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182 “It takes a lot”: Ibid.
183 “You lose your radio”: Ibid.
184 “Finding enemy aircraft”: Ibid.
185 an American duplicating the feat: Sakaida, Imperial Navy Aces, 88.
186 After the war, U.S. investigators determined: A war crimes tribunal imposed a forty-year sentence upon the officer responsible for releasing Scanlan to the mob. Other Japanese received from one to five years for their roles in the murder. How many of the sentences were served to completion is unknown.
187 “I think the combat break”: Harve Phipps correspondence with author, 1976.
187 “We dropped”: Crim correspondence, 1976.
188 “You could really put”: Tillman, “The Mustangs of Iwo Jima.”
190 “Sure enough”: Ibid.
190 “heavy, meager to moderate, inaccurate to accurate”: XXI Bomber Command mission summary, 26 June 1945.
191 “Bob, get me”: http://39th.org/39th/aerial/60th/crew13a.html.
191 “We came in sight”: Lieutenant Ernest Bonjour, USNR, letter, June 1945, via City of Galveston pilot Donald A. Gerth.
192 “You don’t come out”: http://39th.org/39th/bio/mundy2.htm.
193 “Let’s get the hell”: Henry Sakaida, Pacific Air Combat (St. Paul: Phalanx, 1993), 88.
193 “I’m very sorry”: Ibid., 89.
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195 “a motivator”: Thomas M. Coffey, Iron Eagle: The Turbulent Life of General Curtis LeMay (New York: Crown, 1986), 153.
196 Three nights later: Frederick M. Sallagar, Lessons from an Aerial Mining Campaign (Operation “Starvation”). RAND Corporation, April 1974, 47.
196 “an outstanding leader”: http://home.att.net/~sallyann6/b29/56years-4507a.html.
196 “On 27 May”: Assistant Chief of Air Staff–Intelligence, HQ AAF, Mission Accomplished: Interrogations of Japanese Industrial, Military, and Civil Leaders, Washington, DC, 1946, 30.
197 “became expert”: Sallagar, Lessons from an Aerial Mining Campaign, 51.
198 “Due to the fact”: Mission Accomplished, 29–30.
199 “phenomenal”: Coffey, Iron Eagle, 169.
199 “About 1 April”: Mission Accomplished, 30–31.
199 “a real salty old dog”: Diary of Lieutenant Richard W. De Mott, VBF-85, June 9, 1945.
200 “his striking resemblance”: Monsarrat, 20.
200 “I don’t think”: Rear Admiral William N. Leonard (Ret) to author, 1981.
200 “Working with the B-29s”: Clark G. Reynolds, The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 354.
202 “setting off an explosion”: Fighting Squadron 6 History, 1945.
203 “second generation”: “The Chippewa Chief,” http://www.pequotmuseum.org/Home/CrossPaths/CrossPathsFall2003/BookReview.htm.
203 “He never got wise”: “Shangri-La Horizon,” USS Shangri-La (CV-38) newspaper, undated clipping, 1945.
204 “Several Japs came out”: Ibid.
205 “Scapa Flow with bloody palm trees”: N. M. Heckman, “England’s Shadow Fleet,” Sea Classics, May 2004.
205 “of the utmost importance”: Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser in Nicholas E. Sarantakes, “The Short but Brilliant Life of the British Pacific Fleet,” Joint Forces Quarterly, 1st quarter, 2006, 86.
205 “a very nasty”: Quoted by Peter C. Smith, e-mail to author, June 2008.
206 “fully aware”: Sarantakes, “The Short but Brilliant Life of the British Pacific Fleet,” 88–89.
206 “were able to match us”: Reynolds, The Fast Carriers, 371.
207 Additionally, the RN: Max Hastings, Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 401.
207 In one series of strikes: Hastings, 400, 401.
207 “The kid”: Rear Admiral William N. Leonard (Ret) to author, 1981.
208 “Some Neanderthals”: Rear Admiral William N. Leonard (Ret) to author, 1992.
208 “a waste of time”: Reynolds, The Fast Carriers, 372.
210 “I passed”: “Navy Cross for an Unlikely Hero,” Decatur Journal (Alabama), November 24, 2005, http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/051124/hero.shtml.
211 Essex aviators claimed six hits: Samuel Eliot Morison, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 14: Victory in the Pacific (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), 316, unaccountably attributes the damage to Yorktown fighters, based on a report by an obscure junior officer. Morison states that all other TF 38 squadrons