The Twilight Warriors (66 page)

2
Return of
Intrepid
strike group: Jim Clifford correspondence, interview with VBF-10 pilot Wesley Hays, and
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 7, 1945.

3
Kamikaze strikes
Hancock:
http://www.usshancockcv19.com/gallery.htm
.

4
Loss of Don Croy and recovery of Clarke:
Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
, and Robin Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 124.

5
Mitscher not his old self: Taylor,
The Magnificent Mitscher
, 285, and Spurr,
A Glorious Way to Die
, 312.

6
Nimitz to Turner, “Delete all after ‘crazy’ ”: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 215.

24
A Ridge Called Kakazu

1
Buckner and commanders are surprised by Japanese artillery: Hastings,
Retribution
, 377.

2
“I was back again at the kind of life I had known so long”: Pyle,
Last Chapter
, 112.

3
“One man for ten of the enemy or one tank”: James H. Hallas,
Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
, 6.

4
Sata Omaichi captured and interrogated: Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 129.

5
“A dead Jap is no longer an enemy”:
http://www.ussmissouri.com/sea-stories-kamikaze
.

25
Ohka

1
Ugaki misled by
kikusui
No. 1 reports: Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 128.