p. 68 “Has it ever occurred to you that Jesus was the most imperial of the imperialists?” Ibid., 18.
p. 68 “. . . Filipinos were savages no better than our Indians.” Drinnon, Facing West, 297.
p. 68 “no one even bothered to respond.” Miller, Benevolent Assimilation, 250.
p. 69 . . . it was impossible to recognize “the actively bad from only the passively so.” Ibid., 210.
p. 69 “. . . ‘Buenos Dias, Senors’ (means good morning).” Ibid., 182.
p. 69 “. . . killed every native we met, men, women and children.” Ibid., 220.
p. 69 “. . . Everyone was crazy.” Ibid.
p. 69 “. . . the more you kill and burn the better it will please me.” Ibid.
p. 69 . . . kill all those above “ten years of age.” Ibid.
p. 69 “. . . and then turned over to the men for their pleasure.” Ibid., 241.
pp. 69-70 “. . . ‘picking off niggers in the water’ was ‘more fun than a turkey shoot.’” Ibid., 67.
p. 70 “. . . I am doing everything I can for Old Glory and for America I love so well.” Ibid., 88.
p. 70 “routinely firing on Filipinos carrying white flags.” Ibid., 238.
p. 70 “ordered to take no prisoners and to kill the wounded.” Ibid., 188.
p. 70 “. . . who had been taken before they learned how not to take them.” Ibid., 188.
p. 70 “by lot select a POW—preferably one from the village in which the assassination took place—and execute him.” Ibid., 209.
p. 70 “. . . he made forty-seven prisoners kneel and ‘repent of their sins’ before ordering them bayoneted and clubbed to death.” Ibid., 238.
p. 71 “. . . His suffering must be that of a man who is drowning, but he cannot drown.” Drinnon, Facing West, 319.
p. 71 “. . . for the triumph of civilization over the black chaos of savagery and barbarism.” Miller, Benevolent Assimilation, 251.
p. 71 “. . . the most glorious war in the nation’s history.” Ibid., 250.
p. 71 “act of discrimination carrying with it a stigma and odium which it is impossible to overlook.” Butow, Tojo and the Coming of the War, 11.
p. 71 . . . denying visas to Japanese and other Asians. Ibid., 21.
p. 72 “‘. . . condemn the late-coming nations to remain forever subordinate to the advanced nations.’” McClain, Japan: A Modern History, 394.
p. 72 “. . . ‘as much as possible to grant de jure equality’ to foreign subjects living in their territory.” Ibid.
p. 72 “. . . Japan had made Manchuria into an island of stability and prosperity.” Ibid., 414.
p. 73 “According to an opinion poll, 75 per cent of the American public agreed.” Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 236.
p. 73 “. . . then the three countries will fight resolutely.” Asahi Shimbun, October 5, 1940.
p. 74 “lecturing the Japanese about the ‘principles of good behavior.’” Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 76.
p. 74 “. . . no alteration to the status quo except through peaceful means.” Ibid.
p. 74 “. . . staff conversations at Singapore with high-ranking British, Dutch, Australian, New Zealand, and Indian officers in April.” Ibid., 272.
p. 74 . . . that threatened the Philippines, East Indies, Malaya, and Thailand, and peaceful relations with the United States. Ibid., 309.
p. 74 Roosevelt proposed that the Japanese “dispel the dark clouds.” Ibid.
p. 74 “. . . the only way to break the stalemate in China was to risk a war with the whole world.” Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 27.
p. 75 “. . . ‘if the Japanese government were to fail to speak as civilized twentieth-century human beings.’” Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 237.
p. 75 . . . chain them together and transported them by barges for days as they roasted under a tropical sun. Dower, War Without Mercy, 331.
p. 76 “. . . That had been four years ago and the fighting was still in progress.” Butow, Tojo and the Coming of the War, 254.
p. 76 “. . . With what confidence do you say ‘three months’?” Ibid.
p. 76 “. . . putting anyone on the spot was considered a rather drastic thing to do.” Ibid.
