Stories of Faith and Courage From World War II (75 page)

329.
Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
, 332.

330.
Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters
, 76–77.

331.
Dabbs,
World War II Shared Memories
, 77–78.

332.
Carroll,
Grace under Fire
, 57.

333.
Robert Browning,
Prospice
, written in 1861, months after his wife’s death.

334.
Spellman,
The Risen Soldier
, 38–39.

335.
Litoff and Smith,
Since You Went Away
, 97–98.

336.
Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.

337.
Ibid.

338.
Jerry Oncken, “Orange Juice Kiss,” Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.

339.
Litoff and Smith,
Since You Went Away
, 237.

340.
Ibid., 56.

341.
Ibid.

342.
Ibid., 138.

343.
Popular song of WW I, written by Lena Ford and Ivor Novello.

344.
Lifoff and Smith,
Since You Went Away
, 233–34. Letter from the MacArthur Memorial Archives and Library, Norfolk, VA. Record Group 3, SW Pac Area, CIC Correspondence. Reprinted by Litoff with permission.

345.
H. Smith Shumway, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com

346.
Ibid.

347.
Crosby,
Battlefield Chaplains
, 71, quoting Robert Sherrod, www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.

348.
Skelly,
The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army
, 19. Used by permission.

349.
From “What Are We Fighting For?” by Samuel Shoemaker, quoted by Steven Gertz, “Christianity History Corner: Just War, Just Nation?” Oct. 1, 2002, www.christianitytoday.com.

350.
Potter and Nimitz,
Seapower
, 772.

351.
Remarks by Secretary of the Navy The Honorable Gordon R. England at the 1
^st
Marine Division Annual Memorial, Washington, DC, 13 August 2004, www.navy.mil.

352.
Ibid.

353.
Rose,
Evidence Not Seen
, 57. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

354.
Ibid.

355.
Carroll,
Grace under Fire
, 41–42.

356.
Richard Bruce Watkins, Capt. USMCR (ret), “Brothers in Battle,” http://brothersinbattle.net.

357.
Ibid.

358.
Ibid.

359.
Costello,
Our Sunday Visitor
, 354.

360.
Ibid.

361.
www.arlingtoncemetery.com, “Chaplains Hill and Three Monuments.”

362.
Crosby,
Battlefield Chaplains
, 201–2. www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.

363.
Ibid.

364.
U.S. Air Force Military Biographies, http://findarticles.com.

365.
Hanson R. Boney, “Chaplain POWs in the Pacific Theater,” US Army Chaplain Center and School, www.usachcs.army.mil.

366.
Ibid.

367.
Mohri,
Rainbow over Hell
, 128.

368.
Ibid., 129.

369.
Ibid.

370.
Ibid.

371.
Ibid.

372.
Medal of Honor Citation, Fred Faulkner Lester, Medical Corpsman, 1
^st
Battalion, 22
^nd
Marines, http://22dmarines.org.

373.
Richard Bruce Watkins, Capt. USMCR (ret), “Brothers in Battle,” http://brothersinbattle.net.

374.
Yazmin Lazcano, “Carlos Carrillo Quintana,” U.S. Latino and Latina World War II History Project, www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos.

375.
Marine Corps History and Museums Division, Marines in World War II Commemorative Series, “Navy Chaplains,” www.nps.gov.

376.
Ibid.

377.
Ibid.

378.
“A Hero and His Everlasting Love,” by James Adcock, as told to his daughter Nancy White, Central Illinois World War II Stories, atlas.illinois.edu.edu.

379.
Ibid.

380.
Ibid.

381.
Medal of Honor citation, Major Gregory Boyington, USMCR, www.pappyboyingtonfield.com.

382.
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, www.medalofhonor.com.

383.
Ibid., quoting from Boyington’s book,
Baa Baa Black Sheep
.

384.
Crosby,
Battlefield Chaplains
, 188–89. www.kansaspress.ku.edu. Used by permission of the publisher.

385.
Eunice Kim, “WWII Vet Honored for his Service, Faith,”
The Statesman Journal
, March 30, 2008, www.statesmanjournal.com.

386.
Ibid.

387.
Words and music by James Black, 1893.

388.
Hornfischer,
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
, 22, 36–37.

389.
Ibid., 150.

390.
Ibid., 406.

391.
Ibid., 269.

392.
Ibid., 425.

393.
Ibid., 426–27.

394.
Faith Magazine
, quoting Lewis L. Haynes article in
Saturday Evening Post
, August 6, 1955, www.catholicmil.org, search “conway.”

395.
Rickenbacker,
Rickenbacker
, 316

396.
Ibid., 318. The group was rescued on November 13, 1942, after twenty-four days at sea. Seven of the eight survived.

397.
Ibid., 243.

398.
Ibid., 7–8.

399.
From an article by Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press, “WWII Pilot Repaid Village That Saved His Life,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 9, 2008, www.sfgate.com.

400.
Ibid.

401.
Ernie Pyle, www.ussconklin.org.

402.
Timeline, 6/5/45, www.ussconklin.org., and “The Story of Frederick Morris and Clifford Farr of the USS
Conklin
in the Typhoon of June 1945,” Destroyer Escort Sailors Association, www. desausa.org.

403.
Potter and Nimitz,
Seapower
, 768.

404.
Miller,
The Story of World War II
, 372.

405.
“World War II Famous Quotes,” from J. D. Potter,
Admiral of the Pacific
, http://members.aol.com/forcountry/ww2/quo.htm.

406.
Snaddon,
Through the Valley of the Shadow
.

407.
Ibid.

408.
Ibid.

409.
Directive for Operation Overlord, Potter and Nimitz,
Seapower
, 605.

410.
Lewis,
D-Day
, 38–39, quoting Alan Moorehead.

411.
Ibid.

412.
www.army.mil.

413.
Bob Benvenuto, “I Join the Navy—The Reality & the Realization,” Http://members.aol.com/famjustin/LST7.html.

414.
Lewis,
D-Day
, 60–61.

415.
Abide with Me
, Henry Lyte and William Monk, 1847. Four of eight stanzas. Written as Lyte was dying of tuberculosis.

416.
Elson,
9 Lives
, 68. Used by permission.

417.
Leslie Palmer Cruise, Jr., Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com

418.
Ibid.

419.
Lewis,
D-Day
, 66.

420.
Ward Smith, “I Saw Them Jump to Destiny,” BBC, “News of the World,” www.6juin1944.com.

421.
Malcolm Brennen, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.

422.
Ibid. Excerpts from
Trees
, by Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918).

423.
Marie-T Lavieille, Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.

424.
William E. Smith (the son of Lt. Smith), “D-Day on Omaha from the Eyes of a Forward Observer,” Men of D-Day, www.6juin1944.com.