Attack on Pearl Harbor (64 page)

19
. Friedman, 1985, 415–8.

20
. Aiken, 53.

21
.
i-16tou.com/stlou/stlou3.html
.

22
. Burlingame, 225–6.

23
.
i-16tou.com/stlou/stlou4.html
.

24
. Slackman, 99–100.

25
. Aiken.

26
. Commanding Officer, Administrative Office, USS
Arizona, to
The Chief of the Bureau of Ships. Subject: Material Damage Sustained in Attack on December 7, 1941. BB39/A9/L11-1, January 28, 1942.

27
.
www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=8601.1050
.

28
. Taylor claims that in naval jargon torpedo warheads were rounded off to “1000 pounds” and “500 pounds,” and so the entry just represented naval slang. He provides no evidence of this rather remarkable assertion. In 40 years of naval service and researching naval documents in the archives, the author has never encountered a case where torpedo warheads were referred to in increments of 500 pounds.

29
. Tom Taylor, posting on the
www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?board=5.0
message board.

30
. Anthony Lovell, letter to the author.

31
. Goldstein and Dillon, 1991, 50.

32
. Burlingame, 131.

33
. Prange, Goldstein, Dillon, 1993, 280, 282.

Chapter 12: Reassessing the Participants

1
. USF-74, March 1941, Section V, “Patrol.”

2
. Prange, 1981, 411.

3
. “It may be stated that it cannot be assumed that any capital ship or other valuable vessel is safe when at anchor from this type of attack if surrounded by water at a sufficient run to arm the torpedo.”
www.ibiblio.org/pha/myths/taranto.html

4
. Prange, 1981, 701.

5
. Lambert and Polmar, 134.

6
. Prange, 1981, 460.

7
. Prange, 1981, 654.

8
. Prange, 1981, 260.

9
. See Parshall and Tully,
Shattered Sword
, for an in-depth analysis.

10
. Clarke, 119–120.

11
. Prange, 1981, 281.

12
. Prange, 1981, 263, 285.

13
. Willmott, et al, 2001, 63–4.

14
. Willmott, et al, 2001, 180.

15
. Hone, T.C., correspondence.

16
. Agawa, 264.

17
. William O’Neil, correspondence.

18
. Agawa, 266.

19
. Willmott, et al, 2001, 88, 70–1.

20
. Prange, 1981, 235.

21
. Slackman, 9.

Chapter 13: Summary and Conclusions

1
. Prange, 1981, 386.