Chapter Six: “It would be suicide,
boys, suicide.”
“Our main job…terrible sometimes”： Melvin S. Dalton, interview by Chris Simon for the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, June 11, 2003, available at https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.33401/sr0001001.stream.
“It was a lot of rocks…hot everywhere”： Vivian Slawinski, interview by Jerri Donohue, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, n.d., available at https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.46299/sr0001001.stream.
“The beach here…had in Hawaii”： Letter from Curtis LeMay to Helen LeMay, February 5, 1945, in Benjamin Paul Hegi, From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan: General Curtis E. LeMay’s Letters to His Wife Helen, 1941–1945 （Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015）， 319.
Haywood Hansell’s quotations and the cadet’s quotation in this chapter, unless otherwise noted, are from Haywood Hansell, talk at the United States Air Force Academy, April 19, 1967, Clark Special Collections Branch, McDermott Library, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Stick together… on the target”： Charles Griffith, The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II （Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 1999）， 175.
“It was a grueling hell…their flight path”： Curtis LeMay and Bill Yenne, Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Air Power in World War II （New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988）， 72.
“That was a crazy thing…insane” and “When they started flying…just exhausted”： David Braden, interview by Alfred F. Hurley, Dallas, TX, February 4, 2005, University of North Texas Library, Denton, TX, available at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306702/?q=david%20braden.
“Listen to me, boys…suicide”： 40th Bomb Group Association, “An Ersatz Tokyo Rose Intro,” available at http://40thbombgroup.org/sound2.html.
“I’d rather have somebody…do nothing”： Reminiscences of Curtis E. LeMay: Oral History, 1971 （Air Force Academy Project, Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY）。
Information about San Antonio One and other bombing missions can be found in The Army Air Forces in World War II, ed. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, vol. 5, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945 （Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983）， 557, available at https://media.defense.gov/2010/Nov/05/2001329890/-1/-1/0/AFD-101105-012.pdf; and Harry A. Stewart, John E. Power, and United States Army Air Forces, “The Long Haul: The Story of the 497th Bomber Group （VH）” （1947）。 World War Regimental Histories. 106. http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/106.
“Six hours later…waiting for?”： William Keighley, dir., Target Tokyo （Culver City, CA: Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit, 1945）， available at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pacific-target-tokyo/.
Lieutenant Ed Hiatt’s quotations are from Elaine Donnelly Pieper and John Groom, dirs., The Jet Stream and Us, supplied by the BBC via Getty Images.
Information about weather balloons comes from “Weather Balloons,” Birmingham, Alabama, Weather Forecast Office, National Weather Service, available at https://www.weather.gov/bmx/kidscorner_weatherballoons.
Information about the jet stream, Rossby waves, and Wiley Post comes from “The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal,” American Meteorological Society, available at https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/awards/science-and-technology-medals/the-carl-gustaf-rossby-research-medal/; “Post, Wiley Hardeman,” National Aviation Hall of Fame, available at https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/post-wiley-hardeman/; and Tom Skilling, “Ask Tom Why: Who Coined the Term Jet Stream and When?,” Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2011.
“And Jesus…tempted by the devil” and “And the devil…‘it will all be yours’”： Luke 4:1–2 and Luke 4:5–7, English Standard Version.
Chapter Seven: “If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
Hoyt Hottel’s quotations are from Hoyt Hottel, interview by James J. Bohning, Cambridge, MA, November–December 1985, Center for Oral History, Science History Institute, available at https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/hottel-hoyt-c.
William von Eggers Doering’s quotations are from William von Eggers Doering, interview by James J. Bohning, Philadelphia, PA, and Cambridge, MA, November 1990 and May 1991, Center for Oral History, Science History Institute, available at https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/doering-william-von-eggers.