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Authors: Robert Gandt
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Attack on
Cassin Young:
Sears,
At War with the Wind
, 340.
3
Saburo Dohi profile, flies a Thunder God mission: Inoguchi and Nakajima,
The Divine Wind
.
4
Ohka
attacks described in Rielly’s
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 142, 145.
5
“No further questions were asked”: recollection by Nakajima in
The Divine Wind
, 158.
1
Mark Orr profile and night mission tactics based on
Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
and
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 11, 1945, and correspondence with VF-10 night fighter pilot Frank Stolfa.
2
Schub and Nickerson actions taken from
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 12, 1945.
3
Frank Jackson collision with FM-2 Wildcat: Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 132.
4
Gray, Halbe, and Sweeny actions in
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 12, 1945, and
Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
.
1
Beauford Anderson earns Medal of Honor during Japanese counterattack: Roy E. Appleman et al.,
Okinawa: The Last Battle
, 134–35.
2
“Attention all hands! President Roosevelt is dead”: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 231.
3
“The dreadful loss … will make you orphans on this island”: Appleman,
Okinawa: The Last Battle
, 125.