10 - Hoffman Down and Dead, pages 179-96
Page 179: Gentle, sweet: Greenlaw & Ford 153. But see Bond & Anderson, Rodewald diary.Page 180: We stood there: Hemingway, Wings Over Burma 121. Also Boyington, Black Sheep 55; George Burgard diary, Pistole collection. The takeoff procedure: Bond & Anderson 82. Also Chennault papers 26. Time was more: Hemingway 69.
Page 181: You don't see anything etc: Robert Prescott Columbia interview. The enemy jumped us: Group War Diary 26 Jan.
Page 182: Out of the whirling: Gallagher, Action in the East 147. I had pulled myself: Boyington 59.
Page 183: My wing man and I: Bright in Atlantic. I was on a Jap's tail: N.Y. Times 30 Jan 1942. Picked up about 20: Neale diary.
Page 184: A short burst and a little straffing: 17 Sq log. Japanese version: JDA, Nanpo 589. Combat with twenty: Group War Diary 26 Jan. Bunny Stone: Hemingway 21.
Page 185: Scale and sequence of raids: AMISSCA 28 Jan 1942. Now we stood: Chicago Daily News 29 Jan 1942. Crushing the enemy: JT&A 16 May 1942.
Page 186: Funeral: Bond & Anderson 85. I, leading red-yellow: Group War Diary 28 Jan. Yamamoto: Tagata Takeo, Hien tai Guramen (Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1973) 118-121.
Page 187: The largest part: Boyington 62. It was taken for granted: Kuwahara Yasuo & Gordon Allred, Kamikaze (New York: Ballentine, 1957) 99. Also Hata & Izawa, Japanese Naval Aces xii. The English general: Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 203 (compare Hata et al, Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces).
Page 188: The planes that we have: Chennault papers 29. When the Japs dived: Bacon diary in N.Y. Sunday News.
Page 189: I missed him etc: Bond & Anderson 86-88. I held my fire: Group War Diary 29 Jan 1942.
Page 190: Undoubtedly badly damaged: Group War Diary 29 Jan 1942. Nagashima: Shores et al, Bloody Shambles I:271; other Japanese losses from JDA, Nanpo 590. Sandell seemed: J Richard Rossi in Foundation Spring 1995. Paced by three: N.Y. Times 30 Jan 1942.
Page 192: We were low: Group War Diary 30 Jan. Spark plug, Roar of the Tiger 122. Group wanted: Bacon in N.Y. Sunday News.
Page 193: In strength and Commonwealth withdrawal: T.J. Hutton in Supp. London Gazette 5 Mar 1948. Japanese offensive: JDA, Nanpo 593-595; Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 183; Hayashi in Shichi jusan butai kaisoki 231. I, being in the back: Keeton diary; Keeton author interview 1989. RAF at Kyedaw: Shores et al I:273; also vol. II: The Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma (London: Grub Street, 1993) 258-259.
Page 194: I never fired: Frances, Ketchil 76. To tide them over: British General Staff, ABDACOM. Newkirk checked out: 17 Sq log.
Page 195: Eighteen Hurricanes lost: Group War Diary 3 Feb. Doom-ba-boom: Wilfred Burchette, Trek Back from Burma (Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1943) 300. I was in a good: Neale diary. In my sights etc: Bond & Anderson 94.
Page 196: Japanese losses and claims: JDA, Nanpo 595. RAF claims: Shores et al II:260-262; Obviously, 263.
11 - Get the Heck Out of Here, pages 197-219
Page 197: Sandell's death: Group War Diary 7 Feb; George Burgard diary; Bond & Anderson 95. The boys had to dig: Wolf & Ingells in Air Trails Pictorial. Out-fly or out-fight: Neale Columbia interview. A well-built fellow: Hemingway, Wings Over Burma 18.Page 198: No one will ever: Neale diary. Petach married: Emma Jane Hanks author interview. Japanese movements: Hayashi in Shichi jusan butai kaisoki 48; Kubo, Kyunana jubakutai kusanki 61. Sixteen planes: Group War Diary 9 Feb.
Page 199: And acted like rich kids: Burgard diary. Also Bond & Anderson 98-102; Hemingway 54. Reynolds jailed: Neale diary. Looters shot: Burchette, Trek Back from Burma 156. I spent every day: Frillmann, China 114.
