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 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