[28] Air Evaluation Bd SWPA Rpt, p. 16. [↑]

[29] Rad, Com3rd Flt to CTG 38.1, 160216, 16 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 17 Oct 44. [↑]

[30] Tarbuck Rpt. [↑]

[31] CTG 77.4 Opns Rpt, Ser 00120, 15 Nov 44. [↑]

[32] Japanese Studies in WW II, 72, Hist of Army Section, Imperial General Headquarters, 1941–45, p. 131. (Hereafter cited as Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ.) [↑]

[33] Ibid., pp. 131–32. [↑]

[34] Japanese Studies in WW II, 6, 14th Area Army Plans, 1944. (Hereafter cited as 14th Area Army Plans.) [↑]

[35] The organization of Japanese forces is discussed in detail in Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ. [↑]

[36] Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ, pp. 140–41. [↑]

[37] Interv, 2d Lt Stanley L. Falk with General Kuroda, at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, 13 Jun 47, copy in OCMH. [↑]