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792. “Both of us felt” Snow, op. cit., pp. 138, 161.
793. “Under no circumstances is any material help” BNA WO203/291.
794. “Seeing that the Communists have not been equipped” ibid.
795. “despised the Chinese [and] asked” Michael Lindsay, The Unknown War, London, Bergstrom & Boyle 1975, cited Thorne, Allies of a Kind, op. cit., p. 574.
796. “Yan’an provided the great mass” Davies, op. cit., p. 371.
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797. “extremely busy” USNA RG457 Box 24 SRH074–081.
798. “The news is terrific isn’t it?” IWM Wightman Papers 97/34/1.
799. “The end of the war in Europe” AI McAllister.
800. “Men! The war in Europe is over!” Fraser, op. cit., p. 28.
801. “If, as reports have it” USNA RG457 Box 24 SRH074–081.
802. “There were cases” James Bradley, Flyboys, Aurum Press 2003, p. 227, gives some vivid examples, but many others are to be found in contemporary files and narratives.
803. “and flesh was removed from thighs” LHA PW interrogation reports 10IR579.
804. “Rewarded only by silence, the launches” BNA WO203/5082.
805. “From May onwards, prisoners” 114 Field Regiment RA, narrative loaned to the author.
806. “I could not think of anything else to do” Winton, op. cit., p. 210.
807. “Mass air attacks” USNA RG496 Box 809.
808. “It would have been not only unfair” Slim, op. cit., p. 522.
809. “I am trying very hard” BNA WO203/55.
810. “We must naturally be prepared” H. G. Nicholas (ed.), Washington Despatches, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981, p. 559.
811. “The Americans are virtually conducting” BNA FO371/f1955 Sterndale Bennett.
812. “To hear some people talk” Quoted R. G. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, New York 1948, p. 921.
813. “I often think that we might” BNA WO203/5610.
814. “It will look very bad in history” BNA PREM 3/178-3.
815. “an awfully sweet guy” Quoted Robert Shaplen, The Lost Revolution, Deutsch 1966, p. 29.
816. “undisciplined, underequipped and destitute” Unless otherwise cited, all quotations and details given in this passage are taken from Peter Dunn’s The First Vietnam War, Hurst 1985.
817. “considerable assistance from [the] British” ibid., p. 108.
818. “The division of French Indochina” ibid., p. 112.
819. “Keep off Russo-Japanese” BNA WO203/368 27.7.45.
820. “There was disorderly behaviour” Col. Saburo Hayashi with Alvin D. Coox, Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War, Marine Corps Association 1959, p. 151.
821. “Those of us who knew” Horikoshi diary quoted Zero!, op. cit., p. 333.
822. “It seemed unbelievable” AI DeTour.
823. “When I took him to task” Clark, op. cit., p. 209.
824. “We had the usual fun” Flight Quarters, op. cit., p. 103.
825. “At Mick Carney’s insistence” Halsey and Whittlesey, op. cit., p. 304.
826. “It was all a matter of upbringing” AI Kikuchi.
827. “We felt that kaiten offered us” AI Konada.
828. “It is almost impossible not to believe” Frank, op. cit., p. 276.
829. “Ye stupid sods!” Fraser, op. cit., p. 124.
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830. “Every Russian killed” James J. Halsema, quoted Clayton James, op. cit., p. 774.
831. “When we are vexed” BNA PREM3/472 17.10.44.
832. “We must not invade Japan proper” U.S. Dept. of Defense, The Entry of the Soviet Union into the War Against Japan: Military Plans, 1941–45, Washington, D.C. 1955, pp. 50–51.
833. “Everybody wants the Roosh” Swing, op. cit., 28.5.45.
834. “There are notes” H. G. Nicholas, op. cit., p. 559.
835. “the biggest sonofabitch” Quoted Richard Rhodes, Ultimate Powers, Simon & Schuster 1986, p. 393.
836. “We really held all the cards” Stimson diary 14.5.45. 454 “[The] meeting leaves a mental picture” USNA RG457 Box 24.
837. “Japan has made special efforts” Okumiya and Horikoshi, op. cit., p. 335.
838. “To comprehend the president’s behaviour” Professor Robert H. Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Bomb, High Plains Publishing 1996.
839. “both because of the enormous reduction” West Point Archive, George A. Lincoln Papers.