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 12 – THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA

1       Millot, Bernard, Battle of the Coral Sea (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd., 1974) p.35

2       Symonds, Craig L., The Battle of Midway (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) p.96

3       Ibid., p.96

4       Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea (I-Books, 2003) p.11

5       Lundstrom, John B., Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal (Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 2006) p.143

6       Ibid., p.146

7       Millot, Battle of the Coral Sea, p.50

8       Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.151

9       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.252

9       Ibid., p.161

10     Ibid., p.161

11     Ibid., p.162

12     Ibid., p.162

13     Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.159

14     Ibid., p.159

15     Ibid., p.159

16     Ibid., p.160

17     Ibid., p.161

18     Ibid., p.163

19     Cris, Henry, The Battle of the Coral Sea (Compendium, 2003) p.55

20     Millot, Battle of the Coral Sea, p.71

21     Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.343

22     Ibid., p.343

23     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.171

24     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.71

25     Henry, Chris, Coral Sea, Naval Intelligence Combat Reports, p.58

26     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.174

27     Ibid., p.176

28     Ibid., p.177

29     Ibid., p.178

30     Ibid., p.178-9

31     Millot, Battle of the Coral Sea, p.78

32     Lundstrom, Fletcher at the Coral Sea, p.174

33     Ibid., p.180

34     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.79

35     Lundstrom, Fletcher at the Coral Sea, p.182

36     Hoyt, The Battle of Coral Sea, p.79

37     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.188

38     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.93

39     Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.360

40     Hoyt, The Battle of Coral Sea, p.118

41     Ibid., p.120

42     Ibid., p.120

43     Henry, Chris, The Battle of the Coral Sea, p.74

44     Hoyt, The Battle of Coral Sea, p.96

45     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.99

46     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.191

47     Hoyt, The Battle of Coral Sea, p.86

48     Costello, The Pacific War, p.258

49     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.195

50     Ibid., p.195

51     Ibid., p.194

52     Ibid., p.194

53     Ibid., p.197

54     Hoyt, The Battle of Coral Sea, p.145

55     Lippman, David H., Battle of the Coral Sea: www.avalanchepress.com/coral_sea_4.php

56     Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.199

57     Ibid., p.199

58     Ibid., p.199

59     Ibid., p.199

60     Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.373

61     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.200

62     www.pwencycl.kgbudge.com/Bibliography.htm#Werneth_2008

63     Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.81

64     Ibid., p.82

65     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.109

66     Hoyt, The Battle of the Coral Sea, p.197

67     Millot, Battle of Coral Sea, p.110

68     Lundstrom, Fletcher at Coral Sea, p.203