Stories of Faith and Courage From World War II (72 page)

51.
Article by Ken James at christiananswers.net

52.
Roger Hare, “An Angel Sent By History,”
Navy Anecdotes
, www.geocities.com/oralbio/harestory1.html.

53.
From Henry Lauchenmayer’s diary, quoted in a
New York Times
article of 6 December 1998, by Irvin Molotsky.

54.
Article by Carl Zebrowski,
America in WWII Magazine
, December 2006. www.americainwwii.com

55.
National Park Service Memorial, USS
Arizona
, www.nps.gov/usar.

56.
Ibid.

57.
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

58.
Oral history excerpt, www.history.navy.mil

59.
William G. Farrow, 1
^st
Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, www.arlingtoncemetery.net.

60.
Ibid.

61.
Ibid.

62.
Jacob DeShazer, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” www.georgiasouthern.edu.

63.
Ibid.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Prange,
God’s Samurai
, 187, 190.

66.
Ibid., 200–204.

67.
Ibid.

68.
Fuchida, “From Pearl Harbor to Calvary,” www.biblebelievers.com.

69.
Mike McLaughlin, “The Miracle Before Midway,” www.amvetsww2.org.

70.
Oral History, Battle of Midway. Recollections of Commander John Ford, USNR. www.history.navy.mil.

71.
www.history.navy.mil.

72.
Ibid.

73.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854 memorializing the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

74.
www.history.navy.mil

75.
Ibid.

76.
Oral History, Battle of Midway. www.history.navt.mil. Lt. Pollard later saw this man in the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, on his way to recovery.

77.
Actually the destroyer
Arashi
, detached from the carrier force earlier to prosecute a submarine contact.

78.
Account of Lt. Cdr. Wade McClusky, Battle of Midway, www.cv6.org.

79.
Ibid.

80.
Fuchida and Okumiya,
Midway
, 7.

81.
Morison,
The Two-Ocean War
, 24–25.

82.
Potter and Nimitz,
Seapower
, 541. Quoting Churchill from The Second World War.

83.
Morison,
The Two-Ocean War
, 204.

84.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 129.

85.
Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada,
Canada Remembers
, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.

86.
Eternal Father
is a hymn found in Protestant hymnals, written by Rev. William Whiting in 1861. In America, it is often called the
Navy Hymn
, and was played at the funerals of President Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

87.
Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada,
Canada Remembers
, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.

88.
Litoff and Smith,
Since You Went Away
, 17.

89.
“Naval Armed Guard Service in WWII,” www.history.navy.mil.

90.
Report of Engagement, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Patrol Wing 8, Squadron 82, 30 January 1942. (Postwar records failed to confirm this sinking. However, Mason did destroy U-503 on 15 March, for which he was promoted and awarded a second Distinguished Flying Cross.)

91.
“Famous Navy Quotes,” www.history.navy.mil

92.
“Halcyon Class Minesweepers and Survey Ships of WW II.” www.halcyon-class.co.uk.

93.
Alexander Rothney, “To Murmansk and Back on the SS
Atlantic
, ” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

94.
Bruce Felknor, “The Sinking of the Esso Tanker T. C. McCobb,” www.usmm.org.

95.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 118–20.

96.
White,
Bitter Ocean
, and Glenn Tunney, “Four Chaplains’ Sacrifice Should Inspire All Generations,” http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com.

97.
Carroll,
Grace under Fire
, 33–35.

98.
“Attack on an Artic Convoy, 1942,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)

99.
“Whistles over the Water,” by George Hirsch, in memory of his father, Paul Hirsch, www.armed-guard.com.

100.
“Jottings,”
Cougar Scream
, Vol. 1, No. 30, Jan. 1, 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS
Washington
“for the good of the ship and the service.”

101.
“Survival, The Arctic,” by Ronald Healiss, quoted by Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 114. Healiss was one of thirty-nine who survived this tragedy (www.warship.org).

102.
“One More Round,”
Cougar Scream
, Vol. 2, No. 8, 4 July 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS
Washington
“for the good of the ship and the service.”

103.
“Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942,” Eyewitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

104.
Marion Hunt, “Marion’s Story, I Am Evacuated to America,”http://www.timewitnesses.org.

105.
Written by John Ellerton. Details of the funeral from an article by Douglas Cornell in Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 452–53.

106.
Nineteenth century hymn by Sarah Adams, Edward Bickersteth, and Lowell Mason.

107.
“Dad’s Advice,”
Cougar Scream
, Vol. 1, No. 10, 2 August 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS
Washington
“for the good of the ship and the service.”

108.
A. H. Archer, “The Death of a Minesweeper,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

109.
Sam Hakam, “Sinking of the SS
Lehigh
, ” American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org.

110.
Westminster Shorter Catechism, www.reformed.org.

111.
Cougar Scream
, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS
Washington
‘for the good of the ship and the service.’

112.
“Torpedoed in the Arctic,”
The Mast Magazine
, February 1945, American Merchant Marine in World War 2, www.usmm.org.

113.
Ibid.

114.
Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada,
Canada Remembers
, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.

115.
George X. Hurley, “Saga of the Murmansk Run,” www.armed-guard.com. Used by permission.

116.
Ibid. Used by permission.

117.
“The Best Solvent,”
Cougar Scream
, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS
Washington
“for the good of the ship and the service.”

118.
Monsarrat,
The Cruel Sea
, 101.

119.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 153–154. Quoting Alan Moorehead.

120.
Ibid., 159.

121.
Churchill,
Hinge of Fate
, 70.

122.
Ibid., 69.

123.
Churchill,
Hinge of Fate
, 404–5.

124.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 174.

125.
www.originofnations.org.

126.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 193.

127.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book
, “The President’s Prayer,” 7.

128.
Quote from
An Army at Dawn
by Rick Atkinson, 59. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

129.
Ibid., 136.

130.
Ibid., 138.

131.
Ibid., 119. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

132.
Ronald Reagan quote, March 30, 1981,
The American Experience
, www.pbs.org.

133.
Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn
, 101–2.

134.
Philip Massinger,
A Very Woman
, Act V, Sc. 4.