Hirohito's War - Maps, charts and diagrams (Paperback & e-book editions)


Introduction
0.1 Scale of Pacific War Compared to the European War in WWII
0.2 Map of Major Supply Routes to UK, Soviet Union, India, China and Australia in WWII
Chapter 1
1.1 American Empire - Expansion of the Thirteen Colonies: 1783 - 1853
1.2 American Empire in the Pacific: 1937
1.3 Sinking of the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay: 1898
1.4 The Domain Allies Overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate: 1868
1.5 The First Sino-Japanese War: 1894-1895
1.6 The Battle of Tsushima: 1905
1.7 The Russian Empire: 1914
1.8 The Battle of Mukden: 25 February – 10 March 1905
1.9 European Empires: 1914
1.10 The Contraction of the German Empire after the Treaty of Versailles: 28 June 1919
1.11 Treaty Concessions in China: 1937
Chapter 2
2.1 The Conquest of Manchuria: 1931 – 1932
2.2 26 February Incident in Tokyo: 1936
2.3 The Long March: 1934 – 1936
2.4 The Xian Incident: 12 December 1936
Chapter 3
3.1 Division of China: 1937
3.2 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident: 7 July 1937
3.3 Japanese Invasion of Northern China: 1937 – 1940
3.4 Chinese Defense of Shanghai: October – November 1937
3.5 The Battles of Nomonhan (Khalkin Gol): 11 May – 16 September 1939
3.6 The Japanese Empire: 1941
Chapter 4
4.1 A GDP of Axis and Allied Powers: 1938
4.1 B Chart of GDP of Axis and Allied Powers: 1941
4.2 Admiral Stark’s Plan Dog: 12 November 1940
4.3 Approximate Axis and Allied Population and GDP per Capita: 1941
Chapter 5
5.1 Diagram of Long Lance Torpedo
5.2 Combined Fleet’s Route to Pearl Harbor (Hawaii): 26 November – 7 December 1941
5.3 Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
5.4 Attack on Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
Chapter 6
6.1 Japanese Invasion of Luzon: 7 – 22 December 1941
6.2 Japanese Advance to Bataan and Manila: 22 December 1941 – 5 January 1942
6.3 The Siege of Bataan Peninsula: 6 January to 9 April
6.4 The Battle of Corregidor: 5-6 May 1941
6.5 The Bataan Death March: 9 - 19 April 1942
Chapter 7
7.1 A Invasion of Thailand and Malaya: 7 – 8 December 1941
7.1 B Invasion of Malaya: 7 – 8 December 1941
7.2 The Sinking of the Prince of Wales: 10 December 1941
7.3 The Conquest of Malaya: 7 December 1941 – 31 January 1942
7.4 The Battle of the Slim River: 16 December 1941 – 8 January 1942
7.5 The Battle of Muar: 14-22 January
Chapter 8
8.1 Hong Kong’s Isolation: 1937–December 1941
8.2 The Battle of Hong Kong : New Territories: 8–26 December 1941
8.3 The Battle of Hong Kong : 7 December–26 December 1941
Chapter 9
9.1 The Battle of Singapore: 8 – 15 February 1942
Chapter 10
10.1 The Japanese Invasion of Burma: 18 – 22 February 1942
10.2 The Japanese Conquest of Burma: 18 January – 18 May 1942
10.3 The Battle of the Sittang Bridge: 19 -23 February 1942
10.4 The Battle for Central Burma: 23 Feb – 24 March 1942
10.5 Stilwell’s Long Walk: 6 – 18 May 1942
Chapter 11
11.1 Japanese Invasion of Borneo and Dutch East Indies: 16 – 9 March 1945
11.2 Crossing the ‘T’
11.3 The Battle of the Java Sea: 27 February 1942
11.4 The Conquest of Java: 27 February 1 – 8 March 1942
Chapter 12
12.1 A The Japanese Empire: 1942
12.1 B Peak German and Japanese Empires: 1942
12.2 Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid: 1 – 10 April 1942
12.3 ‘The Hump’ - Airlift to Kunming: 8 April 1942 – 31 August 1945
12.4 Tonnage Supplied to China from India-Burma: 1944
