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 18 – BUNA, GONA AND SANANANDER

1         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.50

2         World War II Magazine: Published Online: 12 June 2006

3         Nelson, Harold W., Papuan Campaign: Buna-Sanananda Operation: 16 November 1942 – 23 January 1943 (Diane Publishing Company, 1997) p.16

4         Gailey, Harry A., MacArthur's Victory: The War in New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004) p.8

5         Collie, Craig and Hajime Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, The Japanese on the Kodoka Track (Allen & Unwin, London, 2012) p.201

6         Bergerud, Eric, Fire in the Sky, The Air War in the South Pacific (Basic Books, 2008) p.603

7         McAuley, Lex, Into the Dragon's Jaws: The Fifth Air Force Over Rabaul, 1943 (Champlin Fighter Museum, 1987) p.19

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

9         Powell, Alan, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War (Australia Army History Series, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2003) p.52

10       Ibid., p.44

11       Duffy, James P., War at the End of the World, Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942 – 1945 (NAL Caliber, New York, 2016) p.148

12       McAuley, Lex, Into the Dragon's Jaws: The Fifth Air Force Over Rabaul, 1943 (Champlin Fighter Museum, 1987) p.19

13       Ibid., p.35

14       Collie and Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, p.202

15       Ibid., p.202

16       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.377

17       Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.215

18       Costello, The Pacific War, p.378

19       McCauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.48

20       Blakeley, Herbert W., Major General, Retired (6 May 1943). The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II (General Orders Number 21, War Department, p. 130-131. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009)

21       McAuley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.37

22       Milner, Samuel, Victory in Papua, WWII (Army Historical Office, Washington, 1957) p.196

23       McCauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.23

24       Ibid., p.23

25       Costello, The Pacific War, p.378

26       Ham, Paul, Kokoda (Bolinda Publishing, Australia, 2012) p.451

27       Ibid., p.451

28       Campbell, James, The Ghost Mountain Boys, Their Epic March and their Terrifying Battle for New Guinea, The Forgotten War of the South Pacific (Broadway Books, 2008) epilogue

29       Eichelberger, Robert L., Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (Viking Press, New York, 1950) p.21

30       Ham, Kokoda, p.451

31       McCauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaw, p.74

32       Ham, Paul, Kokoda, p.459

33       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.222

34       Costello, The Pacific War, p.379

35       Ham, Kokoda, p.458

36       McAuley, Into the Dragon’s Jaw, p.75

37       Ibid., p.83

38       Griffith, Thomas E., Jr., MacArthur's Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998) p.93

39       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.127

40       McAuley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.87

41       Ibid., p.95

42       Ham, Kokoda, p.461

43       Costello, The Pacific War, p.380

44       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.115

45       Ham, Kokoda, p.463

46       Nelson, Papuan Campaign, p.44

47       Morrison, Ian, Our Japanese Foe (Putnam, New York, 1943) p.6-7

48       Campbell, The Ghost Mountain Boys, p.431

49       Collie and Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, p.234

50       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.119

51       Ibid., p.119

52       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.225

53       Ibid., p.225

54       Collie and Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, p.246

55       McAuley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.230-1

56       Collie and Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, p.253

57       Campbell, The Ghost Mountain Boys, p.553

58       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.284

59       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.239

60       Ibid., p.253

61       Manchester, American Caesar, p.355

62       Ibid., p.355

63       Manchester, American Caesar, p.370

64       Ibid., p.370

65       Ibid., p.376

66       Ham, Kokoda, p.481

67       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.263

68       Ibid., p.286

69       Ham, Kokoda, p.484

70       Milner, Victory in Papua, p.347

71       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.290

72       Ham, Kokoda, p.513

73       Johnston, George H., New Guinea Diary (University of Michigan, 2008) p.212

74       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.142

75       Milner, Victory in Papua, p.370

76       Costello, The Pacific War, p.381

77       Milner, Victory in Papua, p.323

78       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.142

79       Milner, Victory in Papua, p.374

80       Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.207

81       Powell, The Third Force, p.208

82       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.195

83       Ibid., p.195

84       James, Karl, The Hard Slog: Australians in the Bougainville Campaign (Cambridge University Press, 2012) p.18

85       Ibid., p.18

86       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.121

87       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.139

88       Manchester, American Caesar, p.377

89       Ibid., p.352

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

91       Manchester, American Caesar, p.349

92       Eichelberger, General Robert, Our jungle Road to Tokyo (Canberra Times, 22 September 1950)

93       Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.343

94       Ibid., p.362

95       Fath, Major Mathew H., Intrepidity, Iron Will, and Intellect. General Robert L. Eichelberger and Military Genius (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1992) p.14

96       Mcauley, Into the Dragon’s Jaws, p.133

97       Campbell, The Ghost Mountain Boys, p.275

98       Griffith, Macs Airman, p.94

99       Ibid., p.94

100     Ibid., p.94

101     Johnston, Campaign for New Guinea, p.219

102     Gilpatrick, Kristin, The Hero Next Door: Stories from Wisconsin’s World War II Veterans (Badger Books Inc., 2001) p.171