Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 29 – THE GREAT MARIANAS ‘TURKEY SHOOT’
1 Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.476
2 Lockwood, Charles A., and Hans Christian Adamson, Battle of the Philippines Sea (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1967) p.15
3 Ibid., p.72
4 Ibid., p.45
5 Ibid., p.45
6 USSBS: Interogations of Japanese Officials — 55/227 ibiblio: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/IJO/index.html
7 Y’blood, William, T., Red Sun Setting, The Battle of the Philippine Sea (Naval Institute Press, 2003) p.66
8 Ibid., p.42
9 Ibid., p.55
10 Lockwood, Battle of the Philippines, p.59
11 Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1975) p.215
12 Dickson, W.D., The Battle of the Philippine Sea (Littlehampton Book Services, 1975) p.24
13 Ibid., p.64
14 Buell, Spruance, p.285
15 Ibid., p.284
16 Ibid., p.287
17 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.299
18 Interrogations of Japanese Officials, Naval Intelligence Division: The Battle of the Philippine Sea:www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ AAF/USSBS/IJO/IJO-3.html p.10
19 Ibid., p.10
20 Morton, John Fass, Mustin: A Naval Family of the Twentieth Century (Naval Institute Press, 2003), p.179
21 Tillman Barrett, Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (NAL Caliber, New York, 2005) p.144
22 www.allpar.com/history/ military/bofors.html/David Zatz
23 Spick, Mike, Fighter Pilot Tactics, The Techniques of Daylight Air Combat, (Stein and ay Publishers, 1983) p.118
24 Hammel, Eric, Aces Against Japan II: The American Aces Speak (Pacific Military History, 2009) p.206
25 Naval Aviation News, July-August, 1993
26 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.121
27 Ibid., p.121
28 King, Ernest Joseph and Walter Muir Whitehill, Fleet Admiral King, A Naval Record (W.W. Norton, 1952) p.491
29 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.99
30 Hammel, The American Aces Speak, p.207
31 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.73
32 Ibid., p.69
33 Dickson, The Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.77
34 Potter, Nimitz, p.302
35 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.92
36 Lockwood, Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.90
37 Dickson, The Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.71
38 Buell, Spruance, p.291
39 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.99
40 Ibid., p.100
41 Ibid., p.113
42 Ibid., p.100
43 Lockwood, Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.96
44 Ibid., p.96
45 Ibid., p.96
46 Y’blood, Red Sun Setting, p.133
47 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander Vacriu
48 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.185
49 Ibid., p.195
50 Dickson, The Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.129
51 Y’blood, Red Sun Setting, p.130
52 Lockwood, Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.102
53 Buell, Spruance, p.298
54 Y’blood, Red Sun Setting, p.140
55 Dickson, The Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.146
56 Ibid., p.146
58 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.213
58 Lockwood, Battle of the Philippine Sea, p.112
59 Potter, Nimitz, p.302
60 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.233
61 Ibid., p.233
62 Ibid., p.263
63 Ibid., p.264
64 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.251
65 Y’blood, Red Sun Setting, p.191
66 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.256
67 Ibid., p.244-5
68 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.253
69 Taylor, Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher (US Naval Institute, Annapolis, 2006) p.237
69 Buell, Spruance, p.300
70 Campbell, James, The Color of War, How one Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America (Crown Publishers, New York, 2012) p.435
71 Buell, Spruance, p.303
72 Ibid., p.300
73 Buell, Spruance, p.303
74 Potter, Nimitz, p.303
75 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.466
76 Tillman, Clash of the Carriers, p.272
77 Merrium, Roy, Central Pacific Campaigns and Operations, Merriam, Roy, Central Pacific Campaigns and Operations, Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign and the Occupation of the Mariannas (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012) p.80
78 Ibid., p.80
79 Ibid., p.80
80 Y’blood, Red Sun Setting, p.219
81 Hattendorf, John B. and Bruce A. Elleman, eds., Nineteen-Gun Salute, Case Studies of Operational, Strategic, and Diplomatic Naval Leadership during the 20th and Early 21st Centuries (US Government Printing Office, 2010) p.57