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741. “I can’t stand it” MCHC Bressoud MS, op. cit.
742. “Somehow I had never consciously” MCHC Carell Papers.
743. “every once in a while” MCHC Kohn Papers, op. cit.
744. “The Marines and the army” MCHC Jenkins MS.
745. “We were permitted, if not encouraged” MCHC Bressoud MS, op. cit.
746. “On the ground lay the body” MCHC Donner MS, op. cit.
747. “None of the men would own up” ibid.
748. “I am afraid…there are many” MCHC Smith Papers, op. cit.
749. “You can take this war and shove it” LC Jenkins interview.
750. “By this time the cloths and the heads” MCHC Bressoud MS, op. cit.
751. “Your husband,” Howorth’s captain’ Yeoman James Orvill Raines, Good Night Officially: Letters of a Destroyer Sailor, Westview Press 1994, p. 276 et seq.
752. “Cmdr. Bill Widhelm” USNA RG38 Box 4.
753. “I don’t believe I’ll ever forget” Cmdr. David Scott, No Hiding Place off Okinawa, Naval Institute Proceedings, Nov. 1956.
754. “He seemed to float down” MCHC Bressoud MS, op. cit.
“Luce’s crew were wryly amused” Ron Surels, DD552: The Story of a Destroyer, Valley Graphics 1994.
755. “Bombs and shells” Raines, op. cit., p. 162.
756. “His lips were moving” Surels, op. cit., p. 130.
757. “They scatter like quail” USNA RG38 Box 4.
758. “Someone yelled down the hatch” Andrew Wilde (ed.), The U.S.S. Emmons in WWII, privately published 1998, p. 21.
759. “The first instinct of a destroyer skipper” Andrew Wilde (ed.), The U.S.S. Douglas H. Fox in WWII, privately published 1999, p. 9.
760. “I was so tired” Surels, op. cit., p. 101.
761. “The fighting off Okinawa became routine” Clark, op. cit., p. 227.
762. “I expected to die” AI Hijikata.
763. “By the spring of 1945” AI Iwashita.
764. “You’re a lucky guy” AI Ajiro.
765. “What in the Philippines had been” War with Japan, op. cit., p. 196.
766. “We took a chance and launched” NHC Box 5 Burke file.
767. “How are you? We are fine” Mitsuru Yoshida, Requiem for Battleship Yamato, Constable 1999, p. 10.
768. “a poor ratio of hits is due to human error” ibid., p. 76.
769. “At the instant Yamato” ibid., p. 118.
770. “Nothing gives me greater joy” ibid., p. 89.
771. “The destruction of Ito’s squadron” Russell Spurr, A Glorious Way to Die, Sidgwick & Jackson 1982, passim.
772. “There can be little doubt” Quoted Philip Vian, Action This Day, Muller 1960, p. 186.
773. “KGV went up astern” Quoted John Winton, The Forgotten Fleet, Michael Joseph 1969, p. 114.
774. “Except for those engaged” ibid., p. 140.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN • MAO’S WAR
775. “Though their enemies denounced” Snow, op. cit., p. 201.
776. “The Communists operated in regions” AI Funaki.
777. “In the anti-Japanese war, the Kuomintang” AI Yang Jinghua.
778. “We had to adopt the strategy” AI Zuo Yong.
779. “Guerrillas could not realistically engage” AI Wang Hongbin. 406 “‘For us,’ said Li” AI Li Fenggui.
780. “A lot of couples whose marriages” AI Zuo Yong.
781. “nothing more than a provincial government” BNA FO371/ F6140/34/10.
782. “I cannot believe he means business” ibid.; and Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, Cape 1950, passim.
783. “The Communists do not, any more” BNA FO371/F2375.
784. “the incandescence of personality” Davies, op. cit., p. 345.
785. “I got the impression that here” ibid., p. 347.
786. “Mao and the Communists” AI Yang Jinghua.
787. “Western visitors were charmed” Philip Short’s Mao, John Murray 1999, is probably the best biography for the general reader, while also commanding the respect of scholars. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s Mao: The Unknown Story, Cape 2005, makes fascinating reading as an impassioned polemic, the case for the prosecution. The book, and rival views of Mao, are exhaustively discussed in The China Journal, no. 55, Jan. 2006. There are also, of course, many contemporary eyewitness accounts of Mao in wartime Yan’an, some of them cited above.
788. “They had an infrastructure” AI Wei Daoran.
789. “If Chinese unable put up even show” BNA WO203/291 22.12.44.
790. “at present were mostly inactive” USNA RG457 Box 24 SRH 074–081 18.12.44.
791.