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 14 – AUSTRALIA AND THE BATTLES OF THE KODODA TRAIL

1         Frank, Richard B, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000) p.9

2         Ibid., p.1

3         Ibid., p.21

4         Johnston, George H., The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II, The Toughest Fighting in the World (Westholme, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2011) p.56

5         Williams, Peter, The Kokoda Campaign, 1942, Myth and Reality (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012) p.17

6          James, Dr. Karl, The Track (Military History Section, Australian War Memorial, Canberra 2009) p.7

7         Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.303

8         Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.4

9         Ibid., p.4

10       Ibid., p.8

11       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.62

12       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.51

13       Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.13

14       Ham, Paul, Kokoda (Bolinda Publishing 2012) p.9

15       Ibid., p.65

16       Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.206

17       Ibid., p.11

18       Ibid., p.11

19       Ibid., p.15

20       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.27

21       Ibid., p.33

22       Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.345

23       James, The Track, p.8

24       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.129

25       Powell, Alan, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War (Australia Army History Series, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2003) p.43-4

26       Austin, Victor, To Kokoda and Beyond: The Story of the 39th Battalion, 1941 – 1943 (Melbourne University Press, 1988) p.173

27       Powell, The Third Force, p.48

28       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.126

29       James, The Track, p.10

30       Costello, The Pacific War, p.318

31       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.67

32       www.ergo.slv.vic.gov.au

33       James, The Track, p.13

34       Ham, Kokoda, p.181

35       www.kokoda.commemoration.gov.au

36       James, The Track, p.14

37       Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.349

38       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.174

39       Collie, Craig & Hajime Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012) p.92

40       Ibid., p.93

41       James, The Track, p.16

42       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.85

43       Ibid., p.85

44       Ibid., p.85

45       Costello, The Pacific War, p.318

46       Brune, Peter, A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua (Crows Nest, New South Wales, 2003) p.257-8

47       Ibid., p.258

48       Ham, Kokoda, p.295

49       Keogh. E.G, South West Pacific 1941–45 (Melbourne: Grayflower Publications, 1965) p.216

50       Ham, Kokoda, p.101

51       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.355

52       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.149

53       Ibid., p.160

54       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.138

55       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.226

56       Ham, Kokoda, p.301

57       Ibid., p.308

58       Costello, The Pacific War, p.337

59       Ham, Kokoda, p.313

60       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.356

61       James, The Track, p.20

62       Collie, Craig, and Hajime Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012) p.144-5

63       James, The Track, p.19-20

64       Johnson, Pacific Fury, p.163

65       Ibid., p.162

66       Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul, The Battle for the Southwest Pacific (Zenith Press, Mineapolis, 2010) p.277

67       Yuki Yukite Shingun: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Documentary, 1987)

68       Ham, Kokoda, p.346

69       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.358

70       Ibid., p.358

71       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.358

72       Ham, Kokoda, p.347

73       Ibid., p.526

74       Johnson, Campaign for New Guinea, p.123

75       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.92

76       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.124

77       Ibid., p.124-5

78       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.343

79       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p. 121

80       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.346

81       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.98

82       Ibid., p.101

83       Collie, Craig, and Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, p.190

84       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.235

85       McAulay, Lex, Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 3 March 1943 (Maryborough, Queensland: Banner Books, Maryborough, Queensland, 2008) p.75

86       Ibid., p.86

87       Williams, The Kokoda Campaign, p.236

88       Wakabayashi, Bob, Tadashi, Emperor Hirohito on Localized Aggression in China (York University, Toronto) p.18

89       Ibid., p.18