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with the author. “It’s a shame to wish away time at our age…”: Albert H. Rooks to Edith Rooks, Aug. 29, 1941. “My opinion of the Jap situation keeps changing…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Sept. 6, 1941. “Few Allied naval officers other than Captain Rooks…”: Morison, 164. “Day after tomorrow it will be one month…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Sept. 28, 1941. “The longer they keep from striking…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Oct. 5, 1941. “They are really in what must be for them a very unsatisfactory position…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Oct. 19, 1941. “The Jap situation is sizzling this week end…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Oct. 18, 1941. “It is an interesting fact to me…” and “I have a feeling that fate is going to be kind to me…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Oct. 19, 1941.

CHAPTER 4 (pp. 31 to 37)

Houston stripping down at Cavite: William J. Weissinger Jr., interviewed by Samuel Milner, August 12, 1989, and Charley Pryor, UNT interview, Nov. 4, 1972, 53. Houston’s movements as war loomed: Ship’s log, Dec. 1941. U.S. Navy strategy in the Far East: Hart, “Supplementary of Narrative,” 2–3, and Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 153–54. “What did that thing say?”: David C. Flynn, interview with the author. “Japan started hostilities. Govern yourselves accordingly.”: Thomas C. Hart, narrative, 36. “A two-ocean war to wage with a less than one-ocean Navy…”: Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 209. Allied withdrawal from Philippines and setup of ABDA: ONI, “The Java Sea Campaign,” 6–14; Morison, Vol. 3, 281–82; Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, 123–125, 127–130; Schom, The Eagle and the Rising Sun, 252–59; and Leutze, A Different Kind of Victory, 262–263. ABDA’s internal conflicts: Thomas C. Hart, “Supplementary of Narrative,” 3–4; Hart, “Narrative of Events,” 2; ONI, “The Java Sea Campaign,” 14; Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 281–282; Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, 131. “The Americans have held out on the Bataan Peninsula…”: Wavell as quoted in Parkin, Into the Smother, 15. Sketch of Admiral Helfrich: Pratt, The Navy’s War, 16.

CHAPTER 5 (pp. 38 to 44)

Houston convoy duty: Cdr. Arthur Maher, narrative, 3. “It got to be so bad…”: Winslow, The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait, 58. Life at Darwin: Howard E. Brooks, interview with the author; Schultz, The Last Battle Station, 61–62. “Sturgeon no longer virgin”: Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 283. Battle of Balikpapan: USS Pope (DD–225), “Night Destroyer Attack off Balikpapan, January 24, 1942, January 25, 1942,” p. 1; ONI Combat Narrative, 18–21; Morison, Vol. 3, 285–290; Pratt, The Navy’s War, 21. Admiral Hart’s “exaggerated ideas of Japanese efficiency”: Leutze, A Different Kind of Victory, 273, quoting Wavell’s letter to Churchill. “A movement toward youth in all sea commands”: Thomas C. Hart, “Supplementary of Narrative,” 37. “A worrier who never could sit back…”: Hart’s diary, quoted in Leutze, 321–323. “I did not like to be commanding Admiral Helfrich on his own home ground”: Hart, “Supplementary of Narrative,” 37. “I was scared of the old devil…”: D. A. Harris, skipper of Bulmer, quoted in Leutze, 284. Admiral King to Admiral Hart: An “Awkward situation”: quoted in Leutze, 275. “It’s all on the laps of the gods”: Hart, Feb. 5, 1942, diary entry, quoted in Leutze, 277. “An island which was ours, but belongs to us no more…”: Rooks, “Sound Military Decision,” Part I, 60, 62.

CHAPTER 6 (pp. 45 to 49)

Repairs to Houston: Charles D. Smith, narrative Sept. 18, 1945, 2; Quentin C. Madson, “The Story of the USS Houston,” 10. “Oh, don’t bother with me…”: Howard E. Brooks, interview with the author. “Suddenly, I had the weird impression…”: Winslow, The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait, 97. “A weird silence enveloped the ship…”: Winslow, 96. “Well, the big news is that we have been in action…”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Feb. 9, 1942 (the letter is misdated Feb. 9, 1941). “When it comes to judging the ability of men as cruiser captains…. Rooks still had perfect poise…”: Thomas C. Hart to Edith Rooks, March