The Twilight Warriors (71 page)

5
Col. Yahara believes Lt. Gen. Cho’s counteroffensive is doomed: Hiromichi Yahara,
The Battle for Okinawa
, 196.

6
Counteroffensive is a disaster from which the 32nd Army will not recover: Rottman,
Okinawa 1945
, 73–75.

7
“from now on I leave everything up to you”: Lt. Gen. Ushijima to Col. Yahara, in Yahara,
The Battle for Okinawa
, 41.

34
Bottom of the Barrel

1
Hitler’s death lamented by Ugaki: Ugaki,
Fading Victory
, 603.

2
“Carriers That Way” sign, cited by Vice Adm. C. R. Brown in foreword to Inoguchi and Nakajima,
The Divine Wind
, vii.

3
Morrison
attacked by biplanes: Rielly,
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
, 213.

4
Ingraham
receives full attention of kamikazes: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 255.

5
Actions of the British Task Force 57 and effects of kamikazes on armored flight decks described ibid., 264–66.

35
Gone with the Spring

1
“When I start inhaling these, I don’t want to waste time reordering”: Windy Hill in Guam, quoted in Erickson’s
Tail End Charlies!
126–27.

2
Nimitz is frustrated by the continuing losses to radar pickets. He asks Adm. Forrest Sherman whether he didn’t think the kamikazes would lay off the pickets in search of bigger game. Sherman didn’t think so. “You could get a man down quicker by hitting him on the same tooth than by punching him all over.” Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 256.

3
Ugaki is sure that “when our troops can see enemy vessels sunk and set on fire in front of their very eyes and observe planes with the Rising Sun mark fly overhead, their morale will soar.” Ugaki,
Fading Victory
, 604–5.