Ambon, 254
American Magazine, 45
American Revolution, 13
amphibious boats, 382–83
Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCOS) committee, 191–93, 195
Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, 83
Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy at, xiv–xvi, xxi–xxii, 69, 131
Admiral King at, 161, 163, 166
assimilation at, xvi
Fletcher in, 329
Halsey at, 201–2
John Redman at, 310
Nimitz at, 131–32, 133
Spruance at, 394
antiaircraft guns, 52, 54, 248, 338, 406, 445
on Enterprise, 205, 220, 223
increased importance of, 58
Japanese, 212–13, 214, 286, 332–33, 407–8, 422, 430–31, 434, 454, 464
on Lexington, 153, 265, 325–26, 348, 357–58, 360–61
and Los Angeles panic, 266
on Midway, 410
at Pearl Harbor, 8, 31–33, 36–37, 401
training for, 126, 401
on Wake, 142–47, 154
on Yorktown, 450
antisubmarine patrols, 355–56
ANZAC (Australia–New Zealand) cruiser force, 319
Aoki, Taijiro, 433, 440–41, 458, 460
Arashi, 427
Arashio, 464
Arcadia Conference, 172, 179–96
Archangel, 187
Argonne, USS, 32
Arizona, 138
Arizona, USS, 10, 18, 19, 31, 36, 39, 126, 135
Arizona-maru, 238–39, 256, 259
arms control, 83
Army, British:
British Far East command in, 245
in Libya, 24
in Singapore, 250, 251
Army, Japanese, xviii, xxv–xxvi, 35, 90, 115, 301, 316
airfields captured by, 58
attempts to overthrow Japanese Diet by, 114
beatings in, 96–97
in China, 287, 300
“Control faction” in, 106
15th Army of, 264
First Division coup in, 89–90
General Staff of, 85
good behavior of, xxv–xxvi
Hirohito and, 78
infantry in, 242, 250
“Kodo faction” in, 106
Kwantung, 85
loss of face by, 299–300
in Midway operation, 378
Navy’s rivalry with, 119–20
qualities of soldiers in, 246–47, 271
Sei-Go operation of, 300–301
16th Army of, 261
“Three-All” policy of, 111–12
Yamamoto on, 70
Army, Philippine, 237–42, 299
Army, Russian, xxvi
Army, U.S., 28, 131, 186, 202, 247, 299
Navy friction with, 268
recruits of, 490–91
in simulated combat exercises, 7
Stimson’s ordering into uniform of, 43
War Plans Division of, 186
Army Air Force, U.S., 8, 28, 180, 426
bombers of, 21
in Japan bombing mission, 284
and Midway, 386, 472, 476, 477
naval aviators and, 282–83, 476
patrol planes of, 21–22
San Francisco air raid scare and, 43–44
17th Bombardment Group of, 284
Army ministry, Japanese, 87
Army-Navy Game, xxii
Army Staff College, Japanese, 115
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 180, 186, 284
artillery, modern, xxiv
Asada, Sadao, 69
Asahi Shinbun, 64, 89–90
Asashio, 464
Asia, 39, 61, 80, 82, 108, 140, 176, 189, 190
Allied troops in, 188
Britain and U.S. seen as imperialist oppressors of, 64, 82, 107, 110, 122, 272, 274
British colonies in, 25, 59, 82, 115
Japanese seizure of territory in, 89
Japan’s sense of destiny in, 274
Asiatic Fleet, U.S., xxxii, xxxiv, 53, 132, 182, 190, 235
U.S., antiquated and decrepit nature of, 262
Associated Press, 43, 151
Astoria, USS, 453
Atlantic Fleet, U.S., Admiral King as commander in chief of, 168, 170
Atlantic Monthly, xix
Atlantic Ocean, xxi, xxxiii, xxxvi, 29, 83, 103, 109, 170, 198, 203
Attlee, Clement, 175
Attu, Japanese invasion of, 379, 406, 483
Auckland, 182
Ault, William B., 341, 354
Australasia, 182, 267
Australia, 25, 181, 182–84, 183, 190, 239, 260, 262, 263, 329
ABDACOM in, 190
in Allied Pacific strategy, 182, 257, 266
America’s relationship with, 185–86
