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- ↑ "United States Navy, 7.12.1941".
- ↑ Admiral King Second Report, 1944-45, issued 1945
- ↑ HyperWar, DANFS: USS Wasatch (AGC-9), accessed August 2010
- ↑ USS Indianapolis
- Samuel Eliot Morison. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II... Victory in the Pacific 1945. ISBN 0-7858-1315-2.
