Notes - Hirohito's War
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