Ken Neill interview with Bill Kubota, September 27, 1998, Most Honorable Son documentary, unedited footage, Ben Kuroki Collection, KDN Films Archives.
5
Colonel Warren L. Williams to Dear Sergeant, letter dated September 27, 1944, Ben Kuroki collection, Military History, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
6
Carl Curtis interview with Bill Kubota, September 3, 1998, and Ben Kuroki interview with Bill Kubota, August 26–27, 1998, Most Honorable Son documentary, unedited footage, Ben Kuroki Collection, KDN Films Archives.
7
Secretary of War Henry Stimson to My dear Mr. Deutsch, letter dated November 16, 1944, Ben Kuroki collection, Military History, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
8
Ben Kuroki oral history interview with Tom Gibbs, March 26, 2013, National WW2 Museum, and Ken Neill interview with Bill Kubota, September 27, 1998.
CHAPTER 43: TINIAN
1
Ben Kuroki interview with Bill Kubota, August 26–27, 1998.
2
Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 5. The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945 (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1948), pp. 546–56; Charles Griffith, The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1999), pp. 167–74.
3
Craven and Cate, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945, pp. 558–60; Griffith. The Quest, pp. 176–77.
4
James M. Scott, Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), p. 133.
CHAPTER 44: DÉJÀ VU
1
Griffith, The Quest, p. 198.
2
Ben Kuroki letter from “Somewhere in the Marianas,” published in “Ben Kuroki Writes,” Lincoln County Tribune, North Platte, Nebraska, March 1, 1945, p. 2.
CHAPTER 45: FIREBOMBING TOKYO
1
Craven and Cate, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945, p. 614.
2
Ibid., pp. 615–17.
3
Ibid., p. 617.
4
Hap Arnold to Curtis LeMay, cable dated March 11, 1945, Henry H. Arnold Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
5
Ben Kuroki interview with Bill Kubota, August 26–27, 1998.
6
Ben Kuroki interview with Arthur A. Hansen, October 17, 1994, Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton, Japanese American Oral History Project.
7
Boy from Nebraska, pp. 182–83.
8
Ibid.
