Hirohito's war: the Pacific War, 1941 - 1945
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Appendices xxii
Map, Diagram, Drawing and Chart List xxv
Notes and Additional Resources xxx
Acknowledgments xxxi
Introduction and Background xxxiii
Part I: Meiji Restoration: 1868 1
1 Empires in Conflict 3
[1868-1931]
[Maps: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8,1.9, 1.10, 1.11]
American Empire in the Ascendant [1789—1922] (p 3) Development
of Japan, Shintoism and the Imperial System [660 BC-1868] (p 6)
The Meiji Restoration [1868], Growth and Expansion (p 7) Korea,
Formosa and the First Sino-Japanese War [1894—1895] (p 9)
The Russo-Japanese War [1904—1905] and Shock Waves in Asia and
the World (plO) Anti-Asian Racism in the West (p 14) World War I:
The Rise and Fall of the German Empire [1848-1918] (p 15) The
Demise of the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires [1918]
(p 17) Anglo-Saxons Triumphant: The Paris Peace Conference and
the Treaty of Versailles [1919] (p 19) The League of Nations [1920]
(p 20) The Washington System [1922] (p 21) Tariffs and Isolationism
(p 23) Japanese Reaction to the Treaty of Versailles and the Washington
System (p 24) The Collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the Rise of Chinese
Nationalism [1911] (p 26) Setting the Stage for a Renewed Conflict of
Empires (p 30)
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Part II: Japan versus America and the World: 1931—1941 35
2 Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy 37
[1930—1936]
[Maps: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4[
The London Naval Conference [1930] and the Death of Hamaguchi
(p 37) The Mukden Incident [1931] (p 39) Depression, Autarky and
the Economic Imperatives for Japanese Aggression (p 42) Fascism,
Pan -A s i a n ism and the Japanese Intelligentsia (p 45) Thought Control
and Censorship (p 54) 15 May Incident [1932] (p 58) Japanese
Political Parties: Minseito and Seiyukai Undermined [1932—1936]
(p 60) The 26 February Incident [1936] and the Purge of the Imperial
Way Faction (p 64) The Control Faction in the Ascendant [1936—1941]
(p 68) Agnes Smedley, Ozaki and the Sorge Spy Ring (p 70) The
Long March and the Xian Incident [December 1936] (p 72)
The Anti-Comintern Pact [November 1936] (p 78) Preconditions
for War (p 78)
3 Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War 80
[1937-1941]
[Maps: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6]
Manchukuo, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the Start of the Second
Sino-Japanese War [July 1937] (p 80) The Battles of Taiyuan and
Shanghai [1937] (p 82) The Rape of Nanking [November 1937—January
1938] (p 84) Cordell Hull and the US State Department s Internecine
Battles on Japan Policy (p 88) Franklin D. Roosevelt: From Isolation
to Intervention [1933—September 1941] (p 93) The Battles ofNomonhan
(Kahlkhin Gol) [May—September 1939] and the Soviet Threat to
Japan (p 98) Prince Konoe and Japanese Domestic and International
Politics [1937—July 1941] (p 101) The Japanese Occupation of
Vietnam and the Tripartite Alliance [September 1940] (p 104)
Operation BARBAROSSA, Strike South 9 and the Countdown
to War in the Pacific [September 1940—December 1941] (p 107)
Hirohito s Role as Icon and Godhead in the Rise of Ultra-nationalism
(p 109) Hirohito s War Guilt Examined (p 111) Japan’s Empire [1941]
(p 121) The Power of MAGIC (p 122) Financial Freeze and Oil
Embargo: America s Precipitation of the War with Japan [July 1941]
(P 123)
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Contents
4 Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
