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 17 – BATTLES OF HENDERSON FIELD AND THE THE SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

1       Hornfischer, James. D., Neptune’s Inferno, The US Navy at Guadalcanal (Bantam Books, New York, 2011) p.160

2       Ibid., p.171

3       Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.392

4       Frank, Richard B, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000) p.311

5       Ibid., p.310

6       Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.187

7       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.136

8       Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.393

9       Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.317

10     Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.393

11     McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.130

12     Leckie, Robert, Challenge for the Pacific: The Bloody Six Month Battle of Guadalcanal (Da Capo Press, 1999) p.289

13     Ibid., p.247

14     Toland, Rising Sun, p.394

15     Harries, Meirion, Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army (Random House, reprint: 1994) p.338

16     Toland, Rising Sun, p.393

17     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.351

18     Ibid., p.270

19     Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.311

20     Ibid., p.311

21     Ibid., p.313

22     Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.357

23     Zimmerman, Major John L., The Guadalcanal Campaign (USMCR Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1949) p.124

24     Who's Who in Marine Corps History (History Division, United States Marine Corps)

25     Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.313

26     Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.125

27     Costello, The Pacific War, p.358

28     Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.242

29     Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.128

30     Prados, John, Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (New American Library, 2001) p.138

31     Ibid., p.138

32     Hammel, Eric, Carrier Clash, The Invasion of Guadalcanal & the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (Pacifica Press, Pacifica CA, 1997) p.191

33     Ibid., p.241

34     Ibid., p.241

35     Ibid., p.249

36     Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.232

37     Hammel, Carrier Clash, p.306

38     Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.346

39     Lundstrom, John B., The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign, Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2013) p.446

40     Hammel, Carrier Clash, p.358

41     Ibid., p.358

42     Prados, Islands of Destiny, p.152

43     Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.347

44     Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.231

45     Frank, Srategy, Command and the Solomons, p.403

46     Ibid., p.401

47     Ibid., p.401

48     Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.235

49     Ibid., p.235

50     Hara, Tameichi, Japanese Destroyer Captain (1961, Ballantine Books, New York & Toronto) p.135

51     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.403

52     McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.149

53     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.407

54     Ibid., p.407

55     Ibid., p.366

56     Costello, The Pacific War, p.359

57     Inui, Genjirou, My Guadalcanal (A Diary): www.nettally.com/jrube/Genjirou/genjirou.htm

58     Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.126

59     Ibid., p.128

60     Potter, Admiral Bull Halsey, p.180

61     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.441

62     McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.160

63     Leckie, Robert, Helmet for My Pillow (Ebury Press, London, 2010) p.291

64     Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.276

65     Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.84

66     Ibid., p.84

67     Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.280

68     Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.118

69     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.465

70     Ibid., p.477

71     Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.395

72     Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.486

73     Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.397

74     Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.113

75     Ibid., p.115

76     McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.196