The Twilight Warriors (72 page)

4
Reaction in Japan to the surrender of Germany: Robert Sherrod,
History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II
, 389.

5
Turner orders full gun salvoes to salute the troops in Europe: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 268.

6
Robert Klingman chops off the Japanese Nick’s tail: “Strangest Dogfight Ever,”
Leatherneck
, January 2007, and
http://www.f4ucorsair.com/vmf312/312.html
.

7
“Flowers of the special attack are falling”: poem by Ugaki lamenting the loss of
tokko
airmen,
Fading Victory
, 610.

36
Change of Command

1
“Alert! Alert! Two planes diving on the
Bunker Hill!”:
Taylor,
The Magnificent Mitscher
, 290–91.

2
Mitscher evacuates flag plot, observes a third kamikaze diving on
Bunker Hill:
ibid., 291.

3
Bunker Hill
’s agony continues: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 263.

4
“Flatley, tell my task group commanders that if the Japs keep this up they’re going to grow hair on my head yet”: Taylor,
The Magnificent Mitscher
, 297.

5
The service for Shunsuke Tomiyasu was one of the rare occasions when the remains of a kamikaze were given a dignified burial. For years after the war, Tomiyasu’s name was incorrectly reported as “Tomi Zae”;
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/stories/tomiyasu/index.htm
.

6
Enterprise
becomes last carrier of the war to be struck by a kamikaze:
http://www.cv6.org/1945/1945.htm
.

7
Longshaw
is lost with eighty-six crew: Theodore Roscoe,
U.S. Destroyer Operations in World War II
, 480–81.

8
Kikusui
No. 7 details: Morison,
Victory in the Pacific
, 279.