ACT V

1 Jeanne Sledge interview, Playtone Collection.

2 Frank L. Kluckhohn, "Atsugi 'Parade' On," The New York Times, August 30, 1945, p. 1.

3 Richard B. Finn, Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1992), p. 8.

4 Ibid., p. 10.

5 Ted Reuther (1/1, Communications) personal history, Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan.

6 Frank and Shaw, Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Vol. V, p. 557.

7 Cpl. Bill Farrell, "Hot Irony," Leatherneck, April 1946, vol. 29, #4, p. 19.

8 E. B. Sledge, China Marine (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 2002), p. 24.

9 Thomas Stanley to Sledge, December 10, 1981, SCAU.

10 Sledge, China Marine, p. 102.

11 The healing love provided by the Soong Family, although touched on by Sledge in his letters home, was most fully described by him in his second book, China Marine.

12 Frank and Shaw, Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Vol. V, p. 532.

13 Finn, Winners in Peace.

14 Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1964), pp. 282-283.

15 Frank and Shaw, Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Vol. V, p. 492.

16 Scout Article; USS Basilone Commissioning Ceremony Program, RPL; Lena Basilone Service File, NRC.

17 Shofner, "WWII Memories," p. 73, stated that this meeting took place in 1943. Coach Neyland, however, served overseas during the war and thus this important meeting could have taken place only in 1946.

18 Bob Gilbert, Neyland: The Gridiron General (Savannah, Georgia: Golden Coast Publishing Co., 1990).

19 "Houston-Phillips Wedding of Interest," undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, Sidney Phillips Collection.

20 J. Robert Moskin, The U.S. Marine Corps Story (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1977).

21 Tom Bartlett, "Against All Odds," Leatherneck, June 1976, vol. 59, #6, pp. 39-41.

22 Kay Rose, "New Plaque Honors Shofner," Shelbyville Times-Gazette, May 5, 2003, p. 1, courtesy of Col. Otto Melsa.

23 Sledge, China Marine, p. 154.

24 Sledge to Stumpy and Valton, December 3, 1980, SCAU.

25 Sledge to Stanley, February 6, 1980, SCAU; Sledge to Hank Boyes, July 25, 1979, SCAU; Sledge to Walter McIlhenny, May 31, 1977, SCAU.

26 Sledge, China Marine, p. 135.

27 Dr. Sidney Phillips interview, author's collection.

28 Jeanne Sledge e-mail to author, 2008, author's collection.

29 KPI.

30 Sledge to Stumpy and Valton, December 3, 1980, SCAU.

31 Sledge to Stanley, January 16, 1984, SCAU. It is clear that Sledge did not have access to the 3/5 Record or the 3rd Bn SAR cited frequently here. When he saw the former document years later, it disgusted him.

32 The story of Hiroo Onoda was taken from an entry of www.wikipedia.com.

33 Sledge to Stanley, January 16, 1984, SCAU.

34 Jeanne Sledge interview, May 2004, Playtone Collection.

35 Sledge to Stumpy and Valton, December 3, 1980, SCAU.

36 Lieutenant Kasky (CO of C-1-27), April 24, 1945, Basilone USMC Service File, NRC.

37 Scout Article.

38 Carlo Basilone to Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, April 12, 1946, Basilone Personnel File; A. A. Vandegrift to Mrs. John Basilone, September 29, 1947, Basilone USMC Personnel File; "World War II Hero's Sister Dies in Somerville Car Accident," Newark Star-Ledger, November 15, 2003, RPL; photograph of the funeral at Arlington, Basilone Family Collection; Ed Sullivan, "Little Old New York," undated column in unidentified newspaper, RPL.

39 "Raritan to Unveil Statue of Basilone; Parade Set," Courier News, June 4, 1948; "Dedicate Statue of Basilone," June 7, 1948, clipping from unidentified Newark, New Jersey, newspaper, RPL.

40 USS Basilone Commissioning Ceremony Program, RPL.

41 "Meets His Family," undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, Basilone Family Collection.

42 Herbert Lansner, "Chance Call for Taxi Reunites Widow, Hero Husband's Pals," undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, Basilone Family Collection.

43 "Her Hero Husband Didn't Come Back," Newark Star-Ledger, May 28, 1950, Basilone Family Collection.

44 "A Family Look at Hero John Basilone," South Plainfield Observer, February 11, 1988, p. 9, RPL.

45 Jim G. Lucas, "Medal of Honor Winner Rejected a Hero's Life for a Hero's Death," New York World-Telegram , 1962, Basilone Family Collection; Robert Leckie, "The Perfect Marine Who Begged to Die," Saga Magazine, 1964, courtesy of Robert Leckie Family.

46 "How School Kids Started Parade in '81," Forbes Newspaper Supplement, September 19, 1990, RPL.

47 Lena Basilone Interview, Scout Article.