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- ↑ "1978–1979 Emmy Awards." infoplease.com, updated February 11, 2017. Accessed December 27, 2020. Archived from the original.
- ↑ "Friendly Fire". Turner Classic Movies . Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner . Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- 1 2 Gamarekian, Barbara. "Why Carol Burnett Made 'Friendly Fire'." The New York Times , April 21, 1979, p. 15. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Michael Eugene Mullen. Iowa Veterans Remembrance Project
- ↑ Bryan, Courtlandt Dixon Barnes (1976). Friendly Fire (1st ed.). New York City: Penguin Adult HC/TR. ISBN 978-0399116889.
- ↑ "Peg Mullen (1917- ): Papers, 1968-2003." Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. Accessed November 25, 2008.