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 32 – MACARTHUR REGAINS THE PHILPPINES

1         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.14

2         Ibid., p.14

3         Ibid., p.13

4         Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.480

5         Ibid., p.481

6         Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.25

7         Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.285

8         Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.28

9         Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.277

10       Ibid., p.278

11       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.31

12       Ibid., p.31

13       Bix, Hirohito, p.481

14       Prefer, Nathan, Leyte 1944, The Soldier’s Battle (Casemate, 2012) p.73

15       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.33

16       Ibid., p.109

17       Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.41

18       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.47

19       Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.40

20       Ibid., p.43

21       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.50

22       Ibid., p.51

23       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.179

24       Ibid., p.179

25       Ibid., p.185

26       Prefer, Nathan N., Leyte 1944: The Soldiers’ Battle (Casemate, 2012) p.61

27       Presidential Proclamation 2629, November 1st 1944

28       Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.126

29       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.84

30       Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.273

31       Griffith, MacArthur's Airman, p.196

32       Ibid., p.195

33       Ibid., p.198

34       Ibid., p.206

35       Ltr, CG Sixth Army to CINCSWPA, sub: Construction Program, 21 Dec 44, Sixth Army G-4 Jnl, 24 Dec 41: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Return/USA-P-Return-18.html

36       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.273

37       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.90

38       Ibid., p.91

39        Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.228

40       Ibid., p.228

41       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.92

42       Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.232

43       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.102

44       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.275

45       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.106

46       Prefer, Leyte 1944, p.300

47       Ibid., p.325

48       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.110

49       Ibid., p.115

50       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.311

51       Ibid., p.312

52       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.279

53       Griffith, MacArthur's Airman, p.221

54       Ibid., p.222-223

55       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.132

56       Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008) p.465

57       Breurer, Retaking the Philippines, p.143

58       Ibid., p.152

59       Costello, The Pacific War, p.532

60       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.315

61       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.283

62       Costello, The Pacific War, p.533

63       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.322

64       Breuer, Retaking the Philippines, p.167

65       Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p.323

66       Costello, The Pacific War, p.531

67       Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.287