Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 16 – GUADALCANAL: THE BATTLE OF EDSON’S RIDGE AND HALSEY TO THE RESCUE
1 Leckie, Robert, Challenge for the Pacific: The Bloody Six Month Battle of Guadalcanal (Da Capo Press, 1999) p.174
2 Ibid., p.174
3 Ibid., p.189
4 Ibid., p.189
5 Ibid., p.188
6 Ibid., p.191
7 Frank, Richard B., Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000) p.222
8 Ibid., p.223
9 Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.81
10 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.203
11 Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.117
12 Ibid., p.117
13 My Guadalcanal: Diary of a Japanese Veteran: www.nettally.com/jrube/genjirou/genjirou.htm,
14 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.345-346
15 Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.233
16 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.206
17 Smith, Michael T., Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal (Pocket, New York, 2000) p.158
18 Costello, The Pacific War, p.346
19 Ibid., p.346
20 Griffith, Samuel B., Battle for Guadalcanal (First Illinois Paperback, Champaign, 2000) p.143
21 Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.240
22 Smith, Bloody Ridge, p.175-6
23 www.nettaly.com/jrube/@guadaug.html
24 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.81
25 Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.241
26 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.212
27 Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.377
28 Ibid., p.377
29 Inui, Genjirou, Diary entry 16 September 1942: My Guadalcanal Part II: http://www.nettally.com/jrube/Genjirou/genjirou.htm
30 Ibid.
31 Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.244
32 Ibid., p.266
33 Ibid., p.246
34 Zimmerman, Major John L., The Guadalcanal Campaign (USMCR Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1949) p.94-95
35 Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.256
36 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.259
37 www.nettaly.com/jrube/@guadaug.html
38 Toland, Rising Sun, p.387
39 Ibid., p.390
40 Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2010) p.265
41 Toland, Rising Sun, p.387
42 Costello, The Pacific War, p.348
43 Toland, Rising Sun, p.387
44 Zimmerman, The Guadalcanal Campaign, p.96
45 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.359
46 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.242
47 Ibid., p.247
48 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.79
49 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.249
50 McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII) (BMC Publications, 2002) p.109
51 Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific, p.220
52 Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.261
53 Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s Most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.93
54 Ibid., p.94
55 Ibid., p.91
56 Ibid., p.92
57 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.6
58 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.91
59 Costello, The Pacific War, p.354
60 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.93
61 Drury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.8
62 Costello, The Pacific War, p.354
63 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.97
64 Ibid., p.99
65 Ibid., p.107
66 Ibid., p.118
67 Ibid., p.106
68 Ibid., p.101
69 Ibid., p.105
70 Merrill, James M., A Sailor’s Admiral, A Biography of William F. Halsey (Crowell, 1976) p.57