The Twilight Warriors (59 page)

4
“we were no longer virgins”: ibid., 85.

8
Shoot the Son of a Bitch

1
Landreth still adrift in his raft: interview with William Landreth.

2
Encounter with the elite IJN 343rd Kokutai described in Henry Sakaida and Koji Takaki,
Genda’s Blade
, 42–45.

3
“I heard it might not be a good thing to do, as it didn’t help the treatment given to our POWs below”: Erickson,
Tail End Charlies!
88.

4
“Shoot the son of a bitch, Eric!”: Erickson’s
Tail End Charlies!
87.

5
The thirty-four-year-old Hyland gets his first air-to-air kill:
Air Group Ten Action Report
, March 19, 1945.

1
“If you save us from the Japanese, we will save the ship”: David H. Lippman, article in
World War II
magazine, March 1995.

2
Franklin
suffers the greatest damage inflicted on any aircraft carrier without being sunk: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 95–98.

3
Japanese high command detached from reality: ibid., 100.

10
Thunder Gods

1
The
Ohka
carries enough explosive power to devastate virtually any warship: Bernard Millot,
Divine Thunder
, 140.

2
“Bees die after they have stung”: Albert Axell and Hideaki Kase,
Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods
, 35.