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

APPENDIX A – SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR

1 Aviation History, March 21^st 2008

2 Ibid.,

3 Ibid.,

4 Ibid.,

5 www.everythingworld war2.com/world_war_2_military: Submarine USS Blenny SS-324 during World War II.

6 www.telegraph.co.uk, Julian Ryall, p.2

7 Ibid., p.2

8 Interrogation of Vice-Admiral Ozawa, 30th October, 1945. P.15: http://ww2db.com/doc.php?q=131

9 Peattie, Mark R. & David C. Evans, Kaigun, Strategy, Tactics and Technology (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1997) p.431

10 Ibid, p.433

11 Ibid, p.433

12 Hood, Jean, editor, Submarine, An Anthology of First Hand Accounts of the War under The Sea, 1939 – 1945 (Conway, 2007) p.519

13 Aviation History, March 21^st, 2008

14 Hood, Submarine, p.520

15 Krug, Hans-Joachim, Hirama, Yoichi, Sander-Nagashima, Berthold J., Niestlé, German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II (Chatham Publishing, 2003) p.204

16 www.armed-guard.com, Arthur Moore, 1998

17 Krug, German-Japanese Naval Relations, p.187

18 www.bbc.co.uk /history/ worldwars/wwtwo/battle_atlantic, Dr. Gary Sheffield p.1)

19 Warner, Denis, A Curious War Beneath the Waves (New York Times, 3 March 1995)

20 www.combinedfleet.com, submarines of the Japanese Navy, p.3

21 Ibid., p.3

22 Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.483

23 www.robomod.net/pipermail /soc-history-war-world-war

24 Sterling, Forest J., Wake of Wahoo, (Professional Press, 1997) foreword

25 Adamson, Hans Christian, and Lockwood, Hellcats of the Sea, (Greenberg, 1955) p.17

26 Medal of Honor, Recipients List – World War II

27 Gilmore, Howard Walter, www.valormilitarytimes.com Medal of Honor Citation Citation

28 O’Kane, Richard, ‘Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the USS Tang’ [Presidio Press,1977]: reprinted 2011) p.

29 Hood, Submarine, p.128

30 Ibid., p.129

31 Peatie and Evans, Kaigun, p.437

32 Van der Vart, Dan, The Pacific Campaign, p.270

33 Blair, Clay, Silent Victory: The US Submarine War Against Japan, Vol. I (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2001) p.397