importance of Moresby to, 374–75
Japanese shelling of Sydney in, 483
Japanese threat to, 201, 229, 235, 311, 315, 318–19
Japan’s proposed invasion of, 21, 276, 277, 280, 301, 319, 344
MacArthur’s withdrawal to, 243–44
naval forces of, 339
Pacific forces of, 188
troops from, 250–51, 252, 264
troops to New Caledonia from, 187
Tulagi garrison of, 329
Australian 24th Machine Gun Battalion, 250
automotive industry, retooling for war purposes of, 195, 488–89
Axis Powers, 25, 46
as allies in name, 196
anti-U.S. propaganda of, 61
in Middle East, 265, 276
U.S. in war vs., 59–62
Bagoc-Orion line, 241
Bainbridge Island, Wa., radio intercept station on, 309
Bali, 254
Balikpapa, 234, 236–37
Bali Strait, 260
Baltimore, Md., 394
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 130
Bancroft, Iris, 24
Bandoeng, 263
Bantam Bay, 261
Barbers Point, 22, 31, 33, 203
baseball, 107
Bashi Channel, 295
Bataan Peninsula, 250
“Death March” at, 299
MacArthur’s retreat to, 237–44, 269
Batavia, 191, 235, 254, 255, 260, 263
Battle of Midway Roundtable, 481
battles, decisive, Mahan’s dogma on, xvi, xviii, xix, xxxiv, 117, 118, 262, 275
battleships, xxi, 137, 163, 377, 459, 485
California-class, 339
destruction of, 45
effect of airplanes and submarines on usefulness of, xxxiv–xxxv, 159–60
Japanese, 316, 317, 474
long-distance cruising speed for, xxxiv
Mahan on, xvi, xvii, xix–xx, xxxiv, 57–58, 102, 159
Midway offensive as opportunity for, 379–80
shift from “spit and polish” to gunnery drills aboard, xxiii
support role of, 57–58
Warspite-class, 339
Baukhage, Hilmer, 27
BBC, 24, 27, 34, 35, 125
Beach, Edward L., 481
beam defense maneuver, 428
Beaver, Floyd, 324, 327, 350, 360
Beaverbrook, Lord, 190, 192, 194
Bedell, Henry, 145
Beijing, see Peking
Belgium, 133
Benghazi, 265
Benham, USS, 453, 471
Bennett, Leon, 12
benzedrine, 304
Berlin, 115
Bermuda, 198
Bernstein, George, 292
Best, Richard Halsey, 220, 426, 432–33, 478
Biard, Forrest R., 337, 341, 346
Bismarck archipelago, 182, 264, 268, 277, 329
Bix, Herbert, 79
black gang (engineers), 324
blackouts, 42, 43, 245
in Hawaii, 147–48
in Washington, 172
Blenheim bomber, RAF, 264–65
Blitzkrieg, 156
Bloch, Claude C., 14, 199, 309
Blue, USS, 205
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, 49, 243
Army, 238–39, 341, 386, 407–8, 414–15, 455, 464, 465
bogeys, 220, 375, 442–44
BOLERO, 267
bombers:
Allied, 256
Enterprise, 209, 229
Japanese, 58, 200, 245, 248, 254, 316
Japanese land-based medium, 233
Japanese naval, 316
land-based, 374
U.S., 284, 426
see also specific bomber types
Bonin Islands, 82
Boo, Frank, 371
Bora Bora, 184
Borneo, 108, 109, 182, 255
British and Dutch sharing of, 235
Japanese invasion of, 236
oil fields in, 182, 234
Bougainville Island, 320, 333
Boys’ Day, 383
Breese, USS, 150
Brereton, Lewis H., 239
Brest, 265
Brett, James H., Jr., 342
Brewster Buffalo fighter, 50, 323, 410
Brinkley, David, 42
Brisbane, 182
Bristol Blenheim bomber, 49
Britain, Battle of, 62
British Commonwealth forces, 236
in Singapore and Malaya, 244–48, 250–51
British Embassy, in U.S., 173
British Empire, 252, 265
British Joint Staff Mission, 193
British Samoa Islands, 205
Brooke, Sir Alan, 172, 174, 179, 191, 193, 249, 267
Brooke-Popham, Lady, 248
Brooke-Popham, Robert, 245–47
Brooklyn, N.Y., 133, 167
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 43, 135
Brown, Cecil, 54–55, 246, 248
