Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 36 – SUPERFORTRESSES OVER JAPAN: CITIES IN ASHES
1 Gardner, Fred Carl, A Year in the B-29 Superfortress: www.oregoncounsel/FAAACE/superfortress.html, (2005) p.3
2 Ibid., p.9
3 www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/sfeature/waspsb29.html
4 Gardner, Superfortress, p.8
5 Hansell, Haywood S., The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan (Air Force History and Museums Program, 1986) p.138
6 Ibid., p.139-40
7 Ibid., p.143
8 Ibid., p.147
9 Ibid., p.144
10 Ibid., p.166
11 Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Random House, New York, 1999) p.54
12 Ibid., p.57
13 Morris, Errol, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Documentary Film, 2003
14 Ibid.,
15 Frank, Downfall, p.59
16 Ibid., p.60
17 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.547
18 Frank, Downfall, p.62
19 Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.671
20 Costello, The Pacific War, p.548
21 Frank, Downfall, p.65
22 Ibid., p.4
23 Ibid., p.8
24 Toland, Rising Sun, p.674
25 Frank, Downfall, p.9
26 Ibid., p.13
27 Toland, Rising Sun, p.674
28 Ibid, p.745
29 Costello, The Pacific War, p.551
30 Frank, Downfall, p.13
31 Ibid., p.14
32 Ibid., p.67
33 Ibid., p.67
34 Ibid., p.73
35 Ibid., p.74
36 Tillman, Barret, Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942–1945 (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010) p.172-3
37 Toland, Rising Sun, p.744
38 Van der Vat, Dan, The Pacific Campaign, The US Naval War 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991) p.373
39 Frank, Downfall, p.153
40 Chilstrom, John S., Mines Away!: The Significance of US Army Air Force Minelaying in World War II (War College Series, 2015) p.18
41 Ibid., p.20
42 Ibid., p.23
43 Ibid., p.24
44 Frank, Downfall, p.80
45 Chilstrom, Minelaying, p.6
46 Ibid., p.30
47 Van der Vart, The Pacific Campaign, p.374
48 Ibid., p.374
49 Van der Vat, Dan, Pacific Campaign: The US-Japanese Naval War 1941 – 1945 (Simon & Schuster, 1992) p.372
50 Grayling A.C., Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (New York: Walker Publishing, 2007) p.272
51 Mailonline, 15 February 2010
52 Weingartner, James J., Americans, Germans and War Crimes: Converging Narratives from the ‘Good War’ (Journal of American History 94. March 2008) p.1182
53 Twelve O’clock High [1949] Movie directed by Henry King.
54 Wells, Mark, K., Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (Routledge, London, 1995) p.99
55 Overy, Richard, The Bombing War, Europe 1939-1945 (Allen Lane, London, 2013) p.613
56 McFarland, Stephen, America’s pursuit of Precision Bombing (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1995) p.187
57 Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won (Pimlico, London, 1995) p.295
58 Frank, Downfall, p.67
59 Newman, Robert P., Enola Gay and the Court of History (Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2004) p.37
60 Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won (Pimlico, London, 2006) p.163
61 Grayling, Among the Dead Cities (New York: Walker Publishing, 2007) p.274
62 Ibid., p.275
63 www.avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/hague994.asp
64 Ibid.
65 Grayling, Among the Dead Cities, p.116
66 Overy, The Bombing War, p.632
67 Toland, Rising Sun, p.676
68 Ibid., p.677