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 30 – THE INVASIONS OF SAIPAN, TINIAN, AND GUAM

1         Lockwood, Charles A., and Hans Christian Adamson, Battles of the Philippines Sea (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1967) p.36

2         Chaplin, John, Breaching the Mariannas, The Battle for Saipan (Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013) p.3

3         Lockwood, Battles of the Philippine Sea, p.71

4         Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.476

5         Brooks, Victor, Hell is Upon US, D-Day in the Pacific, Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944 (Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005) p.133

6         Ibid., p.132

7         Chaplin, Breaching the Marianas, The Battle for Saipan, p.1

8         Brooks, Hell is Upon US, p.139

9         Bix, Hirohito, p.476

10       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.476

11       Chaplin, Breaching the Marianas, p.3

12       Harwood, Richard, The Marine Landing on Tinian (Marines in World War II Commemorative Series, ibiblio, 1994) p.2

13       Chapin, Breaching the Marianas, p.14

14       Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.505

15       Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.305

16       Toland, Rising Sun, p.505

17       Potter, Nimitz, p.308

18       Ibid., p.313

19       Brooks, Hell is Upon Us, p.303

20       Ibid., p.303

21       Crowl, A. Philip, US Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, Campaign in the Marianas (Center of Military History, 1994) p.201

22       Crowl, Campaign in the Marianas, p.257

23       Ibid., p.257

24       Costello, The Pacific War, p.484

25       Ibid., p.221

26       Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Random House, New York, 1999) p.29

27       Ibid., p.29

28       Ibid., p.30

29       Ibid., p.5

30       Toland, Rising Sun, p.524

31       Ibid., p.509

32       Ibid., p.526

33       Ibid., p.525

34       Harwood, The Marine Landing on Tinian, p.9

35       Ibid., p.2

36       Prefer, Nathan, N., The Battle for Tinian, Vital Stepping Stone in America’s War Against Japan (Casemate, 2012) p.54

37       Ibid., p.54

38       Ibid., p.54

39       Ibid., p.76

40       Ibid., p.88

41       Harwood, The Marine Landing on Tinian, p.16

42       Prefer, The Battle for Tinian, p.92

43       Ibid., p.98

44       Harwood, The Marine Landing at Tinian, p.6

45       Ibid., p.12

46       Ibid., p.18

47         Frank, Benis M., Fortitudine: Newsletter of the Marine Corps Historical Program, Volumes 24-27 (History and Museums Division, US Marine Corps, 1994) p.36

48         Burbeck, James, The Invasion of Peleliu: www.The War Times Journal, wtj.com

49         Moran, Jim and Gordon L. Rottman, Peleliu, The Forgotten Corner of Hell (Osprey, Oxford, 2002) p.44

50         Ibid., p.51

51         Gayle, Brigadier-General Gordon D., Marines in World War II, Bloody Beaches, The Marines at Peleliu (Createspace Independent Publishing, 2013) p.9

52         Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.123

53         Gayle, The Marines at Peleliu, p.15

54         Ibid., p.3

55         Hough, Major Frank, The Umurbrogol Pocket (USMC Historical Monograph) p.155

56         Moran and Rottman, Peleliu, p.28

57         Gayle, The Marines at Peleliu, p.15

58         Stark, Norman P., LCDR: www.battle of saipan.com/Nstark

59         Ibid.,

60         Crowl, Campaign in the Marianas, p.445