Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II
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Notes
* Langer, World War II, p. 30. Quoting from the book, “…And Pass the Ammunition,” by Howell M. Forgy.
1. The Armed Forces Officer, p. 6.
2. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 25.
3. Ibid., 272.
4. Mary Gardiner Brainard, American poet, 1860.
5. C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
6. Matthew 6:34
7. King George VI Christmas Day broadcast, www.royal.gov.uk. The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins in 1908 and was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
8. Jenkins, Churchill, 592.
9. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.
10. Ibid.
11. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 145.
12. Ibid., 167.
13. Ibid., 111.
14. Ibid., 72.
15. Ibid., 112.
16. Ibid., 272.
17. Winters, Battling the Elements, 23.
18. Suze Bond, “Leaving Dunkirk: My Father’s Diary Account,” www.bbc.co.uk.
19. Bill Towey, “The Luck of the Draw,” www.bbc.co.uk.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 54.
23. T. J. Spiers, “Shot Down Over Dunkirk 28 May 1940,” www.bbc.co.uk.
24. Paul Davey, “Falling Back to Dunkirk,” www.bbc.co.uk.
25. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.
26. Harris, Dunkirk, 151.
27. Ibid.
28. From a sermon by Rev. Ken Streitenberger, Epworth UMC., www.epworth.com.
29. “The War of a Green Howard, Bill Cheall’s Story,” www.greenhowards.org.uk.
30. John Beard, quoted in the “The Battle of Britain, 1940,” Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.
31. Ibid.
32. Godefroy, Lucky Thirteen, 61.
33. Ibid., 132.
34. Kathleen Rainer, “Downed Pilots in Sussex,” www.bbc.co.uk.
35. www.battleofbritain1940.net.
36. John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight.” www.skygod.com.
37. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster,” January 28, 1986, www.reaganlibrry.com.
38. Sheila Delaney, “A Miraculous Escape,” Time Witnesses. www.timewitnesses.org.
39. Dennis Robinson, “Shot Down in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.
40. Ibid.
41. Norman English, “A Child in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.
42. Sermon paraphrased by J. Brock in an article at www.sartma.com.
43. Ellen Batten, as told to Elizabeth Perez, “The Faith of a Child-Light in Darkness,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
44. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.
45. www.archives.gov.
46. www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.
47. Time magazine, Dec. 15, 1941, “What the People Said,” www.time.com.
48. National Park Service Memorial to USS Arizona. www.nps.gov/usar.
49. Ibid.
50. Starting Point Bible, article on “Courage,” 1567.
51. Article by Ken James at christiananswers.net
52. Roger Hare, “An Angel Sent By History,” Navy Anecdotes, www.geocities.com/oralbio/harestory1.html.
53. From Henry Lauchenmayer’s diary, quoted in a New York Times article of 6 December 1998, by Irvin Molotsky.
54. Article by Carl Zebrowski, America in WWII Magazine, December 2006. www.americainwwii.com.
55. National Park Service Memorial, USS Arizona, www.nps.gov/usar.
56. Ibid.
57. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
58. Oral history excerpt, www.history.navy.mil.
59. William G. Farrow, 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, www.arlingtoncemetery.net.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Jacob DeShazer, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” www.georgiasouthern.edu.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Prange, God’s Samurai, 187, 190.
66. Ibid., 200–204.
67. Ibid.
68. Fuchida, “From Pearl Harbor to Calvary,” www.biblebelievers.com.
69. Mike McLaughlin, “The Miracle Before Midway,” www.amvetsww2.org.
70. Oral History, Battle of Midway. Recollections of Commander John Ford, USNR. www.history.navy.mil.
71. www.history.navy.mil.
72. Ibid.
73. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854 memorializing the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.
74. www.history.navy.mil
75. Ibid.
76. Oral History, Battle of Midway. www.history.navt.mil. Lt. Pollard later saw this man in the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, on his way to recovery.
77. Actually the destroyer Arashi, detached from the carrier force earlier to prosecute a submarine contact.
78. Account of Lt. Cdr. Wade McClusky, Battle of Midway, www.cv6.org.
79. Ibid.
80. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, 7.
81. Morison, The Two-Ocean War, 24–25.
82. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 541. Quoting Churchill from The Second World War.
83. Morison, The Two-Ocean War, 204.
84. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 129.
85. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
86. Eternal Father is a hymn found in Protestant hymnals, written by Rev. William Whiting in 1861. In America, it is often called the Navy Hymn, and was played at the funerals of President Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
87. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
88. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 17.
89. “Naval Armed Guard Service in WWII,” www.history.navy.mil.
90. Report of Engagement, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Patrol Wing 8, Squadron 82, 30 January 1942. (Postwar records failed to confirm this sinking. However, Mason did destroy U-503 on 15 March, for which he was promoted and awarded a second Distinguished Flying Cross.)
