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 4 - MOBILISATION FOR WAR: AMERICA AND JAPAN

1          Carew, Michael G., Becoming the Arsenal: The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942 (University Press of America, 2010) Carew, Ordnance Department History p.144

2          Klein, Maury, A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II (Bloomsbury Press, 2013) p.49

3         Morton, John Fass, Mustin, A Naval Family of the Twentieth Century (Naval Institute Press, 2003) p.167

4         Ibid., p.167

5         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.49

6         Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.147

7         Ibid., p.83

8         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.62

9         Ibid., p.53

10       Ibid., p.57

11       Ibid., p.54

12       Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.69

13       Ibid., p.204

14       Conway, Hugh and James Toth, The Big L, Building Victory’s Foundation: Infrastructure, p.193-4

15       Klein, A Call to Arms, p.375

16       Ibid., p.247

17       Ibid., p.246

18       Ibid., p.30

19       Ibid., p.31

20       Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.209

21       Klein, A Call to Arms, p.37

22       Ibid., p.95

23       Ibid., p.42

24       Ibid., p.64

25       Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.214

26       Flath, David, The Japanese Economy (Oxford University Press, 2005) p.57

27       Ibid., p.59

28       Gordon, Andrew, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991) p.329

29       Ibid., p.325

30       Toland, John, Adolph Hitler, The Definitive Biography (Wordsworth Military Press, 1976) p.224

31       Bai Gao, Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy (Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 20, No.1, Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies, winter 1994) p.115-153

32       Ibid., p.115 - 153

33       Gordon, Labor and Imperial Democracy, p.323

34       Ibid., p.287

35       Ibid., p.321

36       Wilmot, H.P., Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Naval Institute Press, 2008) p.88

37       Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.67

38       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.441

39       Tuchman, Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2001) p.217

40       Ford, Daniel, Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers 1941-1942 (Harper Collins, 2010) p.27

41       Seagrave, Sterling, The Soong Dynasty (Sidgewick & Jackson, London, 1985) p.365

42       Ibid., p.365

43       Ford, Flying, p.40

44       Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty, p.367

45       Hill, David Lee, Tex Hill: Flying Tiger (Honiribus Pr, 2003)

46       Rice, Earle Jr., Claire Chennault, Flying Tiger (Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia, 2003)

47       Hill, Tex, The Richest Kind of Life: www.airportjournals.com/tex-hill-the-richest-kind-of-life

48       Ibid.,

49       Prange, Gordon, At Dawn We Slept (Penguin, New York, 1981) p.204

50       Ibid., p.205

51       Ibid., p.205

52       Ibid., p.206

53       Ibid., p.209

54       Ibid., p.209

55       Ibid., p.210

56       Ibid., p.211

57       Ibid., p.214

58      Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.417

59      Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Warlord: Tojo Against the World (First Cooper Square Press, 2001: first published 1993) p.xvi

60      Ibid., p.xviii

61      Ibid., p.xviii

62      Fujiwara, Shōwa tennō no ju-go nen sensō (The Shōwa Emperor's Fifteen Year War (Aoki Shoten 1991) p.126

63      Tamogami, Toshio, Was Japan an Aggressor? (The Shocking Truth about Modern History, 2008) p.4