9
Ibid., p. 183.
10
Ibid., p. 185.
11
Ibid., pp. 185–86.
CHAPTER 46: WOUNDED ENEMY
1
“Sergeant Ben Kuroki Returns After Taking Part in Bombing of Tokyo,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 23, 1945, p. 4.
2
“Sgt. Ben Kuroki B-29 Crewman in Raids on Tokyo,” United Press dispatch, McCook (Nebraska) Daily Gazette, May 2, 1945, p. 5.
3
James M. Boyle, “How the Superfortress Paced the Attack Against Japan,” Air Force Magazine, December 1964, pp. 63–69.
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
Ibid.
7
Craven and Cate, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945, p. 650.
8
Ibid., p. 636.
9
US Strategic Bombing Survey, The Effects of Air Attack on the City of Nagoya (Washington, DC: Urban Areas Division, June 1947), p. 12.
10
Craven and Cate. The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945, p. 650.
CHAPTER 47: A WAR WITHOUT MERCY
1
John Glusman, Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941–1945 (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), pp. 318–19.
2
Ibid., p. 401.
3
Citation of Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster awarded to Technical Sergeant Ben Kuroki, 680th Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, Air Corps, United States Army, General Orders No. 37, Aug. 19, 1946, 504th Bomb Group Records, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Microfilm Reel B0674. The citation for this DFC—Ben’s third—reads in part: “The skill, airmanship, and accurate gunnery displayed by Sergeant KUROKI, veteran of repeated assaults against the Japanese homeland, reflect great credit on himself and the Army Air Forces.”
4
Ibid.
5
Haywood S. Hansell, Jr., USAF Ret., The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, US Air Force, 1986), p. 233.
6
Martin, Boy from Nebraska, pp. 189–90.
