1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls

by Winston Groom

  13. Ibid., pp. 208–9.

  14. Nigel Fountain (ed.), World War II: The People’s Story, p. 158.

  15. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, pp. 211–12.

  16. Morison, Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, p. 125.

  17. Ibid., p. 128; Toland, But Not in Shame, p. 422.

  18. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, p. 215.

  19. Fountain, World War II: The People’s Story, p. 160.

  20. Morison, Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, p. 136.

  21. Fuchida and Okymiya, Midway, pp. 233–34.

  22. Tuleja, Climax at Midway, p. 175.

  23. John Toland, The Rising Sun, p. 386.

  24. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 579.

  25. Toland, The Rising Sun, pp. 392–581.

  Chapter Fourteen

  1. David Kahn, The Code Breakers, p. 488; H. Montgomery Hyde, Room 3603, pp. 115–20.

  2. Quentin Reynolds, Officially Dead, passim.

  3. Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph, p. 195.

  4. Richard R. Lingeman, Don’t You Know There’s War On?, p. 185.

  5. R. W. Robson, The Pacific Island Handbook, pp. 280–85; Samuel Eliot Morison, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, pp. 5–10; J. C. Beaglehole, The Exploration of the Pacific, pp. 48–49.

  6. John Toland, The Rising Sun, p. 398.

  7. Ibid., p. 395.

  8. Samuel B. Griffith II, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 24.

  9. General A. A. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 117.

  10. Griffith, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 35.

  11. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 120; Griffith, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 36.

  12. Toland, The Rising Sun, p. 397.

  13. Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary, pp. 13–30.

  14. Ibid., p. 33.

  15. Jack Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, p. 38; Toland, The Rising Sun, pp. 402.

  16. Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, p. 42.

  17. Morison, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, pp. 43–44.

  18. Ibid., pp. 44–45; Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, pp. 48–49.

  19. Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, p. 51.

  20. Griffith, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 63.

  21. Ibid., p. 47.

  Chapter Fifteen

  1. Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary, pp. 85–86.

  2. Walter Lord, Walter. Lonely Vigil, pp. 44–46.

  3. General A. A. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 136.

  4. Samuel B. Griffith II, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 20.

  5. Lord, Lonely Vigil, pp. 49–51.

  6. Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary, p. 124.

  7. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 142.

  8. Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow, pp. 51, 53.

  9. Ibid., p. 60.

  10. Ibid., p. 59.

  11. Ibid., pp. 60–61.

  12. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 138.

  13. William Bradford Huie, Can Do, pp. 41–42.

  14. Samuel Eliot Morison, Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, pp. 235–41.

  15. John Vader, New Guinea, p. 114.

  16. Ibid., pp. 113–14.

  17. Ibid., p. 109.

  18. Max Brand, Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal, p. 64.

  19. Ibid., p. 92.

  20. Mine Okubo, Citizen 13660, pp. 271–73.

  21. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 547.

  22. Ibid., pp. 530–31.

  23. Ibid., p. 563.

  24. John Toland, The Rising Sun, p. 428.

  25. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 152.

  26. Griffith, The Battle for Guadalcanal, pp. 116–17.

  27. Ibid., p. 119.

  28. Ibid., p. 118.

  29. Toland, The Rising Sun, p. 434.

  30. Nigel Fountain (ed.), World War II: The People’s Story, pp. 168–69.

  31. Griffith, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 132.

  32. Herbert C. Merillat, Guadalcanal Remembered, p. 133.

  33. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 163.

  Chapter Sixteen

  1. Douglas Oliver, The Pacific Islands, pp. 235–44.

  2. John Costello, The Pacific War, p. 376.

  3. Samuel Milner, Victory in Papua, p. 143.

  4. Costello, The Pacific War, p. 378.

  5. Milner, Victory in Papua, pp. 116, 126.

  6. Robert L. Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, p. 20.

  7. General A. A. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 169.

  8. Frank O. Hough, The Island War, p. 64.

  9. John Hersey, Into the Valley, pp. 78–79.

  Chapter Seventeen

  1. John Toland, The Rising Sun, pp. 440–41.

  2. Frank O. Hough, The Island War, p. 65.

  3. General A. A. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 174.

  4. Hough, The Island War, p. 66.

  5. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 107.

  6. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 622, 632.

  7. Vandegrift, Once a Marine, p. 187.

  8. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, p. 236.

  9. Ibid., pp. 262–63.

  10. Jack Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, p. 148.

  11. Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow, pp. 98–99.

  12. Samuel B. Griffith II, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 243.

  13. Coggins, The Campaign for Guadalcanal, p. 190.

  Chapter Eighteen

  1. Robert L. Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, p. 37.

  2. John Costello, The Pacific War, p. 379.

  3. Samuel Milner, Victory in Papua, p. 244.

  4. Ibid., p. 217.

  5. Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, pp. 29–31.

  6. Costello, The Pacific War, p. 381.

  7. E. B. Potter and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (eds.), The Great Sea War, p. 44.

  8. Samuel Eliot Morison, Operations in North African Waters, pp. 113–14.

  9. Potter and Nimitz, The Great Sea War, p. 118.

  10. Ibid., p. 122.

  11. Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, p. 65.

  12. Ibid., p. 123.

  13. Annette Tapert (ed.), Lines of Battle, p. 40.

  Chapter Nineteen

  1. Billy Keith, Days of Anguish, Days of Hope, p. 110.

  2. Ralph Emerson Hibbs, M.D., Tell MacArthur to Wait, p. 147.

  3. Keith, Days of Anguish, Days of Hope, p. 101.

  4. Henry G. Lee, Nothing But Praise, p. 67.

  5. Claire Phillips and Myron B. Goldsmith, Manila Espionage, pp. 1–226.

  6. Major Calvin Ellsworth Chunn, Of Rice and Men, pp. 71–73.

  7. Ed “Tommie” Thomas, As I Remember, p. 221.

  8. Colonel E. B. Miller, Bataan Uncensored, pp. 364–65.

  9. Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p. 337.

  Chapter Twenty

  1. B. H. Liddell-Hart (ed.), The Rommel Papers, pp. 281–82

  2. Ibid., p. 317.

  3. Ibid., p. 321.

  4. Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, p. 277.

  5. Brigadier General Paul McDonald Robinett, Armor Command, p. 66.

  6. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, p. 240.

  7. Robinett, Armor Command, p. 74.

  8. Ibid., p. 87.

  9. Ibid., p. 95.

  10. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War, p. 170.

  11. Gerald F. Linderman, The World Within War, p. 97.

  12. Carlo D’este, Patton: A Genius for War, p. 457.

  13. Robinett, Armor Command, p. 113.

  14. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 669.

  15. Ibid., p. 673; Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, p. 290.

  16. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 674.

  17. Roy Jenkins, Churchill, pp. 705–6; Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, p. 296; Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 694.

  18. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 696.

  19. Ibid., p. 695.

  Chapter Twenty-one

 
1. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War, pp. 241–42.

  2. Robert J. C. Butow, Tojo and the Coming of the War, p. 536.

  3. Charles A. Lockwood, Sink ‘Em All, pp. 98–102.

  4. General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, p. 363; Craig Nelson, The First Heroes, p. 363.

  5. Herbert C. Merillat, Guadalcanal Remembered, pp. 283–84.

  6. Samuel B. Griffith II, The Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 246.

  7. Donald Knox, Death March, pp. 462–63.

  Afterword

  1. Herbert C. Merillat, Guadalcanal Remembered, p. 285.

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