The Twilight Warriors (68 page)

4
Loss of Mark Orr in night action:
Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
.

5
Feuding between Army and Marine Corps over Howlin’ Mad Smith: Keith Wheeler,
The Road to Tokyo
, 109.

6
Worst loss of U.S. armored vehicles in the campaign: Appleman,
Okinawa: The Last Battle
, 203–4.

7
Buckner realizes assault has failed, “Progress not quite satisfactory”:
Simon B. Buckner and Joseph Stilwell,
Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Joseph Stilwell
, 42.

8
Ugaki believes air attacks on Kyushu come from Okinawa: Ugaki,
Fading Victory
, 586–87.

28
Keep Moving and Keep Shooting

1
Lerch, Kirkwood, and Quiel actions described in Norwald Quiel letter to author and in
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 16, 1945.

2
“Keep moving and keep shooting”:
Purdy
skipper to
Laffey
captain Becton, quoted by Dale Harper in
World War II
, March 1998.

29
As Long as a Gun Will Fire

1
Ordeal of
Laffey
described by her skipper, Julian Becton, in his
The Ship That Would Not Die
.

2
“I couldn’t even hold a pencil”: interview with
Laffey
quartermaster Ari Phoutrides.

3
“I’ll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire”:
Laffey
skipper Becton quoted in
Time
, June 4, 1945, and from Phoutrides interview.

4
Clarke, James, Farmer, Ehrhard actions from Ray James interview and from
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 16, 1945.