Retribution_ The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings [387]
464. “Those who had survived Japanese hate” A Question of Identities: Selected Essays, Manila 1973, p. 77.
465. “C-in-C refused my request” USAMHI Griswold Papers, op. cit.
466. “The assault upon Intramuros was unique” ibid.
467. “It was not a pleasant moment” Reminiscences, op. cit., p. 247.
468. “organised drunk” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit.
469. “I believe the BC [Big Chief] would fight against” USAMHI Eichelberger letters, op. cit.
470. “Of the forty-nine men who are left” Suteo diary, op. cit.
471. “After daybreak, removed arm” LHA interrogation reports, captured diary of SH 19.5.45.
472. “Practically every day” LHA interrogation reports.
473. “They all talked big” Hiroo Onoda, No Surrender, Deutsch 1975, p. 57.
474. “all resigned to death” ibid., p. 69.
475. “We tore off the wings” Quoted Harvey, op. cit., pp. 221–22.
476. “absurd orders” USNA RG337 Box 59/238.
477. “It is still something of a mystery” Morison, op. cit., Vol XII, p. 216.
478. “There are unmistakable” Quoted Clayton James, op. cit., p. 717.
479. “It was a long, slow and costly operation” USAMHI Gill Papers Box 1, oral history transcript tape 8.
480. “We sometimes reported” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit., p. 161.
481. “I looked around to see” USAMHI Lamagna Papers.
482. “They laughed and kept on” USAMHI, Col. Charles A. Henne, Reduction of the Shobu Group, unpublished MS 1989, p. 9.
483. “The price that the…trail cost” USAMHI Gill Papers Box 1, op. cit.
484. “It seemed the right thing to do” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit., p. 104.
485. “Col. Bruce Palmer” USAMHI Palmer Papers.
486. “With the torrents of rain” USAMHI Henne MS, op. cit., p. 90.
487. “On those occasions” Stanley L. Falk, Decision at Leyte, Norton 1966, p. 21.
488. “South-West Pacific commitment” Army, June 1992, p. 61.
CHAPTER TEN • BLOODY MINIATURE: IWO JIMA
489. “a waterless island of sulphur springs” USNA RG38 Box 119, Maj. Y. Horie.
490. “We are now getting enemy” MCHC Joseph Raspalair Papers.
491. “You can hardly see sea” AI Ohkoshi.
492. “I…thought of the helpless feeling” Patrick Caruso, Nightmare on Iwo, Naval Institute Press 2001, p. 17.
493. “clothing and helmet” Johnston, op. cit., p. 73.
494. “I wondered how our plastic surgeons” James Vedder, Combat Surgeon, Presidio 1984, p. 37.
495. “This war will be decided” USNA Horie MS, op. cit.
496. “I saw my group leader” MCHC Rodriguez Papers.
497. “‘God, if you save my life” I’ll go to church every Sunday’ LC Jerry Copland interview.
498. “We had a gross misconception” Caruso, op. cit., p. 73.
499. “we had not seen any of the enemy” MCHC Rodriguez Papers, op. cit.
500. “Low morale, fatigue” MCHC Sayers Papers.
501. “Progress a hundred yards” MCHC Arsenault MS.
502. “Pick some prominent landmark” MCHC Green MS.
503. “At times, it appeared that the only sure way” Caruso, op. cit., p. 109.
504. “not only alive but leaving” MCHC unpublished MS, p. 302.
505. “I got hit in the balls” MCHC Cudworth Papers.
506. “After seeing dead Marines on the island” ibid.
507. “He was a good bit older” AI Ohkoshi.
508. “Once I get back home” Caruso, op. cit., p. 134.
509. “other than feeling sorry for the guys” LC George interview.
510. “Sometimes we were so close” MCHC Watkins MS, p. 182.
511. “In the time that one belly wound” ibid.
512. “You don’t need my watch” Caruso, op. cit., p. 31.
513. “He turned out to be my age” Bradlee, op. cit., pp. 78, 80.
514. “It was necessary for officers” MCHC Sayers report, op. cit.
515. “We replacements were despised” MCHC Lane Papers.
516. “My mind traversed the spectrum” Caruso, op. cit., p. 162.
517. “You wanted to know how bad” MCHC Colegrove Papers.
518. “I was never once sore” MCHC Schless Papers, op. cit.
519. “The first guy I ever killed” LC Copeland interview.
520. “It makes me sick” Maj.-Gen. Joseph Swing, Dear General: WWII Letters, 1944–45, 11th Airborne Association 1963, letter of 8.3.45.
521. “Captain Kouichi Ito, an army officer” AI Ito.
522. “In ancient times” MCHC Raspilair Papers, op. cit.
523. “There