128
[1931—December 1941]
[Chart: 4.1] [Map: 4.2]
Lack of US Preparedness for War (p 128) America s Global Task of
Production and Supply (p 130) The New Deal and Technological
Advance in Pre-War America (p 131) The US Economy in the 1930s
(p 134) America s Pre-War Mobilization Plans (p 135) America s
VICTORY Plan (p 138) The Development of Japan s Economy in the
1930s (p 139) Japan s Economic Preparations for War (p 142) Labor
Mobilization in Japan (p 144) The Structure of Japan s Pre-War
Economy (p 144) Plan DOG [November 1940] (p 146) ‘Flying Tigers V
America s Plans for a Backdoor War against Japan in China (p 147)
War or Peace? The Final Negotiations [1940—December 1941] (p 150)
The Rise of General Hideki Tojo [October 1941] (p 153) Japan s
Decision for War and the Hull Note [5 November-1 December 1941]
(p 154) Summary of Causes of the Pacific War (p 155)
Part III: Hirohito’s Whirlwind Conquests:
[7 December 1941 in Hawaii and Washington: 8 December 1941 in Tokyo]
[Drawing: 5.1] [Maps: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4]
The Conquest of Hawaii and Captain Mahan (p 161) ‘Range Extension *
and Armament Technology Developments in the Interwar Years (p 161)
Yamamoto s Great Gamble (p 165) Pearl Harbor Prepares for War
(p 170) Torà! Torà! Torà! (p 171) Meanwhile in Washington (p 174)
Reaction in America and the World (p 176) The US Navy:
Recriminations and Blame (p 177) Debunking the Conspiracy Theories
(p 180) Reflections on Yamamoto s Failure at Pearl Harbor (p 181)
6 Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle 187
[December 1941-Aprii 1942]
[Maps: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5]
Plans ORANGE and RAIN BOW-5 (p 187) General MacArthur, Soldier
and Propagandist (p 188) MacArthur in ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ (p 192)
Homma, the ‘Poet General, ’Invades Luzon (p 196) MacArthur s Lies
December 1941—June 1942
159
5 Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
161
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and Obf uscation (p 198) The Battle of the Bataan Peninsula (p 201)
MacArthur s Escape to Australia (p 206) The Destruction of the US
Army on Bataan (p 208) The Fall of Corregidor (p 209) The Bataan
Death March (p 211) MacArthur: Culpability, Honors and Money
(P 212)
7 Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
[December 1941—February 1942]
[Maps: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5]
General Yamashita and the Plan of Attack (p 215) Complacency and
Weakness of British Air Defenses (p 218) Invasion of Thailand and
Malaya (p 222) Admiral Phillips and the Naval Reinforcement of the
Far East Fleet (p 224) The Naval Battle of Malaya: The Sinking of
HMS Prince of Wales (p 226) Preparations for the Defense of Malaya
(p 231) Yamashita s Bicycle Blitzkrieg ’ (p 234) The Battle of Slim River
and the Fall of Kuala Lumpur (p 236) The Battle of Muar (p 237)
Japanese Infantry: ‘Supermen and Brutes (p 240) The Race to the
Straits of Johor and the Dwindling Hopes of Saving Singapore (p 241)
Explanations for British Defeat in Malaya (p 242)
8 Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
[January 1942—February 1942]
[Map: 8.1]
The Strategic Logic of Singapore (p 243) Plans for the Defense of
Singapore (p 245) Air Battles over Singapore (p 247) The Attack on
Singapore: Yamashita s Bluff (p 250) Surrender and Humiliation
(p 253) Consequences of the Fall of Singapore (p 255) The Fall of
Singapore and Malaya in Retrospect (p 257)
9 Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
[January 1941—May 1942]
