., p. 213.
166. “Without a murmur of complaint” ibid., p. 175.
167. “I gave Alex” Lt. Col. J. H. Williams, Elephant Bill, Hart-Davis 1950, passim.
168. “We had entered an enchanted zone” Aldiss, op. cit., p. 158.
169. “lukewarm, assisting whichever superior forces” LHA Gracey Papers Box 2/24 11.9.44.
170. “with his left leg shattered” Randle, op. cit., p. 72.
171. “The war took a long time” Hill, op. cit., pp. 43, 40.
172. “I didn’t worry about it” AI Joe Welch.
173. “Even the miners among us” Hill, op. cit., p. 36.
174. “I’m not carrying a haversack” IWM Daniels MS, op. cit.
175. “We seem condemned to wallow” Churchill Papers 20/176 telegram to Smuts.
176. “Not if they go by train” Philip Mason, A Matter of Honour, Cape 1974, p. 502.
177. “Oh, the Indians were very kind” Quoted Somerville, op. cit., p. 258.
178. “Most rankers expected little” Aldiss, op. cit., p. 180.
179. “My daddy always taught me” AI Linamen.
180. “For an instant” Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset, Cassell 1995, p. 24.
181. “It looked doom-laden” ibid., p. 27.
182. “That night, the sky was red” ibid.
183. “We had superiority in every arm” ibid., pp. 28–29.
184. “When one considers what the Americans” IWM 81/7/1 Romney Papers.
185. “This army is like Cinderella” LHA Lethbridge Papers, op. cit., 27.12.44.
CHAPTER FOUR • TITANS AT SEA
186. “Between 1941 and 1945” Navy Department Bureau of Construction, see J. Furer, Administrative History of USN in WWII.
187. “The fighter direction staff” Ronald Spector, At War at Sea, Penguin 2001, p. 301.
188. “The inescapable conclusion” Joel R. Davidson, The Unsinkable Fleet, Naval Institute Press 1996, p. 97.
189. “day in and day out life at sea” Flight Quarters, Veterans Association of the Belleau Wood 1946, p. 75.
190. “You never know where you’re going” LC Irwin interview.
191. “Dear Mom and Dad” MCHC Kohn Papers, Joseph Kohn 21.2.45.
192. “you stand back under cover” James Fahey, Pacific War Diary, 1942–45, Houghton Mifflin 1963, p. 182.
193. “there weren’t many fuck-ups” AI Bradlee.
194. “It was an exhausting life” Ben Bradlee, A Good Life, New York 1995, p. 67.
195. “too old for the duty they had” NHC Joe Kenton, Long Ago and Far Away, unpublished MS 2000, p. 17.
196. “for lack of anything better to do” LC Irwin interview.
197. “Everyone had a new respect” Jernigan, op. cit., p. 43.
198. “it felt like being taken apart” ibid., p. 45.
199. “I had such