Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 31 – THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF
1 Wilmott, H.P., The Battle of Leyte Gulf, The Last Fleet Action (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2005) p.22
2 Crane, Conrad, Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Air Power Strategy in World War II (University Press of Kansas, 1993) p.491
3 Potter, EB, Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.316
4 Thompson, Peter, The Battle for Singapore, The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Piatkus Books, London, 2004) p.435
5 Wilmott, H.P., The Battle of Leyte Gulf, The Last Fleet Action (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2005) p.22
6 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.318
7 Ibid., p.318
8 Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.271
9 Potter, Nimitz, p.319
10 Ibid., p.320
11 Crane, Conrad, Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Air Power Strategy in World War II (University Press of Kansas, 1993) p.492
12 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941 - 1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.323
13 Costello, The Pacific War, p.501
14 Breuer, William B., Retaking the Philippines, America’s Return to Corregidor and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945 (St.Martin’s Press, New York, 1986) p.44
15 Wilmott, H.P, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.50
16 Ibid., p.36
17 Ibid., p.36
18 Andrieu D’Albas, Death of a Navy: The Fleets of the Mikado in the Second World War, 1931-1945 (Robert Hale, 1957) p.164
19 Interrogation of Vice-Admiral Ozawa, 30th October, 1945, p.2: www2db.com/doc.php?q=131
20 Ibid., p.11
21 Buell, Thomas B., The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance (Naval Institute Press, 1987; reissue 2009) p.347
22 Wilmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.64
23 Ibid., p.64
24 Prados, John, Islands of Destiny, The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (Nal Caliber, 2007) p.602
25 Potter, Nimitz, p.331
26 Wukovits, John, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) p.179
27 www.padresteve.com/2011/10/25/the-battle-of-leyte-gulf-sinking-the-musashi/
28 Yoshimura, Akira, Battleship Musashi, The Making and Sinking of the World’s Biggest Battleship (Kodansha Internation, 1999) p.14
29 Ibid., p.75
30 www.forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/1169-japans-battleship-musashi/
31 Yoshimura, Battleship Musashi, p.175
32 Ibid., p.170
33 Potter, Nimitz, p.334
34 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.187
35 Ibid., p.186
36 Ibid., p.190
37 Theodore Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher (Naval Institute Press; New edition edition, 2006) p.261
38 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander, p.186
39 Ibid., p.191
40 Vego, Milan N., The Battle of Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations and Execution (Naval Institute Press, 2006) p.260
41 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.186
42 Ibid., p.192
43 Ibid., p.192
44 Ibid., p.192
45 Ibid., p.192
46 Ibid., p.192
47 Theodore, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.262
48 Wilmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.124
49 Ibid., p.125
50 Tully, Anthony, P., Battle of Surigao Strait (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2009) p.100
51 Ibid., p.93
52 Ibid., p.158
53 Ibid., p.177
54 Ibid., p.84
55 Wilmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.152
56 Tully, Battle of Surigao, p.263
57 Ibid., p.273
58 Ibid., p.273
59 Potter, Nimitz, (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.337
60 Ibid., p.337
61 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.194
62 Evan Thomas, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941 - 1945 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2010) p.258
63 Wilmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.174
64 Ibid., p.174
65 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.196
66 Ibid., p.196
67 Ibid., p.197
68 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.198
69 Ibid., p.198
70 Ibid., p.198
71 Ibid., p.199
- Costello, The Pacific War, p.514
73 Ibid., p.516
74 Ibid., p.516
75 Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, 1970, Reprinted 2003) p.568
76 Costello, The Pacific War, p.518
77 Toland, Rising Sun, p.569
78 Ibid., p.569
79 Ibid., p.547
80 Ibid., p.573
81 Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five Star Admirals Who won the War at Sea (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012) p.256
82 Interrogation of Vice-Admiral Ozawa, 30th October, 1945, p.4: http://ww2db.com/doc.php?q=131
83 Costello, The Pacific War, p.278
84 Potter, Nimitz, p.340
85 Ibid., p.340
86 Time. November 10, 1947
87 Potter, Nimitz, p.344
88 Hopkins, John, The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War, (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.270
90 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, The Life and Wars of the Navy’s most Controversial Commander, p.200
91 Ibid., p.201
92 Ibid., p.201
93 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.202
94 Ibid., p.202
95 Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.77
96 Potter, Nimitz, p.344
97 Ibid., p.344
98 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.497
99 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.206
100 Wilmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, p.173
101 Ibid., p.174
102 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.241
103 Buell, The Quiet Warrior, p.363
104 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.265
105 Interrogation of Vice-Admiral Ozawa, 30th October, 1945, p.6: www2db.com/doc.php?q=131
106 Potter, Nimitz, p.325
107 Dury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, The Story of a Fighting Admiral, An Epic Storm and an untold rescue, (Grove Press, 2007) p.96
108 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.215
109 Dury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.105
110 Ibid., p.105
111 Naval History and Heritage Command: Recollections of Pacific Typhoon on 18 December 1944 by Chief Warrant Officer Steven F. Yorden, USN (RET), in charge of shipfitters (construction and repair division) on board USS Dewey: www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online.../oral-history.html
112 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.217
113 Ibid., p.217
114 Naval History and Heritage Command: Recollections of Pacific Typhoon on 18 December 1944 by Chief Warrant Officer Steven F. Yorden, USN (RET), in charge of shipfitters (construction and repair division) on board USS Dewey: www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online.../oral-history.html
115 Ibid.,
116 Dury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.174
117 Ibid., p.174
118 Naval History and Heritage Command: Recollections of Pacific Typhoon on 18 December 1944. USS San Jacinto (CVL-30): www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online.../oral-history.html
119 Naval History and Heritage Command: Recollections of Pacific Typhoon on 18 December 1944. USS Independence (CVL-22): www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online.../oral-history.html
120 Naval History and Heritage Command: Recollections of Pacific Typhoon on 18 December 1944. USS Altamaha (CVE-18): www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online.../oral-history.html
121 Ibid.
122 Dury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.218
123 Ibid., p.229
124 Ibid., p.231
125 CINPAC File: Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Combat Narratives: Washington, DC: Office of Naval Intelligence, 1943 (Naval Historical Center)
126 Ibid.
127 Dury and Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, p.270
128 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.217
129 Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines (University of Illinois Press, 2002) p.85-86
130 Ibid., p.85-86
131 Ibid., p.85-86
132 Wukovits, Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, p.220
133 Ibid., p.223
134 Ibid., p.222