[Maps: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5]
Why Burma? (p 261) General Shojiro lida (p 263) Iidas Advance from
Malaya and Thailand (p 263) The Royal Air Force (RAF) and the
‘Flying Tigers ’ (American Volunteer Group: AVG) (p 265) Blowing the
Sit tang Bridge (p 269) Vinegar Joe9 Stil we ll and the Chinese Army in
Burma (p 272) Escape from Rangoon (p 274) The Battle of Magwe
215
243
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Contents
(p 274) Allied Deployment in Central Burma (p 276) Aung San and
the Barmans (p 277) The Battle ofToungoo (p 279) The Battle of
Yenangyaung (p 281) Headlong Retreat by the Allied Armies in Burma
(p 283) Effect of Defeat on India (p 287) StilwelTs Long Walk and
Chiang s Lost Armies (p 287) General Alexander Loses an Army
(p 289) General Iida s Burma Triumph (p 290)
10 Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
[December 1941—June 1942j
[Maps: 10.1, 10.3, 10.4J [Diagram 10.2]
Rajah Brooke s Defense of Sarawak (p 293) General Kawaguchi
(p 294) Borneo Invaded (p 295) The Dutch East Indies Attacked
(p 295) American, British, Dutch, and Australian (ABDA) Command
(p 296) Japan s *Central Thrust and the Battle of Balikpapan (p 298)
Ambon (the Moluccas) and the Eastern Thrusť (p 299) Palembang
(Sumatra) and the *Western Thrust9 (p 301) Bali Invaded and the Raid
on Darwin (p 303) The Battle of the Java Sea (p 304) The Collapse of
Dutch Resistance on Java (p 308) The Brutal Ride of the Conquerors
(p 310) Japan s Bitter Fruits of Victory in the Dutch East Indies (p 315)
Part IV: ‘Victory Disease’: Japan’s Reversal of Fortune:
June—December 1942
11 Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
[February 1942-May 1942]
[Maps: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.71
The ARCADIA Conference (p 319) Size Matters: The Limits of Empire
(p 319) Victory Disease (p 321) Japan s Indian Ocean Raid and Divided
Strategies (p 324) The American Strategic Dilemma (p 326) The
Logistics of Supply to China (p 328) Roosevelt Agrees an Airlift
(p 330) The Hump (p 331) The Ledo—Burma Road: The Strategic Need
for a Land Supply Route to China (p 336) The Restructuring of US
Naval Command (p 338) Admiral Nimitz: The Cool Commander
(p 339) Admiral (Bull Halsey: The Fighting Admiral (p 341)
America s Fight Back Begins (p 343) Public Relations and Roosevelt s
Plan to Bomb Japan (p 345) Lieutenant-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle
(p 346) The Doolittle Raid (p 347) Intended and Unintended
Consequences of the Doolittle Raid (p 350)
293
317
319
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Contents
12 Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier fcShoot-Out’ 353
[April 1942-May 1942]
[Maps: 12.1,12.2]
The US Naval Intelligence Network (p 353) Japanese Carriers to the
South Pacific (p 354) Preparation for Battle (p 355) Japanese Invasion
of Tulagi Island (p 357) Maneuverings for a First Carrier to Carrier
Battle (p 358) The Battle of the Coral Sea: First Blood to Admiral
Fletcher [7 May 1942] (p 360) The Battle of the Coral Sea Continued:
Shokaku Wounded USS Lexingon Sunk [8 May] (p 364) Licking
their Wounds (p 367) Bombers and Bombs (p 370) The Battle of
Words (p 371)
13 Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day 374
[4-7 June 1942]
[Maps: 13.1,13.2, 13.3]
Yamamoto’s Advance to Midway and the Aleutians (p 374) Commander
Layton, Captain Rochefort, and Naval Intelligence (p 3 76) Nimitz s
Plans and Preparations (p 379) Japanese and US Aircraft Compared
(p 379) The Missing Carriers (p 381) Admiral Spruance to the Fore
(p 382) Where were the Pickets? Where were the Spotter Planes?