p. 76 The U.S. annually produced twelve times the steel, five times the number of ships, one hundred and five times the number of automobiles, and five and a half times the amount of electricity that Japan did. Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 171.
p. 76 “. . . the Americans, being merchants, would not continue for long with an unprofitable war, whereas we . . . could carry on a protracted war.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 49.
p. 77 The Chichi Jima signals described a “two-prong” attack, one going east from Japan, the other south. Robert B. Stinnett, George Bush: His World War II Years (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1991), 2.
p. 77 “. . . AN AGGRESSIVE MOVE BY JAPAN IS EXPECTED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.” Chief of Naval Operations message 272337, November 27, 1941, drafted by Rear Admiral R. K. Turner, Director of War Plans.
p. 77 . . . General Hirofumi Yamashita landed his 20,000 troops on the east coast of Malaya. Tanaka, Hidden Horrors, 81.
Chapter 7: Flyboys
p. 80 . . . “the typical American reaction that we had better do something about this.” Joe Hyams, Flight of the Avenger: George Bush at War (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1992), 39.
p. 80 “. . . my thoughts immediately turned to naval aviation.” George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), 30.
p. 81 “. . . Western economies were firmly in the era of the internal combustion machine.” Eric M. Bergerud, Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001), 317.
p. 81 “. . . moved over poor roads to the large naval air base at Kagamigahara prior to its initial flight.” Ibid., 321.
p. 82 “future adventurous young men who sought glory in war would tend to seek it as pilots.” Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (New York: Bantam Books, 1980), x.
p. 82 . . . “only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.” A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1999), 64.
p. 82 “. . . you didn’t have to have a license to fly an airplane in 1923.” Ibid., 70.
p. 82 “. . . so they felt they had received their money’s worth.” Ibid., 65.
p. 82 “. . . worthwhile trade for an ordinary lifetime.” Ibid., 66.
p. 82 . . . “I won’t need any more, and if I don’t get to Paris, I won’t need any more, either.” Ibid., 115.
p. 82 “. . . either the happiest day in my whole life, or the saddest.” Ibid., 117.
p. 83 “ Not even Columbus sailed alone.” Ibid., 120.
p. 86 . . . “‘I’m going in.’” Bush, Looking Forward, 31.
p. 86 . . . “It was the first time I had ever seen my dad cry.” Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 43.
p. 90 “. . . represented a step up the economic ladder.” Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, 317.
Chapter 8: Doing the Impossible
p. 100 “won nearly every aviation trophy there was.” Carroll V. Glines, The Doolittle Raid: America’s Daring First Strike Against Japan (New York: Orion Books, 1988), 17.
p. 100 “. . . almost black out a number of times from the pain.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 45.
p. 101 “. . . It could be done, as long as an engine didn’t skip a beat.” Edward Oxford, “Against All Odds” (privately published essay).
p. 101 “We’re in for something really big.” Duane P. Schultz, The Doolittle Raid (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), 58.
p. 101 “. . . This mission was very important if he was involved in it.” Dr. James C. Hasdorff, “Interview of Brig. Gen. Richard A. Knobloch.” United States Air Force Oral History Program, July 13-14, 1987 (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air Force Historical Research Agency), interview
with Col. James Macia.
p. 101 “. . . We were ready for anything.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 32.
p. 102 “. . . No questions asked.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 31.
p. 102 “. . . give the Japs a dose of their own medicine.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 61.
p. 102 “The sailors I saw were jumping up and down like small children.” James Merrill, Target Tokyo: The Halsey-Doolittle Raid (Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1964), 41.
p. 103 “. . . We’re not supposed to do this to one another.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 106.
p. 103 “They know we’re here.” Gen. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle with Carroll V. Glines, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1995), 4.
p. 103 “. . . who really believed he would complete the flight safely.” Col. C. Ross Greening, Not As Briefed (St. Paul: Brown and Bigelow, 1945), 22.
p. 103 “And nobody batted an eye.” Helena Pasquarella, “Moorpark Man Recalls a Fateful Flight over Japan During WWII,” Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1993.
