Assignment to Hell (80 page)
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Authors: Timothy M. Gay
13.
Jordan, p. 358.
14.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 183.
15.
Jordan, p. 359.
16.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 183.
17.
Quoted in Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 320.
18.
Hamill, p. 360.
19.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 184.
21.
Hamill, p. 511.
22.
Ibid., p. 512.
23.
Kansas City Star
, July 26, 1944.
24.
Ibid., July 31, 1944.
25.
Ibid., August 3, 1944.
26.
Stars and Stripes
, August 17, 1944, p. 2.
27.
Interview with Roy Wilder, Jr., August 2011.
28.
AP Boyle column, Number 47, July 1944.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Hamill, p. 511.
31.
Ibid., p. 512.
32.
Ibid., p. 825.
33.
Ibid., p. 515.
34.
Kansas City Star
, datelined July 30, 1944.
35.
Hamill, pp. 515–17.
36.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 8, 1944.
37.
Atlanta Constitution
, August 11, 1944, p. 1.
38.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 246.
39.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, pp. 324–25.
40.
Wilmot, p. 467.
41.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 187–88.
42.
Ibid., p. 188.
43.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 13, 1945.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Interview with historian John McManus, March 2010.
46.
Hamill, pp. 908–30.
47.
Interview with Betsy Wade, March 2010.
48.
New York Herald Tribune
, June 13, 1944, p. 1.
49.
Ibid., June 15, 1944.
50.
Ibid., July 12, 1944.
51.
Ibid., July 19, 1944.
52.
Ibid., July 13, 1944.
53.
Ibid., August 4, 1944.
54.
Ibid., August 17, 1944.
55.
Ibid.
56.
Ibid., August 19, 1944.
57.
Ibid., August 20, 1944.
58.
Ibid.
59.
Ibid., August 22, 1944.
60.
Ibid., August 23, 1944.
61.
Ibid.
62.
Ibid.
63.
Ibid., August 24, 1944.
64.
Ibid.
65.
Ibid., August 28, 1944.
66.
Ibid., September 2, 1944.
67.
Ibid., September 4, 1944.
68.
Ibid., September 5, 1944.
69.
To protect the guilty, Liebling referred to Wilder as “Chitterling” in his postwar account of their pre–Paris liberation maneuverings.
70.
Hamill, pp. 946–47.
71.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 256.
72.
Hamill, p. 946.
73.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 199.
74.
Hamill, pp. 968–70.
75.
Ibid., p. 971.
CHAPTER 12
Rescuing the Kitten—Paris Redeemed
1.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, August 15, 1944.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Ibid.
4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Allied_Airborne_Army
.
5.
Letter from Hal to Frances, August 11, 1944.
6.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, August 20, 1944.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 328.
9.
Baltimore Afro-American
, August 26, 1944.
10.
Washington Post
, August 22, 1944, p. 2.
11.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 21, 1944.
12.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 198–99.
13.
Ibid., p. 199.
14.
Ibid., p. 200.
15.
Romeiser, p. 203.
16.
Los Angeles Times
, August 23, 1944, p. 2.
17.
Romeiser, p. 203.
18.
Boyle AP article, datelined August 25, 1944.
19.
Romeiser, p. 207.
20.
Ibid., p. 208.
21.
Ibid., p. 209.
22.
Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson,
The Murrow Boys
, pp. 316–18.
23.
Oldfield, p. 111.
24.
Atlanta Constitution
, August 28, 1944, p. 5.
25.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 205.
26.
Ibid., p. 209.
27.
Hamill, p. 974.
28.
Ibid., p. 978.
29.
Ibid., p. 974.
30.
Ibid., p. 986.
31.
Ibid.
32.
Ibid., p. 987.
33.
Ibid., pp. 986–87.
34.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 25, 1944.
35.
AP Boyle column, datelined August 27, 1944.
36.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 28, 1944.
37.
Oldfield authorization note in Boyle’s personal papers.
38.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 212–13.
39.
Ibid, p. 213.
40.
Ibid., p. 214.
41.
Ibid., p. 216.
42.
Chicago Daily Tribune
, August 29, 1944, p. 3.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 222.
45.
Atlanta Constitution
, August 28, 1944, p. 5.
46.
Ibid.
47.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 28, 1944.
48.
Los Angeles Times
, August 30, 1944, p. 2.
49.
Kansas City Star
, datelined August 28, 1944; plus AP Boyle column datelined September 1, 1944.
50.
Sokolov, pp. 172–73.
51.
Ibid.
52.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 327.
53.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 224.
54.
Ibid.
55.
Ibid., p. 225.
56.
