Sunday in Hell, page 109
46. Earle, J.B. 14th Naval District Memorandum, 16 Dec.
47. Captain Frucht’s Press Release, 17 Dec.
48. US Army in World War II: “Fall of the Philippines,” Chapter 9, 146-8, online; American Military History, Chapter 20, “World War II: The Defensive Phase,” 432-4, online.
49. Prange, Ibid., 584-90.
Chapter 12 Surprise Departure, and “…Am Going Home”
1. St. Louis and Phoenix Logs, 16 Dec.
2. St. Louis Log, Ibid.
3. Louisville Log, 16 Dec.
4. St. Louis Log, Ibid.; Ships in Gray, 14, 17 and 31; 34th Regiment War Diary; 161st Regiment History, 15.
5. Phoenix Log, 16-17 Dec; Aldebaran Log, 10-17 Dec; Aldebaran, Tasker H. Bliss Ships’ Histories, Navsource online.
6. 161st Regiment History, 15.
7. St. Louis, Phoenix Logs, 17 Dec; Matsonia Log, 17-19 Dec.
8. Hackett and Kingsepp, I-15 TROM, online.
9. St. Louis, Phoenix Logs, 18 Dec; Harris Log, 7-18 Dec: Sabine, Aldebaran, Platte Logs, 10-18 Dec; Ships’ histories, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
10. Hackett and Kingsepp, TROMs for submarines identified, online.
11. Young, December 1941, 77-8.
12. Joey Border’s diary, 15-8 Dec.
13. Raymer, Descent Into Darkness, 27-8; Tennessee, Maryland and Pennsylvania Logs, 8-16 Dec; Tennessee Action and Damage Reports, 11 Dec.
14. Erickson, “Oral Histories of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Lieutenant Ruth Erickson, NC, USN,” 7 Dec, online.
15. Joey Border’s diary, 16-9; Tennessee Log, 16-9.
16. Erickson, Ibid.; Logan, “Convoy Nurse.”
17. Terrell, “War Comes to the Coast…Ambulances Pick Up the Injured as Crowds Mill Around Seeking Relatives,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Dec, 5.
18. Letter from A.J. Pessel to Captain M.M. Frucht, U.S. Naval Representative of Evacuation; Honolulu, Hawaii December 30, 1941.
19. Erickson, “Oral Histories of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Lieutenant Ruth Erickson, NC, USN,” 7 Dec, online; Logan, “Convoy Nurse,” undated recollections of a Red Cross Nurse.
20. Brachman, “San Jose Home From Hawaii,” San Francisco Examiner,” 26 Dec; Gemmell, “Salem Welcomes Home Willamette Party,” The Oregon Statesman, 27 Dec.
21. Brachman, Ibid.; Gemmell, Ibid.; Merrick, “Spartan Team in Surprise Return from Hawaii,” San Jose Mercury Herald, 26 December 1941.
22. Detroit, Reid, Cummings Logs, 19 Dec; USS Procyon Log 12-19 Dec.; Wikipedia, USS Procyon (AKA-2), online.
23. Ibid.
24. St. Louis, Smith, Preston Logs, 19 Dec.
25. Tennessee Log, 20 Dec; Maryland Log, 8 Dec.
26. Young, Ibid. 86-8.
27. Ibid., 86, 88-90.
28. Tucker, Flusser, Case and Conyngham Logs, 20 Dec.
29. Tennessee, Maryland and Pennsylvania Logs, 10-20 Dec.
30. Author’s interviews, Joey Border.
31. Tennessee, Maryland and Pennsylvania Logs, 20 Dec.
32. Ibid., Tucker, Flusser, Case and Conyngham Logs.
33. Ibid.
34. Ampersand, 18; Young, December 1941, 93.
35. Detroit, Reid and Cummings Logs, 21 Dec.
36. Logan, “Convoy Nurse.”
37. Terrell, “War Comes to the Coast…Ambulances Pick Up the Injured as Crowds Mill Around Seeking Relatives,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Dec.
38. St. Louis Log, 21 Dec; Lurline, Matsonia and Monterey Commanders’ Logs, 1941.
39. 161st Regiment History, 16.
40. 34th Regiment War Diary, 21-23 Dec.
41. 161st Regiment History, Ibid.
