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Authors: Timothy M. Gay
33.
Nichols, p. 8.
34.
Hamill, pp. 751–52.
35.
John Hohenberg,
Foreign Correspondence: The Great Reporters and Their Times
, p. 358.
36.
Atlanta Constitution
, December 12, 1943, Pyle’s column, p. 5D.
37.
Washington Post
, December 24, 1942.
CHAPTER 4
Angry Meteors in Tunisia
1.
Quoted in Sokolov, pp. 154–55.
2.
Ibid., p. 155.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 195.
5.
Hamill, p. 301.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Sokolov, pp. 156–57.
8.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 162.
9.
Hamill, p. 765.
10.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 72.
11.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 162.
12.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 76.
13.
Miller and Commager, p. 163.
14.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 128.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 78.
17.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 163.
18.
Ibid., p. 164.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Washington Post
, January 27, 1943, p. 8.
21.
Ibid.
22.
An abbreviated account of this article appears in Boyle’s
Help, Help!
, pp. 54–56; this account, however, is taken from Boyle’s raw AP copy, datelined January 25, 1943, in his personal papers.
23.
Washington Post
, February 3, 1943, p. 2.
24.
Washington Post
, February 8, 1943, p. 3.
25.
Washington Post
, February 20, 1943, p. 2.
26.
Ibid.
27.
AP Boyle article, January 3, 1943.
28.
Ibid.
29.
AP Boyle article, April 13, 1943.
30.
AP Boyle article, April 1, 1943.
31.
Ibid.
32.
Kansas City Star
, datelined March 2, 1943.
33.
Ibid.
34.
AP Boyle article, November 10, 1943.
35.
Ibid.
36.
Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn
, p. 434.
37.
Ibid., p. 443.
38.
Ibid.
39.
AP Boyle article, November 10, 1943.
40.
Interview with Tracy Boyle Gesas, March 2010.
41.
Hamill, p. 327.
42.
Ibid., p. 333.
43.
Ibid., p. 341.
44.
Ibid., p. 342.
45.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 91–92.
46.
Wade,
Forward Positions
, p. xi.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 120–21.
49.
AP World
, Summer 1947, article by Don Whitehead.
50.
Hamill, p. 344.
51.
Atlanta Constitution
, December 12, 1943, Ernie Pyle column, p. 5D.
52.
Hamill, p. 345.
CHAPTER 5
Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th
1.
Stars and Stripes
, February 27, 1943, p. 1.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Ibid.; plus Rooney provided historian Don Miller with a detailed account of the Wilhelmshaven mission,
Masters of the Air
, pp. 114–17.
4.
Cronkite interview with Charles Kuralt, CBS News documentary.
5.
Stars and Stripes
, February 27, 1943, p. 1.
6.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 5.
7.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 115.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Quoted in Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 258.
10.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 132.
11.
Ibid., p. 78.
12.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 121.
13.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 257.
14.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, pp. 6–7.
15.
Stars and Stripes
, December 22, 1942, p. 1.
16.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 67.
17.
Ibid., p. 68.
18.
Ibid., p. 91.
19.
Unfinished letter(s) in Cronkite’s personal papers, December 1942.
20.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, January 9, 1943.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, January 25, 1943.
23.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 90.
24.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 115.
25.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, pp. 96–97.
26.
Hamilton, p. 2.
27.
Ibid., p. 14.
28.
Ibid., p. 20.
29.
Ibid., p. 18.
30.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 114.
31.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 6, 1943 (Note: Rooney had no recollection of any “grip.”)
32.
Ibid.
33.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 8, 1943.
34.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 6, 1943.
35.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 8, 1943.
36.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 98.
37.
Hamilton, p. 51.
38.
Ibid., pp. 53–54.
39.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 6, 1943.
40.
Hamilton, p. 67.
41.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 99.
42.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 27, 1943, p. 1.
43.
Hamilton, pp. 71–75.
44.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, March 8, 1943.
45.
New York World-Telegram
, February 27, 1943, p. 4.
46.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, March 8, 1943.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 135.
49.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, March 8, 1943.
50.
Ibid.
51.
