Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 11 – LIMITS OF EMPIRE
1 Prange, Gordon, At Dawn We Slept (Penguin, New York, 1981) p.7
2 Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.297
3 Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, Emperor Hirohito on Localized Aggression in China: www.chinajapan.org p.17
4 Ibid., p.17
5 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.219
6 Millot, Bernard, Battle of the Coral Sea (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd., 1974) p.20
7 Ibid., p.20
8 Ham, Paul, Kokoda (Bolinda Publishing 2012) p.12
9 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945, p.220
10 Leckie, Robert, Challenge for the Pacific: The Bloody Six Month Battle of Guadalcanal (Da Capo Press, 1999) p.24
11 Costello, The Pacific War, p.220
12 Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.179
13 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.5
14 Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.298
15 Ibid., p.298
16 Ibid., p.299
17 Ibid., p.38
18 Costello, The Pacific War, p.225-6
19 Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.196
20 Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 (New York, New York: Macmillan Co., 1971) p.245
21 Ibid., p.245
22 Ibid., p.245
23 Ford, Daniel, Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers 1941-1942 (Harper Collins, 2010) p.43
24 His-shang Chi, The Much Troubled Alliance, US - China Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 1941 - 1945 (World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2016) p.105
25 War Cabinet Minutes, No.194 (40), Friday 5th July, 1940, p.42
26 Ibid., p.42
27 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.244
28 Danchev, Alex and Daniel Todman, eds., Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, War Diaries 1939 – 1945 (Phoenix, London, 2002) p.222
29 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.247
30 Septer, Dirk, 757 Flights Across the ‘Hump’: www.ruudleeuw.com
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 www.himalayanclub.org
34 Stilwell, General Joseph, W. and Theodore White, ed., The Stilwell Papers (William Sloane Associates, New York, 1971) p.119
35 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.375
36 www.ww2f.com/topic/41072-hump-pilots-hold-last-reunion/
37 Taylor, Jay, Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009) p.233
38 Straelen, Henricus Johannes Josephus Maria, New Diplomacy in the Far East (University of California, 2007) p.27
39 George J.Laben, George, J., Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (Veterans History Project (LIbrary of Congress): George J.Laben collection)
40 Septer, Dirk, 757 Flights Across the ‘Hump’: www.ruudleeuw.com
41 US Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS): www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/243.html#top
42 Septer, Dirk, 757 Flights Across the ‘Hump’: www.ruudleeuw.com
43 Astor, Gerald, The Jungle War, Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2004) p.147
44 Ibid., p.147
45 Ibid., p.147
46 Moran, Miriam G., The Life Story of Grace Liddell Cox, Missionary in China (Lulu Press Inc., 2015) p.228
47 Hunt, E. Howard, American Spy, My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2007) p.23
48 Slim, William, Defeat into Victory (Pan Macmillan, London, 2012) p.164
49 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.339
50 Life Magazine, 4th August, 1944
51 Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.284
52 Ibid., p.285
53 Ibid., p.285
54 Annett, Roger, Drop Zone Burma: Adventures in Allied Air Supply 1943 – 1945 (Pen & Sword, 2008) p.203
55 Fellowes-Gordon, Ian, The Magic War: The Battle for North Burma (Scribner, 1971) p.38
56 Ziegler, Philip, Personal Diary of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten 1943 – 6 (Collins; First Edition, 1988) p.242
57 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2012) p.153
58 Ibid., p.154
59 Ibid., p.154
60 Ibid., p.156
61 Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in Japan, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books 2014) p.103
62 Toll, Pacific Crucible, p.166
63 Costello, The Pacific War, p.223
64 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.13
65 Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King, The Five Star Admirals Who won the War at Sea (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012) p.224
66 Ibid., p.213
67 Potter, E.B., Nimitz, p.62
68 Ibid., p.34
69 Ibid., p.41
70 Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.2
71 Ibid., p.2
72 Drury, Bob and Tom Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, An Epic Storm and an Untold Rescue (Atlantic Monthly, 2007) p.5
73 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.28
74 Ibid., p.29
75 Ibid., p.31
76 Ibid., p.34
77 Ibid., p.34
78 Ibid., p.34
79 Ibid., p.34
80 Ibid., p.34
81 Ibid., p.35
82 Ibid., p.35
83 Ibid., p.35
84 Ibid., p.39
85 Drury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.13
86 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.xiii
87 Ibid., p.172
88 Ibid., p.176
89 Ibid., p.176
90 Borneman, The Admirals, p.245
91 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.65
92 Chun, Clayton K.S, The Doolittle Raid: America’s first strike back at Japan (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2006) p.30
93 Ibid., p.30
94 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.73
95 Ibid., p.73
96 Chun, The Doolittle Raid, p.37
97 Ibid., p.41
98 Ibid., p.45
99 Ibid., p.45
100 Ibid., p.53
102 Ibid., p.75
103 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.76
104 Chun, The Doolitttle Raid, p.63
105 Ibid., p.83
106 Ibid., p.84
107 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.78
108 Ibid., p.78
109 Ibid., p.79
110 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.79
111 Millot, Bernard, Battle of the Coral Sea (Littlehampton Books Services Ltd., 1974) p.28