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XIII. WORLD WAR II (continued)

ENDNOTES

1. Japanese Monograph 97, Pearl Harbor Operations: General Outline of Orders and Plans, app. I.

2. Stetson Conn, Rose C. Engelman, and Byron Fairchild, U. S. Army in World War II—The Western Hemisphere, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts (Washington, 1964), p. 86; Samuel E. Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942 (Boston, 1947), p. 221. U. S. Army Transport Cynthia Olsen was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine about 1,000 miles northeast of Oahu on December 7; S. S. Lahaina was shelled and sent to the bottom about 700 miles on the same bearing on December 11; S. S. Manimi was torpedoed and sunk December 17, not far from Honolulu; and S. S. Prusa was torpedoed and sunk, December 19, 150 miles south of Hawaii.

3. Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, p. 221.

4. Conn, Engelman, & Fairchild, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts, p. 87.

5. Del Norte Triplicate, Dec. 26, 1941. The five casualties in the attack on Emidio were: Assistant Engineer B. A. Winters and Fireman K. K. Kines of San Pedro killed in the explosion of the torpedo; and Seaman F. W. Potts, Messboy S. McGilvary, and R. S. Pennington blown overboard and drowned. There were 31 survivors.

6. Ibid. Emidio had come ashore on the southwest side of Steamboat Rock, and about 440 yards off-shore from the harbor entrance light.

7. Ibid., Jan. 16, 1942.

8. Ibid., Jan. 23, 1942. Oil seeping from the wreck plagued the local crab fishermen.

9. Coan, "Sea Takes its Toll as Death Stalks Marine History of Del Norte," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 5-E.

10. Japanese Monograph 102, pp. 16-17.

11. Conn, Engelman, & Fairchild, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts, pp. 87-88.

12. U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Interrogations of Japanese Officials (2 vols, Washington, 1946), Interview 97, Comdr. Masatake Okumiya, Oct. 10, 1945.

13. Japanese Monograph 110, pp. 21-23; Conn, Engelman & Fairchild, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts, p. 92.

14. Japanese Monograph 110, pp. 32-33.

15. Conn, Engelman, & Fairchild, Guiding the United States and Its Outposts, p. 113.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., pp. 89, 91, 93; Malcolm F. Willoughby, The United States Coast Guard in World War II (Annapolis, 1957), pp. 48-53.

18. Personal Interview Chaffey with Bearss, April 26, 1969.


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