Brown, Wilson, Jr., 150, 153, 155–56, 230
Browning, Miles R., 207, 477
Browning automatic rifles, 23, 352
Brunei, 234
Buckley, John, 53
Buckmaster, Elliott, 227, 368, 452, 467, 469–70
Buddhism, 110
in China, 64
Rohatsu and, 63
Zen, 99, 110–11, 486
Buddhist View of War, The, 110
Buell, Harold, 348, 371–72
Buin, 320
Buka Island, 320
Bungo Strait, 405, 484
Burch, William O, Jr., 330, 332, 343, 352–53
Burma, 25, 48, 181, 182, 247, 265
ABDACOM in, 190
Japanese invasion of, 236, 264
Burma Road, 112, 264
burns, 37, 369, 457
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Nitobe), xxvi
Cabinet, Pearl Harbor declaration and, 28–29, 35
Cadogan, Alexander, 179
California, 44, 129, 138, 490
anti-Japanese agitation in, 82
California (continued)
invasion fears in, 265–66, 479, 484
school crisis in, xxiv–xxxi, xxxii, xxxv
security of, xxxii
California, USS, 10, 12, 16, 23, 33, 152, 304
California, University of, at Berkeley, 136
California-class battleships, 339
Cam Ranh Bay, 255
Canada, 179, 267
Canton Islands, 184
Cape Horn, xxxi, xxxiii, 103
Cape York Peninsula, 276
capitalism, 77, 487
Capitol, U.S., 26, 44
Capitol Hill, 124
Caribbean, xxi
Carlson, Carl, 18
Caroline Islands, 82, 202, 306
carrier air force, Japanese, 445
carrier planes, 333, 335, 426
flying formations of, 409
U.S., 278, 282, 474
carrier scouts, 334–35
carrier task forces, 202
attack on Japan from, 283
Japanese, 380, 413; see also Kido Butai carrier group
learning curve for, 318
U.S., see specific task forces
cars, rationing of, 195, 488–89
Casey, Robert, 156, 160, 230, 324
on Doolittle bombing raid, 286, 288, 296
at Marshalls, 205–6, 208–9, 224–26
at Midway, 393, 398, 417–18, 420, 450, 472, 473
Castor, USS, 33
Caucasus, 266
Cavite, U.S. naval base at, 52–53, 235
CBS, 23, 54, 246, 488
Celebes, 234
censorship, military, 44, 147–50, 484
Central America, xxi
central Pacific, 268, 280, 308, 312, 384–85, 490
Ceylon, 254, 265, 322
cryptanalytic unit in, 310
Japan’s proposed invasion of, 276, 277
Chaplin, Charlie, 72, 76
Chase, William A., 410
Cheek, Tom F., 285, 288, 318, 429, 434, 435–38, 444–46, 450, 452
Chekiang (Zhejiang), 300
Chennault, Claire Lee, 52
Chequers, 24
Chesapeake Bay, xiv
Chester, USS, 218–19
Chiang Kai-shek, 52, 111, 264, 286, 300
Chicago, Ill., 24, 135
Chicago, USS, 329, 340
Chicago Daily News, 126, 156, 160
Chicago Tribune, 324, 481
chief of naval operations (CNO), 135–36, 168, 169, 171
Chikuma, 408, 442, 454–55
China, xxvi, 23, 82, 109, 256, 265, 296
airfields in, 283, 286–87, 298
civilians and prisoners slaughtered in, 111–12
Communist guerrillas in, 91, 111
Japanese army in, 287, 300
Japan’s war against, 51–52, 63–64, 91, 92, 93–94, 101, 107, 110–14, 117, 122, 250, 274
Nationalist air force of, 52
Open Door policy in, 82
U.S. business interests in, 112
Western sympathies with, 112
China Incident, 92, 106
China Sea, 48, 52
Chinese, British army discrimination against, 247, 248–49
Chinese Nationalists, 52, 85, 91, 111
military aid from Britain and U.S. to, 112, 264, 286
Chitose, 474
Chitose Air Group, 230
cholera, 300
Chungking, 287
Churchill, Clementine, 198
Churchill, Winston, 264
and fall of Singapore, 249–51, 263
FDR’s first meeting with, 57, 66, 169, 173
FDR’s relationship with, 178–79, 193, 196, 266
Force Z and, 53, 57
as high-functioning alcoholic, 174, 178
and invasion of East Indies, 252
on Pacific Theater, 188
