41
Quote by Ray Martinez in Arizona History.
42
Ibid.
43
Ibid.; see also Konig, Michael F., «Towards Metropolis Status: Charter Government and the Rise of Phoenix, Arizona, 1945-1960» (Ph. D. diss., Arizona State University, 1983), 190, footnote 3.
44
Reynolds, Jean A., « We Made Our Life As Best We Could With What We Had: Mexican American Women in Phoenix, 1930-1949», M. A. thesis, Arizona State University, 1998, 58; Ray Martinez in Arizona History.
45
Preisler, Dennis, «Phoenix, Arizona During the 1940s: a Decade of Change», M. A. thesis, Arizona State University, 1992, 101-102; Konig, Michael F., «Towards Metropolitan Status: Charter Government and the Rise of Phoenix, Arizona, 1945-1960» (Ph. D. diss., Arizona State University, 1983) 166-168.
46
Prior to enlisting in the United States Army, Corporal Harry Cordova was in the 138th Infantry, Company K of the Arizona National Guard. Upon enlistment, Cordova joined the 90th Division of the Medical Corps, Third Army. He was killed in the Battle of Normandy in 1944 during a bombing of the hospital where he was stationed. Harry Cordova's brother, Luis Cordova, was the founder and president of the Latin American Club. See the Luis H. Cordova Collection (MSS-127), Box 1, Folder 2: «Latin American Club Papers». Chicano Research Collection. Department of Archives and Manuscripts. University Libraries. Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona.