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circled out and dived and wig-wagged” and “Cheer up, boys…”: Reynolds, diary, 234–235. “Anyone having relatives on the crew of the Houston…”: Associated Press, “300 Houston Survivors Found in Jap Prison Camp in Thailand,” dateline Washington, DC, Aug. 28, 1945. “The appearance of the landing craft in the channel…”: Commander Task Group 30.6, “Action Report Covering Evacuation of Prisoners of War,” III(1). “With the end of the war, history started immediately to repeat…”: Ibid., VIII(1). “The hand that fills in the blank pages in the book of war…”: Associated Press, “Tragic War Mystery Clears,” dateline Washington, Aug. 29, 1945. Commander Maher’s visit with Captain Bahm: Falloon, “My Brush with History.” Maher on the USS Missouri: Maher, USS Houston (CA-30) Survivors Association reunion speech, Aug. 12, 1983, Dallas; papers of Charley L. Pryor. “In many ways these weeks have seemed the most difficult…”: Edward Miles Barrett, diary entry for Aug. 11, 1945. Forsman’s release: Melfred L. Forsman, UNT interview, 234; Barrett, diary entry for Sept. 1, 1945. “The war is over” and “That’s impossible…”: Forsman, 236. “The last time that I had seen that flag…”: Paul E. Papish, UNT interview, 171. “They learned right quick…”: Garth Slate, UNT interview, 226–227. See also Wisecup, UNT interview, 120, and Dan Buzzo, UNT interview, 223.

CHAPTER 62 (pp. 409 to 418)

“He had a piece of paper, like a government check…”: Lanson H. Harris, speech, Long Beach Yacht Club. “I put two and two together with the telegram…”: Jane Harris, interview with the author. “They treated us like real psycho cases…”: John H. Wisecup, UNT interview, 122. “What are you going to do when you get out?” Ibid., 125. “Do you know where the Houston was sunk?”: James Huffman, interview with the author. “That was bad for him…”: Jane Harris, interview with the author. “They asked me questions like, ‘Did you see this…?’ ”: Lanson Harris, speech. “You had a period of exuberance and then…”: Wisecup, UNT interview, 126. “He told us the importance of exercise…”: James Gee, UNT interview, March 19, 1972, 56. “I remembered the little amenities…”: Charles, Last Man Out, 178. “We watched these pretty-looking girls…” and “Why didn’t you let me know when I called you?…”: Jess Stanbrough, UNT interview, 208. “With the thought of finding my stepfather…”: Charles, 176. “When I first came back…” and “I couldn’t sleep…”: John Bartz, interview with the author. “I was flying for five or six years…”: Lanson Harris, interview with the author. “It came time when he was in twenty years…”: Jane Harris, interview. “I was absolutely lost, like a fish out of water…” and “I spent the next three months…”: Otto C. Schwarz, UNT interview, 156–157. The habits of a POW: hot tea (Paul Papish, UNT interview, 149), burnt-rice coffee (Houston Tom Wright, UNT interview, 198), hard floors (Lloyd V. Willey interview), heads of lettuce (Donald Brain, UNT interview, 233). “I resolved that although I might never be rich…”: Stanbrough, 213. Jess Stanbrough passed away in 1999. Charles, “determined that the war would not be the biggest thing…”: Charles, Last Man Out, 189. Encounter with Pack Rat McCone: Charles, interview with the author. “If I had my way about it, I’d find forty-nine other ex-POWs…”: Morrow, “Ex-POW Wants to Relieve Hostages,” Escondido Times-Advocate, A-1. “I don’t know why, but all of a sudden…”: Harris, speech. “I always had the philosophy…”: Schwarz, 160.

CHAPTER 63 (pp. 419 to 431)

War Graves Commission activities: Lomax, The Railway Man, 230. Hirohito’s culpability for war crimes: Bix, Hirohito, 360–367; Holmes, Unjust Enrichment, 128. “Murdering, maiming, and ill-treating prisoners of war…”: Brackman, The Other Nuremberg, 84–85. “The law of war forbids…”: Claims Committee, “Liberated Military Personnel (JAPAN), of Japan for Maltreatment of Prisoners of War,” 2–3, quoting Moore’s Digest of International Law, Vol. VII, 218. “In so far as the rules set forth in the convention…”: U.S. For. Rel., 1918, Suppl. 2, 7, quoted in Claims Committee, “Civil Responsibility,” 4. “Japan strictly