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 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