Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [240]
CHAPTER 22 (pp. 153 to 162)
“I took a deep drink of that sea water…”: James Gee, UNT interview, 40. “You’re just completely beyond exhaustion…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Nov. 4, 1972, 112. Ens. John B. Nelson’s boat: Winslow, The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait, 170–71 and Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 49. “This jerk was picking up guys…”: William M. Ingram, in Winslow, 149; see also Ingram, interviewed by Floyd Cox, 15. “We weren’t ashore five minutes…”: Ingram as quoted in Winslow, 149. “I could feel myself being carried out to sea…”: Gee, UNT interview, 42. Chaplain Rentz: H. S. Hamlin, “The Houston’s Last Battles,” 27; Lloyd V. Willey, UNT interview, 40; Web site of the USS Rentz (FFG-46), www.rentz.navy.mil/rentz_rentz.html. “You men are young, with your lives ahead of you”: Hamlin, 27, and Walter L. Beeson, “Casualty Affidavit for Cdr. George S. Rentz.” “The surface was dotted with all sorts of objects”: William J. Weissinger to Robert J. Cressman, Sept. 26, 1977, 4. “Transports lined the beach as far as the eye could see…”: John H. Wisecup to Randall Sutherland, Feb. 10, 1989, 4. “Strange guttural-snarling sounds…” and Lt. Dalton’s parley with the Japanese: Weissinger, Attention, Fool! 10–12. “Nobody wanted us”: Weissinger to Cressman, 5–6. Ordeal of Frank Gillan’s group of Perth survivors: McKie, Proud Echo, 73–76, 88–91. “The deck looked like a used shoe store display”: Wisecup to Randall Sutherland, Feb. 10, 1989, 1. Ensign Smith and Red Huffman getting ashore: Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences in Jap Prison Camp.” Damage to Japanese landing force: Weissinger to Cressman, Sept. 26, 1977, 4, and Winslow, 185.
CHAPTER 23 (pp. 163 to 170)
“Those Aussies—if you ever have to get captured…”: Otto C. Schwarz, interview with the author; see also Pete Evans, UNT interview, 195. Keith Gosden’s capture: McKie, Proud Echo, 54. There’s a plan for every man…: Ibid., 101. Toppers Island and Sangiang: Parkin, Out of the Smoke, 1, 6, and McKie, 71–83. “They had both disappeared”: William J. Weissinger to Robert J. Cressman, Sept. 26, 1977, 6. “If that’s the sort they are…”: McKie, 83. John A. Thode: McKie, 98–99. On Princes Island: Ibid., 102–103. Capture by the Dutch: Ibid., 106.
CHAPTER 24 (pp. 171 to 177)
“You are prisoners of war. Your lives will be spared”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Nov. 4, 1972, 114; Otto C. Schwarz, “One Man’s Story,” 4–5. “All my life I was the kind of person…”: Schwarz, videotaped interview, collection of Val Roberts-Poss. Americans at Pandeglang: William J. Weissinger to Robert J. Cressman, Sept. 26, 1977, 9. “You and the Japanese are brothers…”: General Imamura, as quoted in Reid and Akira, The Japanese Experience in Indonesia, 35. Sighting of Sergeant Standish ashore: Griff L. Douglas, UNT interview, 40 (most survivors doubt he got off the ship). Prisoners at Serang: Bee, All Men Back, 130; Charles D. Smith, 14; Harold S. Hamlin, “Report of Service as Prisoner of War,” 45; William J. Stewart, UNT interview, 36; Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 60–61; and Rohan Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 89. “They’ve now decided after several more counts…”: Ibid., 75. “We thought we were dead pigeons…”: Edward Miles Barrett, diary entry for March 2, 1942. “They just didn’t want to believe we were off the Houston”: Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 10. “For the first four or five days at Serang…”: Lanson H. Harris, interview with the author. “We began to mellow out and to think”: Ibid. “We were hungry to the point of it being actual torture…”: Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 16. “After about two weeks, things began to get very uptight…”: Lanson H. Harris, speech to the Long Beach Yacht Club.
CHAPTER 25 (pp. 178 to 185)
“From fragmentary reports received in the Navy Department…”: Navy Department, Communique No. 48. “Nothing, however, has been heard from the HMAS Perth or the USS Houston…”: Navy Department, Communique No. 54. “12 Allied Warships Lost in Java Battle…”: Los Angeles Examiner, March 15, 1942, 1. “Kin of Missing