Retribution_ The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings [386]
413. “Chinese soldiers showed” AI Wen Shan.
414. “I was very lucky” AI Jiang Zhen.
415. “They said what they liked” AI Wu Guoqing.
416. “It might be said that” S. Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan, HMSO 1964, Vol. IV, p. 194.
417. “All of us must remember” Quoted Davies, p. 269.
418. “I saw a machine gunner” USAMHI Boatner Papers, op. cit.
419. “He was much more than” Letter to John Hart 9.11.59, quoted Lewin, Slim: The Standard Bearer, p. 141.
420. “silken clad girls” Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning, Gollancz 1959, p. 163.
421. “the one abiding sentiment” ibid., p. 164.
422. “incapable—surely to an abnormal degree?” Emily Hahn, Chiang Kai-shek, Doubleday 1955, p. 248.
423. “hanging up my shovel” Quoted Davies, op. cit., p. 337.
424. “Al stated that” Jan. 1944 conversation noted by JS, quoted ibid., p. 300.
425. “General Wedemeyer told me with conviction” BNA FO371/41746.
426. “Chiang did some big things” AI Hongbin.
427. “Time is on the side of” Quoted Davies, op. cit., p. 273.
CHAPTER NINE • MACARTHUR ON LUZON
428. “‘Sit down,’ said the general” USAMHI Eddleman Papers.
429. “We grew to know his mood” Sgt. Vincent Powers quoted Clayton James, op. cit., p. 584.
430. “treason and sabotage” ibid., p. 588.
431. “At this late stage, after all one had survived” Somerville, op. cit., p. 264.
432. “This is terrible country to fight in” USAMHI Austin MS, op. cit., 3.2.45.
433. “General MacArthur visited” USAMHI Griswold Papers Box 1.
434. “I don’t see how I have gotten” USAMHI Eichelberger Papers, op. cit., letter of 23.1.45.
435. “I must insist that you take” Quoted Robert Ross Smith, Triumph in the Philippines, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1964, p. 236.
436. “Groaning and writhing on the ground” A.V.H. Hartendorp, The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, Manila 1957, Vol. II, p. 525.
437. “Mrs. Foley kept asking about” Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, All This Hell, Kentucky University Press 2000, p. 160.
438. “They seemed to be using their last strength” Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences, Heinemann 1965, p. 247.
439. “We met more resistance around Nichols Field” USAMHI Eichelberger Papers, “Dearest Miss Em,” 23.2.45, op. cit.
440. “On 28 December 1944 the Japanese kempeitai” Richard Connaughton, John Pimlott and Duncan Anderson, The Battle for Manila, Bloomsbury 1995, p. 72. This entire passage draws heavily on their work.
441. “Throngs of Filipinos” USAMHI Henne unpublished MS, op. cit., p. 41.
442. “The fighting became a shoot-out” ibid., p. 42.
443. “Not many men were ever privileged” ibid., p. 46.
444. “Our forces are rapidly clearing” USNA RG200 Box 2.
445. “MacArthur has visions” USAMHI Griswold Papers, op. cit.
446. “Leaving the near bank” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit., p. 107.
447. “The sky was a” USAMHI Maj.-Gen. R.S. Beightler: Report on the Activities of the 37th Infantry Division.
448. “Even then the Japanese” USNA RG337 Box 71/491.
449. “I’ll never forget the bewildered look” USAMHI Palmer Papers.
450. “Didn’t you command HQ Company” USAMHI Eddleman Papers, op. cit.
451. “Such…are lonely, personal times” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit., p. 80.
452. “I hope they don’t get VD” ibid., p. 95.
453. “It was…so common in combat” ibid., p. 73.
454. “Private Dahlum of the 3/148th” ibid., p. 66.
455. “Suspecting that every closed door” ibid., p. 68.
456. “They grabbed my two sisters” Evidence given at 1946 Yamashita trial, quoted Connaughton et al., op. cit., p. 243.
457. “I had seen the head of an aunt” ibid., pp. 204–5.
458. “When Filipinos are to be killed” Report on the Sack of Manila, U.S. Congressional Committee on Military Affairs 1945, pp. 14–15.
459. “Oscar Griswold of XIV Corps” USAMHI Griswold Papers, op. cit.
460. “Don’t do that” Luis Esteban, My War, unpublished MS, quoted Connaughton et al., op. cit., p. 150.
461. “will not be able to understand” USNA RG338/11061/41 MacArthur 2.9.44.
462. “From then on, to put it crudely” USAMHI Beightler MS, op. cit.
463. “American lives were undoubtedly