Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [247]
CHAPTER 49 (pp. 323 to 330)
“Fu-ji-ta. Where is this Fu-ji-ta?”: Frank Fujita Jr., UNT interview, 82; Fujita, Foo, 155–156. “They got mad as hell when I laughed…”: Fujita, diary entry for June 6, 1943. “I figured my best bet is to keep my head…”: Fujita, UNT interview, 84. “Look what we have here…”: Fujita, UNT interview, 86; Fujita, diary, June 4, 1943. “I was bound and determined those sons of bitches…”: Fujita, UNT interview, 90. Japanese infantrymen, “small, illiterate, absurd…” and “They thanked us with bows…”: Fillmore, Prisoner of War, 85. Prunty and Worthington “had a testament each”: Luther Prunty, UNT interview, 129. Charley Pryor at 80 Kilo Camp: Pryor, UNT interview, Feb. 20, 1973, 16–18. “They’d tell you, ‘I’m finished…’”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 81. “It was Wisecup, I guess, who would stand back there…”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 163. “Look, Charlie, your mind is like the muscle in your arm…”: Jim Gee as quoted in Charles, Last Man Out, 132. “I don’t have a friend”: Dan Buzzo, UNT interview, 176. “Don’t kid me. There are no eggs within a hundred miles”: Ibid., 171–172. “Probably no single factor…”: Fisher, “Medical Experiences,” 87. “A figure of six foot three inches emerges…”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 105–106. “As small a thing as hiding, from yourself…”: Marvin Robinson, UNT interview, 133. “It’s people you’ve known, gone to school with…”: Prunty, UNT interview, 135. Aborted escape by Forsman, Stensland, and Lattimore: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 189–191.
CHAPTER 50 (pp. 331 to 334)
Lumpkin “had the weight of the whole camp on his shoulders…”: William V. Bell letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Lumpkin, 4. “It was hard to find anyone with such disregard for his self…”: C. J. Vidler, letter “to whom it may concern,” April 21, 1947. “Once the dysentery took a hold of him…”: Roy Offerle, UNT interview, 135. “It was almost like a death blow to all of us…”: Dan Buzzo, UNT interview, 175. “He didn’t have it left in him…”: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 186. “It was like a ghost town…”: George Detre, UNT interview, 172. “You could smell that camp for miles”: Eddie Fung, UNT interview, 124. “Suffer is a dangerous word here…”: Parkin, Into the Smother, 93. “I find beauty in everything, even in death…”: Frank Fujita, UNT interview, 53. “There is a lot to grumble about…”: Ray Parkin, Into the Smother, 134. “It has become quite an institution…” and “They’ll be droppin’ thousand-pounders when they come…”: Ibid., 215.
CHAPTER 51 (pp. 335 to 339)
Joining of the line at Three Pagodas Pass: Allen, “The 18th Division Royal Engineers,” Royal Engineers Journal. 80 Kilo Camp abandoned: Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences,” 21; Charley L. Pryor, UNT interview, Feb. 20, 1973, 16. Burials at 80 and 100 Kilo Camps: Smith, 21. “They had the bugle going all of the time…”: Roy Offerle, UNT interview, 120. “It was more or less like a Toonerville trolley…”: Melfred L. Forsman, quoted in La Forte and Marcello, Building the Death Railway, 256. “I think we all came to the conclusion…”: James Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 79. “We were lucky”: Ibid., 62–63. “In my opinion it is a virtue since ancient times…” and “We have exploited untrodden jungles…”: Nagatomo quoted in Sharp, “Japanese Documentary,” 22–23; see also Fisher, “Medical Experiences,” 46. “Do you have anything to eat…?” Houston Tom Wright, UNT interview, 165–166.
CHAPTER 52 (pp. 340 to 345)
Deaths in Branches Three and Five: Arthur L. Varley, diary entry for Jan. 11–19, 1944. Deaths in F and H Forces: Kinvig, River Kwai Railway, 198. Movements of A Force: Varley, diary entry for Nov. 7, 1943. The Japanese “seemed to indulge in a system of competitive bidding…”: Harold S. Hamlin, “Report of Service as Prisoner of War,” 5. “This camp was much better than anything we had seen…”: Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences,