4. Jiro Horikoshi, Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story ofthe Zero Fighter
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981), p. 130; United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan's War Economy (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1946), pp. 18, 135; Pipeline to Progress: The Story of PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (Jakarta: 1983), pp. 27–34; Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931–1945 (New York: Pantheon, 1978), p. 176.5. USSBS, Japan's War Economy,
p. 46 («fatal weakness»); Japan, Allied Occupation, Reports of General MacArihur: Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, vol. 2., part 1 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1966), pp. 48 («Achilles heel»), 45 (originally printed but not published by General MacArthur's headquarters in 1950); Goralski and Freeburg, Oil & War, pp. 191–93; Kirby, War Against Japan, vol. 3, The Decisive Battles (London: HMSO, 1961), p. 98; United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Oil and Chemical Division, Oil in Japan's War (Washington, D.C.: USSBS, 1946), p. 55 («only American planes»).6. Ronald Lewin, The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japan
(New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982), pp. 223–24 («noon positions»), 227–28; Cohen, Japan's Economy, pp. 104, 58 («death blow»), 137–46 (Japanese captain and «synthetic fuel»); Clay Blair, Jr., Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975), pp. 361–362, 435–39, 553–54.7. USSBS, Interrogations of Japanese Officials
(Toyoda), p. 316 («much fuel»); Cohen, Japan's Economy, pp. 142–145 («very keenly» and «too much fuel»); Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p. 370 («Turkey Shoot»); Kirby, War Against Japan, vol. 4, The Reconquest of Burma (London: HMSO, 1965), p. 87; Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations, vol. 2, part 1, p. 305; United States Army, Far East Command, Military Intelligence Section, «Interrogation of Soemu Toyoda,» September 1, 1949, DOC 61346, pp. 2–3; USSBS, Japan's War Economy, p. 46.8. Spector, Eagle Aginst the Sun,
pp. 294 (MacArthur), 440 («divine wind»); USSBS, Interrogations of Japanese Officials (Toyoda), p. 317; Cohen, Japan's Economy, pp. 144–45 («shortage»); Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau, The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II (Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 1978), pp. 74–75; Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations, vol. 2, part 2, p. 398. Toshikaze Kase, Journey to the Missouri, ed. David N. Rowe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), pp. 247–48. Liddell Hart in his History of the Second World War offers other reasons for Kurita's swerve, pp. 626–27.9. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II,
vol. 7, pp. 107–9; vol. 8, pp. 343–45; James A. Huston, The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775–1953 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1966), p. 546 («long legs»); Goralski and Freeburg, Oil & War, pp. 316, 310 («potatoes»); USSBS, Japan's War Economy, p. 32; Thomas R. H. Havens, Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War II (New York: Norton, 1978), pp. 122,130.10. USSBS, Interrogations of Japanese Officials
(Toyoda), p. 316 («large-scale operation»); Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p. 538 («the end»).11. Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations,
vol. 2, part 2, pp. 617–19, 673–74; Cohen, Japan's Economy, pp. 146–47; USSBS, Oil in Japan's War, p. 88 («end of the road»).12. Robert J. С Butow, Japan's Decision to Surrender
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954), pp. 30, 64, 77, 90–92, 121–22; United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Japan's Struggle to End the War (Washington: GPO, 1946), pp. 16–18; Kase, Journey to the Missouri, pp. 171–76 («utter hopelessness» and «ready to die»).