Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [217]
My admiration for the veterans of the last flagship of the Asiatic Fleet knows no bounds. I am indebted to all of the Houston men who shared with me their harrowing sixty-year-old memories, as well as those I met at the various survivors reunions from 2003 to 2006: John E. Bartz, Howard E. Brooks, H. Robert Charles, Jack M. Feliz, David C. Flynn, Melfred L. (Gus) Forsman, Robert B. Fulton II, Frank E. (Ned) Gallagher, Ray Goodson, Lanson Harris, John E. Hood, James W. (Red) Huffman, William M. Ingram, Alois (Al) Kopp, Paul E. Papish, Eugene Parham, Clarence H. “Skip” Schilperoort, Otto C. Schwarz, Jack D. Smith, George D. Stoddard, and Lloyd V. Willey—all are men of grace and strength who inspire by their simple, mute example. I wish I could have known them sooner, and their shipmates long passed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Key:
CHC: Cruiser Houston Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, Tex.
HRR: Personal papers of Harold R. Rooks.
NARA II: National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md.
UNT: Interviews conducted by Dr. Ronald E. Marcello for the Oral History Collection at the University of North Texas (previously North Texas State University), Denton, Tex.
OFFICIAL REPORTS
Commander, Destroyer Division 58, “Report of Action with Japanese on February 27, 1942. Events before and After” (by Cdr. Thomas H. Binford), Serial CF-05, March 4, 1942. NARA II, Record Group 38.
Commander, Destroyer Squadron 29, “Notes on Night Actions” (by H. V. Wiley), March 4, 1942. NARA II, Record Group 38.
Commander, Task Group 30.6 (Commander Task Flotilla 6), “Action Report Covering Evacuation of Prisoners of War During Period 29 August 1945 to 19 September 1945” (written by Commodore Rodger W. Simpson), Serial 0024, September 22, 1945. NARA II.
Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Army, Military Court, Trial of Japanese War Criminals, including Lt. Col. Yoshitada Nagatomo and others, Singapore, August 5–September 16, 1946. National Archives of Australia, http://naa.gov.au.
———. Trial of Japanese War Criminals, Major Totare Mizutani, Singapore, Case No. 235/911, May–June 1946. University of California–Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~warcrime/Japan/singapore/Trials/Mizutani.htm.
———. Trial of Japanese War Criminals, Maj. Gen. Akira Sasa, Singapore, Case No. 235/1109, January 1948. University of California–Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~warcrime/Japan/singapore/Trials/Sasa.htm.
“Convention Between the United States of America and Other Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War,” ratified by the United States in January 1932. The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, www.yale.edu/lawweb/Avalon/lawofwar/geneva02.htm (last viewed by the author on February 27, 2006).
Glassford, Rear Adm. William A. “U.S. Naval Forces in Southwest Pacific, operations of,” March 12, 1942. NARA II.
———. “Enclosure Accompanying Secret Letter,” Vols. 1 and 2, Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, May 16, 1942. NARA II, Record Group 38, Box 1725.
Hamlin, Lt. (jg) Harold S., Jr. “USS Houston in Battle of Java Sea” (personal narrative), recorded September 14, 1945. NARA II.
———. “Statement of Lt. Cdr. Harold S. Hamlin,” undated ca. October 1945. NARA II.
———. “Report of Service as Prisoner of War, March 1, 1942, to August 29, 1945,” August 30, 1946. NARA II.
Hart, Adm. Thomas C. “Events and Circumstances Concerning the ‘Striking Force,’” February 6, 1942 (with supplement dated February 17, 1942). NARA II.
———. “Narrative of Events, Asiatic Fleet, Leading up to War and from 8 December 1941 to 15 February 1942,” June 11, 1942. NARA II.
———. “Supplementary of Narrative,” undated, sent by Hart to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal on October 8, 1946. NARA II.
HIJMS Atago, “Tabular Record of Movement,