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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
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———. “Houston and Perth Sunk in Java Trap,”
New York Times
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———. “Survivors Tell of Heroic Last Battle of Houston,” September 12, 1945. HRR.

———. “Lost Battalion Salute Life-Saving Doctor,”
Toledo Blade
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———. “Bridge on the River Kwai Now Is Thailand Tourist Attraction,”
San Diego Union
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———. “Anger, Sorrow Still Run Deep Along River Kwai,” dateline Kanchanaburi, Thailand, February 20, 1994.

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”
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———. “A Traveller’s Guide to the Burma Railway,” unpublished draft manuscript, 2003. CHC.

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Bernrieder, William A. “Port Houston’s Latest Asset: The USS
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,” undated (circa 1927). CHC.

———. “The United States Cruiser ‘Houston,’ the Pride of Our Navy and the City of Houston” (radio address), KPRC, October 11, 1930. William A. Bernrieder Papers, CHC.

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Journal of Kyoto Seika University
, No. 19, 2000.

———. “Notes on the Thai-Burma Railway, Part II: Asian Romusha, The Silenced Voices of History,”
Journal of Kyoto Seika University
, No. 20, 2001.

———. “Notes on the Thai-Burma Railway, Part IV: An Appalling Mass Crime,”
Journal of Kyoto Seika University
, No. 22, 2002.

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Dispatch, “1000 Missing with
Houston
and
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Prisoners of Japs,” July 2, 1942. HRR.

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Leatherneck
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Christian Science Monitor
. “Civilian ‘Tracks’
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Clymer, A. Ben. “The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell,”
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Conley, Jim. “Lost Battalion—Money, Equipment, Lives: Part of the Cost of Freedom,”
Abilene Reporter-News
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The Western Spirit
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“English Honor Tucson Officer” (Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks), undated news article. HRR.

Falloon, Tom. “My Brush with History” (liberation of Omori camp, Tokyo), undated. CHC.

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Fillmore, Clyde. Nine-part newspaper serialization (prepublication), edited by George Works, of
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, February 7–16, 1973. Texas Military Forces Museum, Camp Mabry, Austin, Texas.

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Gang, Wu. “World War II Forced Labour Cases Voided in Japan,”
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Gray, Denis D. “Old Foes Will Meet Again on Bridge on the River Kwai,”
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’s Last Battles,”
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, May 1946, p. 9.

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Hart, Thomas C. “What Our Navy Learned in the Pacific,”
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Holton, Denny. “Cherokean Recalls 3 Years of Hell as POW” (Harry and O. C. McManus),
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, May 9, 1981, p. 1.

Houston Chronicle Magazine
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Houston Press
. “Roaring Welcome Given Cruiser” (CA-30 survivors visit USS
Houston
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Japanese Monograph No. 101, “Naval Operations in the Invasion of Netherlands East Indies (December 1941–March 1942),” Japanese Department of the Navy.

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Kehn, Don, Jr. “USS
Houston
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———. “American Heavy Cruiser USS
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———. “History and Mystery (or, Seeing Is Misbelieving): A Reappraisal of the Sinking of USS
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M’Mullen, Jim. “Battalion, Feared Lost in Java, Rough and Ready Lot,”
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
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———. “West Texas Pays Tribute to ‘Lost Battalion’ on Day of Java’s Fall to the Japs,”
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
, undated, ca. March 1943. Texas Military Forces Museum, Camp Mabry, Austin, Tex.

Mack, William P. “The Battle of the Java Sea,”
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Matsubara, Hiroshi. “Mitsui Case Breaks New Ground for Wartime Redress,”
Japan Times
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Moscow, Warren. “
Houston
Survivor Describes Battle,”
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, undated. HRR.

Murray, Linda. “‘It Was Easier to Die,’”
Hood County News
(Granbury, Texas), August 12, 1979.

———. “Eyewitness Account: The Bridge over the River Kwai,”
Hood County News
, August 16, 1979, p. 4B.

———. “The Taste of Freedom: Some Will Never Know,”
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, August 19, 1979, p. 1B.

Nagatomo, Yoshitada. “Speech Delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Y. Nagatomo to Allied Prisoners of War at Thanbyuzayat, Burma,” October 28, 1942. USS
Houston
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———. “Prisoners of War: HMAS
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New York Times
. “High Award Given
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———. “
Houston
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,”
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———. “Sound Military Decision, Part II,” Naval War College Staff Presentation, July 25, 1940. Cushing Library, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

———. “Sound Military Decision, Part III,” Naval War College Staff Presentation, July 25, 26, 29, August 1, 3, 6, 1940. Cushing Library, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.