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 C – ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR

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

p.232

2           Klein, Maury, A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II (Bloomsbury Press, 2013) p.91

3           Ibid., p.91

4           Ibid., p.306

5           Klein, A Call to Arms, p

6           Gropman, Alan, ed. The Big L: Industrial Mobilization (Government Printing Office, 1997) p.31-2

7           Klein, A Call to Arms, p.308

8           Ibid., p.311

9           Ibid., p.311

10         Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 (New York, New York: Macmillan Co., 1971) p.479

11         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.556

12         Somers, Herman, Presidential Agency: OWMR, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (Greenwood Press, New Edition,1950) p.128-130

13         Somers, Herman, Presidential Agency: OWMR, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (Greenwood Press, New Edition, 1950 Edition) p.47-51

14         Gropman, The Big L, p.52

15         Nelson, Donald M., Arsenal of Democracy (Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1946; Kreidberg, Marvin A and Merton G Henry, History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army, 1775-1945, Part 2 (bibliogov, 2013), p.20-21

16         Nelson, p.251-256

17         Ibid., p.359-362

18        Von Mises, Ludwig, Nation, State and Economy (Liberty Fund Inc, 2006) p.154

19         Fugate, Tally, D., War Production Board (Oklahoma Historical Society): www.okhistory.org

20         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.718

21         Ibid., p.144

22         Ibid., p.423

23         Ibid., p.423

24         Gropman ed., The Big L: Byrnes, p.19 note 124

25         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.432

26         Ibid., p.437

27         Ibid., p.437

28         www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_war_production

29         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.83

30         Ibid., p.542

31         Ibid., p.176

32         Ibid., p.524

33         Ibid., p.541

34         Ibid., p.349

35         Ibid., p.349

36         Ibid., p.351

37         Ibid., p.354

38         Ibid., p.444

39         Ibid., p.353

40         Ibid., p.105

41         Ibid., p.105

42         Ibid., p.513

43         Ibid., p.518

44         James F. Nagle, A History of Government Contracting (The George Washington University, Washington DC, 1992, p.404 Chapt 2: Acquisition in War, John E.Bokel and Rolf Clark, ed Alan Gropman)

45         Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.226

46         Gropman, The Big L, p.1

47         Ibid., p.47-51

48         Ibid., p.460

49         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.529

50         Carew, Becoming the Arsenal, p.179

51         Craft, Nicholas & Fearon, Peter, ed. The Great Depresssion of the 1930s, Lessons for Today, Field, Alexander J., Chapt. 12, Economic Growth and Recovery in the United States: 1919 – 1941 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) p.359