Interviews with Chip and Kate Cronkite, 2010–2011.
52.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, March 8, 1943.
53.
Quoted in Hamilton, pp. 117–20.
54.
Wade, pp. 13–14.
CHAPTER 6
Falling Like Dying Moths
1.
New York World-Telegram
, March 20, 1943, p. 1.
2.
New York Herald Tribune
, March 18, 1943, p. 1.
3.
New York World-Telegram
, March 20, 1943, p. 1.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, pp. 460–68.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 87.
10.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, pp. 94–95.
11.
Oakland Tribune
, June 1, 1944.
12.
Oakland Tribune
, May 31, 1943.
13.
After the war, Stockton’s grave was transferred to the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, where it remains today. The author visited Stockton’s grave on July 12, 2011.
14.
Oakland Tribune
, June 1, 1944.
15.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 100.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 118.
18.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 76–77.
19.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, May 18, 1943.
20.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 119.
21.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 97.
22.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 119.
23.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 97.
24.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 119.
25.
Ibid., p. 139.
26.
Ibid., p. 119.
27.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 77.
28.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 351.
29.
Rooney
, My War
, p. 81.
30.
Ibid., p. 101.
31.
Ibid.
32.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 227.
33.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 84.
34.
Washington Post
, December 27, 1942.
35.
Ibid.
36.
www.airfieldinformationexchange.org
.
37.
New York Herald Tribune
, April 29, 1943, p. 1.
38.
New York Herald Tribune
, June 20, 1943, p. 1.
39.
Ibid.
40.
www.91stbombardmentgroup.com
.
41.
Hamill, p. 433.
42.
Ibid., p. 430.
43.
Quoted in Sokolov, p. 162.
44.
Hamill, p. 441.
45.
Ibid., p. 443.
46.
Ibid., pp. 446–47.
47.
Wilmot, pp. 222–23.
48.
Rooney’s original article referred to Weaver’s jalopy as a ’37 Ford; it was actually a ’33. Weaver’s buddies got it wrong.
49.
Stars and Stripes
(special supplement), August 19, 1943.
50.
E-mail from Dana Chitwood, February 2011.
51.
www.americainwwii.com/stories/stalag17b.html
.
52.
www.taphilo.com/history/8thaf
.
53.
E-mail from Brenda Weaver, February 2011.
CHAPTER 7
Sicily—Darker Than a Witch’s Hat
1.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
2.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 389.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Stars and Stripes
, August 13, 1943, p. 2.
5.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 163.
6.
New York Herald Tribune,
August 16, 1943, p. 1.
8.
Los Angeles Times
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
9.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 163.
10.
Los Angeles Times
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
11.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 163.
12.
Bigart’s original article referred to the mountain as “Crioli” but it is now commonly referred to as “Cipolla.”
13.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
14.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 163.
15.
Los Angeles Times
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
16.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
17.
Los Angeles Times
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 163.
20.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
21.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 164.
22.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 17, 1943, p. 1.
23.
Los Angeles Times
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
24.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 17, 1943, p. 1.
25.
Carlo D’Este,
World War II in the Mediterranean
, p. 73.
26.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 17, 1943, p. 1.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 164.
29.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 197.
30.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 164.
31.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 16, 1943, p. 1.
32.
Stars and Stripes
, August 13, 1943, p. 2.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Washington Post,
August 17, 1943, p. 3.
35.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, pp. 214–15.
36.
New York Herald Tribune
, July 9, 1943, p. 1.
37.
Wade, p. 16.
38.
AP Boyle article, July 4, 1943.
39.
Macintyre,
Operation Mincemeat
, pp. 148-49.
40.
New York Herald Tribune
, July 10, 1943, p. 1.
41.
AP Boyle column, July 10, 1943.
42.
Ibid.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Stars and Stripes
, July 17, 1943.
46.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 78.
47.
Ibid., pp. 107–9.
48.
Ibid., p. 112.
49.
Atlanta Constitution
, July 15, 1943, p. 17.
50.
Wade, p. 16.
51.
AP Boyle column, July 23, 1943.
52.
Ibid.
53.
Ibid.