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 24 – THE BATTLES OF ARAKAN, IMPHAL AND KOHIMA

1          Lyman, Robert, Slim, Master of War (Robinson Publishing, 2005) p.318

2          Ibid., p.63

3          Latimer, Jon, Burma: The Forgotten War (John Murray, London, 2004) p.123

4          Ibid., p.123

5          Ibid., p.144

6          Slim, Field Marshall Viscount, Defeat into Victory (Cassell, Oxord, 1956) p.152

7          Romanus, Charles and Riley Sunderland, World War II in China and Burma, Stilwell’s Command Problems (US Center for Military History) p.227-8

8          Latimer, Burma, p.152

9          Moreman, Tim, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45 (Frank Cass, Abingdon, 2005) p.68

10        Latimer, Burma, p.146

11        Moreman, The Jungle, p.71

12        Lyman, Slim, p.98

13        Ibid., p.98

14        Ibid., p.98

15        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.179

16        Latimer, Burma, p.149

17        Ferguson, Bernard, Beyond the Chindwin, Being an Account of the Adventure of Number Five Column of the Wingate expedition into Burma (Fontana, 1971) p.21

18        Ibid., p.21

19        Fowler, William, We Gave Our Today (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009) p.93

20        Latimer, Burma, p.156

21        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.185

22        McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign (Bodley Head, London, 2010) p.77

23        Latimer, Burma, p.158

24        Fowler, We Gave Our Today, p.96

25        Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.147

26        Latimer, Burma, p.158

27        Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.157

28        Latimer, Burma, p.167

29        Thompson, Julian, Forgotten Voices of Burma, The Second World War’s Forgotten Conflict (Ebury Press, paperback, UK, 2010) p.252

30        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.208

31        Moreman, The Jungle, p.78

32        Ibid., p.79

33        Lyman, Slim, p.139

34        Latimer, Burma, p.378

35        Thompson, Julian, Forgotten Voices of Burma, The Second World War’s Forgotten Conflict (Ebury Press, 2010) p.181

36        Lyman, Slim, p.142

37        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.207

38        Lattimer, Burma, p.177

39        Ibid., p.178

40        Moreman, The Jungle, p.49

41        Ibid., p.49

42        Moreman, The Jungle, p.50

43        Ibid., p.53

44        Ibid., p.57

45        Ibid., p.54

46        Ibid., p.60

47        Ibid., p.88

48        Ibid., p.96

49        Ibid., p.244

50        Lyman, Slim, p.151

51        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.211

52        Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.93

53        Latimer, Burma, p.175

54        Lyman, Slim, p.152

55        Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.130

56        Lyman, Slim, p.157

57        Moreman, The Jungle, p.99

58        Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.134

59        Lyman, Slim, p.157-8

60        Lowry, Michael, Fighting Through to Kohima, A Memoir of War in India and Burma (Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008: first published 2003) p.83

61        Ibid., p.115

62        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.283

63        Ibid., p.282

64        Ibid., p.282

65        Latimer, Burma, p.310

66        Objective Burma! [1945] A Raoul Walsh film starring Errol Flynn

67        Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.267

68        Ferguson, Beyond the Chindwin, p.123

69        Calvert, Michael, Fighting Mad, One Man’s Guerilla War (Leo Cooper, London, 2004) p.112

70        Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.287

71        Latimer, Burma, p.187

72        Webster, Donovan, The Burma Road (MacMillan, London, 2004) p.251

73         Latimer, Burma, p.189

74         Ibid., p.189

75         Latimer, Burma, p.190

76         Wolpert, Stanley, A New History of India (Oxford University Press, 2003) p.334

77         Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.254

78         Ibid., p.267

79         Ibid., p.267

80         Moreman, Tim, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45 (Frank Cass, Oxford, 2005) p.131

81         Lyman, Slim, p.205

82         Ibid., p.221

83         Webster, The Burma Road, p.251

84         Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.59

85         Latimer, Burma, p.285

86         Ibid., p.284

87         Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.311

88         Ibid., p.312

89         Latimer, Burma, p.282

90         Ibid., p.282

91         Lyman, Slim, p.208

92         McLynn, The Burma Campaign, p.318

93         Webster, The Burma Road, p.259

94         Lyman, Slim, p.209

95         Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima, p.222

96         Latimer, Burma, p.292

97         Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima, p.209

98         Latimer, Burma, p.301

99         Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.466

100       Webster, The Burma Road, p.262

101       Latimer, Burma, p.304

102       Webster, The Burma Road, p.267

103       Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.293

104       Lyman, Slim, p.222

105       Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.241

106       Ibid., p.241

107       Latimer, Burma, p.324

108       Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.295

109       Mclynn, The Burma Road, p.326

110       Thompson, Forgotten Voices, p.301

111       Latimer, Burma, p.191

112       Webster, The Burma Road, p.261

113       Ibid., p.261

114       Webster, The Burma Road, p.267

115       Toland, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 The Pacific War, p.631

116       Ibid., p.614

117       Ibid., p.614

118       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.321

119       Ibid., p.339

120       Fowler, We Gave Our Today, p.163

121       Ibid., p.163

122       Ibid., p.163

123       Fowler, We Gave Our Today, p.163

124       Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.421