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 N: THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR

  1. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power (Simon & Schuster, London, 2009) p.41*
  2. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.40
  3. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.126
  4. Griffiths, Dennis, British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine, ( cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol07/tnm_7_3_11-40.pdf) p.27
  5. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.131
  6. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.356
  7. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.284
  8. Howarth Stephen and Joost Jonker, Powering the Hydrocarbon Revolution, A history of Royal Dutch Shell, p.01/26,
  9. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.594
  10. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, p.291
  11. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, 535
  12. Stranges, Anthony, Synthetic Fuel Production in Prewar and World War II Japan: A Case Study in Technological Failure (Department of History, Texas A&M University) p.2
  13. Morton, Louis, Command Decisions (The Center of Military History, Washington, 1983) p.100-101
  14. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, 536
  15. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, 566
  16. Donovan, Colonel Patrick, Oil Logistics in the Pacific War, (Logistics History, Volume XXVIII, Number 1) p.35
  17. Prange, Gordon, Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 1991) p.485
  18. Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, 274
  19. Donovan, Colonel Patrick, Oil Logistics in the Pacific War, p.41

* Digital version