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 21 – YAMAMOTO ASSASSINATED AND THE BATTLE OF NEW GEORGIA

1         Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.403

2           Ibid., p.401

3           Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul, The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, 2010) p.329

4           Ibid., p.340

5           Ibid., p.341

6           Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.441

7           Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.296

8           Ibid., p.298

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

10         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.261

11         Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013) p.38

12         Ibid., p.39

13         Ibid., p.39

14         Ibid., p.40

15         Ibid., p.40

16         www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/japan/hamp-eb201.html

17         Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.330

18         Ibid., p.330

19         Prados, John, Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (New American Library, 2001) p.248

20         Gamble, Fortress Rabaul, p.348

21         Toland, Rising Sun, p.437

22         Ibid., p.437

23         Ibid., p.437

24         Ibid., p.437

25         Roosevelt, President Franklin D., Casablanca Conference, Radio address, February 12, 1943 (The Public Papers of F.D. Roosevelt, Vol. 12, p. 71): www.ibiblio.org retrieved August 27, 2012

26         Middleton, Drew, On This Day, "Roosevelt, Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy, January 24, 1943: www.nytimes.com retrieved August 27, 2012

27         Costello, The Pacific War, p.410

28         Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VI: Breaking the Bismarck’s Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944” 1950 (Little Brown, New York, 1950) p. 225-27

29         Koomey, Jonathan G., and John P. Holdren, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving (Analytics Press, 2001) p.96

30         Morrison, Breaking the Bismarck Barrier, p.147

31         McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.314

32         Ibid., p.314

33         Ibid., p.544

34         McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.345

35         Ibid., p.345

36         Ibid., p.369

37         Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II (Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1983) p.244

38         Costello, The Pacific War, p.411

39         Dexter, David, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Volume VI (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961) p.365

40         McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.365

41         Gailey, Harry A., Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign (Kentucky University Press, 2003) p.30

42         Costello, The Pacific War, p.413

43         McGee, The Solomons Campaign, p.414

44         Ibid., p.382

45         Ibid., p.409

46         Dexter, The New Guinea Offensive, p.226

47         Costello, The Pacific War, p.414