p. 104 “. . . thought the only thing short of being destroyed over the target area would be to end up as a prisoner of war.” Hasdorff, “Interview of Brig. Gen. Richard A. Knobloch.”
p. 104 “. . . a twenty-four-knot headwind all the way to Honshu.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 123.
p. 104 “And they were tame compared to this thing.” Cindy Hayostek, “Exploits of a Doolittle Raider,” Military History, March 1996.
p. 105 “. . . I’m sure many thought they wouldn’t be able to make it either.” Doolittle, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, 7.
p. 105 “I put down ten dollars at even money that less than half of them would get off.” Alvin Kernan, Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994), 31.
p. 105 “like circus elephants against their chains.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 128.
p. 105 “‘. . . He can’t make it!’” Ibid.
p. 105 “. . . since we had the best pilot in the Air Force flying with us.” Greg DeHart, One Hour Over Tokyo. History Channel, May 26, 2001.
p. 105 “We watched him like hawks.” Ibid.
p. 105 “. . . could even hear it above the roar of their props.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 126.
p. 105 “. . . I could not say good-bye to anyone—just a thumbs-up as each took off.” Keesler Field (Mississippi) News, May 27, 1943.
p. 106 “. . . We knew when we started that it wasn’t going to fit.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 133.
pp. 106-107 “. . . each man to decide what he will do.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 65.
p. 107 “. . . I guess the Imperial forces want to impress the people that they are fully prepared.” Stan Cohen, Destination: Tokyo (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1983), 48.
p. 107 “. . . that was no mile.” Merrill, Target Tokyo, 79.
p. 107 “Our houses are only made of wood, while yours are of stone.” Tom Bernard, “Japs Were Jumpy After Tokyo Raid,” Stars and Stripes, April 27, 1943.
p. 108 “. . . move the patients out of harm’s way, flabbergasted at the Americans’ barbaric act.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 148.
p. 108 “. . . I raked the length of the deck from stern to bow.” Ibid., 152.
p. 108 “. . . But after they shot at us, I changed my mind.” C. Hoyt Watson, The Amazing Story of Sergeant Jacob DeShazer (Winona Lake, IN: Life and Light Press, 1950. Reprinted as DeShazer, Croquitlam, British Columbia: Galaxy Communications, 1991), 21.
p. 108 “. . . ditching among them would be very appealing.” Doolittle, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, 9.
p. 109 “. . . a tailwind of about 25 miles per hour and eased our minds about ditching.” Ibid.
p. 109 “This meant that the chance of any of us getting to the destination safely was just about nil.” Ibid., 10.
p. 109 “. . . I bent my knees to take the shock.” Ibid.
p. 110 “. . . six elementary or secondary schools, and innumerable nonmilitary residences.” Merrill, Target Tokyo, 102.
p. 110 “. . . such a great difference between the battle front and the home front.” Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito, Samurai (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958), 148-49.
p. 110 “. . . We then began to doubt that we were also invincible.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 145.
p. 110 “. . . avenged the raid on Pearl Harbor.” Ibid., 148.
p. 111 “‘. . . 2,600 years of her glorious history’ was going to be destroyed.” Ibid., 149.
p. 111 “. . . the Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary army will begin the operation as soon as possible.” Shultz, The Doolittle Raid, 239, citing D. Bergamini, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy (New York: William Morrow, 1971).
p. 112 “. . . lead to the torture and death of their friends.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 152.
pp. 111-112 “. . . and forced his wife to set her husband on fire.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 227.
p. 112 “. . . you can’t miss the savage nature of the Japanese army.” Shultz, The Doolittle Raid, 239, citing Father George Yager and Bishop Charles Quinn in the New York Times, May 26, 1943.
p. 112 “. . . these Japanese troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 151.
p. 112 “A quarter million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in the three-month campaign.” Ibid.
p. 112 “. . . with bubonic plague, pneumonia, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, typhoid, and syphilis.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 227.
pp. 112-113 “. . . This is what actually happened.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 213.
p. 113 “. . . death of seventeen hundred Japanese soldiers and the injury of ten thousand more.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 228.
