Jack Toffey's War: A Son's Memoir

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . n o t e s ........................................................... chapter 1. the first letter 1. The staff of Lane Libraries, Hamilton, Ohio, has graciously recalled these details for me. 2. All quotations pertaining to Hershberger’s death are from the Cincinnati Inquirer, August 3, 1940. 3. The national statistics in this paragraph are from Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time (New York, 1995), 42–43. 4. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (New York, 1952), 31–32. 5. Cincinnati Inquirer, August 3, 1940. 6. Frank E. Vandiver, Illustrious Americans: John J. Pershing (Morristown, N.J., 1967), 228. 7. New York Times, August 8, 1940. 8. Jersey City Journal, November 13, 1934. chapter 2. young jack 1. Documents pertaining to Jack Senior’s service, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Jersey State Archives and the New Jersey Adjutant General’s office. 2. M. Blumenson, Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885–1945 (New York, 1985), 62. 3. Quoted from an unsigned summary of Jack Senior’s service record attached to a letter from William N. Beach to Frank H. Smith dated July 22, 1932, in the New Jersey State Archives. 4. Ernie Pyle, Home Country (New York, 1947), 14. 5. Descriptions of Exeter in 1925 drawn from H. D. Curwen, ed., Exeter Remembered (Exeter, 1965). 6. CMTC material from Donald Kingston, Forgotten Summers (San Francisco, 1995). 7. Porter Sargent Staff. Handbook of Independent Schools 1927, 130, and Cheshire Academy Alumni Magazine, Summer 2000. 8. College quotations from the Wells College Cardinal 1930, 35; courtesy of the Wells College Alumni Office. ‘‘A Little Hut in Hoboken,’’ words by Arthur Schwartz, music by Herman Hupfield, from The Little Show, 1929. Song background courtesy of the Hoboken Public Library. Hupfield, of course, did better with something called As Time Goes By. 9. Apparently the Wilson Company acquired the rights to the painting and used it to promote their line of athletic equipment. In their version the fishing rod has given way to a couple of Wilson balls. On the advertising flyer, local purveyors of Wilson products could put their names and addresses beneath the picture. 10. Wedding details from accounts in the Columbus Citizen, August 18, 1930, and New York Evening Post, August 25, 1930. 11. Sources for information about Jack Senior’s appointment from various issues of the New York Times and correspondence from the New Jersey State Archives. 12. Information on Dad’s National Guard service from the New Jersey Adjutant General’s office. chapter 3. fort dix and the forty-fourth division 1. For example, in Boston on September 11, 1940. Quoted, among other places, in William Langer and S. Everett Gleason, The Undeclared War of 1940– 1941 (Gloucester, 1968), 202. 2. New York Times, September 14, 1940. 3. Ibid., September 21, 1940. 4. Langer and Gleason, Undeclared War, 20. 5. Accounts of training at Ft. Dix from various reports in the New York Times, September and October 1940. 6. New York Times, October 8, 1940. 7. K. R. Greenfield, R. R. Palmer, and B. I. Wiley, The Army Ground Forces: The Organization of Combat Troops (Washington, 1947), 1, 48. 8. New York Times, July 17, 1941. 9. Letter to his ‘‘Grandma,’’ while ‘‘On Picket near the Rappahanock [sic],’’ Dec. 27, 1862. Typed copy of this and other of John’s letters in the possession of the author. 10. Letter to his parents dated April 17, 1865. 11. Letter to his ‘‘Grandma,’’ dated July 11, 1865. 12. Report dated August 16, 1941. Carbon copy in the possession of the author. 236 : Notes to pages 9–31 13. Copy of McCormick’s script provided by the McCormick Research Center, Wheaton, Illinois. 14. Langer and Gleason, Undeclared War, 743. 15. Issue of September 15, 1941. 16. Drum quoted in New York Times, October 4, 1941. 17. See C. R. Gabel, The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 (Washington, 1992). 18. New York Times, October 9, 1940. 19. Quoted in Greenfield, Palmer, and Wiley, Army Ground Forces, 46. 20. Letter dated December 30, 1941. Original in the possession of the author. chapter 4. coast to coast, 1942 1. Duncan Hines, Adventures in Good Eating (Bowling Green, 1941), 127. According to Hines, breakfasts at the hotel cost between thirty-five and sixty cents, lunches forty cents and up, and dinners eighty cents and up. 2. Jack A. Marshall, who as a new second lieutenant was in the regiment...