on Pearl Harbor attack, 24–25, 34
on unified command, 189–90, 193
on U.S. production targets, 194
U.S. troops requested for Northern Ireland by, 187
visit to Washington of, 171–79, 197–98
vote of confidence in, 198
chutai, 100, 445
Civil War, U.S., xvi, xxii, 28, 34, 133, 164
Clark, J. J. “Jocko,” 166, 227
Clark Field, 48–49, 58
codebreaking, 302–16, 383–92, 479–82
Collier’s, 45
Colombia, xxi, xxx
Colombo, 264
combat air patrol (CAP), 209, 330, 347, 351, 375, 413, 415, 420, 444, 458, 485
Combat Intelligence Unit (CIU), Pearl Harbor, see Station Hypo
Combined Chiefs of Staff, Anglo-American (CCOS), 191–93, 195
Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC), 20–22, 153, 169, 200, 318, 373, 385, 387, 392–93, 476
headquarters of, 38–39, 41, 160, 473
Nimitz’s promotion to, 129
Pye as caretaker, 152–53
war diary of, 151, 389
Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH; CINCUS), 169–70, 182, 184, 199, 310,
312, 373, 387, 393
communications, xiii
Communists, communism, 61, 81, 87, 107
Chinese, 91
concentration, Mahan’s rule of, xvi, xvii–xviii, 262, 321, 380, 486
Confederate Army, 200
Confucius, Confucianism, 64, 109, 110
Congress, U.S., xv, xxi, xxxi, xxxv, 61, 124, 168, 169, 488
anti-British feelings in, 176–77
Churchill’s appearance before, 176–77
criticism about Pearl Harbor in, 45, 127
declaration of war against Germany and, 59
Johnson-Reed Immigration Act in, 77
Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor speeches to, 27–30, 35–36, 46
Connecticut, 133
Connolly, Tom, 30
Conservative Party, British (Tories), 197
Cooke, Alistair, 27, 35, 42, 125, 178
Cooke, Charles M. “Savvy,” Jr., 170
Coral Sea, 201, 277, 318, 320
Lexington’s arrival at, 328–29
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 319–78, 331, 383–85, 387, 392, 398–400, 412–13, 426, 484
determination of victory in, 371, 374
intelligence on, 314–16
Cornwall, HMS, 264
Coronado airboat, 157
Corregidor, 239, 242–44, 269
radio intercept station on, 309, 315
Cory, James, 10, 16
Covert, James, 298
Crace, John C., 319, 328, 338–40
Crimean War, Charge of the Light Brigade in, 423–24
Criminal Affairs Bureau, Japanese, Kempei Tai (“Thought Section”) of, 81
cruisers, xvii, xxi, 39–40, 137, 163, 206, 208, 214, 236, 256, 257, 259, 277, 298, 316, 343, 351, 367, 369, 374, 401, 408, 447, 452, 458, 459, 461, 464, 474
Crux (Southern Cross), 328
cryptanalysis, 302–16, 383–92, 479–82
Cuba, xxi
Cunningham, Winfield Scott, 141–43, 146, 151–55
curfew, in Hawaii, 147
Curtin, John, 185–86, 264
Curtis, Commander, 472
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft, 49, 52
Curtiss SOC-3 seaplane, 22
Daiho, 294
Daily Mirror (London), 252
dance halls, 108
Daniels, James, 33
Darwin, Australia, 254
Darwin, Charles, 79
Dauntless, USS, 171
Dauntless SBD dive-bomber, 204, 211–15, 219–20, 224, 226, 282, 290, 323, 332, 335, 340–43, 346, 347–48, 351–55, 371, 378, 399, 465
fogging bombsights of, 375
at Midway, 414, 420–22, 426, 429–30, 434, 436, 438, 442, 453–55, 464, 476, 478
Davao, U.S. naval base at, 48, 234
Davis, Charles, 32
Davis, Elmer, 488
dead reckoning, 435
Decatur, Stephen, 158
DeHaven, Dwight G., 468–69
democracy, 77
British, 176
in Europe, 197
in Japan, 76
U.S., 176, 487–88
Democratic party, xxxvi, 45, 87
Denmark, 202
depth charges, 471
De Ruyter, 256, 257, 259
DesOpOrd #161, 462
destroyer escorts, 194, 333, 404