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 6 - PLAN ORANGE AND THE PHILIPPINES LOST

1       Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978) p.229

2       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.227

3       Manchester, American Caesar, p.230

4       Ambrose, Stephen, Eisenhower, Soldier and President (Simon & Schuster, London, 2003) p.32

5       Manchester, American Caesar, p.180

6       Ibid., p.142

7       Ibid., p.160

8       Ibid., p.163

9       Ambrose, Eisenhower, p.33

10     Wukovits, John, F., Eisenhower (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006)

11     Borneman, The Admirals, p.167

12     MacArthur, General Douglas, Reminiscences (Naval Institute Press, 2012: first published 1964) p.101

13     Ibid., p.101

14     Manchester, American Caesar, p.190

15     Bartsch, William H., 8 December 1941: MacArthur’s Pearl Harbor (Texas A&M University Press, 2003) p.73

16     Ibid., p.83

17     Ibid., p.86

18     Ibid., p.79

19     Ibid., p.153

20     Ibid., p.151

21     Manchester, American Caesar, p.233

22     Chief of Naval Operations to General MacArthur 28 Nov 1941: www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/EastWind/CNO-411127.html

23     Masuda, Hiroshi, MacArthur in Asia, The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press, 2012) p.33

24     Bartsch, MacArthur’s Pearl Harbor, p.192

25     Manchester, American Caesar, p.236

26     MacArthur, Reminiscences, p.117

27     Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books, 2014) p.85

28     Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943 (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2012) p.53

29     Gordon, John, Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011) p.79

30     Ibid., p.79

31     Ibid., p.80

32     Ibid., p.80

33     Ibid., p.315

34     Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.37

35     Bartsch, MacArthur’s Pearl Harbor, p.158

36     Manchester, American Caesar, p.242

37     Ibid., p.243

38     Ibid., p.244

39     Stephenson, Michael, Battlegrounds: Geography and the History of Warfare (Simon & Schuster, 2003) p.257

40     Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.50

41     Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009, p.174

42     Gordon, Fighting for MacArthur, p.22

43     Manchester, American Caesar, p.239

44     Gordon, Fighting for MacArthur, p.94

45     Ibid., p.161

46     Morton, Louis, The War in the Pacific, The Fall of the Philippines (Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D.C,) p.387

47     Young, Donald J., The Battle of Bataan, A Complete History (McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2009, 2nd Edition) p.38

48     Manchester, American Caesar, p.273

49     Ibid., p.273

50     Borneman, The Admirals, p.227

51     Ibid., p.227

52     Manchester, American Caesar, p.261

53     Perry, The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur, p.105

54     Ibid., p.120

55     Buencamino, Victor, Memoirs of Victor Buencamino: A Biography 1888 – 1977 (Historical Conversation Society, The University of Michigan, 1996) p.252

56     Ibid., p.274

57     Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.266

58     Manchester, American Caesar, p.283

59     Ibid., p.285

60     Costello, The Pacific War, p.213

61     Gordon, Fighting for MacArthur, p.171

62     Ibid., p.171

63     Ibid., p.140

64     Warren, Alan, Britain’s Greatest Defeat: Singapore 1942 (Hambledon Continuum, New York, 2007 edition) p.200

65     Manchester, American Caesar, p.297

66     Potter, E.B., Nimitz (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1976)p.45

67     Ibid., p.45

68     Leary, William M., ed., MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader (University of Nebraska Press, Illustrated Reprint 2001) p.210

69     Potter, Nimitz, p.45

70     Costello, The Pacific War, p.227

71     Ibid., p.227

72     Ibid., p.227

73     Ibid., p.228

74     Waldron, Ben and Emily Burneson, Corregidor, “from Paradise to Hell” (University of Michigan, Pine Hill Press, 1988) p.70

75     Ibid., p.70

76     Gordon, Fighting for MacArthur, p.300

77     Ibid., p.301

78     Doll, John G., The Battling Bastards of Bataan (Merriam Press, Bennington VT, First published 1988, Seventh Edition, 2011) p.73

79     Manchester, American Caesar, p.184

80     Ferrel, Robert H., ed., The Eisenhower Diaries (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1981) p.54

81     Daly, Erin, Dignity Rights, Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2012) p.85

82     Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.36

83     Chynoweth, Bradford Grethen, Memoirs (Exposition Press; Hicksville, NY 1975) p.194

84     www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html

85     Schaller, Michael, Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General (Replica Books, 2001) p.58

86     Long, Gavin, MacArthur (Combined Publishing, Conshohocken PA, 1969) p.86