12.5 Building the Ledo Road: 1 January 1942 – 12 January 1945
12.6 A Admiral Halsey’s Raid on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands: 31 January – 2 February 1942
12.6 B Rear-Admiral Fletcher’s Raid on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands : 1 February 1942
12.7 The Doolittle Raid: 18 April 1942
Chapter 13
13.1 A Port Moresby – Fulcrum of the Pacific War: May 1942
13.1 B Operation MO – Japan’s Plan to Attack Port Moresby: 8 May 1942
13.2 The Battle of the Coral Sea: 7-8 May 1942
Chapter 14
14.1 Operation MI – Midway Deployment: 3 -7 June
14.2 The Battle of Midway: 7 June 1942
14.3 Thirty Minutes that Changed the War: 4 June 9.50am – 10.22am 1942
Chapter 15
15.1 South New Guinea and the Owen Stanley Mountains: May 1942
15.2 Battles of the Kokoda Trail: 23 July – 28 September 1942
15.3 The Kokoda Trail Cross Section
Chapter 16
16.1 The Solomon Islands and the South Pacific: May 1942
16.2 A The Solomon Islands: Spring 1942
16.2 B The Solomon Islands: 7 August 1942
16.3 Map of Guadalcanal: August 1942
16.4 The Battle of Tulagi: 7-8 August 1942
16.5 The Battle of Savo Island: 9 August 1942
16.6 The Battle of Tenaru: 21 August 1942
16.7 The Naval Battle of the East Solomons: 23 -25 August 1942
Chapter 17
17.1 The Battle of Edson’s Ridge: 12 – 14 September 1942
17.2 The Slot and Iron Bottom Sound – Ships Sunk: May 1942 – November 1943
17.3 Rabaul and Japanese Airfields in the Solomon Islands: Autumn 1942
Chapter 18
18.1 The Battle of Cape Esperance: 11 -12 October 1942
18.2 The Battle of Henderson Field: 23 – 26 October 1942
18.3 The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: 25 -26 October 1942
18.4 The First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: 13 November 1942 1:45am
18.5 Japanese Evacuation of Guadalcanal: 26 January – 9 February 1943
Chapter 19
19.1 The Battles of Buna, Gona and Sanananda: 16 November 1942 – 18 April 1943
19.2 Japanese Bunker Design and Cross Section
Chapter 20
20.1 The Battle of Tassafaronga: 30 November 1942
20.2 Diagram of US Mark XIV Torpedo
Chapter 21
21.1 Drawing of US B-25 Mitchell Gunship
21.2 The Gulf of Huon: 1 January 1943
21.3 The Battle of Wau: 11-31 January 1943
21.4 The Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 3-4 March 1943
21.5 The Envelopment of Salamaua: 15 February – 29 April 1943
21.6 The Bombing of Wewak and Destruction of Japan’s 4th Army Airforce: 17 -21 August 1943
21.7 The Japanese Escape from Lae: 10 – 16 September 1943
Chapter 22
22.1 The Assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto: 18 April 1943
22.2 The Japanese Garrison at Rabaul
22.3 Operation CARTWHEEL: June 1943 – March 1944
22.4 A The Invasion of New Georgia and Vella Lavella: 21 June – 25 September 1943
22.4 B The Battle of New Georgia: 25 July – 25 August 1943
22.5 The Battle of Munda Airfield: 22 July – 4 August 1943
22.6 The Rescue of J.F. Kennedy: 1 – 8 August 1943
Chapter 23
23.1 The Battle of the Komandorski Islands : Bering Sea: 26 March 1943
23.2 The Battle of the Komandorski Islands : 26 March 1943
23.3 The Battle of Attu : 11–30 May 1943
23.4 The Battle of Attu : Sea Perspective: 11–30 May 1943
Chapter 24
24.1 The Huon Peninsula Campaign: 22 Sept 1943 – 24 April 1944
24.2 The Battle of Shaggy Ridge Campaign: 19 Sept 1943 – 24 April 1944
24.3 The Battle of Arawe and Cape Gloucester: 15 December 1943 – 22 April 1944
24.4 The Battle of Los Negros: 29 Feb – 9 March 1944
Chapter 25