Planning and Operation Failures of the Japanese Navy (p 383) First
Contact over Midway (p 386) Spruance Launches Carrier Attack
(p 387) US Torpedo Bombers into the ‘Meatgrinder ’ (p 390) Lieutenant
McClusky; s Lucky Strike and Thirty Minutes that Changed the War
(p 391) The Hiryu versus USS Yorktown (p 394) Aftermath and
Reactions to Midway (p 395) US and Japanese Aircraft Carriers:
Performance and Design (p 398) Explanations, Recriminations and
Plaudits (p 400) The Rewards of Victory (p 404)
14 Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant 406
[June 1942-September 1942]
[Maps: 14.1,14.2. 14.3]
Admiral Inoue and Strategies of the South Pacific (p 406) Admiral King
and the Defense of Australia (p 409) Operation MO (Port Moresby) and
the First Battle of Kokoda (p 413) The Second Battle of Kokoda (p 416)
Potts ’Fighting Withdrawal: The Battles of Isurava, Brigade Hill,
loribaiwa and Imita Ridge (p 419) Asaku Koryu versus ‘K’Rations
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versus Starvation (p 425) Horii s Retreat: Cannibalism and Destruction
(p 428) The Battle of Milne Bay (p 430) Reflections on the Importance
of the Battles of the Kokoda Trail (p 433)
15 Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons 436
[May 1942—August 1942]
[Maps: 15.1,15.2,15.3,15.4,15.5,15.6, 15.7]
Strategies, Plans and Dissensions (p 436) Guadalcanal s Topogrpahy
and Japanese Overreach (p 441) The US Invasion of Tulagi and
Guadalcanal (p 442) The End of Zero Supremacy (p 445) Saburo
Sakai s Dogfight (p 448) The Start of the Bomber War in the Solomons
(p 450) Battles of the ‘Slot and Fletcher Does a Bunk (p 452) The
Naval Battle of Savo Island (p 453) Henderson Field and the Seabees
(p 460) The Battle of Tenaru (p 462) Machine Guns and Field Artillery
(p 465)The Naval Battle of the East Solomons (p 467)
16 Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge 473
[August 1942-November 1942]
[Maps: 16.1,16.2,16.3]
Air War over Besieged Henderson Field (p 473) Skirmishes and
Reconnaissance (p 475) The Battle of Edson s (Bloody) Ridge (p 476)
Interlude: The War of Supply and Logistics (p 481) The Sinking of USS
Wasp (p 484) Renewed Bombing of Rabaul (p 486) New Japanese
Commanders: Lieutenant-General Hyakutake and Vice-Admiral
Kusaka (p 488) Nimitz Replaces Vice-Admiral Ghormley with
Vice-Admiral Halsey (p 488)
17 Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands 492
[September 1942-January 1943]
[Maps: 17.1,17.2, 17.3,17.4,17.5]
The Battle of Cape Esperance (p 492) The Battle of Henderson Field
(p 497) Combat above Guadalcanal (p 500) The Battle of the Santa
Cruz Islands (p 501) Maruyama s Retreat (p 509) The First Naval
Battle of Guadalcanal (p 512) The Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
(p 516) Besiegers Become the Besieged (p 517)
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Contents
18 Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
[November 1942—February 1943)
[Maps: 18.1, 18.2J
Mac Arthur s Failures of Strategy, Planning and Supply (p 520) Japan s
Bunker Defenses and Problems of Supply (p 521) The Battles of Buna-
Gona-Sanananda (p 524) Arrival of General Eichelberger and a Change
in Fortunes (p 529) MacArthur s Victory Propaganda (p 535) Victory
at Sanananda (p 536) Misinformation About the Cost of the
New Guinea Campaign (p 539) Fuzzy Wuzzy ’Angels: The Role of
Papuan Natives (p 541) US Forces ’Baptism of Fire and the Failure of
Mac Arthur as Commander (p 542) Allied Troops Win Superman ’
Status (p 545)
19 Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
[October 1942-February 1943]
[Maps: 19.1, 19.2]
