7 - He Just Went Spinning Away, pages 126-40

     Pages 126-27: Japanese attack plan and Next time: JDA, Nanpo 341. Also see Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 176. Ki-44: Hata Ikuhiko letter to author 1988.
     Page 128: To Rangoon: Hinoki Yohei, Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato (Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1987) 103-106; Hayashi 47; Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 136, 163, 168-169; Kasuya, Yamamoto 68-69.
     Page 129: Wavell landing at Mingaladon: Gallagher, Action in the East 162.
     Page 130: I came up from: Hedman combat report, Pistole collection. I had thirteen: "Activities." The enemy pilots used: Kasuya 69-73.
     Page 131: Sharing bonus: Hedman author interview. Tried to pull away, one tries to draw you: Older and Reed combat reports, Pistole collection.
     Page 132: Anxiety grew: Kato diary. Kato's activities: Hinoki, Hayabusa 109. I opened fire: Reed combat report. Pilots lost: ibid 110-111; Hinoki Yohei, Tsubasa no kessen (Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1984) 307.
     Page 133: Like a butterfly: Izawa in Aero Album. He just went spinning etc: Dupouy author interview. RAF activity: 67 Sq log; Shores et al, Bloody Shambles I:247-250.
     Page 134: Japanese losses: Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 169-170; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 176, 202; Kasuya, Yamamoto 74. Very, very sweet: Hayashi 47. I felt terribly: Kato diary. No more heroics: Hinoki Yohei letter to author 1989.
     Page 135: Bomb damage: 3rd Sq log; "Activities"; Shores et al 251. On Xmas night: Frances, Ketchil 57. Also Upfill 193. Pawley quit Rangoon: Chennault papers 18. Crewmen rebuked Olson: Rodewald and Schaper Columbia interviews. Field hit badly: Chennault papers 7. Like shooting ducks: Group War Diary 26 Dec.
     Page 136: Leaflets etc: 3rd Sq log. A jumpier lot: Gallagher 193; also 111-112.
     Page 137: A quite useless: Joseph Alsop in Saturday Evening Post 9 Jan 1943. Also Alsop and Reynolds author interviews. Seized guns: radiogram in Secretary's File 37, FDR Library. Out at Rangoon: Chennault papers 44. The American Volunteer Group: Chennault papers 18.
     Page 138: A study of these: Chennault papers 36. We were glad: 3rd Sq log. Japanese debate: JDA, Nanpo 344. In large formations: JT&A 27 Dec.
     Page 139: Intense admiration: Secretary's File 38, FDR Library. P-40Es and Vanguards: Currie to Magruder, Secretary's File 38, FDR Library; Chennault papers 52, 18. Army would like: Secretary's File 38. Thereby showing: AMISSCA.
     Page 140: Despite Chennault's: AMISSCA. I give Burma: Gallagher 125.

8 - Leaning Forward, pages 141-62

     Page 141: Newkirk: N.Y. Times 25 Mar 1942; Time 12 Jan 1942; AVG records. A tall, erect and Let's take the war: Howard, Roar of the Tiger 106-107.
     Page 142: I therefore commenced: Donald Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette 11 Mar 1948. Killer Stevenson: Frances, Ketchil 70. Losses at Moulmein: Shores et al, Bloody Shambles I:253.
     Page 143: I got so preoccupied etc: Cornelius & Short 140. I saw two enemy etc: Jack Newkirk, "Report on Activities of this Squadron" 13 Jan, Chennault papers 38. Automatic pilot: Boyington, Black Sheep 71. Our intended mission: Howard 3. Also Group War Diary 3 Jan; JDA, Nanpo 574.
     Page 144: In the most quick: Newkirk combat report, Pistole collection. I began learning: Hill Columbia interview. I roared down: Howard 4.
     Page 145: Japanese movements from Tanaka Masa, "Burma Air Operations Record" (JM 64, 1946); Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 182; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 202; JDA, Nanpo 574-575; Hayashi 231. Dispersal system: Newkirk "Report."
     Pages 146-47: The next second etc: Hotz, With General Chennault 130-131. No more combat: Howard 111. Burst into flames andThe wings, fuselage: Newkirk "Report." Six or eight: Group War Diary 4 Jan; also Bright in Atlantic.
     Page 148: Get on the train: Frillmann, China 103. I jumped into a pit: Noel Bacon's diary in N.Y. Sunday News 2 Aug 1942. Blenheims: RAF 113 Sq log, PRO AIR 878; British General Staff, ABDACOM.
     Page 149: I let down etc: Peter Wright in Flying May 1944; Group War Diary 7 and 17 Jan.
     Page 151: Went down to do the business: Mott author interview. I made three passes: Newkirk "Report." My first run: "Informal Report on A.V.G. Activities" 1942, AFHRC 863.549. Also N.Y. Times 11 Jan. Pages 151-52: The first section, Fired on, Picked out: Newkirk "Report." Felt like hell: Bacon diary. Across the airdrome: Chicago Daily News 12 Jan. You're a lousy: N.Y. Times 11 Jan.
     Page 153: Japanese losses: JDA, Nanpo 576. Tokio radio claims: Chennault papers 45. Status of casualties: Charles Mott letter to author (1986); Chennault papers 6, 18, 43. The more hardships: Chennault papers 38.
     Page 154: The maps were Chinese: Neale Columbia interview. Missing Lashio: J. Richard Rossi author interview 1989. Prior to that: Frances, Ketchil 68.
     Page 155: If you have to fight: Rector author interview. A houseboy would: Neale Columbia interview.
     Pages 155-56: Oh, we used to have etc: Dorothea Dunsmore author interview 1989.
     Pages 156-57: The valley: Robert M. Smith 56. I could go down: Jernstedt author interview. Also, nicest thing etc: Donovan letters 28 Dec 1941, 11 Jan 1942, Pistole collection. Worked all day: Rodewald diary. An abrasive, taciturn: C.H. Laughlin in Foundation Spring 1983.
     Page 158: 5th Hikoshidan: Tanaka monograph; Sato Soichi interview 1949, National Archives, Military Record Branch 319.
     Pages 159-60: Alarm at Mengzi: Group War Diary 13 Jan; 3rd Sq log.
     Page 161: Fairly light colored etc: Shilling's combat report in Chennault papers 38. Manifold pressure: Whitney, Vee's for Victory 124; internet posting by Frank Losonsky, AVG veterans' internet forum 2006 Greenish tan: Chennault papers 38.
     Page 162: JAAF account: Kubo Yoshiaki, Kyunana jubakutai kusanki (Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1984) 52-54; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 73, 132; JDA, Chugoku homen rikugun koku sakusen (Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1974) 273.

