The Twilight Warriors (65 page)

1
“Corsairs, you’re close. Stand by for my mark”: Description of VBF-10 attacks on
Yahagi
from interview with Wesley Hays and Erickson recollections in
Tail End Charlies!
110–12.

2
Rawie impressions from his own account in
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 7, 1945.

3
Herbert Houck’s role in the
Yamato
operation drawn from his postwar recollection in
http://www.yorktownsailor.com/yorktown/battleship.htm
.

4
American warplanes strafe
Yamato
task force survivors: Spurr,
A Glorious Way to Die
, 285.

22
There She Blows

1
Flooding
Yamato
’s engineering rooms: Yoshida,
Requiem for Battleship
Yamato, 82.

2
Seiichi Ito, “Stop the operation”: ibid., 108.

3
Resetting torpedo running depth:
http://www.yorktownsailor.com/yorktown/fries.htm
.

4
Yamato
fighting back at torpedo planes:
http://www.yorktownsailor.com/yorktown/battleship.htm
.

5
Yoshida marvels that not a single American pilot had crashed into an enemy ship: Yoshida,
Requiem for Battleship
Yamato, 83.

6
Experiences of escaping
Yamato
crewmen were vividly described in the
Nova
series “Sinking the Supership.”

23
Dumbo and Mighty Mouse

1
Rescue of Bill Delaney: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 208.