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 22 – THE HUON PENINSULAR; OPERATION CARTWHEEL COMPLETED

1         Gailey, Harry A., MacArthur's Victory: The War in New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004) p.84

2         Van der Vat, Dan, The Pacific Campaign, The US Naval War 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991) p.291

3         Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.103

4         Dexter, David, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the war of 1939-1945, Volume VI (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961) p.543

5       Van der Vat, The Pacific Campaign, p.291

6         Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.533

7         Ibid., p.560

8         Hill, A.J., Wootten, Sir George Frederick (1893-1970) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16 (Melbourne University Press, 2002) p.586-588

9         Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.650

10       Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.92

11       Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.650

12       Coates, John, Bravery above Blunder: the 9th Australian Division at Finschhafen, Sattelburg, and Sio (Oxford University Press, 1999) p.22

13       Reid, Richard, For Valour: Australians and the Victoria Cross (Australia: Work and Turner Pty Ltd., 2000) p.28-9

14       Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.679

15       Uren, M., A Thousand Men at War: The Story of the 2/16th Battalion AIF, p.212

16       Dexter, The New Guinea Offensive, p.705

17       Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.137

18       Ibid., p.117

19       Ibid., p.126

20       Ibid., p.124

21       Ibid., p.121

22       Dexter, The New Guinea Offensive, p.798

23       Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.394

24       Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.151

25       Ibid., p.152

26       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.456

27       Manchester, American Caesar, p.395

28       Ibid., p.396

29       Taafe, Stephen R., MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (University Press of Kansas, Kansas, U.S.A., 2006) p.64

30       Frierson, The Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division, p.133

31       Costello, The Pacific War, p.456

32       Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.216

33       Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.255

34       Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.283

35       Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.149

36       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.215

37       Ibid., p.216

38       Ibid., p.216

39       Ibid., p.218

40       Ibid., p.218

41       Ibid., p.218

42       Manchester, American Caesar, p.391

43       Ibid., p.404

44       Ford, Douglas, The Pacific War (Continuum International Publishing, London, 2012) p.95

45       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.323

46       Shaw, Henry; Douglas T. Kane, Isolation of Rabaul, Volume II (The Battery Press, Nashville Tennessee, 1963) p.518

47       Dunbar, Raden, The Kavieng Massacre: A War Crime Revealed (Sally Milner Publishing, 2007)