* Langer, World War II, p. 30. Quoting from the book, “…And Pass the Ammunition,” by Howell M. Forgy.
1. The Armed Forces Officer, p. 6.
2. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 25.
3. Ibid., 272.
4. Mary Gardiner Brainard, American poet, 1860.
5. C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
6. Matthew 6:34
7. King George VI Christmas Day broadcast, www.royal.gov.uk. The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins in 1908 and was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
8. Jenkins, Churchill, 592.
9. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.
10. Ibid.
11. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 145.
12. Ibid., 167.
13. Ibid., 111.
14. Ibid., 72.
15. Ibid., 112.
16. Ibid., 272.
17. Winters, Battling the Elements, 23.
18. Suze Bond, “Leaving Dunkirk: My Father’s Diary Account,” www.bbc.co.uk
19. Bill Towey, “The Luck of the Draw,” www.bbc.co.uk.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, 54.
23. T. J. Spiers, “Shot Down Over Dunkirk 28 May 1940,” www.bbc.co.uk.
24. Paul Davey, “Falling Back to Dunkirk,” www.bbc.co.uk.
25. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.
26. Harris, Dunkirk, 151.
27. Ibid.
28. From a sermon by Rev. Ken Streitenberger, Epworth UMC., www. epworth.com
29. “The War of a Green Howard, Bill Cheall’s Story,” www.greenhowards.org.uk.
30. John Beard, quoted in the “The Battle of Britain, 1940,” Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.
31. Ibid.
32. Godefroy, Lucky Thirteen, 61.
33. Ibid., 132.
34. Kathleen Rainer, “Downed Pilots in Sussex,” www.bbc.co.uk.
35. www.battleofbritain1940.net.
36. John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight.” www.skygod.com.
37. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster,” January 28, 1986, www.reaganlibrry.com.
38. Sheila Delaney, “A Miraculous Escape,” Time Witnesses . www.timewitnesses.org.
39. Dennis Robinson, “Shot Down in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.
40. Ibid.
41. Norman English, “A Child in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.
42. Sermon paraphrased by J. Brock in an article at www.sartma.com.
43. Ellen Batten, as told to Elizabeth Perez, “The Faith of a Child-Light in Darkness,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
44. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org
45. www.archives.gov.
46. www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
47. Time magazine, Dec. 15, 1941, “What the People Said,” www.time.com.
48. National Park Service Memorial to USS Arizona . www.nps.gov/usar.
49. Ibid.
50. Starting Point Bible, article on “Courage,” 1567.
51. Article by Ken James at christiananswers.net
52. Roger Hare, “An Angel Sent By History,” Navy Anecdotes, www.geocities.com/oralbio/harestory1.html.
53. From Henry Lauchenmayer’s diary, quoted in a New York Times article of 6 December 1998, by Irvin Molotsky.
54. Article by Carl Zebrowski, America in WWII Magazine, December 2006. www.americainwwii.com
55. National Park Service Memorial, USS Arizona, www.nps.gov/usar.
56. Ibid.
57. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
58. Oral history excerpt, www.history.navy.mil
59. William G. Farrow, 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, www.arlingtoncemetery.net.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Jacob DeShazer, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” www.georgiasouthern.edu.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Prange, God’s Samurai, 187, 190.
66. Ibid., 200–204.
67. Ibid.
68. Fuchida, “From Pearl Harbor to Calvary,” www.biblebelievers.com.
69. Mike McLaughlin, “The Miracle Before Midway,” www.amvetsww2.org.
70. Oral History, Battle of Midway. Recollections of Commander John Ford, USNR. www.history.navy.mil.
71. www.history.navy.mil.
72. Ibid.
73. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854 memorializing the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.
74. www.history.navy.mil
75. Ibid.
76. Oral History, Battle of Midway. www.history.navt.mil. Lt. Pollard later saw this man in the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, on his way to recovery.
77. Actually the destroyer Arashi, detached from the carrier force earlier to prosecute a submarine contact.
78. Account of Lt. Cdr. Wade McClusky, Battle of Midway, www.cv6.org.
79. Ibid.
80. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, 7.
81. Morison, The Two-Ocean War, 24–25.
82. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 541. Quoting Churchill from The Second World War.
83. Morison, The Two-Ocean War, 204.
84. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 129.
85. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
86. Eternal Father is a hymn found in Protestant hymnals, written by Rev. William Whiting in 1861. In America, it is often called the Navy Hymn, and was played at the funerals of President Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
87. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
88. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 17.
89. “Naval Armed Guard Service in WWII,” www.history.navy.mil.
90. Report of Engagement, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Patrol Wing 8, Squadron 82, 30 January 1942. (Postwar records failed to confirm this sinking. However, Mason did destroy U-503 on 15 March, for which he was promoted and awarded a second Distinguished Flying Cross.)
91. “Famous Navy Quotes,” www.history.navy.mil
92. “Halcyon Class Minesweepers and Survey Ships of WW II.” www.halcyon-class.co.uk.
93. Alexander Rothney, “To Murmansk and Back on the SS Atlantic, ” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
94. Bruce Felknor, “The Sinking of the Esso Tanker T. C. McCobb,” www.usmm.org.
95. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 118–20.
96. White, Bitter Ocean, and Glenn Tunney, “Four Chaplains’ Sacrifice Should Inspire All Generations,” http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com.
97. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 33–35.
98. “Attack on an Artic Convoy, 1942,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)
99. “Whistles over the Water,” by George Hirsch, in memory of his father, Paul Hirsch, www.armed-guard.com.
100. “Jottings,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 30, Jan. 1, 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
101. “Survival, The Arctic,” by Ronald Healiss, quoted by Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 114. Healiss was one of thirty-nine who survived this tragedy (www.warship.org).
102. “One More Round,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 8, 4 July 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
103. “Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942,” Eyewitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
104. Marion Hunt, “Marion’s Story, I Am Evacuated to America,”http://www.timewitnesses.org.
105. Written by John Ellerton. Details of the funeral from an article by Douglas Cornell in Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 452–53.
106. Nineteenth century hymn by Sarah Adams, Edward Bickersteth, and Lowell Mason.
107. “Dad’s Advice,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 10, 2 August 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
108. A. H. Archer, “The Death of a Minesweeper,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
109. Sam Hakam, “Sinking of the SS Lehigh, ” American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org.
110. Westminster Shorter Catechism, www.reformed.org.
111. Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington ‘for the good of the ship and the service.’
112. “Torpedoed in the Arctic,” The Mast Magazine, February 1945, American Merchant Marine in World War 2, www.usmm.org.
113. Ibid.
114. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
115. George X. Hurley, “Saga of the Murmansk Run,” www.armed-guard.com. Used by permission.
116. Ibid. Used by permission.
117. “The Best Solvent,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
118. Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea, 101.
119. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 153–154. Quoting Alan Moorehead.
120. Ibid., 159.
121. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 70.
122. Ibid., 69.
123. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 404–5.
124. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 174.
125. www.originofnations.org.
126. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 193.
127. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, “The President’s Prayer,” 7.
128. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 59. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
129. Ibid., 136.
130. Ibid., 138.
131. Ibid., 119. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
132. Ronald Reagan quote, March 30, 1981, The American Experience, www.pbs.org.
133. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 101–2.
134. Philip Massinger, A Very Woman, Act V, Sc. 4.
135. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 159. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
136. Peter Andrews, “A Place to Be Lousy In,” American Heritage Magazine, www.americanheritage.com.
137. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 262.
138. Ibid., 335.
139. Sperry, Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time, 25.
140. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 6. Used by permission.
141. North, War Stories III, 88.
142. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 293.
143. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 688. June 30, 1943, remarks to the Guildhall.
144. “The War of a Green Howard, 1939–1945. Bill Cheall’s Story,” The Green Howards Regimental History, www.greenhowards.org.uk.
145. Hoyt, The GI’s War, 182.
146. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 396–97.
147. Time Magazine, “A Matter of Days,” August 9, 1943, www.time.com.
148. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 259.
149. Kenneth T. Downs, “Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 17, 1946.
150. Ibid.
151. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, p. 91.2b
152. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 162–67.
153. O God, Our Help in Ages Past, by Isaac Watts, 1719. Sung at the funeral of Winston Churchill, 1965.
154. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 166.
155. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 411.
156. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 152.
157. Chaplain A. M. Sherman, Jr., Religion and Ethics Newsletter, May 28, 2004, www.pbs.org. Excerpt from National Cathedral’s exhibition, “Faith and Courage: U. S. Chaplains Service in World War II.”