Page 200: So much stuff: Burgard diary. Also Bond & Anderson 102; Howard ch. 10. With 'AVG': Burchette 156. Harry Fox: Rodewald diary. We don't mind: Burchette 275. Also Bond & Anderson 99.
Page 201: We sipped at another: Hemingway 85; snapper 50.
Page 202: Fighting with proper: S.W. Kirby, India's Most Dangerous Hour (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1958) 81. They were on our tails: Cross in Mechanix Illustrated. We were below: Burgard diary. Also Group War Diary 21 Feb; JDA, Nanpo 600.
Page 203: For the first time: Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette. I was eager and I headed north: Bond & Anderson 104-106. Straffed a Jap: Neale diary. Falling into single: Group War Diary 21 Feb. 160 dead: Rodewald diary; numerous: Kirby 67.
Page 204: Ambushed: Hutton in Supp. London Gazette.
Page 205: Here there was chaos: Kirby 68. Ready to defend: Hutton. Abandoning Rangoon: British General Staff, ABDACOM; Stevenson; Hemingway 59-61; Group War Diary 23 Feb; Burgard diary; Thomas Hughes, The Burma Campaign (Lahor: privately printed, 1943) 6-7. Remembering previous British etc: AMISSCA 27 Feb, 6 Mar, 19 May.
Page 206: Chaos in Rangoon: Burchette 156; Neale author interview; Frillmann 114-115. Ground crews to India: 17 Sq log. An awful aeroplane: Frances, Ketchil 81.
Page 207: Are in an almost unflyable: Group War Diary 24 Feb. It's hot in Rangoon: N.Y. Times 26 Feb. All day long: Chicago Daily News 13 Mar. Crossing the Sittang: Toho Motion Picture Company, Biruma (undated) supplied by John Fredrikesen.
Page 208: Thick as ants: N.Y. Times 25 Feb. There were horses: Hemingway 40-41. Japanese attack plan: JDA, Nanpo 600; Shokis at Moulmein 602. Accompanied by a pair: Shores et al, Bloody Shambles II:274-275.
Page 209: Sally destroyed: Kubo, Kyunana jubakutai kusanki 66. A hazy day: Boyington 61. This was the most dangerous: Kuroe Yasuhiko, Aa Hayabusa sentotai (Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1969) 126-128. I attacked: Shores et al II:276.
Page 210: Japanese formations: JDA, Nanpo 602; Group War Diary 25 Feb. Damn well protected: Neale diary. About sixty enemy: JT&A 1 Apr ("crushing" in the original).
Page 211: Leibolt missing: Group War Diary 25-26 Feb. Look at that formation etc: Rodewald diary. Since we are already: Richard Rossi letter to author 1990. We left the two planes: Rosbert, Flying Tiger Joe 81.
Page 212: RAF attack: Shores et al II:279-280. Japs can't hit etc: Perry author interview. Makino injured: Hata et al, Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units 34, 143.
Page 213: Noon combat: Bond & Anderson 114; Group War Diary; Neale diary; Chennault papers 38. Allied and Japanese claims: N.Y. Times 27-28 Feb.
Pages 213-15: Christopher Shores addressed the contentious subject of the Moulmein strafes in the second volume of Bloody Shambles 279-282. My interview with Vic Bargh is posted at the Annals of the Flying Tigers. Hedley Everard's implausible claims appear in A Mouse in My Pocket: Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot (Picton, Ontario: privately printed, no date), pages 170, 183. A dark blue: Shores et al 354. Stories of the AVG's acquiring victories from the RAF have repeated from time to time, by Michel Peissel, Tiger for Breakfast: The Story of Boris of Kathmandu (Dutton, 1966), and by John Fischer, "War as Theater of the Absurd," Harper's Magazine (I have been unable to determine the date of this essay). See the Annals of the Flying Tigers.
Page 215: RAF withdrawal: British General Staff, ABDACOM; Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette. I say, Neale: Hotz, With General Chennault 174. Let's get the heck: Neale Columbia interview.
Pages 216-17: Magwe: Bond & Anderson 120; Burgard diary.
Page 217: Waiting for Leibolt: Neale author interview.
Page 218-19: Abandonment and capture of Rangoon: Hughes, The Burma Campaign 7; Terakura, "Burma Operations Record"; Young, China and the Helping Hand 242. Although air fighting: Stevenson in Suppl. London Gazette.