25.1 The Bougainville Campaign: 1 November 1943 – 21 August 1945
25.2 The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay: 2 November 1943
25.3 Japanese Counterattack at Empress Augusta Bay: 8-27 March 1944
25.4 The Battle of Porton Plantation: 8-10 June 1944
Chapter 26
26.1 The Burma Railway Construction: 15 September 1942 – 17 October 1943
26.2 The First Arakan Campaign: 17 December 1943 – 11 May 1943
26.3 Wingate’s Long Range Penetration I: 8 February - 30 March 1943
26.4 The Assam-Burma Frontier: 1 January 1944
26.5 The Battle of the Admin Box: 5 – 23 February 1944
26.6 Long Range Penetration (LRP) 2: December 1943 – August 1944
26.7 The Battle of Imphal: 8 March – 3 July 1944
26.8 The Battle of Kohima: 4 April – 22 June 1944
Chapter 27
27.1 Japan’s Asian Strategy: 1944
27.2 The ICHIGO Campaign: 19 April 1944 – 1 February 1945
27.3 Operation KOGO: 19 April – 31 May 1944
27.4 Operation TOGO: 1 June 1944 – 1 February 1945
27.5 Operation ANAKIM: Planned for 1943 – 1944 but cancelled
27.6 The Burma – Ledo Road: 1944
27.7 Stilwell Advance to Myitkyina: 28 April – 17 May 1944
27.8 The Battle of Myitkyina: 17 May – 3 August 1944
27.9 The Battle of Mogaung: 11 – 23 June 1944
27.10 China at the End of the Pacific War: 15 August 1945
Chapter 28
28.1 Chart of Command Structure: China-Burma-India: 1944
28.2 Chart of the Soong Family
Chapter 29
29.1 Jump to Hollandia: 22 April 1944
29.2 The Battle of Biak: 27 May – 17 August 1944
29.3 Biak, the Philippines and the Marianas: Summer 1944
29.4 The Battle of Lone Tree Hill: 14 June – 1 September 1944
29.5 The Battle of Driniumor River: 10 July – 25 August 1944
29.6 The Battle of Morotai Island: 15 September – 4 October 1944
Chapter 30
30.1 Admiral King’s Pacific Ocean Strategy: 1943 – 1945
30.2 The Battle of Tarawa Atoll: 20 – 23 November 1943
30.3 The Battle of Roi-Namur: 1 – 2 February 1944
30.4 The Battle of Kwajalein: 1 – 3 February 1944
30.5 Truk Atoll – Forward Base for Japanese Fleet: 8 December – 17 February 1944
30.6 US Landings in the Pacific War: 7 August 1942 – 12 July 1945
Chapter 31
31.1 Deployment of Admiral Spruance’s Task Force 58/ Fifth Fleet to the Marianas: 19 June 1944
31.2 The Battle of the Philippine Sea: 13 – 19 June 1944
31.3 Availability of US and Japanese Fleet Carriers Month by Month in the Pacific War: 1942 - 1945
31.4 Ratio of Planes Shot Down Relative to US Planes
Chapter 32
32.1 The Mariana Islands
32.2 The Battle of Saipan: 15 June – 19 July 1944
32.3 The Battle of Tinian: 24 July – 2 August 1944
32.4 The Battle of Peleliu: 15 September – 15 October 1944
32.5 Ulithi Atoll – Main US Navy Base: 23 September 1944
Chapter 33
33.1 Operation SHOGO-ICHI – The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23 – 26 October 1944
33.2 The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea: 23 – 24 October 1944
33.3 The Battle of Surigao Straits: 25 October 1944
33.4 The Battle of Samar: 25 October 1944
33.5 The Battle of Cape Engano: 25 October 1944
33.6 Typhoon Cobra: 14-19 December 1944
Chapter 34
34.1 “I have returned”: MacArthur Landing at Leyte Gulf: 17 October – 26 December 1944
34.2 Campaign on Leyte Island: 20 October – 1 January 1944
34.3 The Battle of Leyte Island: 7 November – 1 January 1944
34.4 The US Landing at Lingayen Bay (Luzon): 9 January 1945
34.5 The Battle of Manila: 23 February – 3 March 1945
34.6 The Battle of Luzon: 21 February – 21 August 1945
Chapter 35