158. Hoyt, The GI’s War, 202.
159. “Ernie Pyle,” Indiana Historical Society, www.indianahistory.org.
160. Ibid.
161. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 207–8.
162. Costello, The Pacific War, 382.
163. Rose, Evidence Not Seen, 41. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
164. Ibid.
165. Glenn Frazier, “Ex-POW Biography,” American Ex-Prisoners of War, www.axpow.org.
166. Schultz, The Last Battle Station, 71.
167. www.rentz.navy.mil
168. Ibid.
169. poem by Lloyd Willey, www.rentz.navy.mil.
170. Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, June 2, 2004, www.washingtonpost.com.
171. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 296–298.
172. Felber, The Old Breed of Marine, 3–4.
173. Mason, The Pacific War Remembered, 131.
174. Ibid., 138–39.
175. Ibid., 136.
176. Davis, Marine!, 121.
177. Ibid., 201.
178. Ibid.
179. www.arlingtoncemetery.net, search “Basilone.”
180. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 85.
181. Medal of Honor citation, Douglas Albert Munro, www.uscg.mil/history.
182. James Quann, “A World War Hero from Cle Elum,” Columbia Magazine, Fall 2000, Vol. 14, No. 3.
183. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 11–12.
184. Ibid.
185. Ibid., 10–11.
186. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
187. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 3–5.
188. Miller, The Story of World War II, 156.
189. Ibid., 157, quoting Gen. Robert Eichelberger.
190. Ibid., 158.
191. Rear Adm. Robert G. Mills, USN (Ret.), “The Parson’s Bible,” U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, www.usna.com.
192. Ibid.
193. From 1001 Great Stories and Quotes by R. Kent Hughes, ed., p. 234–235. Quoting Cmdr. Eric J. Berryman.
194. Ibid.
195. www.medalofhonor.com.
196. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 43.
197. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 156–57.
198. Snaddon, Through the Valley of the Shadow.
199. Ibid.
200. Ibid.
201. Ibid.
202. Mason, The Pacific War Remembered, 196.
203. Zamperini, Devil at My Heels, 84–85. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
204. Ibid., 98.
205. Ibid., 123.
206. Ibid., 242–43.
207. Gehring, Child of Miracles, 15–32.
208. Ibid.
209. Ibid.
210. Ibid., 261.
211. Ibid.
212. Ibid., 298–99.
213. Napoleon, www.bartleby.com.
214. Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao, 139.
215. “Mosta Dome,” Location Malta, www.locationmalta.com.
216. North, War Stories III, 102.
217. Ibid., 105.
218. Quotes from article by Stephen P. Weaver, NAS Sigonella Public Affairs, “Heroism During World War II Remembered at Ponte Dirillo,” July 14, 2004, www.navy.mil.
219. North, War Stories III, 123.
220. Al Karr, “Exhibit Honors World War II’s Chaplains,” Episcopal Diocese of Washington, www.edow.org.
221. Ibid.
222. Ibid.
223. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 45–46.
224. Stan Scislowsiki, “Church Service at the Front,” WW2 Peoples War, www.bbc.co.uk.
225. Abide with Me, Henry Lyte and William Monk, 1847. Five of eight stanzas. Written as Lyte was dying of tuberculosis.
226. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “Frank’s Military Career WWII,” by Frank C. Palilla, www.atlas.illinois.edu.
227. A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors.
228. Robert G. Saxton, “Knocking a Bomb Out in the Italian Skies,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
229. George Graves, “Somewhere in Italy,” http://thedropzone.org.
230. Kathy Burd, “I’ve Been Blessed- A Legacy,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
231. Ibid.
232. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 438, quoting an article by Ernie Pyle.
233. Ibid.
234. Richard J. Ternyey, “My Mule and Me,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
235. Ibid.
236. Carroll, Grace Under Fire, 43.
237. Ibid., 44–45.
238. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “From Coal Hole to Fox Hole to Easy Street,” by Kathleen Filer, excerpted from James Coyle’s atlas.illinois.edu.
239. Rudyard Kipling, “If…”
240. North, War Stories III, 124.
241. Robert Appel, “A Soldier’s Last Days of Combat on the Anzio Beachhead,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
242. Ibid.
243. “War Letters,” American Experience, www.pbs.org. and “World War II Letters Home,” The Free Library, www.thefreelibrary.com.