Imperial Japan s Reluctance to Face Defeat (p 547) The Battle of
Tassafaronga (p 548) The US Navy s Torpedo Scandal (p 551) Japanese
Torpedoes and Tactics (p 554) Shipboard Radar Developments in the
Pacific War (p 556) Japan s Defeat at Guadalcanal (p 556)
Guadalcanal’s Final Reckoning (p 559) Rifles, Carbines, Shotguns
(p 561) Admiral King Attends to Logistics (p 564) Reflections and
Consequences of the Guadalcanal Campaign (p 564)
Part V: Toil and Sweat: The Pacific, India, Burma, and China:
January 1943—June 1944
20 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
[January 1943—March 1943]
[Drawing 20.1 ] [Maps: 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7J
MacArthur Ousts US Air Force Lieutenant-General George Brett
(p 569) General George Kenney (p 571) New Aircraft and New Tactics
(p 572) Gunn’s Gunships (p 575) MacArthur andSugiyama Reorganize
after Guadalcanal (p 577) Maneuvering for Control of the Gulf of Huon
(p 579) Bomber Tactics and the Shooting Down of Brigadier-General
Walker (p 580) The Battle of Wau (p 581) The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
(p 583) The Murder of Japanese Survivors (p 586) Hirohito and a
520
547
567
569
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Change in Strategy (p 587) The Collapse of Japanese Air Power in
the South Pacific (p 588) Transformation of the Ground War (p 590)
America Moves to the Offense (p 592) Envelopment of Salamaita
(p 594) The Bombing of Wewak (p 598) Adachi s Eighteenth Army
Escapes the Net: Allied Occupation of Lae and Nadzab (p 602)
21 Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
[March 1943—October 1943]
[Maps: 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6[
The Assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (p 605) The Air Battle
for the Solomons (p 606) Degraded Performance of the Japanese Navy
Air Force (JNAF) (p 611) The Sorry Story of Mitsubishi A7 M 1 Sam! the
Zero Replacement (p 613) The Development of Rabaul (p 615) Meeting
at Casablanca (p 616) MacArthur and the Bypass of Rabaul (p 618)
Operation CARTWHEEL (p 620) Landings at Segi Point and Rendova
Island: The Battle of New Georgia (p 620) The Battle of Kula Gulf
(p 623) The Rescue of Captain J. F Kennedy (p 624) Griswold s Hard
Slog to Take Munda Airfield (p 624)
22 The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
[September 1943—April 1944]
[Maps: 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4]
The Huon Peninsula Campaign (p 628) The Battle of Shaggy Ridge
(p 632) Recognition for Australian Forces in New Guinea (p 634)
The Battles of Arawe and Cape Gloucester (p 636) The Admiralty
Islands Campaign (p 638) MacArthur s South Pacific Turf War (p 641)
The Occupation of Emir an (p 644)
23 The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
[November 1943—August 1945]
[Maps: 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4]
The Planning of the Bougainville Campaign (p 646) The Bombing
of Bougainville and Rabaul (p 648) Bougainville Invaded (p 649)
Strategic Considerations and Other Challenges on Bougainville (p 652)
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay (p 652) US Carrier Raids on Rabaul
(p 654) The Battle of Cape St. George (p 657) The Battles for the Airfield
Perimeters (p 657) Foot Rot and Ulcers (p 661) Lieutenant-General
Contents
605
628
646
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Hyakutake s Counter-Attack (p 663) Black Soldiers of the 93rd Division
(p 667) The Starvation of the Japanese on Bougainville (p 669) The
Battle of Porton Plantation: The Nasty Business of ‘Mopping Up ’
(p 671) Reflections on Bougainville andRabaul (p 673)