91. “Famous Navy Quotes,” www.history.navy.mil
92. “Halcyon Class Minesweepers and Survey Ships of WW II.” www.halcyon-class.co.uk.
93. Alexander Rothney, “To Murmansk and Back on the SS Atlantic, ” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
94. Bruce Felknor, “The Sinking of the Esso Tanker T. C. McCobb,” www.usmm.org.
95. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 118–20.
96. White, Bitter Ocean, and Glenn Tunney, “Four Chaplains’ Sacrifice Should Inspire All Generations,” http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com.
97. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 33–35.
98. “Attack on an Artic Convoy, 1942,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)
99. “Whistles over the Water,” by George Hirsch, in memory of his father, Paul Hirsch, www.armed-guard.com.
100. “Jottings,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 30, Jan. 1, 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
101. “Survival, The Arctic,” by Ronald Healiss, quoted by Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 114. Healiss was one of thirty-nine who survived this tragedy (www.warship.org).
102. “One More Round,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 8, 4 July 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
103. “Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942,” Eyewitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
104. Marion Hunt, “Marion’s Story, I Am Evacuated to America,”http://www.timewitnesses.org.
105. Written by John Ellerton. Details of the funeral from an article by Douglas Cornell in Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 452–53.
106. Nineteenth century hymn by Sarah Adams, Edward Bickersteth, and Lowell Mason.
107. �
�Dad’s Advice,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 10, 2 August 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
108. A. H. Archer, “The Death of a Minesweeper,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
109. Sam Hakam, “Sinking of the SS Lehigh, ” American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org.
110. Westminster Shorter Catechism, www.reformed.org.
111. Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington ‘for the good of the ship and the service.’
112. “Torpedoed in the Arctic,” The Mast Magazine, February 1945, American Merchant Marine in World War 2, www.usmm.org.
113. Ibid.
114. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
115. George X. Hurley, “Saga of the Murmansk Run,” www.armed-guard.com. Used by permission.
116. Ibid. Used by permission.
117. “The Best Solvent,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
118. Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea, 101.
119. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 153–154. Quoting Alan Moorehead.
120. Ibid., 159.
121. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 70.
122. Ibid., 69.
123. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 404–5.
124. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 174.
125. www.originofnations.org.
126. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 193.
127. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, “The President’s Prayer,” 7.
128. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 59. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
129. Ibid., 136.
130. Ibid., 138.
131. Ibid., 119. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
132. Ronald Reagan quote, March 30, 1981, The American Experience, www.pbs.org.
133. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 101–2.
134. Philip Massinger, A Very Woman, Act V, Sc. 4.
135. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 159. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
136. Peter Andrews, “A Place to Be Lousy In,” American Heritage Magazine, www.americanheritage.com.
137. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 262.
138. Ibid., 335.
139. Sperry, Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time, 25.
140. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 6. Used by permission.
141. North, War Stories III, 88.
142. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 293.
143. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 688. June 30, 1943, remarks to the Guildhall.
144. “The War of a Green Howard, 1939–1945. Bill Cheall’s Story,” The Green Howards Regimental History, www.greenhowards.org.uk.
145. Hoyt, The GI’s War, 182.
146. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 396–97.
147. Time Magazine, “A Matter of Days,” August 9, 1943, www.time.com.
148. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 259.
149. Kenneth T. Downs, “Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 17, 1946.
150. Ibid.
151. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, p. 91.2b
152. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 162–67.
153. O God, Our Help in Ages Past, by Isaac Watts, 1719. Sung at the funeral of Winston Churchill, 1965.
154. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 166.
155. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 411.
156. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 152.
157. Chaplain A. M. Sherman, Jr., Religion and Ethics Newsletter, May 28, 2004, www.pbs.org. Excerpt from National Cathedral’s exhibition, “Faith and Courage: U. S. Chaplains Service in World War II.”
158. Hoyt, The GI’s War, 202.
159. “Ernie Pyle,” Indiana Historical Society, www.indianahistory.org.
160. Ibid.
161. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 207–8.
162. Costello, The Pacific War, 382.
163. Rose, Evidence Not Seen, 41. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
164. Ibid.
165. Glenn Frazier, “Ex-POW Biography,” American Ex-Prisoners of War, www.axpow.org.
166. Schultz, The Last Battle Station, 71.
167. www.rentz.navy.mil
168. Ibid.
169. poem by Lloyd Willey, www.rentz.navy.mil.
170. Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, June 2, 2004, www.washingtonpost.com.
171. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 296–298.
