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

CHAPTER 19 – GUADALCANAL, THE BATTLE OF TASSAFARONGA

1         Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2010) p.276

2         Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.123

3         Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.419

4         Ibid., p.419

5         Ibid., p.422

6         Ibid., p.422

7         Ibid., p.422

8         Frank, Richard B., Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000) p.500

9         Crenshaw, Russell S., Jr., The Battle of Tassafaronga (Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1995) p.22

10       Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.508

11       Hornfischer, James. D., Neptune’s Inferno, The US Navy at Guadalcanal (Bantam Books, New York, 2011) p.388

12      Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.510

13       Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.392

14       Crenshaw, The Battle of Tassafaronga, p.73

15       Ibid., p.78

16       Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.577

17       Ibid., p.577

18       Crenshaw, The Battle of Tassafaronga, p.120

19       Hara, Tameichi, Japanese Destroyer Captain (1961, Ballantine Books, New York & Toronto) p.164

20       Frank, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, p.517

21       Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno, p.385

22       Ibid., p.395

23       Toland, Rising Sun, p.423

24       Ibid., p.425

25       Ibid., p.425

26       Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.277

27       Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.76

28       Ibid., p.194

29       Ibid., p.196

30       Ibid., p.198

31       Zimmerman, Major John L., The Guadalcanal Campaign (USMCR Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1949) p.162

32       Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.441

33       Ibid., p.378

34       Ibid., p.122

35       Ibid., p.122

36       Ibid., p.283

37       Ibid., p.288

38       Ibid., p.288

39       Ibid., p.290

40       Ibid., p.284

41       Ibid., p.284

42       Ibid., p.287

43       Ibid., p.292

44       Ibid., p.298

45       Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.406

46       Ibid., p.408

47       Ibid., p.408

48       Toland, Rising Sun, p.432

49       Gailey, Harry A., MacArthur's Victory: The War in New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004) p.19

50       Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.662

51       Marston, Daniel, ed., The Pacific War, From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (Osprey, Oxford, 2000) p.125

52       Zimmerman, The Guadalcanal Campaign, p.166

53       Ibid., p.167