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 5 – PEARL HARBOR, YAMAMOTO’S MISTAKE

1        Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five Star Admirals Who won the War at Sea (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012) p.114

2        Peattie and Evans, Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2003) p.271

3        Glines, Carroll V., The Compact History of the United States Air Force (Hawthorn Books, 1973) p.111

4        Call Field Memorial Museum, Wicheta, Texas

5        Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.40

6        Ibid., p.40

7        Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.81

8        Keegan, John, Battle at Sea, From Man-of-War to Submarine (Pimlico, London, 2006) p.166

9        Symonds, Craig L., The Battle of Midway (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) p.31

   Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.44

10      Agawa, Hiroyuki, The Reluctant Admiral, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy (Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1982, First Paperback Edition) p.87

11      Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.44

12      Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.169

13      Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.15

14      Costello, The Pacific War, p.83

15      Ibid., p.83

16      Symonds, Battle of Midway, p.53

17      Costello, The Pacific War, p.83

18      Weston, Mark, Giants of Japan (Kodansha America, New York, 1999) p.194

19      Keegan, Battle at Sea, p.169

20      Dull, Paul, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941 – 1945 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978, Paperback 2007) p.14

21      Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.46

22      Ibid., p.44

23      Ibid., p.45

24      Ibid., p.45

25      Ibid., p.45

26      Ibid., p.45

27      Ibid., p.45

28      Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.121

29      Boyne, Walter, Clash of Titans (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1995) p.135

30      Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.121

31      Costello, The Pacific War, p.84

32      Flannigan, Guy S., jr., Ensign, Eyewitness statement USS Arizona: www.ussarizona.org

33      Toland, Rising Sun, p.220

34      Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.124

35      Ibid., p.129

36      Ibid., p.123

37      Ibid., p.123

38      Ibid., p.127

39      Ibid., p.130

40      Ibid., p.134

41      Potter, EB, Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.17

42      Toland, Rising Sun, p.226

43      Potter, Nimitz, p.138

44      Ibid., p.7

45      Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.18

46      Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.39

47      Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1994) p.289

48      Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.25

49      Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.139

50      Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.65

51      Ibid., p.65

52      Ibid., p.228

53      Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.437

54      Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.64

55      Ibid., p.59

56      Ibid., p.60

57      Ibid., p.60

58      Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.49

59      Costello, The Pacific War, p.141

60      Ibid., p.138

61      Borch, Frederic and Daniel Martinez, Kimmel, Short and Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2004) p.54

62      Simpson, Mitchel, Admiral Harold B. Stark, Architect of Victory 1939 – 1945 (University of South Carolina Press, 1989) p.110-111

63      Borch, and Martinez, Kimmel, Short and Pearl Harbor, p.61

64      Costello, The Pacific War, p.126

65      Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2012) p.350

66      Buell, Admiral Ernest King, p.353

67      Potter, Nimitz, p.17

68      Prange, Gordon, At Dawn We Slept (Penguin, New York, 1981) p.748

69      Agawa, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy, p.219

70      Prange, At Dawn We Slept, p.749

71      Ibid., p.58

72      Ibid., p.206

73      Ibid., p.751

74      Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.32

75      Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor (Mcgraw Hill, 1990) p.103

76      Toland, Rising Sun, p.202

77      Agawa, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy, p.189

78      Prange, At Dawn We Slept, p.263

79      Ibid., p.263

80      Agawa, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy, p.8

81      Borch and Martinez, Kimmel, Short and Pearl Harbor, p.47

82      Potter, Nimitz, p.18

83      Russet, Bruce, No Clear and Present Danger (Torchbook, New York, 1972) p.55

84      Peattie and Evans, Kaigun, p.483

85      Kowner, Rotem, ed., The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (Routledge, New York, NY, 2007) p.280

86      Weston, Mark, Giants of Japan (Kodansha America, New York, 1999) p.195