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 13 – BATTLE OF MIDWAY

1         Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.268

2         Keegan, John, Battle at Sea, From Man-of-War to Submarine (Pimlico, London, 2004) p.184

3         Parshall, Jonathan and Antony Tully, Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Potomac Books Inc., 2005) p.400

4        Symonds, Craig L., The Battle of Midway (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) p.178

5         Ibid., p.179

6         Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.280

7         Ibid., p.305

8         Kernan, Alvin, The Unknown Battle of Midway, The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008) p.6

9         Costello, The Pacific War, p.271

10       Ibid., p.274

11       Holmes, W.J., Double-edged Secrets: US Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2013) p.56

12       Costello, The Pacific War, p.278

13       Potter, Potter, E.B, Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.95

14       Kernan, Alvin, The Unknown Battle of Midway, The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (Yale University Press, Yale, 2005) p.26

15       Ibid., p.30

16       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.35

17       Potter, Nimitz, p.85

18       Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.83

19       Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.84

20       Ibid., p.85

21       Potter, Nimitz, p.86

22       Costello, The Pacific War, p.282

23       Ibid., p.285

24       Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.214

25       Nesmith, Jeff, No Higher Honor: The USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway (Longstreet, 1999) p.109

26       Parshall and Tully, Shattered Sword, p.107

27       Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.224

28       Ibid., p.225

29       Ibid., p.225

30       Parshall & Tully, The Battle of Midway, p.200

31       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.212

32       Potter, Nimitz, p.95

33       Costello, The Pacific War, p.289

34       Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.200

35       Ibid., p.198

36       Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.243

37       Ibid., p.244

38       Costello, The Pacific War, p.292

39       Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.198

40       Costello, The Pacific War, p.292

41       Ibid., p.293

42       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.71

43       Costello, The Pacific War, p.293

44       Ibid., p.294

45       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.71

46       Symonds, Craig L., The Battle of Midway (Oxford University Press, USA, 2011) p.260

47       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.101

48       Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.203

49       Thomas, Joseph, Leadership Embodied: The Secrets to Success of the Most Effective Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2014) p.80

50       Smith, Peter Charles, Midway, Dauntless Victory: Fresh Perspectives on America’s Seminal Naval Victory of World War II (Pen & Sword Maritime, 2007) p.141

51       Stille, Mark, USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific 1942 (Osprey Publishing, 2012) p.63

52       Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.205

53       Ibid., p.205

54       Saturday Evening Post, 26 March 1929

55       Costello, The Pacific War, p.298

56       Werneth, Ron, Beyond Pearl Harbor, The Untold Story of Japan’s Naval Airmen (Schiffer Military History, 2008) p.121

57       Costello, The Pacific War, p.299

58       Parshall & Tully, Shattered Sword, p.463

59       Ibid., p.463

60       Costello, The Pacific War, p.303

61       Ibid., p.304

62       Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.471

63       Costello, The Pacific War, p.305

64       Ibid., p.309

65       Ibid., p.304

66       Parshall & Tully, Shattered Sword, p.386

67       Ibid., p.387

68       Ibid., p.387

69       Ibid., p.386

70       Bradford, James, Quarterdeck and Bridge, Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2013) p.

71       Lord, Walter, Incredible Victory (Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 2000) Foreword

72       Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.478

73       Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.389

74       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.128

75       Ibid., p.128

76       Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway, p.135

77       Parshall & Tully, Battle of Midway, p.400

78       Ibid., p.400

79       Ibid., p.401

80       Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki (Praeger Publishers Inc., Westport, Connecticut, 1993) p.63

81       Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.18

82       Wilmot, H.P., The Barrier and Javelin, Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2008) p.518

83       Parshall & Tully, Battle of Midway, p.430

84       Symonds, The Battle of Midway, p.358