Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 20 – BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA
1 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.301
2 Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul, The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, 2010) p.197
3 Ibid., p.199
4 Ibid., p.205
5 Barr, James A., Airpower Employment of the Fifth Air Force in the World War II Southwest Pacific Theater (M.A. Thesis, Maxwell Air Force Base, 1997) p.2
6 Hansell, Haywood S., The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir (Maxwell Air Force Base: Center For Air Force History, 1997) p.148
7 Ibid., p.149
8 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.300
9 Gailey, Harry A. MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004) p.28
10 Ibid., p.28
11 Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.461
12 Ibid., p.461
13 Lloyd and Hall, Backroom Briefings, John Curtin’s War (National Library of Australia, 1997)
14 Gailey, MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943–1944, p.16
15 Ibid., p.16
16 Ibid., p.16
17 Ibid., p.17
18 Ibid., p.18
19 Bradley, Philip, The Battle of Wau, New Guinea’s Frontline 1942 – 3 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008) p.69
20 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.245
21 Ibid., p.245
22 Ibid., p.274
23 Ibid., p.284
24 Ibid., p.284
25 Ibid., p.284
26 Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.23
27 Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2000) p.78
28 Ibid., p.70
29 Ibid., p.74
30 Bradley, Battle of Wau, p.181
31 Bradley, Philip, To Salamaua (Cambridge University Press, 2010) p.36
32 Bradley, Battle of Wau, p.176
33 Ibid., p.182
34 Bradley, Battle of Salamaua, p.22
35 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.592
36 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.108
37 Bradley, To Salamaua, p.29-30
38 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.309
39 Ibid., p.310
40 Ibid., p.312
41 Ibid., p.313
42 Ibid., p.313
43 Ibid., p.313
44 Prados, John, Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (New American Library, 2001) p.257
45 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.592
46 Dexter, David, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the war of 1939-1945, Volume VI (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961) p.444
47 Ibid., p.55
48 Ibid., p.21
49 Ibid., p.21
50 www.Salamaua.blogspot.de/2008/08/unforgettable-salamaua.html
51 Ibid.
52 Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.22
53 Ibid., p.83
54 Bradley, To Salamaua, p.130
55 Dexter, New Guinea Offensives, p.82
56 Ibid., p.79
57 Ibid., p.79
58 Ibid., p.80
59 Bradley, To Salamaua, p.166
60 Ibid., p.221
61 Ibid., p.221
62 Benson, S.E, The Story of the 42 Australian Infantry Battalion, (Sydney, 1952) p.116
63 Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.70
64 Bradley, To Salamaua, p.317
65 Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.65
66 Griffith, Mac’s Airman, p.126
67 Ibid., p.129
68 Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.58
69 Gamble, Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013) p.91
70 Ibid., p.96
71 McAulay, Lex, Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 3 March 1943 (Maryborough, Queensland: Banner Books, Maryborough, Queensland, 2008) p.39
72 Ibid., p.39
73 Ibid., p.45
74 Ibid., p.47
75 Ibid., p.47
76 Griffith, Mac’s Airman, p.131
77 McCaulay, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, p.53
78 Gamble, Target Rabaul, p.105
79 Ibid., p.105
80 McCauley, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, p.51
81 Odgers, George, Chapter 5 Air Support During Lae-Nadzab-Finschafen Operations. Vol II Air War Against Japan 1943 – 1945 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957)
82 Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.59
83 Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.332
84 Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964, (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.385
85 Ibid., p.385
86 Ibid., p.385
87 Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.390
88 Hopkins, William B., The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War (Zenith Press, 2008) p.152
89 Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.390