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200. “time and distance” Jernigan, op. cit., p. 92.
201. “You want to be free again” Fahey, op. cit., p. 182.
202. “On the destroyer Schroeder” George W. B. Hall, Men of the Schroeder, Reunion Group 1995, p. 66.
203. “Carlos, a lack of formal education” Hall, op. cit., p. 137.
204. “a warping sound” Jernigan, op. cit., p. 121.
205. “Each ship is like a city” ibid., p. 33.
206. “You’d be playing checkers” ibid., p. 126.
207. “He…sounded just like a Georgia redneck” Richard W. Streb, Life and Death Aboard the U.S.S. Essex, Dorrance 1999, p. 121.
208. “emotionally unstable, evil-tempered” ibid., p. 123.
209. “The old man is getting nastier” Kenton, op. cit., p. 47.
210. “We hadn’t spent years learning” AI Bradlee.
211. “the most important thing” NHC Oral Histories Box 5, Burke File.
212. “Every time we bring out” USNA RG38 Box 4 Captain L. J. Dow report.
213. “James Hutchinson of the battleship Colorado” NHC, James Hutchinson, The Love of a Sailor for His Ship, privately published 1992, p. 66.
214. “Suckers!” Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XII, p. 79.
215. “Of all the announcements” Attack Transport: The Story of the U.S.S. Doyen, University of Minnesota Press 1946, p. 119.
216. “A carrier officer, Ensign Dick Saunders” Flight Quarters, op. cit., p. 96.
217. “He ordered the vacant admiral’s cabin” NHC RG38 Box 4 Riley file.
218. “There are men out there” ibid., Widhelm file.
219. “The boys in a squadron” ibid., Lamade and Mini files.
220. “The very exacting nature” NHC, Administrative History of the USN in WWII: Aviation Personnel, p. 279.
221. “We learned to listen” Gerald W. Thomas, Torpedo Squadron Four, Rio Grande Historical Collections 1991, p. 118.
222. “Sherwin Goodman, an Avenger gunner” LC Goodman interview.
223. “Most of our kills were” USNA RG38 Box 4 Winters file.
224. “From pull-out, I looked back” ibid., Lamade file.
225. “What the boys want to do” USNA RG38 Box 4 Caldwell file.
226. “lose their daring” Aviation Personnel, op. cit., p. 281.
227. “Combat fatigue is a word we use” USNA RG38 Box 4 Lamade file.
228. “The weather was pretty good” ibid., Bakutis file.
229. “When Lt. Robert Nelson crashed” Charles Patrick Weilland, Above and Beyond, Pacifica Press 1997, p. 175.
230. “We were amazed to see the Americans” AI Iwashita.
231. “which sure was a wonderful show” NHC Oral History Files.
232. “Before returning them, we would strip them” Bradlee, op. cit., p. 65.
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233. “During planning for Third Fleet’s” NHC Carney file Box 6.
234. “revealed the concern of a man” Clayton James, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 509.
235. “The two rival roads were…converging” Morison, op. cit., Vol. XII, p. 18.
236. “an aloof cocker spaniel” MCHC O. P. Smith Papers.
237. “You will take no prisoners, you will kill every yellow” LC Jenkins interview.
238. “a guy I thought a lot of” ibid.
239. “The boy was not badly hurt” MCHC Smith narrative, p. 117.
240. “The thousands of rounds” ibid., pp. 119, 51.
241. “Bill Atkinson watched” Tom Evans, Hold Your Head High, Marine, privately published 2006, p. 35.
242. “Oh my God, I guess” ibid.
243. “I am carrying this guy” ibid., p. 125.
244. “Our troops should understand” USNA RG337 Box 58/206.
245. “Why did you do it?” Evans, op. cit., p. 86.
246. “It is hard to put your finger” MCHC Smith MS, op. cit., p. 93.
247. “For Isaac Waltons” NHC Library.
248. “If I was MacArthur” AI Takahashi.
249. “He could have filled his headquarters” ibid.
250. “This is our final parting” Pu Yi, From Emperor to Citizen, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing 1989, p. 234.
251. “The objective is relatively undefended” Quoted Craven and Cate, The U.S. Army Air Forces in WWII, Chicago 1953, Vol. V, p. 344.
252. “The navy and air force will attempt” USAMHI Japanese monographs 8489 roll no. 6.
253. “Leyte, like most of the other islands” USAMHI, Recon Scout, unpublished MS in McLaughlin Papers Box 5.
254. “As he approached, his face” Robert Shaplen in