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Lost Battalion’s deployment on Java: Ibid., 53–58, and Eddie Fung, UNT interview, 26. “We were still in an Alice in Wonderland world…”: Stanbrough, UNT interview, 72. “We would pass through a village…”: Thompson, A Thousand Cups of Rice, 37–38. “There’s only a few hundred of them over there…”: Ibid., 38–39. “We entered right off the road, dressed in our fatigues…”: Stanbrough, quoted in Thompson, 40. “The Australian Brigadier says…” and “At last we fully realized that the war had caught up with us”: Ibid., 40–41. “We are forced to surrender…”: Ibid., 42. Surrender of Lost Battalion: Prunty, 38–39. “We still had this eternal hope, prayer for the Houston…”: Wade H. Webb, UNT interview, 47–48. “I guess that was the first time I’d seen a Jap…”: Roy M. Offerle, UNT interview, 36.

CHAPTER 29 (pp. 203 to 208)

Home life of Houston men: Otto C. Schwarz, interview with the author; H. Robert Charles, interview with the author and Last Man Out, 43–44. “Hey, old Joe’s really getting a pounding…!”: Seldon D. Reese, UNT interview, 58. “He’d see a tin can—” and “They’d look at him and kind of shake their heads…”: Charles, UNT interview, 81. “I don’t know what there was in that man…”: Charles, interview with the author. Scavenging by work parties at Batavia: Howard Brooks, interview with the author, 33; William M. Ingram, interview with Floyd Cox, 19; Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 34; George Detre, UNT interview, 87; Raymond Day, “Saga of the Houston,” 8a. “Hey, Jack, you’ve got a real treasure there…” and “You dumb bastard! Where’s your truck?”: Jack Feliz, UNT interview, 60–63. “This man stole many things”: Lloyd V. Willey, UNT interview, 72. “He was the type of guy that could actually get you in trouble…”: Marvin Robinson, UNT interview, 60.

CHAPTER 30 (pp. 209 to 216)

“Now when you get in a situation like that”: Lanson H. Harris, speech, Long Beach Yacht Club. “If you had a chance to sabotage…”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 93. Radios in camp: John F. Schneider, “The History of KTAB/KSFO”; Horace Chumley, UNT interview, 38; Jess Stanbrough, UNT interview, 107; Thompson, A Thousand Cups of Rice, 50; Lloyd Willey, UNT interview, 74–75. “Oh, it looks to me at least six months…”: Stanbrough, UNT interview, 111. “Hang in there…” and “Had anyone else tried to instigate such a thing…”: Charles, Last Man Out, 44. “The Japanese knew he had it and laughed…”: Seldon D. Reese, UNT interview, 63. “The guards poured out on the grounds to stop it then”: Charles, Last Man Out, 44. “There were times you’d just say, ‘Well…’”: Papish, 104. “I never admitted that we were whipped”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 7. Buying food: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 33. Pay rates: Fujita, Foo, 106. Controversy over funds: Thompson, A Thousand Cups of Rice, 47–48. Background on Lt. Roy E. Stensland: La Forte and Marcello, Building the Death Railway, 30; Edmonds, They Fought with What They Had, 373–374, 385; Marvin Robinson, UNT interview, 93; Eldridge Rayburn, UNT interview, 85; P. J. Smallwood, UNT interview, 158; Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese, 224, 241. “Lieutenant Stensland, before you knew what was happening…”: Lester C. Rasbury, quoted in La Forte, 61. “I thought he was a dead man…”: Houston Tom Wright, UNT interview, 91–92.

CHAPTER 31 (pp. 217 to 223)

“This one day we were on a working party…”: Lloyd V. Willey, UNT interview, 62. “I will obey all orders from the Japanese”: Harold S. Hamlin, “Statement,” 2. “At Serang were nearly all the survivors from the…” and “From first to last perhaps a hundred men…”: Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 101–102. Dispatch reporting U.S. prisoners at Batavia: “Houston Men Jap Captives?” United Press, dateline Sydney, July 1, 1942. “I know many of the boys…”: Mother of Crayton Gordon, quoted in Thompson, A Thousand Cups of Rice, 55. “I am proud of my two boys…”: Ida Pearl Elliott Fujita, quoted in Fujita, Foo, 111–112. “As I marched my troops up and halted…” and “I was then taken…”: Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences,” 16. “If you do not sign the oath…”: Hamlin,