172. Felber, The Old Breed of Marine, 3–4.
173. Mason, The Pacific War Remembered, 131.
174. Ibid., 138–39.
175. Ibid., 136.
176. Davis, Marine!, 121.
177. Ibid., 201.
178. Ibid.
179. www.arlingtoncemetery.net, search “Basilone.”
180. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 85.
181. Medal of Honor citation, Douglas Albert Munro, www.uscg.mil/history.
182. James Quann, “A World War Hero from Cle Elum,” Columbia Magazine, Fall 2000, Vol. 14, No. 3.
183. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 11–12.
184. Ibid.
185. Ibid., 10–11.
186. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.
187. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 3–5.
188. Miller, The Story of World War II, 156.
189. Ibid., 157, quoting Gen. Robert Eichelberger.
190. Ibid., 158.
191. Rear Adm. Robert G. Mills, USN (Ret.), “The Parson’s Bible,” U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, www.usna.com.
192. Ibid.
193. From 1001 Great Stories and Quotes by R. Kent Hughes, ed., p. 234–235. Quoting Cmdr. Eric J. Berryman.
194. Ibid.
195. www.medalofhonor.com.
196. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 43.
197. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 156–57.
198. Snaddon, Through the Valley of the Shadow.
199. Ibid.
200. Ibid.
201. Ibid.
202. Mason, The Pacific War Remembered, 196.
203. Zamperini, Devil at My Heels, 84–85. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
204. Ibid., 98.
205. Ibid., 123.
206. Ibid., 242–43.
207. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 15–32.
208. Ibid.
209. Ibid.
210. Ibid., 261.
211. Ibid.
212. Ibid., 298–99.
213. Napoleon, www.bartleby.com.
214. Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao, 139.
215. “Mosta Dome,” Location Malta, www.locationmalta.com.
216. North, War Stories III, 102.
217. Ibid., 105.
218. Quotes from article by Stephen P. Weaver, NAS Sigonella Public Affairs, “Heroism During World War II Remembered at Ponte Dirillo,” July 14, 2004, www.navy.mil.
219. North, War Stories III, 123.
220. Al Karr, “Exhibit Honors World War II’s Chaplains,” Episcopal Diocese of Washington, www.edow.org.
221. Ibid.
222. Ibid.
223. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 45–46.
224. Stan Scislowsiki, “Church Service at the Front,” WW2 Peoples War, www.bbc.co.uk.
225. Abide with Me, Henry Lyte and William Monk, 1847. Five of eight stanzas. Written as Lyte was dying of tuberculosis.
226. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “Frank’s Military Career WWII,” by Frank C. Palilla, www.atlas.illinois.edu.
227. A Prayer Book for Sold
iers and Sailors.
228. Robert G. Saxton, “Knocking a Bomb Out in the Italian Skies,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
229. George Graves, “Somewhere in Italy,” http://thedropzone.org.
230. Kathy Burd, “I’ve Been Blessed- A Legacy,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
231. Ibid.
232. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 438, quoting an article by Ernie Pyle.
233. Ibid.
234. Richard J. Ternyey, “My Mule and Me,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
235. Ibid.
236. Carroll, Grace Under Fire, 43.
237. Ibid., 44–45.
238. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “From Coal Hole to Fox Hole to Easy Street,” by Kathleen Filer, excerpted from James Coyle’s atlas.illinois.edu.
239. Rudyard Kipling, “If…”
240. North, War Stories III, 124.
241. Robert Appel, “A Soldier’s Last Days of Combat on the Anzio Beachhead,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
242. Ibid.
243. “War Letters,” American Experience, www.pbs.org. and “World War II Letters Home,” The Free Library, www.thefreelibrary.com.
244. North, War Stories III, 128.
245. Steve Fry, “WWII Mystery Solved; Brother Finally Home,” Topeka Capital-Journal, June 21, 2007.
246. Sperry , Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time, 3.
247. Vaughn Gordy, “Shaken but Grateful,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
248. Ibid.
249. Ibid.
250. C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
251. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “The War for Me,” by Albert Thomas, atlas.illinois.edu.
252. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 12, quoting Rev. Parker Thompson, Wallace Hale Eulogy, March 11, 2007. Used by permission.
253. Wallace Hale, from the foreword to Battle Rattle, www.milhist.net.
254. Copyright 1939 by Irving Berlin, www.scoutsongs.com. Berlin dedicated royalties to the God Bless America fund for the Boy and Girl Scouts of the USA.
255. Ibid.
256. Charles M. Province, The Unknown Patton, CMP Productions (Electronic Version, 1998, “The Slapping Incident,” www.pattonhq.com.
257. Miller, The Story of World War II, 216.
258. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, p. 23.
259. 1 Chronicles 19:13 (KJV)
260. Ibid.
261. Inscription over the entrance to Summerall Chapel, The Citadel.