The Twilight Warriors (69 page)

5
Laffey
endures more kamikaze attacks than any other and stays afloat: Harper,
World War II
, March 1998.

30
Glory Day

1
Weems and Schlag actions from Charles Schlag interview and
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 16, 1945.

2
Pringle
and
Bryant
under kamikaze attack described in Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 237–38, and Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 174–76.

3
Loss of Red Bailey at Kokubu, and actions of Hyland, Cordray, and flight drawn from
Air Group Ten Action Report
, April 16, 1945, and interviews of VBF-10 pilots.

31
Target
Intrepid

1
“One day … one of these bastards is going to hit the bull’s eye”: Radarman Ray Stone in his memoir,
My Ship!

2
Fred Meyer watches the Zeke aiming at
Intrepid
’s stern: Erickson,
Tail End Charlies!
121.

3
“There was Old Glory, stiff as a board”: interview with plane captain Felix Novelli.

4
Intrepid
repaired, lands her aircraft aboard:
USS
Intrepid
War Diary
, April 16, 1945.

5
“It was just like they never existed”: Erickson laments his lost squadronmates in
Tail End Charlies!
124.

6
Hays and wingmen, unable to return to
Intrepid
, make odyssey around Pacific: interview with Wesley Hays.

7
Bitzegaio wounded in seat of pants related in Ed Deutschman correspondence and
Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
.