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Appendices - Hirohito's War
A.
Submarines: America Draws Tight the Noose
December 1941 – August 1945
[Charts:
A.1
]
Planned Submarine Attack on the Panama Canal
,
The Failure of Japanese Submarine Design
,
Wasteful Dissipation of Japanese Submarine Force
,
Japanese Submarine Cargo Missions to Europe
,
Japanese Submarines’ Disappointing ‘Kill’ Performance
,
Japan’s ‘Long Lance’ Jockeys
,
Newport Torpedo Station
,
Rear Admiral Charles Lockwood
,
US Submarine Achievements in the Pacific War
,
The Failure of Japanese Counter-Submarine Strategy
,
The Missed Opportunity
[Photos]
B.
Oil, Raw Materials and Logistics: 'Just Start Swinging'
December 1941 to August 1945
[Charts:
B.1,
B.2
]
Logistics of Oil in the Asia Pacific War
,
America’s T-2 Tanker
,
Japan’s Oil Tanker Fleet
,
Raw Materials Issues of the US Economy
,
Liberty Ships ‘to go’
,
Attack Cargo Ships, LSTs and Higgins Boats
,
Japan’s Cargo Ship Problems
,
Japan’s Air Force Logistics
,
US Supply Logistics in the Asia Pacific Region
,
Operation Olympic and Japan’s Logistical Denouement
[Photos]
C.
Economics of the Pacific War: The 'New Deal' Mobilized
[Charts:
C.1,
C.2,
C.3,
C.4,
C.5,
C.6,
C.7,
C.8,
C.9,
C.10,
C.11,
C.12,
C.13,
C.14,
C.15
]
Management of the US Wartime Economy
,
Guns and Butter
,
Inflation and ‘General Max’
,
Production Line and Management Systems
,
Productivity, Entrepreneurs, Management, Labor, Blacks and Women
,
Managing the Scientists
,
Expansion of America’s Productive Capacity
,
US Aircraft Production
,
Tanks, Artillery, Trucks, Ordnance and the Problem of Obsolescence
,
Electronics, Radio, and Radar
,
Was the Depression a Boon or Hindrance to US War Mobilization?
,
Japan’s Wartime Economy
,
Conclusion
[Photos]
D.
‘Victory Disease’: The Japanese Empire: From Co-Prosperity to Tyranny
[Charts:
D.1,
D.2
]
The Four Phases of Japan’s Imperial Expansion
,
The Economics and Philosophy of Japan’s Co-Prosperity Sphere
,
Old Empire, Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria
, The Structures of Japan’s New Empire,
Slave Labor in Japan and in the Field
,
Cruelty and Suppression
,
Prisoners of War
,
The Psychology of Brutality
,
Unit 731 and the Secrets of Medical Experimentation
,
Conclusion
,
[Photos]
E.
Typhoons and Divine Winds: Kamikaze
[October 1944 to August 1945]
[Charts:
E.1
]
Introduction
,
Halsey: After Leyte Gulf
,
Kamikaze: Individual Beginnings
,
The Formal Adoption of a Kamikaze as a Strategy
,
Recruitment, Motivation and Training
,
Japanese Government Propaganda
,
Developments in Kamikaze Technology and the US Response
,
Naval Kamikaze and Yamato’s Suicide Mission
,
US Defense Tactics
,
Fight to the Death and Operation KETSU (Decisive)
,
Admiral Ugaki, The Last Kamikaze
,
The Cost and Effectiveness of the Kamikaze Campaign
,
Kamikaze: A Unique Japanese Phenomenon?
[Photos]
F.
American Intelligence in the Pacific War
ULTRA
[Photos]
G.
Could Japan Have Won the Pacific War?
Introduction
,
Distance, Logistics and Extension of Power
,
Mobilization, Logistics, Isolationism and the Will to Fight
,
Weapons that could have won Japan the War
,
Strategies for Japanese Victory
,
Conclusion
H.
Month by Month Timeline of the Pacific War
[December 1941 - August 1945]
I.
The 'Pacific War': Sundry Tables and Lists
J.
Pacific War Photographs
K.
The Battle of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[Photos]
L.
The Battles of Attu and Kiska
Attu and Kiska
[Photos]
M.
Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War
Summary
,
Comparison of Pacific War Aircraft Carriers
,
Essex Class Carriers
,
US Light Carriers
,
Japanese fleet carriers
[Photos]
N.
The Role of Oil in the Pacific War
[Charts:
N.1,
N.2,
N.3,
N.4,
N.5
]
Oil’s Early History
,
Development of the Oil Industry in the United States
,
Royal Dutch Shell
,
The Growth of Oil Fired Engines in the Marine Industry
,
The Rise of the Automobile
,
Tanks and Trucks Transform Battlefield Mobility
,
Aviation Gasoline
,
Interwar Development of the Aeronautical Industry
,
Global Oil Output
,
Oil and the Decision for War
,
Conclusion
[Photos]
O.
Japanese - Soviet Conflict in Siberia, Mongolia and Manchuria
[April 1945–5 September 1945]
[Maps: 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 39.5, 39.6]
Introduction
,
Russo-Japanese Relations from the Late Nineteenth Century
,
The Trans-Siberian Railway Transforms the Geopolitics of Northeast Asia
,
The Battle of Lake Khasan and Amur River Clashes
,
The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact
,
The Yalta Conference
,
Japanese Preparations for the Defense of Manchuria
,
Deployment of Soviet Forces
,
Soviet Invasion of Northwest Manchuria from Mongolia
,
Invasion of Northeast Manchuria from Far Eastern Siberia
,
The Battle of Mutanchiang
,
The Battle of Sakhalin Island
,
The Occupation of the Kuril Islands
The Significance of the Soviet Invasions
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