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Jr.), Sept. 28, 1945; Opero to Pattern, June 6, 1945; Pattern to Opero, June 11, 1945. Operation Salad (supply drops): OSS, “Report on Operation Salad,” July 11, 1945; Smith, Into Siam, 203; Tenth Air Force, “Special Flight Intelligence Report,” by Lt. Col. Robert A. Erdin, June 22, 1945. “The way I feel about this business…”: Pattern to Opero, July 14, 1945. “If Japs come in here, shall we fight it out…”: Pattern to Opero, July 3, 1945. “Present policy is not to have any of our groups fight…”: Opero to Pattern, July 4, 1945. Reporting “lamentable”: War Report of the OSS, 412. “Things are getting hot down there…” and conversations between Smith and Pow: Smith, Into Siam, 248. “Upon their arrival, a runner came…”: OSS, “Pattern Operational Report.” “I have two prisoners of war with me…”: OSS, Pattern to Opero, July 27, 1945. “He would get us apart,” Red Huffman, interview with the author. “What particular information do you want…?”: OSS, Pattern to Opero, July 27, 1945. “Neither one of us would go”: Huffman, interview with the author. “Have told them they would be [exfiltrated] soonest…”: OSS, Pattern to Opero, July 28, 1945. USS Houston KIA/MIA list (current to March 1, 1945): OSS, Pattern to Opero, Aug. 7, 1945.

CHAPTER 59 (pp. 391 to 394)

“All our men are bang-happy…” and “Another thing the fellows are anxious to get…”: Grassi quoted in Smith, Into Siam, 258–259. “The only difficulty anticipated…”: Eben B. Bartlett Jr., untitled document, “From Pattern.” “Keep cautioning [your agents] against overt action…”: Smith, 284. “Never forget Pearl Harbor”: USS Indiana, Ship’s Log. Bombardment of Kamaishi: Cressman, The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. 334. Reportedly Admiral Halsey “firmly directed [the British task force] to attend to other targets, thus creating a distinct impression that the U.S. Navy regarded this operation as specific retaliation for Pearl Harbor.” See Frank, Downfall, 158. “Where were our planes…?”: Jess Stanbrough, UNT interview, 161. “There was a lot of people that had been captured…”: Ibid., 189–190. “The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United States…”: “Proclamation Calling for the Surrender of Japan,” Potsdam, July 26, 1945. www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/potsdam.html.

CHAPTER 60 (pp. 395 to 398)

Lloyd Willey at Tayang: Lloyd V. Willey, interview with the author. “The Japs were very touchy…”: Ibid. A mood of “impatience, frenzy and bewilderment”: Frank, Downfall, 290. The P-51 pilot captured and tortured was Lt. Marcus McDilda: Ibid. Tensions between Japan and Soviet Union: USSBS interrogation of Admiral Soemu Toyoda, 318–319. “Since this is the shape of things…”: Frank, Downfall, 295–296, quoting a re-creation of the scene by Robert Butow, with modifications. “The Imperial Army and Navy shall by no means return…”: Ibid., 326–327. “The wishes of the imperial ancestors…”: Ibid., 318. Imperial Palace coup: Ibid., 317–321. “A road to success will somehow be revealed…”: Ibid., 308–309. Surrender negotiations: Ibid., 300–301.

CHAPTER 61 (pp. 399 to 408)

“Will they drop one on Saigon?” Garth Slate, UNT interview, 214. “Present plan tentatively approved…”: Opero (Col. Amos D. Moscrip) to Bartlett, Aug. 16, 1945. OSS personnel supporting Major Bartlett: OSS, Opero (Moscrip) to Pattern, Aug. 16, 1945; OSS Headquarters to Major Max Small, “Personnel on Operations,” Sept. 5, 1945, 2. “Cover is to be maintained…”: Opero (Goodell) to Pattern, Aug. 23, 1945. “As soon as we found out in this camp…”: Charles D. Smith, “USS Houston (CA-30) and Experiences,” 23. “Hollywood couldn’t have written…”: James Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 120. “I gave them a short talk…”: OSS, “History, ‘MAINLAND, PETBURI’ Operation,” Lt. Col. Amos D. Moscrip Jr., to Strategic Services Officer, IBT, Sept. 18, 1945. “While the pictures may show the men to look fairly healthy…”: Moscrip, to Director, OSS Field Photographic Branch, “Operation Mainland,” Sept. 16, 1945, 3. Rescued Americans in Operation Mainland: OSS, “Operation Mainland, Chronology of Principal Events,” 4, 9, 11. “They