Notes - Hirohito's War

   
Chapter 1 - Empires in Conflict
Chapter 2 - Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy
Chapter 3 - Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War
Chapter 4 - Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
Chapter 6 - Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle
Chapter 7 - Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
Chapter 8 - Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
Chapter 9 - Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
Chapter 10 - Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
Chapter 11 - Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
Chapter 12 - Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier ‘Shoot-Out’
Chapter 13 - Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day
Chapter 14 - Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant
Chapter 15 - Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons
Chapter 16 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge
Chapter 17 - Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands
Chapter 18 - Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
Chapter 19 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
Chapter 20 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
Chapter 21 - Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
Chapter 22 - The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
Chapter 23 - The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
Chapter 24 - The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever
Chapter 25 - The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina
Chapter 26 - Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’
Chapter 27 - Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory
Chapter 28 - Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines
Chapter 29 - The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
Chapter 30 - The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
Chapter 31 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
Chapter 32 - “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines
Chapter 33 - The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s ‘Mandalay Feint’
Chapter 34 - Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
Chapter 35 - The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
Chapter 36 - LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
Chapter 37 - Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
APPENDIX A - SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR
APPENDIX B - RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS
APPENDIX C - ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX D - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY
APPENDIX E - TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE
APPENDIX K - THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG
APPENDIX L - THE BATTLES OF ATTU AND KISKA
APPENDIX N - THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX O - JAPANESE–SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

CHAPTER 10 – DUTCH EAST INDIES AND THE QUEST FOR OIL

1          Kessler, Franz L., The Battle for Miri and Sarawak, WWII: www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=17&id=19648

2          Klemen, L., The Netherlands East Indies 1941-2 : www.dutcheastindies.web.com

3          Kessler, The Battle for Miri and Sarawak: www.authorsden.com

4          Foreign Affairs, Dutch East Indies Adrift, July 1940

5          www.dutch-east-indies.com/elizabethKampen    

6          Ibid.,

7          Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.190

8          Schofield, Victoria, Wavell, Soldier & Statesman (John Murray, London, 2006) p.234

9          Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.132

10        Shores, Christopher F., Brian Cull, Izawa Yasuho, Bloody Shambles: Volume Two (Grub Street Publishing 2002) p.255

11        www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/aerialdefense.aspx

12        Sheppard, W.A. and E.B. Gilmore, Narrative Statement, Typescript (Collection of the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, Air Force Base, Alabama, 1945) p.41

13        Bartsch, William, H., Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 (Texas A&M University Military History Series, 2010) p.59

14        Cull, Brian, and Paul Sortehaug, Hurricanes Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942 (Grub Street, London, 2004) p.207

15        Ibid., p.208

16        Ibid., p.208

17        www.oocities.org/dutcheastindies/java.html

18        Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.205

19        Ibid., p.205

20        Ibid., p.203

21        Wilmot, H.P., Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Naval Institute Press, 2008) p.337-8

22        Bartsch, William H., 8 December 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor (Texas A&M University Press, Texas, 2003) p.200

23        Ibid., p.260

24        Shepherd and Gilmore, Narrative Statement, p.38

25        Kiser, G.E., Historical Information. Typescript (collection of the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, Air Force Base, AL., undated) p.4

26        Bartsch, MacArthur’s Pearl Harbor, p.260

27        Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles (Grub Street Publishing 2002) p.255

28        Bartsch, Every Day a Nightmare, p.200

29        Ibid., p.202

30        www.dutcheastindies.web

31        Ibid.,

32        www.2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=23

33        www.dutcheastindies.web

34        Ibid.,

35        van Kampen, Elizabeth, Memoir, Dossier 5284 (Dutch National Archive in The Hague): www.dutch-east-indies.com

36        www.dutcheastindies.web

37        Krancher, Jan A., The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-49 (McFarland & Co., 2003) p.26

38        Ockerse, Ralph, and Evelijn Blaney, Our Childhood in the Former Colonial Dutch East Indies (Xlibris, US, 2011) p.74

39        Kampen, Witness no.21: www.dutch-east-indies.com

40        Kampen, Witness no.31: www.dutch-east-indies.com

41        Kampen, Memoir: www.dutch-east-indies.com

42        Ibid.,

43        Krancher, Dutch East Indies, p.26

44        Ibid., p.166

45        Ibid., p.27

46        Ibid., p.39

47        Ibid., p.40

48        Ibid., p.19

49        Kampen, Memoir, www.dutch-east-indies.com, p.35

50        Ibid., p.45

51        Krancher, Dutch East Indies, p.88

52        Ibid., p.89

53        Ibid., p.75

54        Ibid., p.74

55        Ibid., p.74

56        Ibid., p.74

57        Ibid., p.169

58        Ibid., p.201

59        Ibid., p.204

60        Ibid., p.17

61        Kampen, Memoir, www.dutch-east-indies.com, p.40

62        Kampen, witness no.30: www.dutch-east-indies.com

63        Krancher, Dutch East Indies, p.171

64        Ibid., p.23

65        Ibid., p.23

66        Ibid., p.20

67        Ibid., p.80

68        Ibid., p.73