244. North, War Stories III, 128.
245. Steve Fry, “WWII Mystery Solved; Brother Finally Home,” Topeka Capital-Journal, June 21, 2007.
246. Sperry , Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time, 3.
247. Vaughn Gordy, “Shaken but Grateful,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
248. Ibid.
249. Ibid.
250. C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
251. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “The War for Me,” by Albert Thomas, atlas.illinois.edu.
252. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 12, quoting Rev. Parker Thompson, Wallace Hale Eulogy, March 11, 2007. Used by permission.
253. Wallace Hale, from the foreword to Battle Rattle, www.milhist.net.
254. Copyright 1939 by Irving Berlin, www.scoutsongs.com. Berlin dedicated royalties to the God Bless America fund for the Boy and Girl Scouts of the USA.
255. Ibid.
256. Charles M. Province, The Unknown Patton, CMP Productions (Electronic Version, 1998, “The Slapping Incident,” www.pattonhq.com.
257. Miller, The Story of World War II, 216.
258. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, p. 23.
259. 1 Chronicles 19:13 (KJV)
260. Ibid.
261. Inscription over the entrance to Summerall Chapel, The Citadel.
262. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 20–21.
263. “Question Mark,” Journal of the Air Force Association, March 2003, www.afa.org.
264. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 415.
265. “Misery and Teamwork Over Misburg, 26 November 1944,” by Frank Federici and Lt. Col. Vincent Mazza, ret., www.445thbomb-group.com.
266. O’Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, 57.
267. Ibid., 69.
268. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 322–323.
269. O’Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, 70. Statement of Bud Klint.
270. Ibid., 101.
271. E. T. McMullen, “Aspects of Air Power in WWII, Including Bert Ramsey, E. L. McMullen, and Others,” memorial and dedication service for Lt. Bert H. Ramsey Jr., Nov. 25, 1945, author of poem unknown, http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu.
272. Ibid.
273. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 361–62.
274. O’Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, 59–60.
275. Ibid.
276. North, War Stories III, 147.
277. Ibid., 148–49.
278. Starting Point Study Bible, “Commit,” 1564.
279. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 73.
280. Ibid., 103.
281. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 95.
282. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 398.
283. John Frisbee, “Into the Mouth of Hell,” Journal of the Air Force Association, September 1988, www.afa.org.
284. North, War Stories III, 157.
285. S. Clayton Moore quoting McGovern in “The Outspoken American,” Airport Journals, May 2006.
286. Ibid.
287. George McGovern, “The Reason Why,” The Nation, April 21, 2003, www.thenation.com.
288. Edward A. Brandt, My Life as I Care to Remember It. Used by permission.
289. Ruben G. Bork, My Last Combat Mission, Quentin C. Anderson, http://pages.prodigy.net/rebeljack/Bork.html.
290. Art Kramer’s WWII Stories,“The Pilot Who Wouldn’t Fly,” www.coastcomp.com/artkramer.
291. “Hitting the Deck at Karlruhe, Germany,” by Frank W. Federici, www.445thbomb-group.com.
292. Ibid.
293. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 325–26.
294. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 93–94.
295. Australians in the Pacific War, Pilot Officer Peter Gibbes, 6.
296. Ibid.
297. The “chaplain” of this story is Francis Spellman, the Archbishop of New York. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1946. This story and the quotes are from his 1944 classic, The Risen Soldier .
298. Ibid.
299. Ibid.
300. Ibid.
301. Astor, The Mighty Eighth, 247.
302. Ibid., 502–3.
303. Ibid., 321–22.
304. Ibid.
305. Miller, The Story of World War II, 261.
306. Ibid.
307. www.nps.gov.
308. “ Liberty Ships: An Overview, ” www.fiu.edu.
309. From sermons by Bill Hayes ( http://revbill.wordpess.com) and Norman Lao (http://jlrcm2008.wordpress.com).
310. Central Illinois World War II Stories, “On the Homefront,” by Capri East, atlas.illinois.edu.
311. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 32.
312. North, War Stories III, 194–97.
313. Ibid.
314. Greene, Once Upon a Town, 33.
315. Tobin, Ernie Pyle’s War, 100.
316. Ibid.
317. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 58–59.
318. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 157.
319. Ferguson, The Edge .
320. Ibid.
321. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 67–69.
322. Ibid., 70.
323. Chaplain (Capt.) William W. Edel, U.S. Navy, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book.
324. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 251–52.
325. Ibid., 115.
326. A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors.
327. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 55–56.
328. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 84–85.
329. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 332.
330. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 76–77.
331. Dabbs, World War II Shared Memories, 77–78.
332. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 57.
333. Robert Browning, Prospice, written in 1861, months after his wife’s death.
334. Spellman, The Risen Soldier, 38–39.
335. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 97–98.
336. Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.
337. Ibid.
338. Jerry Oncken, “Orange Juice Kiss,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
339. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 237.
340. Ibid., 56.
341. Ibid.
342. Ibid., 138.
343. Popular song of WW I, written by Lena Ford and Ivor Novello.
344. Lifoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 233–34. Letter from the MacArthur Memorial Archives and Library, Norfolk, VA. Record Group 3, SW Pac Area, CIC Correspondence. Reprinted by Litoff with permission.
345. H. Smith Shumway, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com
346. Ibid.
347. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains, 71, quoting Robert Sherrod, www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.
348. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 19. Used by permission.
349. From “What Are We Fighting For?” by Samuel Shoemaker, quoted by Steven Gertz, “Christianity History Corner: Just War, Just Nation?” Oct. 1, 2002, www.christianitytoday.com.
350. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 772.
351. Remarks by Secretary of the Navy The Honorable Gordon R. England at the 1st Marine Division Annual Memorial, Washington, DC, 13 August 2004, www.navy.mil.
352. Ibid.
353. Rose, Evidence Not Seen, 57. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
354. Ibid.
355. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 41–42.
356. Richard Bruce Watkins, Capt. USMCR (ret), “Brothers in Battle,” http://brothersinbattle.net.
357. Ibid.
358. Ibid.
359. Costello, Our Sunday Visitor, 354.
360. Ibid.
361. www.arlingtoncemetery.com, “Chaplains Hill and Three Monuments.”
362. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains, 201–2. www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.
363. Ibid.
364. U.S. Air Force Military Biographies, http://findarticles.com.
365. Hanson R. Boney, “Chaplain POWs in the Pacific Theater,” US Army Chaplain Center and School, www.usachcs.army.mil.
366. Ibid.
367. Mohri, Rainbow over Hell, 128.
368. Ibid., 129.
369. Ibid.
370. Ibid.
371. Ibid.
372. Medal of Honor Citation, Fred Faulkner Lester, Medical Corpsman, 1st Battalion, 22nd Marines, http://22dmarines.org.
373. Richard Bruce Watkins, Capt. USMCR (ret), “Brothers in Battle,” http://brothersinbattle.net.
374. Yazmin Lazcano, “Carlos Carrillo Quintana,” U.S. Latino and Latina World War II History Project, www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos.
375. Marine Corps History and Museums Division, Marines in World War II Commemorative Series, “Navy Chaplains,” www.nps.gov.
376. Ibid.
377. Ibid.
378. “A Hero and His Everlasting Love,” by James Adcock, as told to his daughter Nancy White, Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.edu.
379. Ibid.
380. Ibid.
381. Medal of Honor citation, Major Gregory Boyington, USMCR, www.pappyboyingtonfield.com.
382. Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, www.medalofhonor.com.
383. Ibid., quoting from Boyington’s book, Baa Baa Black Sheep .
384. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains, 188–89. www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.
385. Eunice Kim, “WWII Vet Honored for his Service, Faith,” The Statesman Journal, March 30, 2008, www.statesmanjournal.com.
386. Ibid.
387. Words and music by James Black, 1893.
388. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, 22, 36–37.
389. Ibid., 150.
390. Ibid., 406.
391. Ibid., 269.
392. Ibid., 425.
393. Ibid., 426–27.
394. Faith Magazine, quoting Lewis L. Haynes article in Saturday Evening Post, August 6, 1955, www.catholicmil.org, search “conway.”
395. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker, 316
396. Ibid., 318. The group was rescued on November 13, 1942, after twenty-four days at sea. Seven of the eight survived.
397. Ibid., 243.
398. Ibid., 7–8.
399. From an article by Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press, “WWII Pilot Repaid Village That Saved His Life,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 2008, www.sfgate.com.
