Larkin Spivey - Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II

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* Langer, World War II, p. 30. Quoting from the book, “…And Pass the Ammunition,” by Howell M. Forgy.

1. The Armed Forces Officer , p. 6.

2. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk , 25.

3. Ibid., 272.

4. Mary Gardiner Brainard, American poet, 1860.

5. C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

6. Matthew 6:34

7. King George VI Christmas Day broadcast, www.royal.gov.uk. The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins in 1908 and was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.

8. Jenkins, Churchill , 592.

9. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.

10. Ibid.

11. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk , 145.

12. Ibid., 167.

13. Ibid., 111.

14. Ibid., 72.

15. Ibid., 112.

16. Ibid., 272.

17. Winters, Battling the Elements , 23.

18. Suze Bond, “Leaving Dunkirk: My Father’s Diary Account,” www.bbc.co.uk.

19. Bill Towey, “The Luck of the Draw,” www.bbc.co.uk.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk , 54.

23. T. J. Spiers, “Shot Down Over Dunkirk 28 May 1940,” www.bbc.co.uk.

24. Paul Davey, “Falling Back to Dunkirk,” www.bbc.co.uk.

25. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.

26. Harris, Dunkirk , 151.

27. Ibid.

28. From a sermon by Rev. Ken Streitenberger, Epworth UMC., www.epworth.com.

29. “The War of a Green Howard, Bill Cheall’s Story,” www.greenhowards.org.uk.

30. John Beard, quoted in the “The Battle of Britain, 1940,” Eyewitness to History , www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.

31. Ibid.

32. Godefroy, Lucky Thirteen, 61.

33. Ibid., 132.

34. Kathleen Rainer, “Downed Pilots in Sussex,” www.bbc.co.uk.

35. www.battleofbritain1940.net.

36. John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight.” www.skygod.com.

37. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster,” January 28, 1986, www.reaganlibrry.com.

38. Sheila Delaney, “A Miraculous Escape,” Time Witnesses . www.timewitnesses.org.

39. Dennis Robinson, “Shot Down in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.

40. Ibid.

41. Norman English, “A Child in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.

42. Sermon paraphrased by J. Brock in an article at www.sartma.com.

43. Ellen Batten, as told to Elizabeth Perez, “The Faith of a Child-Light in Darkness,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

44. The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.

45. www.archives.gov.

46. www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu.

47. Time magazine, Dec. 15, 1941, “What the People Said,” www.time.com.

48. National Park Service Memorial to USS Arizona . www.nps.gov/usar.

49. Ibid.

50. Starting Point Bible , article on “Courage,” 1567.

51. Article by Ken James at christiananswers.net

52. Roger Hare, “An Angel Sent By History,” Navy Anecdotes , www.geocities.com/oralbio/harestory1.html.

53. From Henry Lauchenmayer’s diary, quoted in a New York Times article of 6 December 1998, by Irvin Molotsky.

54. Article by Carl Zebrowski, America in WWII Magazine , December 2006. www.americainwwii.com.

55. National Park Service Memorial, USS Arizona , www.nps.gov/usar.

56. Ibid.

57. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

58. Oral history excerpt, www.history.navy.mil.

59. William G. Farrow, 1 stLieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, www.arlingtoncemetery.net.

60. Ibid.

61. Ibid.

62. Jacob DeShazer, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” www.georgiasouthern.edu.

63. Ibid.

64. Ibid.

65. Prange, God’s Samurai , 187, 190.

66. Ibid., 200–204.

67. Ibid.

68. Fuchida, “From Pearl Harbor to Calvary,” www.biblebelievers.com.

69. Mike McLaughlin, “The Miracle Before Midway,” www.amvetsww2.org.

70. Oral History, Battle of Midway. Recollections of Commander John Ford, USNR. www.history.navy.mil.

71. www.history.navy.mil.

72. Ibid.

73. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854 memorializing the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

74. www.history.navy.mil

75. Ibid.

76. Oral History, Battle of Midway. www.history.navt.mil. Lt. Pollard later saw this man in the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, on his way to recovery.

77. Actually the destroyer Arashi , detached from the carrier force earlier to prosecute a submarine contact.

78. Account of Lt. Cdr. Wade McClusky, Battle of Midway, www.cv6.org.

79. Ibid.

80. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway , 7.

81. Morison, The Two-Ocean War , 24–25.