The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales From Home-Front America in World War II (42 page)

22. Blasts Rock Defense Facilities

New York Times, March 5, 8, 24, 1942. Houston Post, March 7, 1942. Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1942. Buffalo Courier Express, March 17, 1942. Greenville (S.C.) News, March 24, 1942. San Francisco Examiner, March 16, 1942. Sheboygan (Wisc.) Press, March 28, 1942. New Haven (Conn.) Register, March 26, 1942.

23. Eastern America Set Ablaze

Author’s archives.

24. The Mysterious Shangri-la

New York Times, April 21, 1942. Author’s archives. Washington Post, April 23, 1942.

25. Comic Strip Puzzles Tokyo Warlords

Author’s archives.

26. Disaster Impacts Two U.S. Towns

Author’s archives.

27. “A Date with Destiny”

The Register, publication of Women in the Military Service for America Memorial

Foundation, Fall 1995. Des Moines Register, July 12, 1942. This Fabulous Century, vol. 5 (New York: Time-Life Books, 1969), p. 176.

28. A Tumultuous Homecoming

Author interview with Mrs. John D. (Alice) Bulkeley. New York Times, May 14, 1942. New York Mirror, May 18, 1942.

Notes and Sources
215

New York Journal-American, July 11, 1942. New York Sun, July 6, 1942.

29. Lord Haw-Haw and His Spies

Author interviews with wartime members of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion: Colonel Carlos C. Alden (Ret.), Colonel Jack Darden (Ret.), and Kenneth Shaker.

Part Three—A Sleeping Giant Awakens

1. Invasion Target: California

William F. Halsey, Admiral Halsey’s Story (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947), p. 107. Author’s archives. Thomas B. Buell, Master of Seapower (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979), p. 236.

2. Washington: Chaotic Capital

Washington Post, May 12, 23, June 3, 14, 1942. New York Times, April 12, 28, June 14, 23, 1942. Author’s archives.

3. A Young Reporter Is Awed

David Brinkley, A Memoir (New York: Knopf, 1994), p. 62. Author’s archives.

4. “Doll Woman” an Enemy Agent

FBI files, 1942, in author’s possession. Author interview with former FBI Assistant Director W. Raymond Wannall.

5. Panic Erupts at Concert

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 24, 1942.

6. Standard Oil Aids the Nazis

Author’s archives.

7. A Guidebook for Nazi Spies

Author’s archives.

8. They Came to Blow Up America

FBI transcript of testimony at spies’ trial in possession of author. George J. Dasch, Eight Spies Against America (New York: McBride, 1949), pp. 96, 112. Don Whitehead, The FBI Story, p. 203. FBI memorandum, June 19, 1942, in possession of author. Washington Post, August 8, 1942.

9. Artillery Confrontation in Oregon

Bert Webber, Retaliation: Japanese Attacks on the Pacific Coast in World War II (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1975), pp. 47–48.

10. German-American Bund Demolished

Time, July 14, 1942. John Roy Carlson, The Plotters (Chicago: Regnery, 1943), p. 252. New York Times, August 2, 1942.

11. First Lady Rattles Some Cages

Chicago Tribune, July 17, 1942. San Diego Union, July 19, 1942.

12. “I’m Proud of You, Mom!”

Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1942.

13. Horse Racing Flourishes

Author’s archives.

14. Psychological Saboteurs at Work

Author’s archives. Don Whitehead, The FBI Story, p. 233. FBI files, 1939–1942. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

15. Hollywood Superstars Sign Up to Fight

Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1942. Author’s archives.

16. War Hero Meets Joe Kennedy

Author interview with Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley (Ret.), 1994. Author interview with Alice (Mrs. John D.) Bulkeley, 1997.

17. Wants to Spotlight U.S. Spies

Author’s archives.

18. Government Censors Movies

New Republic, May 1943. Kenneth P. O’Brien and Lynn H. Parsons, eds., The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society, p. 26. Poynter to Mellett¸ November 12, 1942. OWI files. National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland. Author’s archives.

