12 - Did You Have Any Warning?, pages 220-38
Page 221: Epithets: Joseph Stilwell & Theodore White, The Stilwell Papers (New York.: Sloan, 1948) and Schaller, U.S. Crusade in China, passim. Bissell over all: AMISSCA 4 Feb. Personally am willing: Chennault papers 19. I spoke for Bissell etc: Stilwell & White 39. Arnold is of opinion: Samson, Chennault 118.Page 222:Arnold and Stillwell insist and Groco told me: Secretary's File 38, FDR Library. Supplies and spares: Chennault papers 8, 28, 52. Sue Upfill: An American in Burma 202. Our new ships etc: R.T. Smith, Tale of a Tiger 231-232; 3rd Sq log; Chennault papers 52.
Page 223: A tired etc: Stilwell & White 48; Life 30 Mar; AMISSCA 5 Mar; "Chronology of 10th Air Force," AFHRC 105.2-10. General Issimo: 3rd Sq log.
Page 224: She absolutely captured: Donovan letter 1 Mar, Pistole collection. Madame gushed: Bright in Atlantic. Also Boyington, Black Sheep 79; Greenlaw & Ford 116-122.
Page 225:Had a talk: Stilwell & White 49-50; Frank Dorn, Walkout (New York: Crowell, 1971) 31; AMISSCA 4 Mar. Escorting the Chiangs: Bond & Anderson 122; Keeton diary; Group War Diary 5 Mar; 3rd Sq log; Boyington 80-88; Losonsky, Flying Tiger 86-87. Chongqing conference and Believe Chennault matter: AMISSCA 5 Mar, 7 Mar.
Page 226: CAF commissions: Group War Diary 11 Mar. The paperwork war in AMISSCA: promotions 4, 13, 15, 19 Mar; Strongly recommend 21 Mar; majors, captains, typewriter ribbons 26-27 Mar; only air officer 26 Mar.
Page 227: Lonberg: Robert M. Smith 71; Greenlaw & Ford 134; Reynolds author interview. Uniform regulations: Chennault papers 25. Magwe: Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette; Philip Moyes, Bomber Squadrons of the RAF (London: Macdonald & Jane, 1974) 157; Rawlings, Fighter Squadrons 47, 169, 275; A.J. Young & D.W. Warne, Sixty Squadron (Singapore: privately printed) 142; Group War Diary 15 Mar. Retreat of 17 Sq: Hemingway, Wings Over Burma 113; JDA, Nanpo 608; Shores et al, Bloody Shambles II:345. 67 Sq withdrawn: Rawlings 169; Bond & Anderson 125.
Page 228: B-17s: "Chronology of 10th Air Force." Somewhere in Burma: N.Y. Times 8 Mar.
Page 229: Tomahawks crashed: Chennault papers 17. We go swimming: 3rd Sq log.
Page 230: AVG equipment: AMISSCA 18 Mar. It was sitting etc: Jernstedt author interview.
Page 231: Incendiaries: Baisden, Flying Tiger to Air Commando 50, 54. I missed the hangar: combat report in Pistole collection. JAAF losses: Shores et al, Bloody Shambles II:350. These pilots will: 3rd Sq log.
Page 232: Japanese deployments: JDA, Nanpo 693-697; Izawa in Aero Album; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 25, 48, 124, 133, 176; Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 183. Ishikawa: Hata et al, Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units 50, 143; Shores et all II:347.
Page 233: Extraordinary concentration: Air Ministry, Wings of the Phoenix (London: HMSO, 1949) 9. We are prepared: 3rd Sq log.
Page 234: A magnificent: Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette. Descending in a dive etc: Shores et al II:350-352. Japanese account: JDA, Nanpo 698-701; Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 183.
Page 235: Bandits from the southeast: Hemingway, Wings Over Burma 149. After the third: Dupouy combat report, Pistole collection; Dupouy author interview; R.T. Smith, Tale of a Tiger 257.
Page 236: Wherever I looked: Hemingway 157.
Page 237: I got behind: Groh combat report, Pistole collection. Also Izawa & Hata 48. He came in fast: Wolf & Ingells in Air Trails Pictorial.
Page 238: Largest air battle: JT&A 12 May. Look out: Group War Diary 21 Mar.
