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Sad but Proud…”: New York Herald Tribune, dateline May 14, 1942. Commander Maher, reported held in “the southern regions”: Waltham News-Tribune, “Some of Houston’s Crew Saved, Japs Indicate.” “A new kind of war…”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, fireside chat, Feb. 23, 1942. “Everybody well. Love, Harold Rooks.” Rooks to Edith Rooks, March 4, 1942. “That means he and the ship are okay…”: “Misdated Cable Gave Wife of Capt. Rooks False Hope,” unattributed, undated. “Just heard that Houston was sunk…”: Harold R. Rooks to Edith Rooks, March 14, 1942. “Characteristic of you in having no hesitation…”: Hart to Edith Rooks, March 25, 1942, 1. “I, myself, am by no means without hope…”: Ibid. “It is with deep regret that I confirm the Navy Department’s dispatch…”: Frank Knox to Edith Rooks, April 9, 1942. Stivers “had word from a most responsible source”: J. W. Woodruff to Edith Rooks, April 22, 1942. Rooks “a tower of strength in getting our scattered forces together…”: William A. Glassford to Edith Rooks, May 21, 1942, 1. “There was a bell in the naval office…”: correspondence of William A. Bernrieder, CHC. “There’s never been anything like it, before or since”: “A Case of Unparalleled Patriotism,” The Houston Chronicle, Texas Magazine, Dec. 9, 1979, 44. “I’m ready to fight…”: Bob Tutt, “Reunion Set for Cruiser ‘Volunteers,’” Houston Chronicle, May 11, 1992, 9A, 16A. “On this Memorial Day, all America joins with you…”: New York Times, May 31, 1942, quoted in John Grider Miller, The Battle to Save the Houston, 6–7. “An unparalleled gift of manpower”: Richard M. Morehead, “Texas Fills Houston Crew,” undated United Press dispatch, dateline Houston, May 30, 1942.

CHAPTER 26 (pp. 186 to 190)

“Officer? Any officer?” and Hamlin’s parley with Japanese officer: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 68–69. Bicycle Camp “looked like the Hilton”: Lloyd V. Willey, UNT interview, 58–59. “The whole camp froze…”: James Gee, UNT interview, 56. “When a guy got out of line…” and “They were hard cases…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 39–40. “They were looking for a soft billet…”: George Detre, UNT interview, 89. “Some of them were so short…”: James Gee, UNT interview, 57. “You did your damnedest to hold your feet…”: Seldon D. Reese, UNT interview, 58. “After a while, hell, a bashing didn’t…”: Wisecup, UNT interview, 41. “The women and the kids had more intestinal fortitude…”: James Gee, UNT interview, 59. “The Japanese soldier placed great emphasis on his masculinity…”: Charles, Last Man Out, 42. “I’ll always thank some good Christian missionary…”: Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 20. “At nighttime you’d hear some noise…”: Ibid., 22. “All these other Jap guards rushed out immediately…”: Willey, 63–64.

CHAPTER 27 (pp. 191 to 195)

Hill “willed himself to die…”: Marvin Robinson, UNT interview, 130. Hill died at Serang on April 8, 1942. Medical conditions in camp: Raymond Day, “Saga of the Houston,” 7–8, and Hamlin, statement, 2–3. “This stuff is just like a knife in your guts”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 43–44. “Finally a British colonel interceded…”: Hamlin, “Statement,” 2. “He gave up a long time ago…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 31. “Generally speaking, petty officers behaved splendidly…”: Hamlin, “Statement,” 2. “Organization was kept in every way…”: Ibid., 3. “We were professional sailors…”: George Detre, UNT interview, 69. “If you got your brass, you got a chance…”: Wisecup, UNT interview, 34. “They would tell us about great naval battles…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 36. “What’s the matter, sailor?”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 84.

CHAPTER 28 (pp. 196 to 202)

Arrival of the 131st: Donald Brain, UNT interview, 80, and Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 78. Lost Battalion battery associations: Luther Prunty, UNT interview, 11. “We felt very good because we felt that in numbers there was strength…””: James Gee, UNT interview, 54. “Whatever you needed, they seemed to come up with it”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 79. “How could there be so much water in the world?”: Jess Stanbrough, UNT interview, 38–39.