funerals of President Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
87. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac- acc.gc.ca.
88. Litoff and Smith, Since You Went Away, 17.
89. “Naval Armed Guard Service in WWII,” www.history.navy.mil.
90. Report of Engagement, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Patrol Wing 8, Squadron 82, 30 January 1942. (Postwar records failed to confirm this sinking. However, Mason did destroy U-503 on 15 March, for which he was promoted and awarded a second Distinguished Flying Cross.)
91. “Famous Navy Quotes,” www.history.navy.mil
92. “Halcyon Class Minesweepers and Survey Ships of WW II.” www.halcyon-class.co.uk.
93. Alexander Rothney, “To Murmansk and Back on the SS Atlantic, ” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
94. Bruce Felknor, “The Sinking of the Esso Tanker T. C. McCobb,” www.usmm.org.
95. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 118–20.
96. White, Bitter Ocean, and Glenn Tunney, “Four Chaplains’ Sacrifice Should Inspire All Generations,” http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com.
97. Carroll, Grace under Fire, 33–35.
98. “Attack on an Artic Convoy, 1942,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)
99. “Whistles over the Water,” by George Hirsch, in memory of his father, Paul Hirsch, www.armed- guard.com.
100. “Jottings,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 30, Jan. 1, 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
101. “Survival, The Arctic,” by Ronald Healiss, quoted by Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 114. Healiss was one of thirty-nine who survived this tragedy (www.warship.org).
102. “One More Round,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 8, 4 July 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
103. “Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942,” Eyewitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
104. Marion Hunt, “Marion’s Story, I Am Evacuated to America,”http://www.timewitnesses.org.
105. Written by John Ellerton. Details of the funeral from an article by Douglas Cornell in Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 452–53.
106. Nineteenth century hymn by Sarah Adams, Edward Bickersteth, and Lowell Mason.
107. “Dad’s Advice,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 1, No. 10, 2 August 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
108. A. H. Archer, “The Death of a Minesweeper,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.
109. Sam Hakam, “Sinking of the SS Lehigh, ” American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org.
110. Westminster Shorter Catechism, www.reformed.org.
111. Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington ‘for the good of the ship and the service.’
112. “Torpedoed in the Arctic,” The Mast Magazine, February 1945, American Merchant Marine in World War 2, www.usmm.org.
113. Ibid.
114. Frank Curry Diary, Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, www.vac- acc.gc.ca.
115. George X. Hurley, “Saga of the Murmansk Run,” www.armed-guard.com. Used by permission.
116. Ibid. Used by permission.
117. “The Best Solvent,” Cougar Scream, Vol. 2, No. 7, 28 June 1942, a newsletter published weekly aboard the USS Washington “for the good of the ship and the service.”
118. Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea, 101.
119. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 153–154. Quoting Alan Moorehead.
120. Ibid., 159.
121. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 70.
122. Ibid., 69.
123. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, 404–5.
124. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 174.
125. www.originofnations.org.
126. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 193.
127. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, “The President’s Prayer,” 7.
128. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 59. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
129. Ibid., 136.
130. Ibid., 138.
131. Ibid., 119. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
132. Ronald Reagan quote, March 30, 1981, The American Experience, www.pbs.org.
133. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 101–2.
134. Philip Massinger, A Very Woman, Act V, Sc. 4.
135. Quote from An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson, 159. Copyright © 2002 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
136. Peter Andrews, “A Place to Be Lousy In,” American Heritage Magazine, www.americanheritage.com.
137. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 262.
138. Ibid., 335.
139. Sperry, Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time, 25.
140. Skelly, The Military Chaplaincy of the U.S. Army, 6. Used by permission.
141. North, War Stories III, 88.
142. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 293.
143. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 688. June 30, 1943, remarks to the Guildhall.
144. “The War of a Green Howard, 1939–1945. Bill Cheall’s Story,” The Green Howards Regimental History, www.greenhowards.org.uk.
145. Hoyt, The GI’s War, 182.
146. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 396–97.
147. Time Magazine, “A Matter of Days,” August 9, 1943, www.time.com.
148. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 259.
149. Kenneth T. Downs, “Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 17, 1946.
150. Ibid.
151. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book, p. 91.2b
152. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 162–67.
153. O God, Our Help in Ages Past, by Isaac Watts, 1719. Sung at the funeral of Winston Churchill, 1965.
154. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II, 166.
155. Atkinson, An Army at Dawn, 411.