Hamill, p. 990.
57.
Ibid., p. 991.
58.
Ibid., p. 992.
59.
Ibid., p. 522.
CHAPTER 13
Gasping Cough—Crashing into Holland
1.
Mark Bernstein and Alex Lubertozzi,
World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation
, Murrow audio on CD.
2.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 110.
3.
Ibid. (Cronkite became friendly with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart late in life and enjoyed surprising people with rock concert references.)
4.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, p. 64.
5.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life,
p. 111.
6.
Letters from Walter to Betsy, October 3, 1944, and October 9, 1944.
7.
Wilmot, p. 542.
8.
Ibid., p. 555.
9.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 267.
10.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 110.
11.
Ibid., pp. 111–12.
12.
Kansas City Kansan
, September 20, 1944, p. 2.
13.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 112.
14.
Ibid., pp. 113–14.
15.
Cloud and Olson, p. 228.
16.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 114.
17.
Chicago Daily Tribune
, September 25, 1944, p. 6.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Atlanta Constitution
, October 2, 1944, p. 1.
20.
Stars and Stripes
, October 16, 1944, p. 3.
21.
http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=291
.
22.
Stars and Stripes
, October 16, 1944, p. 3.
23.
Ibid.
24.
www.socyberty.com/history/the-battle-of-the-bulge
.
25.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 328.
26.
Washington Post
, September 21, 1944, p. 3.
27.
Los Angeles Times
, September 24, 1944, p. 10.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Kansas City Star
, datelined September 20, 1944.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Stars and Stripes
, September 4, 1944, p. 5.
32.
Ibid., September 15, 1944, p. 1.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid., September 20, 1944, p. 1.
36.
Ibid., September 26, 1944, p. 1.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 274.
39.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, October 3, 1944.
40.
Ibid.
41.
Ibid.
42.
Kansas City Star
, datelined September 24, 1944.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid., September 29, 1944.
45.
Cronkite mistakenly referred to Jack Frankish as “Fleischer” in his memoir and in various interviews.
46.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, May 18, 1944.
47.
Stars and Stripes
, October 25, 1944, p. 1.
48.
Ibid.
49.
Ibid.
50.
Interview, e-mails (via his son Chris), and correspondence with Bob Ruthman, March–April 2010.
51.
Harper’s Magazine
, March 1947, p. 274.
52.
Ibid., p. 275.
53.
Stars and Stripes
, May 15, 1945.
54.
Harper’s Magazine
, March 1947, p. 276.
55.
AP Boyle column, October 10, 1944.
56.
Ibid.
57.
Ibid.
58.
Atlanta Constitution
, October 18, 1944, p. 1.
59.
AP Boyle column, October 19, 1944.
60.
Ambrose,
Citizen Soldier
, pp. 167–73.
CHAPTER 14
Gray Phantoms and Murder Factories—The Bulge to Buchenwald
1.
Boyle,
Help, Help!
, p. 69.
2.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/malmedy_massacre.htm
3.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 17, 1944, p. 1.
4.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/malmedy_massacre.htm
5.
Ibid.
6.
Boyle,
Help, Help!
, p. 70.
7.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 4, 1944.
8.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, pp. 116–17.
9.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, pp. 68–69.
10.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 117.
11.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, pp. 339–41.
12.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 117.
13.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, p. 70.
14.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 120.
15.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 4, 1944.
16.
Ibid., datelined December 1, 1944.
17.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, pp. 351–55.
18.
Ibid., p. 351.
19.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 20, 1944.
20.
Ibid., datelined December 21, 1944.
21.
Ibid., datelined December 24, 1944.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Atlanta Constitution
, December 28, 1944, p. 10.
25.
Kansas City Star
, September or October 1945 (no dateline appeared with the scrapbook clip, but it ran in the
Star
while Boyle was assigned to Hong Kong after the war).
26.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 121.
27.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, December 27, 1944.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Stars and Stripes
, January 4, 1945, p. 6.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Hamill, p. 543.
32.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 28, 1944.
33.
Ibid.
34.
E-mail from Brian Frankish, April 2010, plus AP Boyle article, December 23, 1944.
35.
Kansas City Star
, datelined December 23, 1944.
36.
E-mail from Brian Frankish, April 2010.
37.
Kansas City Star
, February 1, 1945.
38.
Ibid., March 3, 1945.
39.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 251–55.
40.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 406.
41.
Ibid., p. 407.
42.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 252.
43.
Ibid., pp. 255–56.
44.
Ibid., p. 264.
45.
Kansas City Star
, datelined April 9, 1945.
46.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 265.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Ibid., p. 268.
49.
Ibid.