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 27 – JUMP TO HOLLANDIA

1       Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.218

2       Gailey, Harry A., MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004) p.40

3       Morrison, Eliot, Samuel, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1958) p.403-9

4       Long, Gavin, The Final Campaigns (Griffin Press, Canberra, 1963) p.557-61

5       Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.389

6       Rawlings, Saturday Evening Post 10.7.1944

7       Taafe, Stephen R., MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (University Press of Kansas, Kansas, U.S.A., 2006) p.52

8       Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.257

9       Smith, Robert Ross, The War in the Pacific: Approach to the Philippines (Office of the Chief of Military, 1966) p.11-12

10     Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London 2001) p.279-280

11     Dexter, David, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the war of 1939-1945, Volume VI (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961) p.791

12     Taafe, MacArthur's Jungle War, p.80

13     Dexter, The New Guinea Offensives, p.803

14     Griffith, Thomas E., Jr., MacArthur's Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998) p.158

15     Ibid., p.160

16     McAulay, Lex, Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 3 March 1943 (Maryborough, Queensland: Banner Books, Maryborough, Queensland, 2008) p.203

17     Ibid, p.200

18     Ibid, p.200

19     Ibid, p.205

20     Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, p.86

21     Ibid., p.86

22     Gailey, MacArthur's Victory, p.170

23     Manchester, American Caesar, p.400

24     Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.398

25     Manchester, American Caesar, p.399

26     Ibid., p.400

27     Gailey, MacArthur's Victory, p.180

28     Ibid., p.184

29     Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.400

30     McAulay, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, p.250

31     Ibid., p.250

32     Ibid., p.250

33     Eichelberger, Robert L., Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (Viking Press, New York, 1950) p.113-4

34     Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.475

35     Gailey, MacArthur's Victory, p.214

36     Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.266

37     Gailey, MacArthur's Victory, p.220

38     Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, p.167

39     Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.292

40     Gailey, MacArthur's Victory, p.223

41     Ibid., p.223

42     Griffith, MacArthur's Airman, p.172

43     Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.483

44     Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.406

45     Ibid., p.407

46     Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, p.172

47     Ibid., p.140

48     Ibid., p.141

49     Costello, The Pacific War, p.474

50     Gailey, MacArthur’s Victory, p.236

51     Thompson, Pacific Fury, p.400

52     Cray, Ed, General of the Army, George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (Cooper Square Press, New York, 1990) p.439

53       Manchester, American Caesar, p.407

54       Spector, Eagle Against the Sun, p.294

55       Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000) p.19

56       Manchester, American Caesar, p.384

57       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.223

58       Ford, Douglas, The Pacific War (Continuum International Publishing, London, 2012) p.115

59       Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, p.55

60       Long, Gavin, Volume VII - The Final Campaigns, Chaper 15: Tazaki and Shiburangu, Australia in the War of 1939 - 1945 (Griffin Press, Canberra, 1963) p.386-387