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

APPENDIX B – RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS

1           Coakley, Robert W., and Leighton Richard M., The US Army in World War II: Global Logistics and Strategy, 1943-1945 (Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army, Washington, 1968)

2          Baldwin, Hanson, p.10

3           Ibid., p.10

4           Klein, Maury, A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II (Bloomsbury Press, London, 2013) p.222

5           Ibid., p.225

6           Ibid., p.226

7           Ibid., p.75

8           Ibid., p.77

9           Ibid., p.233

10         Ibid., p.218

11          Ibid., p.496

12         Ibid., p.591

13         www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwiibayarea/shipbuilding

14         Lee, Bill, The Liberty Ships of World War II, Their Union County and Other Carolina Connections, p.7 (www.jajones.com/pdf/Liberty_Ships_of_WWII.pdf)

15       www.sunderlandmaritimeheritage.org.uk / Ships/Liberty% 20Ships/ history_david_aris.html

16         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.322

17         Ibid., p.318

18         Ibid., p.324

19         Report of Voyage, SS John P. Gaines: www.armed-guard.com/stories.html

20         www.sunderlandmaritmeheritage.org.uk/ships/liberty/%20ships/history

21         www.gov.uk/government /speeches/arctic-star-and-ushakov-medal-ceremony

22         Brinkley, Douglas, The Man Who won the War for Us, American Heritage, 20000101, Vol. 51, Issue 3: Even Hitler called Higgins ‘the new Noah’: www.mahsnet.org/projects/Salisbury_LCVP/Salisbury_LCVP_9.html

23         Klein, A Call to Arms, p.190

24         www.historynet.com/japans-fatally-flawed-air-forces-in-world-war-ii-2.htm

25         Ibid.,

26         Ibid.,

27         Ibid.,

28         Ibid.,

29         Ibid.,

30         Gropman, Alan, ed., The Big L: Gray, Antony, Joint Logistics in the Pacific Theatre (Government Printing Office, 1997) p.13

31         O’Brian, Philipps Payson, How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2015)  p.378

32        Gropman, The Big L, p.16