Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 23 – THE ISOLATION OF RABAUL AND THE STARVATION OF BOUGAINVILLE
1 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.422
2 Gailey, Harry A., Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign (Kentucky University Press, 2003) p.37
3 Ibid., p.46
4 Ibid., p.53
5 Ibid., p.59
6 Ibid., p.79
7 Ibid., p.67
8 Ibid., p.67
9 Ibid., p.68
10 McGee, William L., Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII, Volume II, The Solomons Campaigns 1942 – 1943, From Guadalcanal to Bougainville, Pacific War Turning Point (BMC Publications, Santa Barbara, California 2002) p.499
11 Gailey, Bougainville, p.69
12 Ibid., p.71
13 Ibid., p.71
14 Infantry Journal Press, The Third Marine Division, 1948, p.63
15 Gailey, Bougainville, p.75
16 Ibid., p.77
17 Ibid., p.82
18 Ibid., p.83
19 Costello, The Pacific War, p.424
20 Gailey, Bougainville, p.85
21 Costello, The Pacific War, p.424
22 Ibid., p.424
23 Gailey, Bougainville, p.86
24 Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.382
25 Costello, The Pacific War, p.425
26 Gailey, Bougainville, p.89
27 Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013) p.266
28 Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.358
29 Costello, The Pacific War, p.426
30 Monks, John A, A Ribbon and a Star (Henry Holt, New York, 1945) p.203
31 Gailey, Bougainville, p.110
32 Bergerund, Fire in the Sky, p.512
33 Gailey, Bougainville, p.129
34 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.513
35 Ibid., p.66
36 Ibid., p.66
37 Gailey, Bougainville, p.123
38 Ibid., p.123
39 Ibid., p.125
40 Ibid., p.125
41 Dumanski, Dianne, The End of the Long Summer; Why we Must Remake our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth (Random House, New York, 2009) p.51
42 Ibid., p.52
43 Gamble, Target Rabaul, p.272
44 Gailey, Bougainville, p.147
45 Boyington, Gregory, Baa, Baa Black Sheep (NY Bantam, 1958) p.219-23
46 Gailey, Bougainville, p.147
47 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.515
48 Ibid., p.516
49 Gailey, Bougainville, p.155
50 Ibid., p.155
51 Ibid., p.166
52 Bergerud, Fire in the Sky, p.518
53 Ibid., p.519
54 Gailey, Bougainville, p.168
55 Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.390
56 Gailey, Bougainville, p.175
57 Ibid., p.177
58 Ibid., p.182
59 Ibid., p.182
60 Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.390
61 Long, The Final Campaigns, p.103
62 Gailey, Bougainville, p.186
63 Ibid., p.187
64 Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.391
65 Charlton, Peter, The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns in the South-West Pacific, 1944 (Macmillan Company of Australia, 1983) p.1
66 Gailey, Bougainville, p.205
67 Powell, Alan, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War (Australia Army History Series, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2003) p.76
68 Davidson, Audrey, Porton, A Deadly Trap (Boolarong Press, 2005) p.148
69 Ibid., p.137
70 Costello, The Pacific War, p.425
71 Gamble, Target Rabaul, p.321
72 Ibid., p.321
73 Ibid., p.324
74 MacArthur, General Douglas, Reminiscences (Naval Institute Press, 2012: first published 1964) p.166-7
75 Gamble, Target Rabaul, p.353