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- ↑ "Officers Named Under Postal Plan," New York Times, 2 February 1940.
- ↑ "K.E. Stockton Dies; A Cable Executive," New York Times, May 12, 1950, p. 27.
- ↑ E. B. Potter, Bull Halsey (Naval Institute Press, 1985): 373.
- ↑ Ellery W. Stone, an oral history conducted in 1974 by Frank Polkinghorn, IEEE History Center, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
