Vraciu's actions on June 19, 1944, are documented in chapter seven of Edward H. Sims (1962). Greatest Fighter Missions of the Top Navy and Marine Aces of World War II. New York: Harper. OCLC1349967. Vraciu's recollections of the day appear in «In the Hot Pacific Sun». Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society) 3 (4): 53-54. 1991.