Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 28 – PACIFIC ISLAND HOP
1 Alexander, Joseph, H., Utmost Savagery, The Three Days of Tarawa (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008) p.19
2 Ibid., p.19
3 Ibid., p.20
4 Ibid., p.20
5 Combined Chiefs of Staffs (CCS) Trident Minutes: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/Conf/Trident/TRIDENT.PDF
6 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower, A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.337
7 Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.174
8 Buell, King, p.338
9 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.254-5
10 Ibid., p.255
11 Graham, Michael, Mantle of Heroism, Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts (Presidion Press, 1998) p.96
12 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.43
13 Graham, Tarawa, p.94
14 Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, p.189
15 Alexander, The Three Days of Tarawa, p.80
16 Ibid., p.83
17 Graham, Tarawa, p.110
18 Alexander, The Three Days of Tarawa, p.25
19 Ibid., p.31
20 Ibid., p.31
21 Ibid., p.35
22 Costello, The Pacific War, p.431
23 Alexander, The Three Days of Tarawa, p.40
24 Ibid., p.91
25 Ibid., p.92
26 Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.469
27 Stockman, Captain James R., Marines in World War II, The Battle for Tarawa (Battery Pr, 1987) p.7
28 Graham, Tarawa, p.231
29 Wukovits, John, The Battle of Tarawa, One Square Mile of Hell (NAL Caliber, NY, 2007) p.116
30 Ibid., p.115
31 Graham, Tarawa, p.160
32 Ibid., p.163
33 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.17
34 Ibid., p.17
35 Costello, The Pacific War, p.434
36 Sherrod, Robert, Tarawa, The Incredible Story of One of World War II’s Bloodiest Battles (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013: originally Pocket Books 1944) p.69
37 Costello, The Pacific War, p.434
38 Sherrod, Tarawa, p.96
39 Graham, Tarawa, p.239
40 Ibid., p.194
41 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.19
42 Sherrod, Tarawa, p.102
43 Wukovits, The Battle of Tarawa, p.121
44 McGaugh, Scott, Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives Under Enemy Fir from Valley Forge to Afghanistan (Osprey Publishing, 2012) p.75
45 Alexander, The Three Days of Tarawa, p.11
46 Wukovits, The Battle of Tarawa, p.153
47 Alexander, The Three Days of Tarawa, p.133
48 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.28
49 Wukovits, The Battle of Tarawa, p.193
50 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.41
51 Ibid., p.40
52 Sherrod, Tarawa, p.105
53 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.51
54 Sherrod, Tarawa, p.121
55 Stockman, The Battle for Tarawa, p.59
56 Wukovits, The Battle of Tarawa, p.186
57 Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Aleutians, Giberts and Marshalls, June 1942 - April 1944 (University of Illinois Press, First Illinois Paperback, 2002: First Published 1951) p.185
58 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.191
59 Wukovits, The Battle of Tarawa, p.217
60 Ibid., p.185
61 Graham, Tarawa, p.282
62 Costello, The Pacific War, p.438-9
63 Potter, Nimitz, p.261
64 Alexander, Three Days of Tarawa, p.11
65 Potter, Nimitz, p.264
66 Stockman, The Battle of Tarawa, p. 11
67 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.195-6
68 Potter, Nimitz, p.280
69 Buell, King, p.440-441
70 Ibid., p.441
71 Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King_ The Five Star Admirals Who won the War at Sea (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012) p.311
72 Ibid., p.312
73 Potter, Nimitz, p.282
74 Ibid., p.271
75 Ibid., p.249
76 Toland, The Pacific War, p.468
77 Buell, Thomas, The Quiet Warrior, A biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (Classics of Naval Literature, 2009) p.239
78 Toland, The Pacific War, p.470
79 Rottman, Gordon, The Marshall Islands 1944, Operation Flintlock, the capture of Kwajalein and Eniwetok (Osprey Publishing, 2004) p.49
80 Ibid., p.49
81 www.fightingfourth.com/namur.htm
82 Ibid.
83 http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=73
84 Graham, Tarawa, p.66
85 www.biblio.org 2nd Marine Battle reports, p.50
86 Ibid., p.51
87 Ibid., 6th Marines, p.58
88 www.carson.army.mil/UNITS/F7ID/F7ID_Historylong.htm
89 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.197
90 Costello, The Pacific War, p.451
91 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.200
92 Taylor, Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher (Naval Institute Press; New edition edition, March 2006: originally Norton Press 1954) p.145
93 Tillman Barrett, Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (New American Library, 2006) p.19
94 Ibid., p.19
95 www.originaldiving.com/Louisa Fisher, 21 June 2012
96 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.183
97 Lockwood, Charles A., Down to the Sea in Subs (W.W. Norton, New York, 1967) p.20
98 Ibid., p.20
99 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.188-9
100 Bradsher, Greg, The "Z Plan" Story Japan's 1944 Naval Battle Strategy Drifts into U.S. Hands (Fall 2005, Vol. 37, No. 3): www. archives.gov/zplan
101 Merriam, Ray, ed., The Combined Fleet Secret Dispatch 041213, Central Pacific Campaign and Operations, p.47