Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 35 – THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA
1 Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.701
2 Yahara, Hiromichi, The Battle for Okinawa (Wiley, 2002) p.47
3 Buell, Thomas B., The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance (Naval Institute Press, 1987; reissue 2009) p.375
4 Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-5 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.104
5 Ibid., p.105
6 Buell, Spruance, p.381
7 Yahara, The Battle for Okinawa, p.9
8 Ibid., p.10
9 Ibid., p.12
10 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.555
11 Ibid., p.555
12 Yahara, The Battle for Okinawa , p.24
13 Ibid., p.49
14 Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.306
15 Ibid., p.306
16 Spector, Ronald H., Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan (Cassel & Co., London, 2001) p.540
17 Costello, The Pacific War, John, p.557
18 Leckie, Robert, Okinawa, The Last Battle of World War II (Penguin Books, London, 1995) p.72
19 Costello, The Pacific War, p.557
20 Buell, Spruance, p.379
21 Kinzey, Bert, F6F Hellcat in detail and scale (D&S Vol.26) (AirLife Publishing Ltd., Shrewsbury,1987) p.58
22 Styling, Mark, Corsair Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 8). London: Osprey Publishing, 1995) p.9-10
23 Toland, The Rising Sun, p.711
24 Buell, Spruance, p.385
25 Leckie, Okinawa, p.115
26 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.223
27 Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976) p.375
28 Buell, Spruance, p.387
29 Ibid., p.387
30 Spector, The American War with Japan, p.539
31 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher (Naval Institute Press; New edition edition, March 2006; originally Norton, New York, 1954) p.287
32 Potter, Nimitz, p.376
33 Ibid., p.376
34 Ibid., p.380
35 Ibid., p.382
36 Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000) p.484
37 Potter, Nimitz, p.372
38 Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, 2012) p.470
39 Ibid., p.470
40 Ibid., p.471
41 Ibid., p.471
42 Ibid., p.471
43 Buell, Spruance, p.386-7
44 Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 June, 1948
45 Toland, Rising Sun, p.689
46 Leckie, Okinawa, p.93
47 Buell, Spruance, p.384
48 Toland, Rising Sun, p.692
49 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.270
50 Ibid., p.284
51 Taylor, The Magnificent Mitscher, p.304
52 Costello, The Pacific War, p.560
53 Bix, Hirohito, p.485
54 Ambrose, Hugh, The Pacific (Canongate Books, New York, 2010) p.414
55 Alexander, Colonel Joseph H., The Final Campaign, Marines in the Victory on Okinawa: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Okinawa/index.html p.41
56 Ambrose, The Pacific, p.415
57 Yahara, The Battle for Okinawa, p.133
58 Ibid., p.138
59 Yahara, The Battle of Okinawa, p.155
60 Ibid., p.155
61 Toland, Rising Sun, p.723
62 Feifer, George, The Battle of Okinawa (The Lyons Press, 2001) p.374
63 Ambrose, Hugh, The Pacific (Canongate Books, New York, 2010) p.395
64 The Japan Times, 29 March 2008
65 Ambrose, The Pacific, p.426