400. Ibid.
401. Ernie Pyle, www.ussconklin.org.
402. Timeline, 6/5/45, www.ussconklin.org., and “The Story of Frederick Morris and Clifford Farr of the USS Conklin in the Typhoon of June 1945,” Destroyer Escort Sailors Association, www. desausa.org.
403. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 768.
404. Miller, The Story of World War II, 372.
405. “World War II Famous Quotes,” from J. D. Potter, Admiral of the Pacific, http://members.aol.com/forcountry/ww2/quo.htm.
406. Snaddon, Through the Valley of the Shadow.
407. Ibid.
408. Ibid.
409. Directive for Operation Overlord, Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 605.
410. Lewis, D-Day, 38–39, quoting Alan Moorehead.
411. Ibid.
412. www.army.mil.
413. Bob Benvenuto, “I Join the Navy—The Reality & the Realization,” Http://members.aol.com/famjustin/LST7.html.
414. Lewis, D-Day, 60–61.
415. Abide with Me, Henry Lyte and William Monk, 1847. Four of eight stanzas. Written as Lyte was dying of tuberculosis.
416. Elson, 9 Lives, 68. Used by permission.
417. Leslie Palmer Cruise, Jr., Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com
418. Ibid.
419. Lewis, D-Day, 66.
420. Ward Smith, “I Saw Them Jump to Destiny,” BBC, “News of the World,” www.6juin1944.com.
421. Malcolm Brennen, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
422. Ibid. Excerpts from Trees, by Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918).
423. Marie-T Lavieille, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
424. William E. Smith (the son of Lt. Smith), “D-Day on Omaha from the Eyes of a Forward Observer,” Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
425. Ibid.
426. Langer, World War II, 211.
427. Elson, 9 Lives, 72–74. Used by permission.
428. James H. Jordan, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
429. Ibid.
430. Harley A. Reynolds, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
431. Ibid.
432. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858–1901), “Be Strong.”
433. Story of John Burkhalter, www.highrock.com/JohnGBurkhalter/d-day.html.
434. A nineteenth century hymn by George Duffield and George Webb.
435. Quoting an article by Ernie Pyle in the Stars and Stripes newspaper, June 1944.
436. Story of John Burkhalter, www.highrock.com/JohnGBurkhalter/d-day.html.
437. Distinguished Service Cross Citation, Capt. Joseph T. Dawson, www.homeofheroes.com.
438. Lewis, D-Day, 282.
439. Ibid., 284.
440. George A. Davison, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
441. Ibid.
442. Albert J. Berard, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.
443. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 50–51.
444. “The Little Pocket Bible,” by Dianne Smart, Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu. The Bible is now on display in the D-Day Museum on Utah Beach in France.
445. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 46–47.
446. Quentin C. Anderson, A Fighter Pilot’s Story, The Face of War, http://prodigy.com/fighterpilot.
447. Ibid.
448. Myron Eberle, “World War II Stories: The Hand of God?” LeadershipU, www.leaderu.com.
449. Ibid.
450. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 45–46.
451. Ibid.
452. Onward, Christian Soldiers, 1865, selected verses, words by Sabine Baring-Gould, music by Arthur S. Sullivan.
453. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord, 15.
454. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 613.
455. www.archives.gov/education/lessons/d-day-message.
456. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Ranger Monument,” www.reaganfoundation.org.
457. German Surrender Documents, www.seattleu.edu.
458. Bonhoeffer, Ethics, 355–57.
459. Ibid., 15.
460. Ibid.
461. Ibid.
462. Ibid.
463. Ibid., 112, quoted by James Dobson, “A Day of Prayer that Changed History,” May 2000, www.focusonthefamily .com.
464. Ibid.
465. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 62–63.
466. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 448.
467. “The Story of the Prayer,” by Msgr. James H. O’Neill, www.pattonhq.com
468. Ibid.
469. Ibid.
470. Patrick O’Donnell, “Night Raid,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.
471. Elson, 9 Lives, 24–26. Used by permission.
472. Ibid., 29.
473. Letter written by Francis E. R. Ambler in May 1943, Peoples War, www.bbc.co.uk.
474. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865.
475. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 420–24. Unfortunately, that relief would never come. By the 26th of September 1944, only 2,400 of 9,000 British paratroopers would make it back to friendly lines.