24 The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever 674
[August 1943—July 1944]
[Maps: 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 24.8]
General BUT Slim (p 674) The Burma Railway (p 676) The First
Arakan Campaign (p 677) Wingate and the Chindits (p 679) Slim s
Rebuilding of the Army in Assam (p 682) Independence for Burma
(p 686) The Second Arakan Campaign and the Battle of the ‘Admin
Box9 (p 687) Wingate and Long Range Penetration, LRP-2 (p 690)
Mutaguchi and the March on Delhi (p 691) Supply and the Opening of
the Burma Railway (p 692) Operation U-GO and the Battle of Imphal
(p 692) The Battle of Kohima (p 695) Mutaguchi, from Defeat to
Catastrophe (p 699)
25 The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina 703
[January 1944-August 1945]
[Maps: 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 25.8, 25.9, 25.10]
ICHI-GO and Operation KOGO (p 703) StilwelTs Strategic Priorities
(p 706) Field Marshall Shinroku Hata (p 707) Operation TOGO-I and
the Battle of Changsha and Hengyang (p 708) The Cancellation of
AN AKIM and StilwelTs New Plan (p 710) The Training ofX-Force
(p 714) The Building of the Ledo Road (p 716) The Road to Myitkyina
(p 718) The Battle of Myitkyina (p 718) The Battle of Mogaung (p 722)
Myitkyina Falls at Last (p 723) St dwell: Victory into Defeat (p 725)
The Battles of Kweilin and Liuzhou (p 727) StilwelTs Strategic Failures
(p 729) ICHI-GO Runs out of Steam and the Future of Asia Deliberated
at Yalta (p 731)
26 Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’ 734
[January 1942-August 1945]
[Charts: 26.1, 26.2]
‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell s Sticky’ Brief in China (p 734) Byzantine Allied
Command Structures in Asia (p 735) Chiang Kai-shek’s Dilemma
Contents
(p 736) Starvation in Henan Province (p 739) Stilwells Campaign
to Undermine Chiang (p 740) Roosevelt, Chiang and China (p 743)
Meiling and the Soong Family (p 746) Corruption at the Court of
Chiang Kai-shek (p 748) Mao s Brilliant Propaganda War (p 750)
Mao s Yanan Rectification Movement (p 752) The Military
Strengthening of Mao and his Phoney War Against Japan (p 754)
Lu Zhangcao: A Spy in Chiang fs Camp (p 755) Mao Gulls the US
Vice-President (p 756) The Dixie Mission (p 756) Roosevelt Turns the
Screws on Chiang (p 759) Roosevelt Sends a Cowboy (p 760) Vinegar
Joes Ultimatum Letter (p 761) Why the Kuomintang Armies were
so Ineffective during the Pacific War (p 763) Stilwell s Bitter Legacy
(p 767)
27 Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory 770
[March 1944-October 1944]
[Maps: 27.1, 27.2,27.3,27.4, 27.5,27.6J
Intelligence, Deception and the Jump to Hollandia (Jayapura) (p 770)
General Kenney Makes Good on His Promises of Air Domination
(p 774) Landings at Hollandia (p 776) The Battle of Biak Island
(p 779) The Battle of Lone Tree Hill (p 782) The Battle ofDriniumor
River (The Battle ofAitape) (p 784) The Battle of Morotai Island
(p 786) Strategies of the New Guinea Campaign (p 786) General
Adachi s Last Words of Pathos, Love, Death and Redemption (p 790)
28 Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines 793
[May 1943-June 1944]
[Maps: 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5,28.6]
Admiral King’s Central Pacific Strategy (p 793) TRIDENT Conference
12 May 1943 (p 795) QUADRANT Conference 17 August 1943 (p 797)
Operation GALVANIC: Bombardment of Tarawa Atoll (p 798)
The Rikusentai (Special Japanese Marines) Dig In (p 799) DAY-1:
Amphibious Assault on Tarawa (p 802) DAY-2: Tarawa (p 806) DAY-3
and DAY-4: Tarawa (p 808) Cost and Lessons of Tarawa (p 810) General
