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- ↑ Hasegawa, Susan (2008). Japanese Americans in San Diego. Arcadia Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 9780738559513.
- ↑ "This American Marine Is Oriental and Female". San Bernardino County Sun. Jan 8, 1970. p. 21.
- 1 2 Stremlow, Mary (1986). A History of the Women Marines, 1946-1977. Washington DC: University of Michigan Library. pp. 39–100.
- ↑ Cates Lacy, Linda (2004). We Are the Marines! World War I to the Present. Tar Heels Chapter, NC-1, Women Marines Association. p. 154. ISBN 9781599758879.