19. Navajo Code-Talkers

Collier’s, January 1944. Alison R. Bernstein, American Indians in World War II (Norman: University of Okla

homa Press, 1991), p. 42. American Indian History Project, University of Utah, p. 11. Peter Iverson, The Navajo Nation (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981), p. 9.

S. McClain, Navajo Weapon (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1994), pp. 45–46.

20. Popular Orchestra Disbanded

Boston Globe, September 2, 1942.

21. Gone with the Wind in Chicago

Des Moines Register, September 12, 1942. Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1942.

22. Nasty Bartenders and Redneck Cops

Sally V. Keil, Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (New York: Rawson,

Wade, 1979), pp. 237–238. Washington Post, September 11, 1942. New York Times, September 11, 1942.

23. Plane Bombs Pacific Northwest

Author’s archives.

Part Four—A Nation in Total War

1. Covert Project on Constitution Avenue

Author’s archives.

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2. Patton Calls on the President

Author’s archives.

3. Weapons Mysteriously Vanish

Author interview with General Mark W. Clark (Ret.), 1983.

4. A Huge Bounty on Hitler’s Head

Washington Post, February 5, 1943.

5. A Tempest in a Teapot

Des Moines Register, February 5, 1953.

6. Press Conference for “Women Only”

Author’s archives.

7. Secret Plan to Draft Females

Author’s archives.

8. Women in Combat Experiment

Author’s archives.

9. Jailbreak for a Boyfriend

Miami Herald, February 6, 1943.

10. Megabucks for Jack Benny’s Violin

New York Sun, January 28, 1943.

11. “Mom, Keep Your Chin Up!”

American, January, March 1944. Naval History, Winter 1992. Chicago Herald-American, January 16, 1943. This Week, March 5, 1944. Washington Post, February 5, 1943. Des Moines Register, January 17, 22, 26, 1943.

12. Firm Gets Big Payoff

Arch Whitehouse, Espionage and Counterespionage (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), pp. 150, 152.

13. A Glamorous Nazi Agent

Detroit News, March 11, 1944. Author’s archives.

14. Marine Commander’s Dilemma

U.S. Marine Corps pamphlet, Marine Corps Women Reserves in World War II, 1968. Headquarters, USMC, Washington, D.C.

15. A Patriotic Heroine’s Long Ordeal

New York World Telegram, December 11, 1945. New York Sun, December 12, 1945. Columbia (Mo.) Tribune, March 6, 1943. Hollywood movie, With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward as Jane Froman,

1951.

16. A Platinum Smuggler’s Demise

Don Whitehead, The FBI Story, pp. 225–226. Los Angeles Times, January 12, 1944.

17. “Get Going! Time Is Short!”
War Manpower Board, “Selective Placement for the Handicapped,” 1943. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Author’s archives.

18. Women Flock to War Plants

Author’s archives.

19. Recruiting the Blind and the Deaf

Author’s archives.

20. Offer to a Striptease Artist

Author interview with Colonel Barney Oldfield (Ret.).

21. The FBI Arrests “Good Old Ernie”
New York Sun, November 6, 1943. Author’s archives. FBI press release, June 27, 1943.

22. America’s Least-Known Boomtown

Author’s archives.

23. “Hello, America! Berlin Calling!”
Washington Post, July 27, 1943. Horst J. P. Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz, Hitler’s Airwaves (London: Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 23, 26. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Monitoring Service Digest, February 1940, January 1942, June 1944. Time, April 6, 1942. William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary (New York: Knopf, 1941), p. 104.

24. A Picture Stuns the Nation
Life, September 20, 1943. Author’s archives.

25. A Tragedy in St. Louis
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 3, 1943. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 2, 1943.

26. “Legal Kidnapping” by Soviet Thugs
San Francisco Examiner, September 10, 1943. Author’s archives.

27. Spy Nabbed a Second Time

Author’s archives.

28. Scoundrels in the War Effort
Don Whitehead, The FBI Story, pp. 238, 338. Author’s archives. New York Times, June 28, 1943.

29. “Bomb Japan Out of Existence”

Author interview with Colonel Sam Grashio (Ret.), who had spent two years as a POW

in the Philippines.

Washington Post, January 30, 1944.

Chicago Tribune, January 29, 1944.

30. War Hero Bounced from Air Corps