476. Prayer of St. Francis of Sales, Elson, 9 Lives, 59. Used by permission. Corrected version from www.catholic.org.
477. “The Story of the Prayer,” by Msgr. James H. O’Neill, www.pattonhq.com. Article includes these notes: “From the Review of the News 6 October 1971. This article appeared as a government document in 1950. At the time it appeared in the Review of the News, Msgr. O’Neill was a retired Brigadier General living in Pueblo, Colorado.”
478. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains, 149, www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.
479. Ibid.
480. Charles Ziers, “A Purple Heart,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu. and “Memorial Day-Letter from WWII Soldier,” www.blackfive.net.
481. Ibid.
482. Ibid.
483. Spellman, The Risen Soldier, 6–7, 10.
484. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 16, quoting from Eichhorn, The GI’s Rabbi .
485. Avigdor, From Prison to Pulpit, 230. Used by permission.
486. Patricia Moorhead, “An Irish Chaplain’s Memories of D-Day Landings,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
487. Ibid.
488. Barrie Stephenson, “The Simple Faith of a Prisoner of War,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
489. Ibid.
490. North, War Stories III, 265.
491. Ibid.
492. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 441, quoting Martha Gellhorn.
493. Ibid., 445.
494. Lewis, D-Day, 279.
495. Lawrence Donkin, “Two Wars,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
496. Ibid.
497. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 84–85.
498. Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, 194.
499. Spellman, The Risen Soldier, 33–35.
500. Greg Bradsher, “Nazi Gold: The Merkers Mine Treasure,” The U.S. National Archives, www.archives.gov.
501. George VI, radio broadcast, VE Day, 8 May 1945, The British Monarchy, www.colinburns.com.
502. Abraham Lincoln, in response to a question during the Civil War, www.collegeboard.com and www.leaderu.com.
503. Potter and Nimitz, Seapower, 827.
504. “Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” The Avalon Project, www.yale.edu.
505. “Antwerp Ahoy,” by an unknown author. Found in the ship’s library of the SS John W. Brown, www.liberty-ship.com.
506. Congressional Medal of Honor citation, Capt. Joseph T. O’Callahan, www.medalofhonor.com.
507. Capt. Joseph T. O’Callahan, www.medalofhonor.com/worldwariio.htm.
508. “USS Franklin : Struck by a Japanese Dive Bomber During World War II,” www.history.net.
509. Miller, The Story of World War II, 542.
510. Ibid., 541.
511. Ibid.
512. Ibid., 554.
513. Ibid., 552.
514. Ibid., 553.
515. O’Neill , The Oxford Essential Guide to World War II, 206.
516. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 551–52.
517. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 75.
518. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 67–68.
519. New York War Stories, “Approaching the End of World War II Veterans,” submitted by John Bezpa, WNET New York, www.thirteen.org.
520. Ibid.
521. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains, 201, www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.
522. Ibid., 226.
523. Religion and Ethics Newsletter, May 28, 2004, www.pbs.org. Excerpt from National Cathedral’s exhibition, “Faith and Courage: U.S. Chaplains Service in World War II.”
524. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, 12.
525. Rose, Evidence Not Seen, 198. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
526. Ibid.
527. “Biography of Harry S. Truman,” www.whitehouse.gov.
528. “Harry Truman Speaks,” compiled by Raymond Geselbracht, Truman Library Archival Reference, www.trumanlibrary.org.
529. Ibid.
530. Ibid.
531. “Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945,” National Diet Library, Government of Japan, www.ndl.go.jp/constitution.
532. Hersey, Hiroshima, 61.
533. Hymn 123, Lutheran Hymnal, selected verses. www.lutheran-hymnal.com.
534. Hersey, Hiroshima, 124–25.
535. The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu.
536. Edward Andrusko, “Silent Night, Holy Night,” The Ukranian Weekly, Dec. 22, 2002, No. 51, www.ukrweekly.com.
537. Ibid.
538. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 116–17.
539. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
540. Excerpts from FDR’s Christmas Address, The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu.
541. Walter Kent and James Gannon, August 24, 1943.
542. Rose, Evidence Not Seen, 206–7. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
543. Miller, History of World War II, 34–35, radio address of General Douglas MacArthur, Sept. 2, 1945.
544. Ibid., preface. Official statements by Franklin D. Roosevelt selected by the White House from radio addresses and messages to Congress.
545. Ibid.
546. Ibid., 31–32.
547. Ibid., 33.
548. Dabbs, World War II Shared Memories, 138–39.