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108.
Yamada, K
ketsu,
Ososugita seidan
, p. 148.

109.
Yoshida Yutaka,
Sh
wa tenn
no sh
senshi
(Iwanami Shinsho, 1992), p. 14.

110.
Kido K
ichi nikki, ge
, p. 1131, entry of July 26, 1944.

111.
Maboroshi dewa nakatta hondo kessen
, pp. 20–21.

112.
Yamada, K
ketsu,
Ososugita seidan
, pp. 167–68.

113.
For the full text, see Senda Kak
,
Tenn
to chokugo to Sh
washi
(Sekibunsha, 1983), p. 373.

114.
Nihon rikukaigun jiten
, pp. 109–12. American casualties in the Leyte and Philippine Sea battles numbered approximately fifteen thousand.

115.
STD
, p. 100;
Senshi s
sho 45: Dai hon'ei kaigunbu, reng
kantai (6)
(1970), p. 472.

116.
For the text of the balloon-bomb orders, see Morimatsu Toshio, ed., “
Dai hon'ei rikugunbu” tairikurei, tairikushi s
sh
sei, dai 9 kan, Sh
wa j
ky
nen
(Emutee Shuppan, 1994), pp. 270–71, 513, 532–33.