MacArthur and Pacific War Politics (p 812) Brown Shoe ’ versus Black
Shoe ’ (p 814) Operation FLINTLOCK: Onwards to the Marshall Islands
(p 815) Occupation of Majuro and the Battle ofRoi-Namur (p 817) The
Battle of Kwajalein and the Battle of Eniwetok (p 818) Operation
HAILSTONE: The Destruction of Japan s Main Pacific Garrison at Truk
Atoll (p 820) Raids on the Marianas and Palau (p 823) Retreat to
XVII
Contents
Mindanao, the Death of Admiral Koga and an Intelligence Coup (p 824)
Admiral King s Central Pacific Strategy Vindicated (p 825)
Part VI: Japan’s Forces of Empire Annihilated:
June 1944-February 1945
29 The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
[February 1944-June 1944]
[Maps: 29.1, 29.2]
The Navy s Strategic Plan for the Marianas (p 831) Japan Prepares for a
Naval Showdown (p 832) The Bombing of the Marianas and Operation
A-GO Set in Motion (p 835) Avalanche of New US Navy Matériel (p 838)
Advances in Radar, Flight Direction Operation, Computer Driven
Anti-Aircraft Gun Systems (p 839) US Superiority in Aeronautics
Technology and Combat Tactics (p 843) US Naval Logistics and
Operating Practices (p 847) The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot (The
Battle of the Philippine Sea) (p 848) The Sinking of the Taiho (p 853)
The Last Hurrah of Japan s Carrier Fleet (p 854) Cuckoos in the Night
(p 857) Reflections and Recriminations (p 858)
30 The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
[June 1944-August 1945]
[Maps: 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5]
The Mariana Islands: A History (p 861) Preparations for the Marianas
Campaign (p 862) The Battle of Saipan (p 865) The Fall of Tojo
(p 870) The Battle of Guam (p 871) Lieutenant-Colonel Carlson s
Battle Plan for Tinian (p 872) The Battle of Tinian (p 874) Colonel
Nakagawa s Preparations on Peleliu (p 877) The Battle of Peleliu
(p 879) Tanks in the Pacific War (p 881) Was Peleliu Necessary?
(p 883) Advance to Ulithi Atoll and the Logistics of the Central
Pacific (p 884)
31 The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
[October 1944]
[Maps: 31.1,31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5,31.6]
Scale and Historic Importance of the Battle of Leyte Gulf (p 887)
Pacific Theater Turf Wars: MacArthur, Nimitz and FDR in Honolulu
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831
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887
Contents
(p 887) Admiral Toyodas Grand Strategy? (p 891) Admiral Halsey
Waits off the San Bernadino Straits (p 894) The Battle of Sibuyan Sea:
The Sinking of Musashi and USS Princeton (p 896) “ Where in hell are
those goddam Nip carriers? ” Admiral Halsey Swallows the Bait (p 900)
The Battle of the Surigao Straits (p 903) Halsey Confuses Nimitz and
Kinkaid (p 905) Small Boys Attack’: The Battle of Samar (p 907) Why
Did Admiral Kurita Retreat? (p 909) The Battle of Cape Engano:
Halsey’s Hollow Victory (p 910) Victory and a Cover-up of Halsey’s
Mistakes (p 913) Post-War Recriminations between Halsey and Kinkaid
(p 914) Perfect Storm: Typhoon Cobra (p 916) Carnage at Sea (p 918)
The Rescue (p 920) Court of Inquiry at Ulithi Lagoon (p 921) Halsey s
Second Typhoon (p 924)
32 “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines 925
[October 1944-August 1945]
[Maps: 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6]
Guerrilla War (p 925) The US Presidential Elections and the Dubious
Strategic Value of Luzon (p 927) Hirohito s Reaction to Defeat at Saipan
(p 929) Halsey s Raid on the Central Philippines and a Change in
Strategy (p 930) General Yamashita and Hirohito s Intervention (p 931)
