Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [245]
CHAPTER 39 (pp. 267 to 269)
“The prisoners worked in a rather foolish fashion…”: Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences,” 19. Planes over Thanbyuzayat: Varley, diary entry for March 1, 1943.
CHAPTER 40 (pp. 270 to 274)
“We’d get in there, and you’d hit one…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 102. “An elephant’s a smart bugger…”: Ibid., 113. Spider rigs: Pryor, UNT#3, 41, and death of Japanese engineers: Luther Prunty, UNT interview, 114 and Donald Brain, UNT interview, 165. “It seemed impossible, but it worked…”: Prunty, 115.
CHAPTER 41 (pp. 275 to 282)
“As we would go into a new working camp…” and “We kept our structure. We had our officers…”: Otto C. Schwarz, interview with the author. “If a passing fly chose to step into your rice ration…” and “There were times when most of us felt…”: Searle, To the Kwai—and Back, 122–123. “They would either die from the jolting about…”: Varley, diary entry for April 10, 1943. “Major General Sasa has visited camp…”: Varley, diary entry for April 14. Higuchi “knew nothing of medicine…”: Fisher, “Medical Experiences,” 52. Pryor as “nothing but the skin stretched over the bones”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Jan. 22, 1973, 107–110. “It looked like an Army field hospital…”: James Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 68–69. Red Cross inspection of Thanbyuzayat: Varley, diary entry for April 26, 28–30, 1943; Gee, 69; and Fisher, “Medical Experiences,” 61. “Bless ’Em all”: Otto C. Schwarz, interview with the author, and Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 192. Deaths at 80 Kilo Camp: of Lawrence F. Kondzela, March 13, 1943; James H. White, April 13, 1943; and Sgt. Joe Martin True Lusk, April 28, 1943. “I’m glad I’m sick because I’m not going to work…”: Benjamin Dunn, UNT interview, 151–152. “Then he became depressed again”: Fisher, 150. “He had tried to be tough with the guards at work…”: Ibid. USMC Service Records for H. H. Dupler: NARA II. Dupler’s burial: Varley, diary entry for May 15, 1943. “They were some of the biggest, strongest guys…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 90–91.
CHAPTER 42 (pp. 283 to 290)
“It is as if the Wet were a baying animal…”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 87. “The J. will carry out schedule and do not mind…”: Varley, diary entry for May 18, 1943. “I don’t remember any storms; I just remember rain…”: Howard Brooks, interview with the author. “Within the first day and then with ever-mounting zeal…”: Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 195. “It’s awesome to hear a huge tree…”: Ilo B. Hard, UNT interview, 163. “I remember on one occasion that a bridge had washed out…”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 170. “Finally they gave up on this truck thing…”: Donald Brain, UNT interview, 181. “You would work whatever they decided you would work…”: Otto C. Schwarz, interview with the author. “There seemed to be no bottom to the mud…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Feb. 20, 1973, 6. “That word ‘Speedo’…”: Howard Brooks, interviewed in video, “Secrets of the Dead.” 80 Kilo established as a “hospital”: Hamlin, “Statement,” 5; Pryor, 7; and Smith, “USS Houston and Experiences,” 20. “The least sick of the stretcher cases…”: Smith, 20. “I looked in that hut, and I couldn’t believe…” and “You know he’s not going to live very long…”: Dunn, 170; see also Luther Prunty, UNT interview, 141. A jungle clearing, “the worst I have ever traveled on”: Varley, diary entry for June 4, 1943. “These poor devils do not appear to receive any treatment…”: Ibid. “My fears expressed so often during the past three months…”: Varley diary, entry for June 4, 1943. “It got