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 E – TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE

1     Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander, (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.154

2    Ibid., p.212

3     Kuwahara, Yasuo and Gordon T. Allred, Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot’s own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons (American Legacy Media, 2007) p.121

4      ww2australia.gov.au/waratsea/ kamikaze.htm

5      Ibid.,

6      Millot, Bernard, Divine Thunder: The Life and death of the Kamikaze (Macdonald, 1971) p.22

7      Ibid., p.24

8     Breuer, William B., Retaking the Philippines, America’s Return to Corregidor and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945 (St.Martin’s Press, New York, 1986) p.42

9     Inoguchi, Rikihei, The Divine Wind (Naval Institute Press, Maryland, 1958) p.139

10   Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945, (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.518

11   Kaplan, Philip, Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying (Pen and Sword,2013) p.93

12   Morris, Ivan, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975) p.284

13   Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.212

14     www.airgroup4.com/kamikaze.htm

15     Streb, Richard W., Life and Death Aboard the USS Essex (Dorance Pub Co.) p.4

16     Toland, John, Rising Sun, (Random House, 1970, Reprinted 2003) p.630

17     Axell, Albert; Hideaki, Kase, Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods (Longman, New York 2002) p.35

18   Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student soldiers (University of Chicago Press p.175

19   Axell, Kamikaze, p.144

20   Ibid., p.145

21   Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze Diaries, p.65-66

22   Ibid., p.163

23   Tsuneo Watabable, editor in chief of Yomiuri Shimbun, International Herald Tribune 10 Feb 2006

24   BCC News website, Newsnight, Remembering Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots, 26th Feb 2014

25   Axell, Kamikaze, p.151

26   Ibid., p.95

27   Ibid., p.95

28   Ibid., p.36

29   Ibid., p.41

30   Millot, Divine Thunder, p.170

31   Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945, (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.558

32    Millot, Divine Thunder, p.189

33   Ibid., p.191

34     Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom, Halsey’s Typhoon, The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, An Epic Storm and an Untold Rescue (Atlantic Monthly, 2007) p.75

35     Taylor, Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher (Naval Institute Press; New edition edition, March 2006; originally Norton, New York, 1954) p.297

36   Ibid., p.297

37   Puddefoot, Geoff, Ready for Anything: The Royal Fleet Auxilliary 1905 - 1950 (Seaforth Publishing, 2010) p.135

38   Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, The Last Kamikaze (Praeger, 1993) p.195

39   Ibid., p.202

40   Ibid,. p.203

41   Weintraub, Stanley, The Last Great Victory (Truman, Talley Books, Penguin Group, New York, 1996) p.127

42   Millot, Bernard, Divine Thunder: The Life and death of the Kamikaze (Macdonald, 1971) p.243

43   Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, The Last Kamikaze (Praeger, 1993) p.208

44   Millot, Divine Thunder, p.243

45   Hoyt, The Last Kamikaze, p.210

46   www.wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/ background/ships-sunk

47   www.airgroup4.com/kamikaze

48   Toland, John, Rising Sun, (Random House, 1970, Reprinted 2003) p.714

49   Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.213

50   Ibid., p.214

51   Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.267

52   Axell, Kamikaze, p.223

53   Ibid., p.224

54   Ibid., p.228

55   Ibid., p.228

56   Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.212

57   Ibid., p.107

58   Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.344

59   Basinger, Jeanine, The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 2003) p.211

60   Axell, Kamikaze, p.225