‘T Have Returned” (p 933) The Battle of Leyte Gulf (p 935) Air Battles
over Leyte Island (p 935) The Battles of Breakneck Ridge and Dagami
(p 936) The Start of the Kamikaze Campaign (p 939) MacArthur s
Logistical Problems (p 939) Banzai’Paratroopers Counter-Attack on
Leyte (p 942) Formosa and Strategic Concerns (p 944) Mindoro:
Stepping Stone to Luzon (p 945) Kamizake and the Bombardment of
Lingayen Bay (p 947) Landings on Luzon (p 950) POWs Rescued at
Cabanatuan and the Race to Santo Tomas (p 951) The Battle of Manila
(p 954) Mopping-Up: The Battle of Luzon and Operation VICTOR
(p 956) Judgment on MacArthur s Quest for Manila (p 957)
33 The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s Mandalay Feint’ 958
[January 1945-May 1945]
[Maps: 33.1, 33.2)
After the Battle of Imphal, What Next? (p 958) Mountbatten s
Machinations (p 958) Operation CAPITAL and EXTENDED CAPITAL
(p 960) The Mandalay Feint (p 961) The Siege of Meiktila (p 964)
Slim s March into Mandalay (p 966) The Race to Rangoon (p 967)
EXTRACT DIGIT (p 970) The Attempted Sacking of Slim (p 972)
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Contents
Part VII: Destruction of Japan’s Homeland:
February 1945—August 1945
34 Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
[February 1945—March 1945J
[Maps: 34.1, 34.2, 34.3]
Luzon or Formosa? (p 977) Lieutenant-General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
(p 980) Building the Killing Machine (p 981) Spruances Plans for the
Invasion of Iwo Jima (p 982) Bombardment and Landing at Iwo Jima
(p 984) A Flag on Mount Suribachi (p 986) Into the ‘Meatgrinder ’
(p 987) Public Criticism in America (p 989)
35 The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
[April 1945—August 1945]
[Maps: 35.1, 35.2, 35.3]
The Fag Endf Battle for Okinawa (p 991) Spruances Raid on Kyushu
and the Invasion Plans (p 992) Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar
Buckner and the Invasion Plans (p 994) The Japanese Army Deployment
on Okinawa (p 994) Bombardment and Landing (p 996) Air Battle over
Okinawa (p 998) Marine and Army Dissension (p 1001) Hirohito s
Displeasure and New Kamikaze Weapons (p 1002) The British Pacific
Navy (p 1002) Battleship Yamato s Suicide Mission (p 1004) Roosevelt
Dies as the Marines Advance (p 1007) The Japanese Army s Last Stand
(p 1009) Atrocities on Okinawa (p 1011)
36 LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
[April 1944—August 1945]
[Maps: 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4]
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress (p 1013) Twentieth Bomber Command in
India and China (p 1015) The Failure of High Altitude Precision
Bombing (p 1019) Major-General Curtis LeMay (p 1023) The Great
Tokyo Air Raid (p 1024) The Firebombing of Japan*s Major Cities
(p 1028) The EMPIRE Plan and the Expansion of Firebombing
(p 1031) The Mining of Japanese Shipping (p 1033) Japan s Desperate
Last Aerial Weapons (p 1035) The Results and Morality of the Bombing
of Japan (p 1036)
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977
991
1013
Contents
37 Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
[July 1945—August 1945}
[Drawings: 37.1, 37.2] [Maps: 37.3, 37.4]
Enola Gay and the Dropping of Little Boy (p 1047) The MANHATTAN
Project (p 1049) Harry Truman and the Potsdam Conference (p 1055)
Did They Have To Use It? (p 1056) Did the Atom Bomb Save Lives?
(p 1061) The Conspiracy Theories (p 1064) The Moral Issues of Using
the Atom Bomb (p 1068) Final Negotiations for Japan s Surrender
(p 1071) Hirohito s Radio Announcement (p 1076)
1047
Index
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