Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 21 – YAMAMOTO ASSASSINATED AND THE BATTLE OF NEW GEORGIA
1 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.403
2 Ibid., p.401
3 Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul, The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, 2010) p.329
4 Ibid., p.340
5 Ibid., p.341
6 Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.441
7 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.296
8 Ibid., p.298
9 Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.xvii
10 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.261
11 Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013) p.38
12 Ibid., p.39
13 Ibid., p.39
14 Ibid., p.40
15 Ibid., p.40
16 www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/japan/hamp-eb201.html
17 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.330
18 Ibid., p.330
19 Prados, John, Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (New American Library, 2001) p.248
20 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.348
21 Toland, Rising Sun, p.437
22 Ibid., p.437
23 Ibid., p.437
24 Ibid., p.437
25 Roosevelt, President Franklin D., Casablanca Conference, Radio address, February 12, 1943 (The Public Papers of F.D. Roosevelt, Vol. 12, p. 71): www.ibiblio.org retrieved August 27, 2012
26 Middleton, Drew, On This Day, "Roosevelt, Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy,” January 24, 1943: www.nytimes.com retrieved August 27, 2012
27 Costello, The Pacific War, p.410
28 Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VI: Breaking the Bismarck’s Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944” 1950 (Little Brown, New York, 1950) p. 225-27
29 Koomey, Jonathan G., and John P. Holdren, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving (Analytics Press, 2001) p.96
30 Morrison, Breaking the Bismarck Barrier, p.147
31 McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.314
32 Ibid., p.314
33 Ibid., p.544
34 McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.345
35 Ibid., p.345
36 Ibid., p.369
37 Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II (Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1983) p.244
38 Costello, The Pacific War, p.411
39 Dexter, David, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Volume VI (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961) p.365
40 McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.365
41 Gailey, Harry A., Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign (Kentucky University Press, 2003) p.30
42 Costello, The Pacific War, p.413
43 McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.414
44 Ibid., p.382
45 Ibid., p.409
46 Dexter, The New Guinea Offensive, p.226
47 Costello, The Pacific War, p.414