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357. “The Americans, meanwhile” Estimate by Col. Junkichi Okabayashi, chief of staff of 1st Division, quoted Eighth Army staff study of Japanese 35th Army on Leyte, pp. 5–6.

358. “The difficulties of terrain and weather” USNA RG337 Box 59.

359. “It’s your turn in the morning” USAMHI Newman Papers Box 2.

360. “One enemy soldier, about thirty-five yards” Edmund G. Love, op. cit., p. 260.

361. “giving them the appearance” MCHC O. P. Smith Papers.

362. “If they don’t quit this shooting” LC Norman interview.

363. “We thought we’d cleaned out” ibid.

364. “It was pleasant to have houseboys” Craven and Cate, op. cit., Vol. V, pp. 388–89.

365. “for the first time” Diller, op. cit., pp. 148–49.

366. “The tactics we have been using” LHA diary of Lt. Suteo Inoue, Japanese interrogation reports.

367. “Soldiers have become very weak” ibid.

368. “As we crouched there” USAMHI, Recon Scout, op. cit.

369. “You’ve got soldiers with no brains” USAMHI Arnold oral history interview.

370. “One of the small number of Japanese” LHA Japanese interrogation reports 10IR644–7.

371. “Another tropical typhoon” USNA RG200 Box 2 SWPA communiqués.

372. “a blazing inferno” Cannon, op. cit., quoting 77th Division Operations Report Leyte, p. 16.

373. “MacArthur’s communiqués are” USAMHI Rodman Papers Box 5.

374. “Perhaps the best way to describe” USAMHI, Recon Scout, op. cit.

375. “This theater has been a victim” USAMHI Eichelberger letters, op. cit.

CHAPTER EIGHT • CHINA: DRAGON BY THE TAIL

376. “a huge and seductive” John Paton Davies, Dragon by the Tail, Robson Books 1975, p. 429.

377. “In Manchuria in those days” AI Nakamura.

378. “We were victims of those gangsters” AI Wen Shan.

379. “The Japanese forced my father” AI Jiang Zhen.

380. “Every morning we watched corpses” AI Xu Yongqiang.

381. “of lacquerware and porcelain” White and Jacoby, op. cit., p. 19.

382. “my parents felt” AI Liu Yunxiu.

383. “Even when the Japanese” AI Xu Guiming.

384. “China’s principal ruler” Biographical details are taken from Jonathan Fenby, Generalissimo, Free Press 2003.

385. “The two peoples are nearer” LC Dulles Papers Box 2, Press conference 24.8.44.

386. “Unit 731, the biological warfare” Daniel Barenblatt, A Plague upon Humanity, Souvenir Press 2001, passim.

387. “Nowadays the media” AI Ajiro.

388. “More than a million Japanese soldiers” AI Hando.

389. “I have told the president” BNA PREM430/11.

390. “a junk heap of old boxes” John King Fairbank, China, Harper & Row 1982, p. 243.

391. “She can become at will” Auden and Isherwood, Journey to a War, Faber 1938, pp. 66–67.

392. “perfect dears” Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version, Allen Lane 2002, p. 156.

393. “Most recruits came simply as prisoners” AI Xu Yongqiang.

394. “If only more people” AI Ying Yunping.

395. “It is difficult” BNA WO203/291 21.1.45.

396. “the campaigns the Japanese” Farmer, Shanghai Harvest, Museum Press 1945, p. 103.

397. “One Japanese division” AI Funaki.

398. “The Chinese were poor soldiers” AI Inoue.

399. “One man slowly put four fingers” Farmer, op. cit., p. 143.

400. “The Japanese had so much more” AI Yan Qizhi.

401. “There’s nothing to forgive” AI Ying.

402. “a cricket in a tiny straw cage” Davies, op. cit., p. 101.

403. “Ying Yunping, a thirty-year-old” AI Ying Yunping.

404. “We usually relied on what food” AI Luo Dingwen.

405. “Senior officers were suspicious” USAMHI Haydon Boatner Papers Box I “A statement for the record on Barbara Tuchman’s Sand in the Wind,” pp. 5, 9.

406. “To the Japanese soldier” Davies, op. cit., p. 204, 1938 report to the State Department.

407. “At such a moment [our commander]” I. Feng, Give Me Back My River and Hills, Macmillan 1945, p. 127.

408. “Additionally, as Christopher Thorne has argued” Thorne, Allies, op. cit., p. 567.

409. “The report asserted that a section” USNA RG337 Box 54 Folder 101.

410. “It has been the lowest common denominator” BNA WO203/142.

411. “It was dawn when we fell” White and Jacoby, op. cit., p. 187.

412. “the Japanese army