35.1 The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: 7 January – 4 March 1945
35.2 A The Drive to Rangoon: 4 March – 8 May 1945
35.2 B The Drive to Mandalay: January – 12 March 1945
Chapter 36
36.1 The Luzon-Formosa South China Sea Triangle: 1944
36.2 The Advance on Iwo Jima: February 1945
36.3 The Battle of Iwo Jima: 19 February – 26 March
Chapter 37
37.1 The Invasion of Okinawa: 1 – 6 April 1945
37.2 The Battle of Okinawa – Northern Advance: 4 – 8 June 1945
37.3 The Kiyan Peninsula (Okinawa): 31 May – 19 June 1945
Chapter 38
38.1 The Great Tokyo Air Raid: 9 March 1945
38.2 Percentages of Japanese Cities Burnt Out by Fire Bombing Campaign: March – August 1945
38.3 The Mining of Japan’s Shipping Lanes: 28 March – 3 May 1945
38.4 Planned Japanese Attack on the Panama Canal
Chapter 39
39.1 Waterway Systems of the Russian Empire
39.2 The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: 9 August–25 August 1945
39.3 The Battle for South Sakhalin Island: 11 August–25 August
39.4 Flanking Attack on Toru (Sakhalin): 16 August 1945
39.5 The Battle of Shumshir Island [Kurils]: 16 August 1945
39.6 Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands: 18 August–15 September 1945
Chapter 40
40.1 Drawing of Little Boy
40.2 Drawing of Fat Man
40.3 Manhattan Project Organization Chart
40.4 Operation DOWNFALL—Planned Invasion of Japan: November 1945
40.5 Kill Ratios of participating Japanese and US Troops at Eleven Battles in the Pacific War
40.6 Operation DOWNFALL Casualty Estimates
Appendix A
A.1 Annualised Production of Submarines in the US and Japan: 1941 – 1945
Appendix B
B.1 Quarterly Production of Liberty Ships: 1942 – 1945
B.2 Japanese Production of Merchant Ships during the Pacific War: 1939 - 1945
B.3 Tonnage of Japanese Shipping Lost Versus New Build by Quarter: January 1942–June 1945
B.4 Japanese Cargo Ships by losses by Quarter: January 1942–June 1945
Appendix C
C.1 Natural Rubber Supply and Synthetic Rubber Production in the United States: 1939 - 1945
C.2 Destroyers Built by the United States and Japan: 1941 - 1945
C.3 Production of Cruisers by the United States and Japan: 1941 - 1945
C.4 Construction Sector Spending in the United States: 1939 – 1945
C.5 Spending on Munitions by the Axis and Allied Powers: 1940 1941
C.6 Japanese Rice Supply During the Pacific War: 1937 - 1945
C.7 Supply of External Resources - Net Imports of the USA, UK and USSR: 1938 - 1945
C.8 US Production of Rifles, Carbines and Machine Guns: 1941 -1944
C.9 Women in the US Labor Force: 1940 - 1950
C.10 West Coast Boom in Incomes: 1940 - 1948
C.11 US Economic Performance: 1930 - 1946
C.12 Japanese Real GDP Growth: 1930 – 1947
C.13 Japanese Tanker Inventory by Tonnage: 1942 - 1945
C.14 World Aircraft Production in World War II: 1939 – 1945
C.15 Aircraft Production by Country in World War II: 1939 - 1945
Appendix D
D.1 Military and Civilian Death in the Pacific War: 1941 - 1945
D.2 POWs and Mortality Rates in the Pacific War: 1941 – 1945
D.3 A Selection of Massacres by Japanese Army During the Pacific Wa
Appendix E
E.1 Inexperience of Japanese Fighter Pilots: 1943
E.2 Ratio of dead as a Percentage of Casualties in the Pacific War
Appendix F
F.1 Allied Signals and Cryptanalysis Centre in the Pacific War
Appendix H
H.1 United States Oil Output: 1940 – 1945
H.2 Standard Oil Company and Affiliates Production: 1940 - 1945
H.3 Global Oil Production by Country: 1940
H.4 US Auto Production: 1900 – 1940
H.5 Japanese Oil Inventories: 1941 - 1945