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67. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 26,47-48, 55. Also see JM 157, pp 10-1 1,81, 124,
128; Watanabe, Nihon, p 110.
68. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 48-49; USSBS, Strategic Air, pp 19-20,27.
69. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 27,48.
70. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 48,55; USSBS, Strategic Air, pp 19-20.
71. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, p 51.
72. USSBS, Strategic Air, p 21.
73. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 30, 32-34, 74; USSBS, Summary Report (PaciJic
War) (Washington, 1946). p 9; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 81.
74. BBKS, Rikugun, vol94, pp 225,277; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 83.
75. Author’s interviews with Kono, Ikuta; Watanabe, Nihon, pp 236-37; USSBS, Japanese
Air Power, p 2.
76. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 60,73.
77. Author’s interviews with Kono, Ikuta; JM 157, pp 14-16; USSBS, Summary, pp 9-
10; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, p 71; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 82; Watanabe, Nihon, pp
236-37.
78. JM 157, p 39; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 60-65,76; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p
82.
79. “(3-2 Estimate of the Enemy Situation with Respect to an Operation Against Southern
Kyushu in November 1945,” GHQ, U.S. Army Forces in the Pacific, MIS/GS, Apr 25,
1945, p 5 (NARS).
80. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 65-69,75-76; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 82; Watanabe,
Nihon, pp 236-39.
81. USSBS, Summary, p 10; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 74-79; Coox, “Rise and
Fall,” p 82; Dennis and Peggy Warner, with Sadao Seno, The Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide
Legions (New York, 1982), pp 234, 323ff.; LeMay, Mission, pp 370-72. For the USN
dimension, see HQ CINC, US Fleet, Antiaircraft Action Summary, World War I1 (Navy
Department, Oct 1945); and Air Intelligence Group, DNUCNO, “Defense Against Japanese
Aerial Suicide Attacks on U.S. Naval Vessels, Oct-Dec 1944,” 1st Suppl, Jan 1945. Also see
Inoguchi Rikihei and Nakajima Tadashi, Kamikaze tokubersu kdgekitai no kiroku (Tokyo,
1963). pp 40-174; BBKS, Okinawa, vol36, pp 305-25; Okumiya Masatake, Kaigun tokubetsu
kdgekitai: tokkd to Nihonjin (Tokyo, 1980), pp 1-122; Shdwa shi no tennd (Tokyo, 1970), vol
12, pp 4-32; BBKS, Kaigun, vol 95, pp.422, 445-48; Ikuta Makoto, Rikugun tokubetsu
kdklitai shi (Tokyo, 1983), passim.
82. BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, pp 537-39; Kimata, Rikugun, pp 273-74.
83. Morison, Victory, vol 14, pp 94-101; Sherman, Combat, pp 353-55; Forrestel,
Spruance, pp 189-97; Buell, Spruance, pp 344-47; Toliver and Constable, Aces, p 170;
Sherrod, MC, pp 359-63; Reynolds, Carriers, pp 337-39. Also see BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, pp
537,539; Kimata, Rikugun, pp 273-74.
84. Sherman, Combat. pp 355-56,360-61; Morison, Vol XIV. Victory in the Pacific, pp
112-13; Kyushu Kaigun KokWai, Senkun sokuhd, May 13-14, 1945 (BBKS Archives).
85. Howard and Whitley, Damned Island, pp 350, 355.
86. USSBS, Summary, p 10; Forrestel, Spruance, p 204.
87. LeMay, Mission, pp 370-72, 374; USSBS, Strategic Air, p 6; USSBS, Summary, p
10; Craven and Cate, AAF in WW 11, Vol V: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, pp 627-35.
88. USSBS, Seventh AF, pp 12-13; Craven and Cate, AAF in WWII, Vol V: Matterhorn
to Nagasaki, pp 634-35; Howard and Whitley, Damned Island, pp 372-80. Also see Kimata,
Rikugun, p 303.
89. USSBS, Seventh AF, p 23; Freeman, Mustang, p 148; Craven and Cate, AAF in WW
11, Vol V Matterhorn to Nagasaki, pp 647-48.
90. Watanabe, Nihon, p 231; BBKS, Hondo. vol 19, p 542.
91. Watanabe, Nihon, pp 231-32.
92. BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, p 542.
93. ibid., pp 542-44.
94. Watanabe, Nihon, pp 232-33; Dai-ichi Fukuinkyoku, Hondo, p 672.
95. Howard and Whitley, Damned Island, pp 341-47; Freeman, Mustang, pp 148-49;
USSBS, Strategic Air, p 20.
96. Freeman, Mustang, p 149. Writes Kevin Herbert: “Upon return to base after over
six hours in the cramped confines of the fighter, some of the men had to be lifted out of the
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