42. Springer, Letter to Joey Border, 17 Dec.
43. Detroit Log, 22 Dec; Pensacola Log, 22 Dec.
44. Young, Ibid., 105-7.
45. Detroit Log, 23 Dec.
46. Young, Ibid., 107.
47. Joey Border’s diary, 23 Dec.
48. Frucht Memo to Commandant, 14th Naval District, 15 Dec; Hoddick Memorandum to Commander Rice, 22 Dec.
49. Pessel, 23 and 30 Dec letters to Captain Frucht; Frucht, 24 Dec letter to Castle and Cooke.
50. Pessel, 23 Dec letter to Frucht.
51. Grossman, A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island, online.
52. Bloch, Letter from Admiral Bloch to steamship owners, operators and agencies, 23 Dec.
53. Lenn, “Ships With Hawaii Injured Reach S.F.”, San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec; Logan, “Convoy Nurse,” 4.
54. Maryland, Tennessee, Pennsylvania Logs, 23 Dec.
55. Young, Ibid., 109.
56. Phoenix, Cushing, Perkins, Harris, Aldebaran, Platte, and Sabine Logs, 23 and 24 Dec.
57. Young, Ibid., 111-117.
58. Frucht letter to Castle and Cooke, 24 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 24 Dec.
59. Hackett and Kingsepp, I-15 and I-17 TROMs, online.
60. Lenn, “Ships With Hawaii Injured Reach S.F.”, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec; Silverton, “Isle Evacuees Mix Sorrow With Elation,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Dec, 1, 3.
61. Erickson, “Oral Histories of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Lieutenant Ruth Erickson, NC, USN,” 7 Dec, online.
62. Detroit Log, 24 Dec.
63. “Hawaii Wounded in S.F., Evacuee Ships Escorted By U.S. Planes,” The San Francisco Call Bulletin, 26 Dec, B.
64. Logan, “Convoy Nurse,” 4.
65. Detroit Log, 24-5 Dec.
66. Lenn, “Ships With Hawaii Injured Reach S.F.”, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec, 1; Terrell, “War Comes to the Coast…Ambulances Pick Up the Injured as Crowds Mill Around Seeking Relatives,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Dec, 1, 3, 5; Silverton, “Isle Evacuees Mix Sorrow With Elation,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Dec, 1, 3.
67. Logan, “Convoy Nurse,” 4-5.
68. Terrell, Silverton, The San Francisco Chronicle, Ibid., 26 Dec; The San Francisco Examiner, Ibid., 26 Dec; Lenn, The San Francisco Examiner, Ibid., 26 Dec.
69. Brachman, “San Jose Home From Hawaii,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec, 16; Gemmell, Ron. “Salem Welcomes Home Willamette Party,” The Oregon Statesman, 27 Dec, 1.
70. Logan, “Convoy Nurse,” 4-5; Ericson, Oral History, online; Lenn, Ibid., The San Francisco Examiner, 1.
71. Hicks, Letter from Commander, Harbor Defense of Los Angeles to The Adjutant General, Washington, DC; 21 April 1944; Young, Ibid., 120.
72. Young, Ibid., 121.
Chapter 13 Three Matson Ladies Plus Escorts: Convoy 4032
1. Peisner, Interview of Captain (USN Ret) Frank L. DeLorenzo, 2002, online.
2. Joey Border’s diary, 25 Dec.
3. Bloch, Letter to Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, 26 Dec.
4. Author’s interviews, Joey Border.
5. Terrell, “More Injured and Civilians Arrive—Mad!,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan 1942, 1 and 13.
6. “Wounded Stir Victory Vow,” San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 1 Jan 1942, 6-7.