9 - They Fell in a Straight Line, pages 163-78

     Page 163: Satellite fields: Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette; Frances, Ketchil 70. Reinforcements: British General Staff, ABDACOM; John Rawlings, Fighter Squadrons of the RAF (London: Macdonald & Jane, 1976) 42-47; Wavell in Supp. London Gazette; Kenneth Hemingway, Wings Over Burma (London: Quality, 1944) 11-12.
     Page 164: Wild elephants: Terakura Shore et al, "Burma Operations Record" (JM 57, 1946). In an endeavour: RAF 113 Sq log; also Group War Diary 19 Jan, Love in S.D. Union.
     Page 165: As the war had progressed: Hattori Takushiro et al, "History of Imperial General Headquarters" (JM 45, 1959). Self & Moss: Chennault papers 38. I was quite incensed: Neale Columbia interview. Also Group War Diary 20 Jan; N.Y. Times 23-24 Jan.
     Page 166: Well, I sure am: Gallagher, Action in the East 142.
     Page 167: Raid on Mingaladon: JDA, Nanpo 587; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai, 132, 202; Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 182; Tanaka, "Burma Air Operations Record".
     Page 168: Like a bunch: Neale Columbia interview. Quelle betise ("What a silly thing!") etc: RAF 17 Sq log, PRO AIR 27/235. Also Rawlings 169; Shores et al, Bloody Shambles I:258-261; M.C. Cotton, Hurricanes Over Burma (Oberon NSW, Australia: Titania, 1988). The squadron is doing: Roger Cooke & Anne Gresham Cooke, Your Uncles (privately printed, 1950?) 94-96. I would spot: Group War Diary 13 Jan. Also Hill & Schaupp 124.
     Page 169: Rodger's photos: Life 30 Mar 1942; Bright in Atlantic. We singled out: Group War Diary.
     Page 170: Down they came: Bacon diary. I caught him: Group War Diary. Christman's death: Rector author interview; Hill Columbia interview. The enemy had: JDA, Nanpo 587. View of Allied military: Tsuji Masanobu, Singapore: The Japanese Version (London: Constable, 1962) appendix.
     Page 171: RAF claim: Shores et al I:261. Two terrific battles: N.Y. Times 24 Jan; Huang report: Group War Diary. Jap casualties: AMISSCA 26 Jan. On first attack: Group War Diary.
     Page 172: Closed on one: Robert Neale diary, Pistole collection. Petrol streamed: 17 Sq log.
     Page 173: They all fell: Hotz, With General Chennault 146. Japanese losses: Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 182; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 133. Sneaked in: Group War Diary; also 17 Sq log. It was the fourth: Dunsmore author interview.
     Page 174: I alternated between: Chennault, Fighter 137. Training CAF cadets: Chennault papers 18, 19, 28; 3rd Sq log. Until British etc: Chennault papers 18.
     Page 175: Combat effectiveness, cannot be inducted: Chennault papers 18. Induction AVG: Secretary's File 38, FDR Library. Chennault is an extraordinary: AMISSCA 28 Jan. Stricken from the rolls: Group War Diary 31 Dec.
     Page 176: Personnel very upset: 3rd Sq log. A few members who: Chennault papers 19. Resignations from AVG personnel records. Good riddance: Greenlaw & Ford 100; also R.T. Smith, Tale of a Tiger 186. Goose hunt and dinner: Greenlaw & Ford 91.
     Page 177: The bombers headed: Group War Diary 22 Jan. Also 3rd Sq log; Group War Diary 24 Jan. French fighters: Group War Diary 27 Jan; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 73.
     Page 178: Bombers of the Chinese: N.Y. Times 23 Jan. Can begin attacks: Chennault papers 19. Hudsons will: Secretary's File 38, FDR Library.

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