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571. “Most of my mail consisted of” Shigemitsu memoirs, op. cit., p. 346.
572. “the most frightful experience” ibid., p. 324.
573. “elements of the population” USNA RG457 Box 24 SRH074–081.
574. “After the war” AI Ando.
575. “An unforgettable mission” B-29 website.
576. “Frequent bombings, particularly night attacks, have made a major impact” RUSSIAN ARKHIV 18. VELIKAYA OTECHESTVENNAYA No.7 (1), Moscow 1997, no. 294, p. 297; from the Review of Military Operations of the USAAF Against Japan Compiled by the Intelligence Department of USSR Main Naval Headquarters ( June 1944–March 1945). Source: TsVMAF. 2 Op. 1 D.1019. L.304–9, 313–20.
577. “It was easy to see that the Nip pilots” Samuelson diary, op. cit., B-29 website.
578. “Mess kits were banged” True personal narrative, loaned to the author.
579. “Personally I have no quarrel” Norstad to LeMay 17.4.45.
580. “Never before or since” MAFB 760-551: USAAF special post-war report on fire-raising.
581. “We were going after military targets” LeMay and Kantor, op. cit., p. 384.
582. “I don’t think we thought much” AI True, loc. cit.
583. “It is much easier” IWM Speer Collection Box 5369 SHAEF G230.5.45.
584. “this use of psychological warfare” Conrad C. Crane, “Leadership, Technology and the Ethics of Total War: Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Japan,” in Christopher Kolenda (ed.), Leadership: The Warrior’s Art, Army War College Foundation Press, Carlisle, Pa. 2001, pp. 205–24.
585. “I imagine if one knew Napoleon” USAMHI Eichelberger Papers, op. cit.
586. “Fear of losing control” Craven and Cate, op. cit., p. 531.
587. “one of the most ruthless” Hoover Institution, Fellers Collection Box 3.
588. “The course and conduct” Crane, Bombs, Cities and Civilians, op. cit., p. 173.
589. “Highlight of the entire” Maxwell AFB 760–1 Post-War Narrative.
590. “Nobody involved in the decision” Freedman and Dockrill, “Hiroshima: A Strategy of Shock,” From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, Macmillan 1993, p. 196.
591. “Nothing new about death” Quoted Werrell, op. cit., p. 140.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN • THE ROAD PAST MANDALAY
592. “It might be one of our chaps” Fraser, op. cit., p. 37.
593. “He confused 9 Section” ibid., p. xii.
594. “There was a wonderful” Northamptonshire Regimental Journal, Nov. 1952, p. 17.
595. “He is neither pro-Jap” LHA Gracey Papers.
596. “Very few of us” Hill, op. cit., p. 110.
597. “None of them surrendered” ibid.
598. “One of our chaps” IWM 95/33/1 Daniels MS, p. 243.
599. “that it was counterattacked” Woodburn Kirby, Vol. V, op. cit., p. 257.
600. “Despite recent bad behaviour” BNA WO203/1259 23.2.45.
601. “The South Lancs’ CO” AI Horsford.
602. “With maddening sluggishness” Woodburn Kirby, Vol. V, op. cit., p. 265.
603. “The tanks took a pasting” AI McAllister.
604. “The Japanese still had the reputation” ibid.
605. “Jap suicide squads dug in” BNA WO203/1259.
606. “Meiktila was a place” AI Inoue.
607. “Here before us” Hill, op. cit., p. 112.
608. “house-to-house” BNA WO203/5315.
609. “We just overran them” AI Horsford.
610. “It’s no good, sahib!” Sandle, op. cit., pp. 67–68.
611. “We felt it was going to be over” AI J. C-H.
612. “I’m afraid I enjoyed the campaign” AI McAllister.
613. “It was always a disappointment” Slim, op. cit., p. 351.
614. “Among the stream of vehicles” Abe, On the Staff of Thirty-Third Army, Fuji Shobo 1953.
615. “Leading troops now only 72 miles” BNA WO203/1259.
616. “Men are the most precious thing” Maj. P. G. Malins of Royal Indian Army Service Corps personal narrative 1981, Gracey Papers LHA.
617. “I turned to see” Fraser, op. cit., p. 83.
618. “If thoo wez a Jap, an’ saw this lot coomin’” ibid., p. 93.
619. “The scale of loss on both sides” Michael Hickey, The Unforgettable Army, Spellmount 1998.
620. “I began to realise how much” Hill, op. cit., p. 137.
621. “The most incredible thing” Lethbridge Papers LHA.
622. “Dicky [Mountbatten], reinforced by” Quoted Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 7, p. 1283.
623. “They looked like beggars” AI Sugano.
624. “Petrol is as precious