Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 25 – THE ICHIGO CAMPAIGN AND THE BATTLE OF MYITKINA
1 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, 1937 – 1945 (Allen Lane, London, 2013) p.319
2 Hirohito, Emperor, Showa Tenno no Dokuhaku Hachi Jikan (Bungei Shunju December 1990) p.134
3 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.323
4 Ibid., p.324
5 Ibid., p.324-5
6 Ibid., p.326
7 Ibid., p.327
8 Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911 – 1945 (Phoenix Press Paper 2001, First Published 1970) p.337
9 Ibid., p.337
10 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.327
11 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1944)
12 Feis, Herbert, Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin, The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought (Princeton Legacy Library, First Printed1957, 2015) p.251
13 Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McArthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009) p.251
14 Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-5 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.228
15 www.inews163.com/.../vs-field-artillery-mortar-war-between-china-and-japan
16 Fenby, Jonathan, Chiang Kai-Shek, China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost (Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2003) p.420
17 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.459
18 Gruhl, Werner, Imperial Japan’s World War Two, 1931 – 1945 (Transaction Publishers, 2007) p.55
19 Wax, Andrew, Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) p.57
20 Botjer, George F., A Short History of Nationalist China (Putnam, New York, 1979) p.222
21 Taylor, Jay, The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (First Harvard University Press Paperback, 2011) p.227
22 Ibid., p.227
23 Ibid., p.227
24 Ibid., p.227
25 Bayly, Christopher Alan and Timothy Norman Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Harvard University Press, Boston, 2005) p.272
26 Danchev, Alex and Daniel Todman, eds., Alanbrooke Diaries 1939 - 1945 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002) p.400
27 Ibid., p.403
28 Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932 – 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1995) p.389
29 McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942 – 1945 (Yale University Press, London, 2010) p.334
30 Rooney, David, Stilwell the Patriot, Vinegar Joe, The Brits and Chiang Kai-shek (Greenhill Books, London, 2005) p.182
31 Slim, William, Field Marshall Viscount, Defeat into Victory (Cassell, Oxford, 1956) p.238
32 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.206
33 Mclynn, Burma, p.167
34 Stilwell, General Joseph, W., Theodor White, ed., The Stilwell Papers (William Sloane Associates, New York, 1971) p.165
35 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.328
36 Rooney, Stilwell the Patriot, p.93
37 Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.165
38 www.ledoroad.homecast.net
39 Ogburn, Charlton, Jr., The Marauders (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959) p.79
40 Life Magazine August 14th 1944
41 Ogburn, Charlton, Jr., The Marauders (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959) p.79
42 India-Burma, The US Army Campaigns of World War II (Government Printing Office) p.16
43 Ogburn, Charlton, Jr., The Marauders (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959) p.79
44 Interview of Private Kermit Bushur, 27 August 2005: www.lcweb2.loc.gov (American Folklife Center)
45 Mortimer, Gavin, Merrill’s Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II (Zenith Press, 2013) p.57
46 Mortimer, Merrill’s Marauders, p.175
47 Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.291
48 Prefer, Nathan N., Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaigns for Burma (Presidion Press, 2000) p.144
49 Rooney, Stilwell the Patriot, p.206
50 McLynn, Burma, p.348
51 Rooney, Stilwell the Patriot, p.194
52 McLynn, Burma, p.349
53 Rooney, Stilwell the Patriot, p.208
54 McLynn, Burma, p.363
55 Ogburn, The Marauders, p.67
56 Tulbahadur Pun, Victoria Cross Citation, London Gazette, 7 November 1944
57 www.history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-2/CMH_Pub_9-2.pdf
58 Tuchman, Stilwell, p.469
59 Ibid., p.476
60 Interview of Second Lieutenant Herbert Clofine, 27 August 2005: www.lcweb2.loc.gov (American Folklife Center)
61 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.339
62 Randle, Fred E., Hell on Land, Disaster at Sea, The Story of Merrill’s Marauders and the Sinking of the Rhona (Turner Publishing Company, 2002) p.128
63 Li, Laura Tyson, Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Eternal First Lady (Grove, Atlantic Inc., 2007) p.256
64 Feis, Herbert, China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission (Princeton University Press, 2015: First published 1951) p.275
65 India-Burma, The US Army Campaigns of World War II (Government Printing Office) p.16
66 Chi, Hsi-sheng, The Much Troubled Alliance: US-China Military Co-operation During the Pacific War (World Scientific, Singapore, 2015) p.501
67 Club, Oliver Edmund, China (New York Times, Volume 3 of Great Contemporary Issues, 1972) p.96
68 Danchev and Todman, Alanbrooke Diaries 1939 - 1945, p.578
69 Hastings, Nemesis, p.229
70 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.336
71 Hastings, Nemesis, p.234
72 Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.360