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678. “I’ve missed the sunshine after rain” LHA Morris Papers, op. cit.
679. “Some men swore” AI Mel Rosen, loc. cit.
680. “Guess my mother thinks” Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee, op. cit., pp. 102, 129.
681. “We were so hungry that” ibid., p. 136.
682. “It was becoming very apparent” Hartendorp, op. cit., p. 311.
683. “My Dear Philip” IWM Sparrow Papers 88/63/1.
684. “Goddammit! That was” Coubrough, op. cit., pp. 92–93.
685. “not a bit like Butlin’s” IWM Evans Papers 82/24/1.
686. “In sapper Edward Whincup’s” IWM Whincup Papers 91/81/1.
687. “With one exception” Coubrough, op. cit., p. 121.
688. “1/2 pint rice pap” IWM Denis Leigh 1947, thesis on neurological disorders in POWs 77/172/1.
689. “Somehow we keep going” IWM Thompson Papers 87/58/1.
690. “the british always” Stibbe, op. cit., p. 124.
691. “Some people would steal” AI Reuter.
692. “Sapper Edward Whincup” IWM Whincup Papers 91/81/1.
693. “No one has any sympathy” IWM Romney Papers, op. cit.
694. “We became hardened” P. G. Stibbe, Return via Rangoon, Wolsey 1947, p. 162.
695. “You don’t know the meaning of frustration” AI Rosen.
696. “that the Japanese, contemptuous of us” Coubrough, op. cit., p. 99.
697. “It was pointless to maintain” ibid., p. 147.
698. “a necessary exercise” IWM 93/8/1 Jackson, “Misadventure,” privately published MS.
699. “The ordinary Japanese” Stibbe, op. cit., pp. 55, 196.
700. “‘Mr. M’ scythed grass” IWM, David Nicoll, Young Shanghailander, 92/14/1.
701. “I cooked it slowly” Nini Hannaford-Rambonnet, Stand to Attention, Bow, Stand Up, Batavia Publishing 2005, p. 33.
702. “no one was raped” IWM Lyon MS 90/10/1.
703. “That’s what I wanted” IWM Dryburgh Papers 82/19/1.
704. “Not until your hair is grey” Hannaford-Rambonnet, op. cit.
705. “If you wish to live you must” Abbott, op. cit., p. 179.
706. “He was a really kind-hearted Japanese” IWM Lyon MS 90/10/1.
707. “How do you like winning” IWM Shearn MS 92/36/1.
708. “Are you contented” Abbott, op. cit., p. 58.
709. “a terrible tragedy” ibid., p. 66.
710. “I had beriberi” AI Idlett.
711. “I told myself after the war” AI Kikuchi.
712. “At the end of the war” John Glusman, Conduct Under Fire, Viking 2005, p. 410.
713. “There was no debate among the doctors” Baltimore Sun, 20.5.95.
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714. “We bombarded all day long” Hutchinson, op. cit., p. 61.
715. “Everyone expected E Company” Johnston, op. cit., p. 126.
716. “They brought him back to us” MCHC Donner MS.
717. “I thought I might get to a pillbox” James W. Johnston, The Long Road of War: A Marine’s Story of Pacific Combat, University of Nebraska Press 1998, p. 128.
718. “I didn’t recognise anything I saw” MCHC Bressoud MS, “The Way It Really Was. I Think,” 1994.
719. “What do you want to treat a Jap” The New Yorker Book of War Pieces, Bloomsbury 1989.
720. “He did not want to be involved” MCHC Smith MS, op. cit.
721. “ruddy, heavy-set” ibid.
722. “Buckner had surprisingly little troops’ duty” ibid.
723. “The enemy tactic which impressed us” USNA RG127 USMC Operations in WWII—Okinawa.
724. “The U.S. XXIV Corps once received” USNA RG337 Box 70 Tenth Army Report of 28.5.45.
725. “Another letter, from the father of a wounded man” MCHC Siebert Papers.
726. “I hope you’re satisfied!” MCHC Carell MS.
727. “Oh! to see the folks” Johnston, op. cit., p. 139.
728. “Of course this was very, very comforting” MCHC Siebert Papers.
729. “One of the weaknesses of the American army” ibid.
730. “embittered over this needless loss” MCHC Donner MS.
731. “Much against my instincts” MCHC Siebert Papers.
732. “With afternoon came the order” MCHC Donner MS.
733. “‘It was awful, God’” ibid.
734. “when the bullet hit Gosman’s head” Johnston, op. cit., p. 150.
735. “I thought of the old verse” ibid., p. 122.
736. “Her touch felt like an angel’s” ibid., p. 157.
737. “Rashly exposing himself on Tera Ridge” MCHC Carell MS.
738. “You see, I am out of any possible danger” USAMHI Rodman Papers.
739. “We took three hundred casualties in the first two days” AI Ito.
740. “The news came as a shock”