Sources:
"A Blue Sea of Blood", Zenith Press 2008, Don Kehn Jr., ISBN978-0-7603-3353-2
"Pawns of War", Naval Institute Press 1983, Dwight Messimer, ISBN
"In the highest degree Tragic", Potomac Books 2017, Donald M Kehn Jr.
"The fleet the gods forgot"
Battle report of Battleship division three, Imperial Japanese Navy 1942, via Captain Walt Nix USN, Chief M.A.A.G Tokyo Japan 1983-85
"Another Six Hundred", Self Published, Lt. Cdr J Daniel Mullins
Interviews:
Charles Riggio NOK Philip Riggio SM1
William Warnes
Fred Harrison
John Burgoyne Sr. NOK John Leo Burgoyne Coxswain
Charlotte Himmelman NOK Leroy Himmelman TM3, Otto Himmelman Sea 1st
Kelley Gearey Thaw NOK Henry F Thaw EM1
Daniel Mullins
Periodicals:
Shipmate 1980
Videos:
Filmed by Lt. J.J. Nix and Ella Vanna Washington Nix, 1930 to 1939
JJ Nix's Asiatica, Jim Nix 2006 copyright holder