13 - Like a Movie Only Better, pages 239-54
Page 239: Fauth promoted: Chennault papers 18. Considerable damage: Stevenson in Supp. London Gazette.Page 240: Absolutely no warning: Group War Diary 22 Mar. Evacuation: 3rd Sq log; Hemingway, Wings Over Burma 162; Shores et al, Bloody Shambles II:355-356. Japanese claims: Tanaka, "Burma Air Operations Record"; Sekigawa Eiichiro, Pictorial History of Japanese Military Aviation (London: Allan, 1974) 120.
Page 241: Bronchitis and mission planning: Chennault, Fighter 147-148. Jap Air Force headquarters: Bond & Anderson 130. Newkirk foreboding: Hill & Schaupp 140.
Page 242: Loiwing: Rodewald and Neale diaries; Greenlaw & Ford 190-191. They almost scared: Keeton diary.
Page 243: After tomorrow: Boyington, Black Sheep 98. Here goes nothing: Neale diary. All right, you curly-headed: Bond & Anderson 132.
Page 244: The next target: Geselbracht combat report, Pistole collection. As I pulled up: Keeton diary. Also Group War Diary 24 Mar. I nosed downward: Bond & Anderson 134.
Page 245: Japanese taking off: Yasuda Yoshito in Eiko Hayabusa sentai (Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1978) 140, 170. The aircraft: Boyington combat report, AVG archives. Heaviest I have ever: Neale diary; two of them: Group War Diary. I circled back: Rector combat report, AVG archives. Soon we were: Bond & Anderson 137.
Page 246: U.S. Fliers etc: N.Y. Times 25 Mar. Destroyed most of: Schultz, The Maverick War 224. In an unusually clear example of how the AVG legend grew exponentially over the years, Schultz is inflating Chennault's account in Fighter 148. (Frank Olynyk's victory list, which is otherwise reliable, wrongly shows the six pilots credited with destroying 15 bombers at Chiang Mai.) Actual damage and Akyab attack: JDA, Nanpo 698, 703; Shores et al, Bloody Shambles II:357-358. Secret runway: Hinoki Yohei, Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato 240-241. Raids on Heho etc: Izawa, Nihon rikugun jubakutai 183; JDA, Nanpo 707.
Page 247: McGarry as prisoner: Hinoki, Hayabusa 244; Hinoki letter to author 1989; Robert Andrade interview 1989; U.S. Embassy memo 22 Apr 1943, Chennault papers 39. Suggest repaired: Chennault papers 8. Special missions: Group War Diary 24 Mar.
Page 248: All of the technical: 3rd Sq log. Kittyhawks arrived: Chennault papers 52.
Page 249: We're all against and Oley sighted: R.T. Smith, Tale of a Tiger 260, 263. Boyington crash: Bruce Gamble, Black Sheep One (Novato CA: Presidio, 2000) 198; Leo Schramm, Leo the Tiger: True Stories About the Flying Tigers From World War II (Green Shields, 1998).
Page 250: Wedding: Boyington 107; Jernstedt author interview; Greenlaw & Ford 195. Full of whiskey, etc; Gamble 199. Searching for AVG: Hinoki, Tsubasa no kessen 64-66. The excellent warning: Hemingway 185; also RAF 113 Sq log.
Page 251: Fifteen small planes: JDA, Nanpo 714. 64th Sentai to Loiwing: Hinoki, Hayabusa 250-251.
Page 252: Many ships headed, Japs strafing, It was the most thrilling: R.T. Smith 271. He rolled over: Olson combat report, Pistole collection. Never have I been: John Donovan letter 9 Apr; also his combat report in Group War Diary. I kept firing and I opened all guns: Groh and Hodges combat reports, Pistole collection.
Page 253: Hayabusa armament, It started smoking, and I fired from: Laughlin, Wolfe, and Overend combat reports, Pistole collection. Three wrecks near field: Donovan letter 9 Apr.
Page 254: Japanese pilots lost: Hinoki, Tusbasa 309; Izawa in Aero Album; Izawa & Hata, Nihon rikugun sentokitai 320; JDA, Nanpo 714. There was nothing: Hinoki, Hayabusa 254-255. Why were two: Group War Diary (8 Apr).
