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303. “the very poor decision” USNA RG200 Box 59, report of 29.10.44.
304. “The second explosion” ibid.
305. “severely burned beyond recognition” NHC Oral Histories Burrell file.
306. “Attention all hands” Flight Quarters, op. cit., p. 51.
307. “There wasn’t any of this” USNA RG38 Box 4.
308. “mission was to be defeated” Ito, op. cit., p. 142.
309. “We had frantic screams” USNA RG38 Box 4 Dow, op. cit.
310. “It wasn’t five minutes” ibid.
311. “Prosecute damage control” NHC Library.
312. “Fifty hours in the water” NHC Box 12 Hagen file.
313. “I guess I missed the best battle” Clark, op. cit., p. 235.
314. “Several Japanese fighter pilots” Rikihei Inoguchi and Tadashi Nakajima with Roger Pineau, The Divine Wind, Hutchinson 1959, passim.
315. “In the Philippines, every day” AI Iki.
316. “Everything was urgent” S. Sakai, Samurai, Four Square 1974, p. 213.
317. “When a commander is uncertain” Ito, op. cit., p. 161.
318. “Japan is in grave danger” ibid., pp. 37–38.
319. “People in the streets” Divine Wind, op. cit., p. 77.
320. “He was afire in the engine” Flight Quarters, op. cit., p. 58.
321. “You could of drove a Mack” C. Raymond Calhoun, Tin Can Sailor, Naval Institute Press 1993, p. 155.
322. “This type of attack is quite different” NHC Box 26 Purdy file.
323. “If adequate fighter cover not maintained” USNA RG200 Box 59.
324. “I was standing in the open” Hutchinson, op. cit., p. 61.
325. “You just don’t know which one’s” LC Erwin interview.
326. “The first thing I saw that day” Jernigan, op. cit., p. 176.
327. “rushed over to help get a man” Gerald Thomas, op. cit., p. 92.
328. “I seen these fellows with short sleeves” ibid.
329. “Seven of our bomber pilots” USNA RG38 Box 4 Winters report, op. cit.
330. “The Japanese had perfected” Morison, op. cit., Vol. XII, p. 367.
331. “Logically, suicide attack” Royal Navy Staff History, War with Japan, Ministry of Defence 1995, Vol. VI, p. 196.
332. “I could imagine myself in the heat” Bradlee, op. cit., p. 90.
333. “Let no man belittle” Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan and Her Destiny, Hutchinson 1958, p. 340.
334. “We ran afoul of Japanese” NHC Box 6 Carney file, p. 14.
335. “I was somewhat puzzled” NHC Box 15 Inglis report, p. 19.
336. “We came to believe” Jernigan, op. cit., p. 92.
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337. “the Navy succeeded” Japanese monograph 8489 roll 6 USAMHI.
338. “There are only thirty-four men in our company” Diary of Eichi Ogita of 362th Independent Battalion, Japanese Interrogation Reports, LHA.
339. “By 7 November” Japanese Translated Monographs, op. cit.
340. “Men threw away their packs” Orlando Davidson et al., The Deadeyes: Story of the 96th Division, Infantry Journal Press 1947, p. 49.
341. “We had just begun to dig in” Morrissey diaries, op. cit., 28.10.44.
342. “I only knew him as a G Company screw-up” Eric Diller, Memoirs of a Combat Infantryman, privately published 1999, p. 51.
343. “I saw an undernourished” ibid., p. 70.
344. “Beyond grief inflicted” USNA RG337 Box 59/238.
345. “The task of supply and evacuation” M. Hamlin Cannon, The U.S. Army in WWII—Leyte: The Return to the Philippines, Dept of the Army 1954, p. 112.
346. “Floods raced” Jan Valtan, Children of Yesterday, Readers Press 1946, p. 187.
347. “I saw the creek bed” Morrissey diaries, op. cit.
348. “The end of the Leyte-Samar” USNA RG200 Box 2 SWPA communiqués.
349. “I’m surprised it isn’t going faster” Quoted Yank, 19.1.45.
350. “The new john radioed back” USAMHI, Charles Henne, Battle History of the 3/148th Infantry, unpublished MS, p. 126.
351. “I don’t want this business” USAMHI Bruce Papers Box 9, 12.12.44.
352. “No loud talking or laughing” USAMHI Morrissey diary, op. cit.
353. “The men looked ten or fifteen” USAMHI unpublished MS memoir, p. 134, Aubrey Newman Papers Box 6.
354. “This meant a long war” USAMHI Hostetter MS p. 89, Newman Papers Box 6.
355. “To the Japanese officer” USAMHI WD, Handbook, pp. 97, 99.
356. “The Japanese…displayed” Cannon, op. cit., pp. 245–52; Sixth Army Operations Report Leyte,