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- ↑ "Hawaii War Records Depository HWRD 1372". Hawaii War Records Depository Photos. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- 1 2 3 Stentiford, Barry (4 June 2002). The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century. Texas A&M University Press. p. 151. ISBN 9781585441815.
- ↑ "Hawaii War Records Depository HWRD 1329". Hawaii War Records Depository Photos. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ↑ Greenberg, Martin (18 November 2005). Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism . University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780822942641.
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