7. Pearce, “More Hawaii Wounded Arrive,” San Francisco Examiner, 1 Jan 1942, 1, 8.
8. St. Louis, Preston and Smith Logs, 25-26 Dec; Lurline, Matsonia and Monterey Commanders’ Logs, Dec 1941.
9. Matsonia Commander’s Log, Ibid.
10. St. Louis Log, 27 Dec.
11. Ampersand, 14-17.
12. Hackett and Kingsepp, Sensuikan! TROMs, online.
13. Tennessee, Maryland and Pennsylvania Logs, 20-27 Dec.
14. St. Louis, Preston and Smith Logs, 27 Dec.
15. Joey Border’s diary, 28 Dec; Author’s interviews, Joey Border.
16. Ibid.
17. Ampersand, 12-14; Patterson History, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, online.
18. Allen, Ibid., 58; American Merchant Marine at War, “American Women Mariners in World War II,” online.
19. Pennsylvania and Tucker Logs, 28 Dec.
20. Maryland, Tennessee, Case and Flusser Logs, 20-9 Dec.
21. St. Louis, Smith, Preston Logs, 29 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 29 Dec; Author’s interviews, Joey Border; “Navy Wives Lament” courtesy of Joey Border;
22. Pennsylvania and Tucker Logs, 29 Dec.
23. Maryland, Tennessee, Case and Flusser Logs, 29 Dec.
24. St. Louis Log, 30 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 30 Dec; Author’s interviews, Joey Border.
25. Phoenix Log, 30 Dec.; “Purser’s Dirge,” courtesy of Joey Border.
26. St. Louis Log, 30 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 30 Dec.
27. Allen, Ibid., 59; Hackett and Kingsepp, Sensuikan! TROMs, online.
28. St. Louis Log, 31 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 31 Dec; Williams, “Story of the Crossing: ‘Blackouts…Lifebelts…and Always Rumors…but Morale Was High to the End,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan 1942, 6.
29. Ships in Gray, Ibid., 14, 17, 31.
30. Author’s interviews, Joey Border.
31. Author’s interviews, Joey Border; San Francisco Airport name, United Airlines Schedule to Seattle, type of aircraft, and ground transportation information via a series of E-mails ending 18 July 2007, courtesy of Ms. Alissa Chadburn, San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library.
Chapter 14 Love and Sacrifice
1. Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Part V. “Conclusions and Recommendations,” online; American Military History, Army Historical Series. Chapter 20, “World War II: The Defensive Phase,” 426-28. Online.
2. Blair, The Forgotten War, 8.
3. Sealift in World War II, online; “Liberty Ship” and Victory Ship,” Wikipedia, online.
4. Sealift in World War II, online.
5. Results of the American Pacific Submarine Campaign of World War II, online.
6. American Military History, Chapter 20, 427, online.
7. American Armored Fighting Vehicle Production During World War II, Wikipedia, online.
8. United States Aircraft Production During World War II, online; The United States Army Air Forces in World War II, Army Air Forces Statistical Digest, World War II, Table 3, Wikipedia, online.
9. Lewis, Jone Johnson, Women and World War II – Women and the Military, online; Ibid.,“WASP – Women Pilots of World War II,” online; Employment of Negro Troops, Chapter XIV: “Manpower and Readjustments,” online.
10. Krawczynski, Historic Context of the African American Experience: Section 7, online.
11. Krawczynski, Ibid.
12. Doris “Dorie” Miller, African American Sailor, Naval History and Heritage Command, online.
13. Tuskegee Airmen, Wikipedia, online.
14. Lewis, Jone Johnson, World War II Homefront –Women at Home, online.
15. World War II Rationing, online.
16. Stamps, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Volume II, Maps 116-18; Chen, World War II Database, Invasion of Malaya and Singapore, online.
17. Stamps, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Volume II, Map 128; Chen, World War II Database, Java Campaign, online.
18. Stamps, Ibid.
19. Bombing of Darwin (February 1942), Wikipedia, online.
20. “Executive Order 9066,” Wikipedia, online.
21. Chapter VIII, “The Hawaiian Defenses After Pearl Harbor,” 206-211, online; National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, World War II Service, online.
22. National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, World War II Service, online; Toth, “Timeline of AJA’s Joining the World War II Fight,” online.
23. Stamps, Ibid., Maps 119-125; “Masaharu Homma,” Wikipedia, online.
24. “Doolittle Raid on Japan – Army B- 25s,” Naval History and Heritage Command; “Doolittle Raid on Japan – People.” Naval History and Heritage Command; “Doolittle Raid on Japan – Ships,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “Doolittle Raid.” Wikipedia, online; Halsey, “Doolittle Raid – 18 April 1942,” online.
25. McIntyre, MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 4 March 1942; “Award 62 Medals to Heroes of Navy,” The New York Times, 15 March 1942, 29; The Orange Leader, 19 January 1943, 1; “Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942,” online; “Battle of the Coral Sea,” Wikipedia, online; Lewis, The Battle for Australia – “The Battle of the Coral Sea,” online.
26. Hartigan, Hammann Action Report, online; Destroyer Photo Index DD-412 USS Hammann, online; Prange, Miracle at Midway, 348-352.
