Notes - Hirohito's War
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