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 33 – THE BATTLE OF THE IRRAWADDY RIVER

1         McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign (Bodley Head, London, 2010) p.384

2         Ibid., p.384

3         Latimer, Jon, Burma: The Forgotten War (John Murray, London, 2004) p.378

4         Danchev, Alex and Daniel Todman, eds., Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, War Diaries 1939 – 1945 (Phoenix, London, 2002) p.646

5         Rooney, David, Mad Mike, A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2006) p.184

6         Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.415

7         Fowler, William, We Gave Our Today: Burma 1941-5 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009) p.166

8         Ibid., p.167

9         Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.417

10       Ibid., p.417

11       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.421

12       Ibid., p.421

13       Latimer, Burma, p.390

14       Fowler, We Gave Our Today, p.199

15       Latimer, Burma, p.399

16       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.426

17       Latimer, Burma, p.406

18       Fraser, George MacDonald, Quartered Safe Out Here, A Recollection of the War in Burma (Harper Collins, London, 2000) p.146

19       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.431

20       Ibid., p.433

21       Latimer, Burma, p.403

22       Ibid., p.404

23       Fowler, We Gave Our Today, p.195

24       Ibid., p.192

25       Ibid., p.173

26       Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.679

27       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.440

28       Fraser, A Recollection of the War in Burma, p.197

29       Latimer, Burma, p.406

30       Rooney, Mad Mike, p.188

31       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.443

32       Fraser, A Recollection of the War in Burma, p.236

33      Nesbit, Roy Conyers, The Battle for Burma (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2009) p.167

34       Latimer, Burma, p.378

35       Ibid., p.378

36       Ibid., p.419

37       Ibid., p.422

38       Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.572

39       Latimer, Burma, p.417

40       Danchev, Alex and Daniel Todman, eds., Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New Edition, 2002) p.692

41       Ibid., p.698

42       Ibid., p.646

43       Ibid., p.646

44       Mclynn, The Burma Campaign, p.425