27. Leaming, From 6-S-7, 34-48; Dickinson, The Flying Guns, viii.
28. Prange, Ibid., 396-7; Allen, Hawaii’s War Years, 174-5.
29. Ibid., 308, 312.
30. Willmott, Pearl Harbor, 175; Wikipedia, “Death of Isoroku Yamamoto,” online; Wikipedia, “Chuichi Nagumo,” online.
31. USS Arizona National Memorial – History and Culture (U.S. Park Service), online.
32. Chambers, “Pearl Harbor Commentary, What Were the Chaplains Doing on the Day That Will Live in Infamy?” online; “USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 1916-1946,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “USS Oklahoma (BB-37),” Wikipedia, online.
33. “USS Utah (BB-31),” Wikipedia, online.
34. “Battle Experience for Leyte Gulf,” online; “West Virginia,” Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, online; “USS Nevada (BB-36), 1916-1948,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “USS Maryland (BB-46), 1921-1959,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), 1916-1948,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “USS Tennessee (BB-43), 1920-1959,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online.
35. Ibid. “Okinawa Kamikazes,” online; “Ohka,” Wikipedia, online.
36. Young, Above and Beyond, 206; “Sansuikan!” I-26: Tabular Record of Movement, online; O’Neill, “The Sullivan Brothers: Report on the Loss of the USS Juneau,” online; “USS San Francisco (CA-38),” Wikipedia, online; “USS Juneau (CL-52),” Wikipedia, online.
37. “USS New Orleans (CL-32),” Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, online; Forgy, …And Pass the Ammunition, 193-206; “Sansuikan!” I-75: Tabular Record of Movement, online; “Doris Miller,” Wikipedia, online; Doris “Dorie” Miller, African American Sailor, Naval History and Heritage Command, online; “Liscome Bay (CVE-56),” Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, online.
38. “USS Helena (CL-50),” Wikipedia, online.
39. “USS Monssen (DD-436),” Wikipedia, online; “USS Monssen (DD-436), 1941-1942,” Naval History and Heritage Command, online.
40. “USS Reid (DD-369),” NavSource, online.
41. “USS Preston (DD-379),” NavSource, online.
42. “USS Perkins (DD-377),” NavSource, online; USS Cushing (DD-376),” NavSource, online.
43. “USS Monaghan (DD-354),” Wikipedia, online; “USS Monaghan (DD-354),” Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, online.
44. “USS Tucker (DD-374),” Wikipedia, online; Stone, The Lady and the President, 74-7.
45. Wiltshire, John C. “The Search for the Japanese Midget Submarine Sunk Off Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, ” online; “USS Ward (DD-139),” Wikipedia, online; Farwell, USS Ward (APD-16) Action Report, 16 January 1945, online.
46. “USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43),” Wikipedia, online; “USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP-42),” Wikipedia, online.
47. Stone, The Lady and the President, 97, 103-4; “SS President Coolidge,” Wikipedia, online.
48. Ships in Gray, The Story of Matson in World War II, 37.
49. “Sensuikan!” I-17, online; “Sensuikan!” I-26, online.
50. “Sensuikan!” I-25, online.
51. Allen, Hawaii’s War Years, 58-9; “Sensuikan!” I-71, online.
52. Sara Hill Heaton’s diary, 20 Feb-1 Mar 1942; Dr. Heaton’s diary, 20 Feb 1942.
53. Pearson, “Army Surgeon General to Four Presidents,” 12 September 1983.
54. Chapter VIII: “The Hawaiian Defenses After Pearl Harbor,” online, 202.
55. Karl Border’s diary, 5 January-7 October 1942.
56. Author’s interviews, Joey and Bob Border.
57. Aircraft Accident Report, SBD-3 #06654, October 1942.
58. Hardison, USS Enterprise, CV-6 Action Report, 19 November 1942, online.
59. Author’s interviews with Bob Border; Bob Border’s Aviators Flight Log Book, 1 April 1942-14 April 1944; Bunch, J.M. Citations to Accompany Award of Air Medal and Three Gold Stars, 29 October 1947; Newton, J.H., Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Citation to Accompany the Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Robert L. Border, undated (circa June 1944); National Museum of Naval Aviation, VC-40, online.
60. Bob Border’s Aviators Flight Log Book, Ibid.; Author’s interviews, Joey and Bob Border.
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