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CHAPTER 43 (pp. 291 to 295)
“Any way you could slow the Japanese down…”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 144. “I know we Marines had a code among us…”: H. Robert Charles, UNT interview, 107. “The idea was that we’d crawl under there…”: Ibid., 108. “We agreed not to place the burden of secrecy on anyone…”: Charles, Last Man Out, 135. “I don’t know how many it hurt or mangled…”: Charles, UNT interview, 108; and Last Man Out, 134–136.
CHAPTER 44 (pp. 296 to 300)
Americans join H Force: Reminick, Death’s Railway, 84; Crayton Gordon, UNT interview, 100. “What we lost on that railroad…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 63. The embankment at Kinsayok: Rod Beattie, quoted in “Secrets of the Dead: The Bridge on the River Kwai” (video). “The road had petered out as the undergrowth changed…”: Searle, To the Kwai—and Back, 105–106. “This period of movement must mean something big…”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 107. “The head of the man holding the drill…”: Parkin, 121, 123. “Occasionally we caught glimpses…”: Searle, 108. “The daily blasting along this section is terrific…”: Parkin, 167.
CHAPTER 45 (pp. 301 to 308)
“The radios were dismantled and smuggled…”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 166–167. “I lived day by day…”: Roy M. Offerle, UNT interview, 126. “Jane, you’ve got a funny-looking thing here”: Jane Harris, interview with the author. “You come home from the station or airport…”: quoted in Yellen, Our Mother’s War, 13–14. “Such a statement is either a deliberate evasion or…”: Hodge, “Exchange of Information Sheet for Relatives of Personnel Attached to the U.S.S. Houston, Lost in Sundra Straits [sic], February 28, 1942,” undated, revised to V-J Day, 1946. “It is impossible to estimate the value of Mr. Hodge’s work…”: Smith, “Where Is the Crew of the Ghost Cruiser Houston?” The Oregonian. Lieutenant Hodge’s fate: Statement of Leon W. Rogers, in dispatch from United States Naval Liaison Office, Calcutta, India, Enclosure a(2). “One thing that has always discouraged me…”: Edith Rooks to Hart, April 16, 1943, 8. “Probably I should not have passed to you that rumor…”: Hart to Edith Rooks, May 5, 1943. “I must say more and more I feel the promise…”: Edith Rooks to Hart, May 21, 1943, 2.
CHAPTER 46 (pp. 309 to 313)
Lieutenant Weiler’s ring: Mintzer, “The Long Journey Home: Fran Weiler’s Ring Returns to Annapolis,” 10. “There has got to be another way out…”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 101. Flora and fauna of the railway: Parkin, 72, 92–93, 111. “The thing eats faster than a cancer…”: Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Feb. 1973, 3. “Had we known…that they’d wind up in a damn slop-hole grave…”: Crayton Gordon, UNT interview, 141. “At first we made individual graves…”: John Wisecup, UNT interview, 83. “I never will forget this…” and Wisecup’s breakdown: Ibid., 84–85.
CHAPTER 47 (pp. 314 to 317)
“Nippon tearing Asia up into strips…”: Dunlop, War Diaries, 221. Jim Gee’s hallucination: Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 58. “This dream gave to me the strength…”: Ibid. “Thank you for asking me to sponsor the USS Rooks…”: Edith Rooks to Frank Knox, Dec. 7, 1943.
CHAPTER 48 (pp. 318 to 322)
Bombing of Thanbyuzayat: Varley, diary entry for June 12, 1943; Rivett, Behind Bamboo, 199–200. Varley injured: Varley, diary entry for June 15. Life in the monsoon: Benjamin Dunn, UNT interview, 143; Charles D. Smith, “Experiences,” 20. “No medical officer or orderlies ever had to contend…”: Lionel de Rosario, Nippon Slaves, www.ean.co.uk/Bygones/History/Article/WW2/Death_Railway/html/songkurai.htm (last viewed by the author on March 10, 2005). “Nagatomo was astonished…”: Varley, diary entry for July 1, 1943. 55 Kilo as “one of the worst, if not the worst camp…”: Fisher, “Medical Experiences,” 8. Aircraft of “a type not seen before”: Varley, diary entry for July 9–12, 1943. “He was as regular as clockwork…”: James Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 52. The Tenth Air