The Twilight Warriors (75 page)

Anderson, Dave (VBF-10), October 31, 2008.

Clifford, James (VBF-10), February 25, 1945.

Davis, William (VBF-10), February 28, 2009.

Deutschman, Edward (VF-10), May 18, 2009.

Dubinsky, Maurice (VBF-10), March 22, 2009.

Gray, Les (VF-10), October 9, 2009.

Hays, Wesley B. (VBF-10), July 15, 2009.

Hollister, James O. (VBF-10), March 3, 2009.

James, Ray (VF-10), May 14, 2009.

Novelli, Felix (USS
Intrepid
), March 3, 2008.

Oglevee, Don (VF-10), October 9, 2009.

Phoutrides, Ari (USS
Laffey
), August 17, 2009.

Quiel, Norwald R. (VF-10), June 16, 2009.

Schlag, Charles (VF-10), September 1, 2009.

South, James (VF-10), October 31, 2008.

Stolfa, Frank (VF-10 night fighters), June 2, 2009.

Verdolini, V. J. (USS
Randolph
), June 10, 2009.

Wilmeth, Orlo (VF-10), May 26, 2009.

History of USS
Cabot
.
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/cabot/cab00_02.htm
(accessed January 15, 2009).

Kamikaze images.
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/stories/tomiyasu/index.htm
(on kamikaze who struck
Enterprise
May 14, 1945; accessed April 1, 2009).

Nova
. “Sinking the Supership,”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/
(accessed March 1, 2009).

USS
Yorktown
at Okinawa.
http://www.yorktownsailor.com/yorktown
(accessed May 5, 2009).

World War II database.
http://ww2db.com
.

“Year of Attack,”
Time
, February 7, 1944.

“Mechanical Man,”
Time
, June 26, 1944.

“For Once, Men Could Laugh,” Robert Sherrod,
Time
, April 9, 1945.

“Buck’s Battle,”
Time
, April 16, 1945.

“World: Becton’s Word,”
Time
, June 4, 1945.

“Two Teams, One Goal,”
Time
, June 11, 1945.

“Seven Kamikazes Were Not Enough to Send This DD Down,” John B. Penfold,
Our Navy
, January 1, 1946.

“USS
Franklin:
Struck by a Japanese Dive Bomber During World War II,” David H. Lippman,
World War II
, March 1995.

“Thriller at 38,000 Feet,”
Leatherneck Magazine
, May 1995.

“Laffey
Attacked off Okinawa, World War II,” Dale Harper,
World War II
, March 1998.

“1945: The Deadliest Duty,”
Mission: History
(from the Naval Order of the United States), April 3, 2000.

“Strangest Dogfight Ever,”
Leatherneck Magazine
, January 2007.

“Terrible Turner: The Man Who Gave the Navy Webbed Feet,” Owen Gault,
Sea Classics
, August 2008.

“The Trouble I’ve Seen: The Nils Andersen Story,”
Postscripts
online magazine, May 21, 2009,
http://notorc.blogspot.com/2007/07/lest-we-forget-sacred-grove-at-montrose.html
.

The History of Bomber Fighting Squadron Ten
, 2 January 1945–15 November 1945; VBF-10/A12, Serial No. 109.

Air Group Ten Cruise Book 1945
.

Air Group Ten Action Reports
. 1–12, March 21, 1945.

———. 13–39, April 27, 1945.

———. 40–56, April 27, 1945.

———. 57–85, April 28, 1945.

USS
Intrepid
(CV11)
War Diaries
, September 1, 1944–December 4, 1944, and March 3, 1945–August 21, 1945.

Letter from Adm. John Hyland to Air Group Ten airmen on the occasion of their reunion, November 1997.

Task Force 58
(FAST CARRIER TASK FORCE)
Vice Adm. Marc Mitscher

    Task Group 58.1
(CARRIER TASK GROUP)
Rear Adm. J. J. Clark
Hornet, Bennington, San Jacinto, Belleau Wood

    Task Group 58.2
(CARRIER TASK GROUP)
Rear Adm. Ralph Davison
Enterprise, Randolph, Independence

    Task Group 58.3
(CARRIER TASK GROUP)
Rear Adm. F. C. Sherman
Essex, Bunker Hill, Bataan, Cabot, Hancock

    Task Group 58.4
(CARRIER TASK GROUP)
Rear Adm. Arthur Radford
Intrepid, Yorktown, Langley

Task Force 51
(JOINT EXPEDITIONARY FORCE)
Vice Adm. R. K. Turner

Task Force 54
(GUNFIRE AND COVERING FORCE)
Rear Adm. Morton Deyo

Task Force 57
(BRITISH CARRIER FORCE)
Vice Adm. Sir H. B. Rawlings

U.S. Tenth Army
(JOINT EXPEDITIONARY TROOPS)
Lt. Gen. Simon Buckner

    XXIV Corps
Maj. Gen. John Hodge

7th and 96th Infantry Divisions

    77th Infantry Division
Maj. Gen. Andrew Bruce

    27th Infantry Division
Maj. Gen. George Griner

    III Amphibious Corps
Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger USMC
1st and 6th Marine Divisions