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 15 – GUADALCANAL: BATTLES OF TULAGI, SAVO ISLAND, TENARU AND EAST SOLOMONS

1          Gamble, Bruce, Invasion Rabaul (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2006) p.75

2          Ibid., p.123

3          Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013) p.118

4          Ibid., p.118

5          Ibid., p.119

6          Ibid., p.120

7          Costello, John, The Pacific War (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.214

8          Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.36

9          Ibid., p.36

10        Zimmerman, Major John L., The Guadalcanal Campaign (USMCR Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1949) p.3

11        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.70

12        Koberger, Charles, Pacific Turning Point: The Solomons Campaign, 1942-1943 (Praeger, 1995) p.19

13        Costello, The Pacific War, p.319

14        Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970) p.347

15        Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.325

16        Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970) p.347

17        Leckie, Robert, Challenge for the Pacific (Da Capo Press, 1999) p.58

18        Zimmeman, Major John L., The Guadalcanal Campaign (USMCR Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1949) p.36

19        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.20

20        Ibid., p.50

21        Ibid., p.51

22        Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2010) p.212

23        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.78

24        Costello, The Pacific War, p.319

25        Zimmerman, The Guadalcanal Campaign, p.28

26        Gamble, Fortress, p.217

27        Sakai, Saburo and Barrett Tillman, Samurai! (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2010)

28        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.211

29        Ibid., p.208

30        Sakai, Samurai!, p.160-162

31        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.105

32        Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.51

33        Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.213

34        Ibid., p.221

35        Ibid., p.223

36        Ibid., p.224

37        Ibid., p.231

38        Ibid., p.231

39        Ibid., p.232

40        Ibid., p.258

41        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.97

42        Lewis, Winston B. and Henry A. Mustin, The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942 (US Naval Historical Centre 1993)

43        McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII) (BMC Publications, 2002) p.45

44        Warner, Denis, Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island (Naval Institute Press, 1992) p.100

45        Lundstrom, John B., First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Naval Institute Press, 2005)

46        Frank, Richard B., Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000) p.89

47        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.114

48        McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.52

49        Bates, Richard, The Battle of Savo Island, Strategical and Tactical Analysis Part I (Naval War College, Annapolis, 1950) p.339

50        Lewis, B. Lewis, The Battle of Savo Island (Publication Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence, 1943) p.20

51        Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.333

52        McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.58

53        Bates, Richard, The Battle of Savo Island, p.353

54        Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.181

55        Bates, The Battle of Savo Island, p.339

56        www.nettaly.com/jrube/@guadaug.html

57        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.122

58        Ibid., p.123

59        Hornfischer, James. D., Neptune’s Inferno, The US Navy at Guadalcanal (Bantam Books, New York, 2011) p.83

60        Potter, Nimitz, p.183

61        McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.65

62        Ibid., p.65

63        Bates, Richard, The Battle of Savo Island, Strategical and Tactical Analysis Part I (Naval War College, 1950) p.349

64        Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury, p.337

65        McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.65

66        Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal, p.123

67        Ibid., p.122

68        Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.82

69        McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.66

71        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.122

72        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.163

73        Ibid., p.164

73        Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.222

74        Ibid., p.223

75        Costello, The Pacific War, p.326-7

76        Hopkins William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.115

77        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.76

78        Ibid., p.486

79        www.nettaly.com/jrube/@guadaug.html

80        Ibid.,

81        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.79

82        Ibid., p.168

83        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.134

84        Ibid., p.129

85        Ibid., p.130

86        Costello, The Pacific War, p.329

87        Ibid., p.329

88        Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.172

89        Ibid., p.173

90        Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal (Random House, New York, 2000) p.259

91        Costello, The Pacific War, p.329

92        World War II: The War in the Pacific: Movie 2010

93        Frank, Richard B., Guadlacanal, p.260

94        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.153

95        Hough, Frank O., Verle E. Ludwig and Henry I. Shaw, eds., Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal: History of US Marine Corp Operations in WWII

96        Van de Vat, Dan, The Pacific Campaign, The US Naval War 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991) p.221

97        Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.154

98        Hammel, Eric, Battle of the East Solomons (Pacifica Press, Pacifica, CA,1997) p.217

99        Naval Intelligence, The Battle of the Eastern Solomons: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-ESols/USN-CN-ESolomons-4.html, p.65

100       Ibid., p.65

101       www.seastories.battleshipnc.com/baptism-of-fire/

102       Frank, Guadlacanal, p.185

103       Naval Intelligence, The Battle of the Eastern  Solomons: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-ESols/USN-CN-ESolomons-4.html p.63

104       Ibid., p.63

105       Frank, Guadlacanal, p.191

106       Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.118

107       Ibid., p.118

108       Mustin, Lieutenant Henry, Office of Naval Intelligence: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN-ESolomons

109       McGee, The Solomons Campaigns, p.89

110       Frank, Guadlacanal, p.175