Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 34 – IWO JIMA
1 Buell, Thomas B., The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987; reissue 2009) p.330
2 Ibid., p.330
3 Ibid., p.338
4 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.358
5 Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.641
6 Wright, Derrick, The Battle For Iwo Jima 1945 (Sutton Publishing, paperback, Stroud, 2003) p.35-36
7 Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.292
8 Kakehashi, Kumiko, So sad to fall in Battle: An account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima (Presidio Press, 2007) p.47
9 Toland, Rising Sun, p.643
10 Antill, P., The Battle for Iwo Jima: www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_iwojima.html
11 Toland, Rising Sun, p.644
12 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.542
13 Ibid., p.543
14 Buell, Admiral Raymond Spruance, p.340
15 MacArthur, General Douglas, Reminiscences (Naval Institute Press, 2012: first published 1964) p.197
16 Buell, Admiral Raymond Spruance, p.343
18 Taylor, Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, New edition, March 2006) p.275
19 Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, ed., Cases Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority (Air Force History and Museums Program, US Government Printing Office, 1994) p.400
20 Ibid., p.357
21 Ibid., p.358
22 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.293
23 Costello, The Pacific War, p.542
24 Van der Vat, Dan, The Pacific Campaign, The US Naval War 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991) p.377
25 Smith, Larry, Iwo Jima (W.W. Norton & Company Inc., NY, 2008) p.187
26 Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.295
27 Costello, The Pacific War, p.544
28 Smith, Iwo Jima, p.86
29 Costello, The Pacific War, p.545
30 Ibid., p.545
31 Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-5 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.274
32 Costello, The Pacific War, p.546
33 Van der Vat, The Pacific Campaign, p.378
34 Buell, Admiral Raymond Spruance, p.365
35 Smith, Iwo Jima, p.xxii
36 Ibid., p.xix
37 Costello, The Pacific War, p.547
38 Toland, Rising Sun, p.661
39 Costello, The Pacific War, p.547
40 Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun, The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.505
41 Potter, Nimitz, p.364
42 Burrell, Robert S., Breaking the cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment (Journal of Military History Vol 68, Number 4, October 2004: The Ghosts of Iwo Jima, 2006) p.1143-1186
43 Buell, Admiral Raymond Spruance, p.366