p. 113 “. . . I can kill you this afternoon and no one will ever know who did it.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 157.
p. 113 “. . . He and his family would be disgraced forever.” Russell, The Knights of Bushido, 46.
p. 113 “. . . Inevitably this attitude was applied with equal vigor towards enemy POWs.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 157.
p. 114 “. . . After the war ended, all of the POWs were safely returned to Russia.” Tanaka, Hidden Horrors, 72.
p. 114 “. . . to attain the national objectives within the bounds of international law.” Ienaga, Japan’s Last War, 136.
p. 114 “. . . so that nothing will miscarry in the attainment of our war aims.” Ibid.
p. 114 “. . . Today such a need no longer applies.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 68.
p. 115 “. . . and all of the Japanese soldiers laughed merrily and walked away.” Lester I. Tenney, My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1995), 42.
p. 115 “. . . I guess I looked stunned, so he added that it was a sanitation measure.” Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 378.
p. 116 “. . . forcing the pencils up and down causing the skin to break.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 170.
p. 116 “. . . If you use this method, ninety percent of them talk.” Cook and Cook, Japan at War, 154.
p. 116 “. . . after about five minutes of that my knees were so numb I couldn’t feel anything else.” Chase Nielson, Testimony Before U.S. Military Commission, Shanghai, China. February 27, 1946.
p. 116 “. . . I felt more or less like I was drowning, just gasping between life and death.” Ibid.
p. 116 “. . . Rest assured, it’s strictly a one-way ticket.” “Threat to Fliers,” New York Times, April 22, 1943.
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p. 118 “. . . shipped six hundred thousand gas masks to the Western Defense Command.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 218.
p. 120 “. . . the most impressive sight of the day.” Lewis and Steele, Hell in the Pacific, 110.
p. 120 “. . . though it was still a long and harrowing distance in the future.” Davi
d M. Kennedy, “Victory at Sea,” Atlantic Monthly, March 1999.
p. 121 “. . . With that, they dismissed us.” Hasdorff, “Interview of Brig. Gen. Richard A. Knobloch.”
p. 121 “. . . even in the event of an exchange of war prisoners they may not be repatriated to the United States forces.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 216.
p.122 “. . . I want you to know that I died fighting for my country like a soldier.” Letters from 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
p. 122 “. . . That was all that was said.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 181.
p. 122 . . . “Face the target!” Ibid.
p. 122 “. . . were captured and court-martialed and severely punished according to military law.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 301.
p. 124 . . . “All of us who soloed thought we were ten feet tall.” Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 55.
p. 124 . . . when he was a kid and war was something in the history books. Hyams, Ibid., 54.
p. 132 “. . . some of our most important victories would not have been possible.” Capt. Robert Allen and Lieutenant Otis Carney, The Story of SCAT 253 (SCAT publication, 1943), 14.
p. 132 “. . . SCAT moved 43,626,495 pounds of cargo plus 235,596 passengers carried in 34,834 trips.” Col. W. K. Snyder, USMCR (Ret.), The History of Marine Corps Transport Squadron VMJ 253 (SCAT publication, 1944), 13.
p. 132 “. . . Kimball loaded his casualties aboard and took off.” Allen and Carney, The Story of SCAT 253, 16.
Chapter 10: Yellow Devils, White Devils
p. 133 “. . . who fell into Japanese hands as an incident of warfare.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 208.
p. 134 “. . . TOKYO STANDS ALONE AS A CRUEL CAPTOR IN DEFIANCE OF GENEVA CONVENTION.” New York Times, April 23, 1943.
p. 134 “. . . more determined than ever to blot out the shameless militarism of Japan.” Glines, The Doolittle Raid, 208.
p. 134 . . . they must be “utterly destroyed.” Nelson, The First Heroes, 296.
p. 134 Chase Nielson’s mother and Mrs. John Meder quotes. Ibid., 296.
p. 136 “. . . I wanted a mental bath after looking at them.” John Dower, Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (London: HarperCollins/ Hammersmith, 1995), 258.
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