Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [233]
CHAPTER 7 (pp. 50 to 54)
“I am going out into the troubled zone this evening…May God protect and strengthen you”: Rooks to Edith Rooks, Feb. 14, 1942. Admiral Hart’s farewell: Leutze, A Different Kind of War, 277. “Well, boys, we all have a busy day tomorrow…”: Ibid., 278. “Oh it was hard…”: Hart diary, quoted in Leutze, 278. Houston convoy to Timor: ONI, “The Java Sea Campaign,” 36; Winslow, The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait, 100–101. “I see the USS Houston is escorting four transports…”: John E. Bartz, interview with the author. Air attacks on Houston: USS Houston, “Action Report of the USS Houston (CA-30) in Defense of Convoy off Darwin, Australia, 16 February 1942.” “She was a wonderful sight…”: E. L. Cullis, “Vale Houston,” The Blue Bonnet, newsletter of the USS Houston Survivors Association, Sept. 2001, 5. Rooks’s seamanship under air attack: John D. Lamade, USS Houston: December 8, 1941, to February 28, 1942; Lloyd Willey, UNT interview, 22. “They dropped them so close to us…”: Charley Pryor, UNT interview, 78. “I’d often wondered and worried…”: Griff L. Douglas, UNT interview, 16–17. “You could just see them rocking up there”: Lloyd V. Willey, UNT interview, 22. “All the sea boiled up and Houston was gone”: E. L. Cullis, “Vale Houston,” 5. “It was a proud moment”: William J. Weissinger, interview with Samuel Milner, 4.
CHAPTER 8 (pp. 55 to 63)
The collapse of ABDA: ONI, The Java Sea Campaign, 44; British Admiralty, “The Battle of the Java Sea: 27th February 1942,” 13; Prados, Combined Fleet Decoded, 257; Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 336. “I am afraid that the defense of the ABDA area has broken down”: Prados, Combined Fleet Decoded, 257. The Houston at Tjilatjap: Winslow, The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait, 108; Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences in Jap Prison Camp,” 4. “In a fatherly way, he draped his arm around my shoulder…”: Winslow, 108. “Say, didn’t I just hear a gate clang shut behind us?”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 29; see also Hamlin, “The Houston’s Last Battles,” 10. “With all the confusion going on around us”: Winslow, 109. “If this [naval force] is divided…”: Wavell quoted in Payne, HMAS Perth: The Story of the Six-Inch Cruiser, 62. Background on the Seventeenth Pursuit Squadron: Craven and Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, 383–87, 397–402; see also Edmonds, They Fought with What They Had, 288–290; U.S. Army Air Force, Historical Division, Summary of Air Action in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, 239–240; and Ingram, A Worm’s Eye View, 13. “It was the first time we’d ever fired at anchorage”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, 82–83. “At the end of three or four days of this”: Otto C. Schwarz, in “Death Becomes the Ghost,” video. Gathering of Combined Striking Force: Hamlin, “The Houston’s Last Battles,” 10; Mullin, Another Six Hundred, 205–206; Thomas, The Battle of the Java Sea, 156. “There is a possibility in this action we may have some fighter protection”: Payne, HMAS Perth, 64. “You must continue attacks till enemy is destroyed”: Helfrich to Doorman.
Part 2: A Bloodstained Sea
CHAPTER 9 (pp. 67 to 70)
The approach of the Japanese invasion force is based on Hara, Japanese Destroyer Captain, 72–76; Dull, Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 72; and Morison, History of United States Naval Operations, Vol. 3, 335. Memories of the Exeter: Paul E. Papish,