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“Statement,” 3. “You can always be sure that some Australians…”: Jess Stanbrough, UNT interview, 129. “The three men were in obvious pain…”: Hamlin, “Statement,” 2. “There ain’t a one of us who didn’t think we were traitors…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 51. “After the Fourth of July, all hell broke loose”: Stanbrough, UNT interview, 120. “The Brown Bomber was our first infamous one”: Stanbrough, 120. “He’d go pick out somebody…”: Ibid., 131. Guard nicknames: Ilo B. Hard, UNT interview, 161, and Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 42–43. “A soldier might tell you…”: George Detre, UNT interview, 58.

CHAPTER 32 (pp. 224 to 227)

“The only man who could make five-gallon cans invisible…”: Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese, 170. “Man, he had some gear…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 54. “He became a sort of hero…”: H. Robert Charles, UNT interview, 87. First group to leave Batavia: “Roster of Fitzsimmons Group,” USS Houston Survivors Association. The Australian Army rank of brigadier was introduced in 1928 to replace the rank of colonel commandant, which had briefly replaced the rank of brigadier general in 1922. A brigadier is more a senior colonel rather than the lowest rank of general (much like a commodore is to an admiral in the navy). Hellship departures from Batavia: “List of Hellship Voyages.” “The Japanese method of shipping troops…”: C. D. Smith, “USS Houston,” 17. “They just took a rifle butt and jammed it…”: Julius B. Heinen, quoted in La Forte, Building the Death Railway, 80. “There had been cattle hauled in that ship…”: H. Robert Charles, UNT interview, 86. “It was a night of darkness and heat…” and “like froth from a boiling saucepan”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 6.

CHAPTER 33 (pp. 228 to 231)

“Once again, as in Batavia…”: Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 131. “Oh my God, what in the world…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 52. “Changi was a school for survivors”: James Clavell, The Guardian, quoted in Reminick, Death’s Railway, 77. “It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in my life…”: Otto C. Schwarz, UNT interview, 81–82. “Why don’t they make a run…”: H. Robert Charles, UNT interview, 91. “Lay on one, Yank!”: Pryor, 65–66. “Everybody just sat there spellbound…”: Ibid., 92. “They’ll be right at our sides”: Schwarz, interview with the author, 11–12. “They had their own stuff cached away…”: Charles, 93. “Those are the King’s coconuts”: Frank Fujita, UNT interview, 56; Pryor, 59–60. “You have got to take that man out…”: Hamlin, quoted in Jack Bartz, interview with the author. “Well, my man!…” and “Pleased to meet you…”: Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 134.

CHAPTER 34 (pp. 232 to 239)

“Hell, they are going to kill you…”: Frank Fujita, UNT interview, 68. Fujita arrives in Japan: Fujita, Foo, 114, 123 fn. 4. “We carried on our own little war…”: Fujita, UNT interview, 78. “He never even kicked”: Ibid., 78. “They were anxious to find out almost anything…”: Maher, “Jap Prison Experiences,” 15. Commander Maher in Japan: Maher narrative, 13; see also Martindale, The 13th Mission, 109–10, 120. “It was an honor, we understand…”: Raymond Day, “Saga of the Houston,” 11. “You’re going to a health camp…”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 124. “Well, we ought to be out of the danger zone” and “Just incidentally, if…”: Julius B. Heinen Jr., UNT interview, 80. “We heard this tremendous whomp…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 76–77. “Just don’t panic…”: Heinen, 81. “What’s the bid?”: Ibid., 82. Damage to the Dai Moji Maru: Raymond Day, “Saga of the Houston,” 13–14; Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston,” 18; Col. Tom Sledge, interview with the author and Roy Offerle, UNT interview, 85. “Up above the water line…”: Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 79. “I will give credit to the Japanese merchant captain…”: C. D. Smith, 18. Rumors of a railway: Pryor, 76; Donald Brain, UNT interview, 130.

CHAPTER 35 (pp. 240 to 245)

“Hell, I know where we are…”: Donald Brain, UNT interview, 132–133. The Battle for Burma and Japanese strategic plans: Romanus and Riley, Stilwell’s Mission to China, 100–101.