destroyers, xvii, 39–40, 118, 137, 151, 163, 202, 208, 219, 236, 237, 256, 257, 260, 316, 343, 351, 364, 366, 367, 369–70, 374, 401, 406, 407–8, 415, 427, 447, 452, 458, 460, 463, 464, 469, 470, 471
Detroit, Mich., 489
Devastator TBD torpedo bomber, 211–12, 214–15, 220, 223, 282, 342–43, 347
at Midway, 399, 400, 421–25, 428, 434, 437–38, 449, 465–66
Devereux, James, 143, 145, 147
DeWitt, John, 44
Diamond Head, 31, 480
Dickinson, Clarence, 9, 209–10, 213, 215, 223–24, 226, 395–96, 419, 427, 429–31, 434–37
Diet, Japanese, xxv, 87, 89
army’s attempted overthrow of, 114
Dill, Sir John, 179, 193
Dingell, John, 45
Directive No. 86, 281
disarmament treaties, 77
Distinguished Service Medal, 482
District of Columbia National Guard, 25–26
District of Columbia police, 26, 34
dive-bombers, 100, 278, 332, 351, 352, 354, 359, 370, 376, 399, 404, 415, 418, 426, 430–32, 432, 434, 445, 447–48, 454, 476, 478
Dixon, Robert E., 341–42, 351–52
Dodge family, 171
dogfighting, 337
Zeros and, 51–52, 209, 254, 399
Doolittle, James H., 284–93, 295–96, 297, 298–300, 315, 318, 319, 400
Doorman, Karel W. F. M., 254, 256–60
Dorsetshire, HMS, 264
Douglas Dauntless SBD dive-bomber, 22
Douglas TBD Devastator, 93, 376
Dover, 265
Downes, USS, 33
Draemel, Milo S., 152–53, 155
Dreadnought, HMS, xiv
Duke of York, HMS, 172
dummy loaders, 325
Duncan, Donald B., 283
Dunlap, USS, 216
DuPont, USS, 202
Dutch Borneo, 234
Dutch East Indies, 53, 182
ABDACOM in, 190
Japanese invasion of, 234, 236, 247, 252–63, 253, 266, 268, 279, 319
Dutch Harbor, 281, 379, 389
Japanese strike on, 406, 417, 483–84
Dyer, Fred, 450
Dyer, George C., 156
Dyer, Thomas, 303–6, 312–14, 391–92, 480–82
dysentery, 154, 244, 300
Early, Stephen, 27–28
Earnest, Albert K., 411
East, Walter J., 21
East Asia, 30, 64, 65, 132, 181, 198
East China Sea, 284, 298
Eastern Island, 410
East Indies, Japanese invasion of, 234, 236, 247, 252–63, 253, 266, 268
East Prussia, 59
Eccles, H. E., 258
Edison, Charles, 168–69
Edsall, 262
Edwards, Webley, 8
Edward VII, King of England, 174
Efate, 184, 328, 387, 490
Eglin Field, 284
Egypt, 265
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 186, 489–90
on Europe-first strategy, 181
in liberation of Europe, 185
El Alamein, 62
elections:
of 1936, 126
of 1940, 126
Eleventh Air Fleet, Japanese, 269
11th Indian Division, 245
Ellice Islands, 184
Embick, Stanley Dunbar, 186
Emirau, 490
Emmons, Delos C., 386, 389
emperor, see Tenno
Encounter, HMS, 260
engine design, xiii
England, see Great Britain
English Channel, 265
Eniwetok, 490
Enterprise, USS, 22, 32, 39–42, 140, 151, 205, 220, 223, 323, 401
antiaircraft guns of, 205, 220, 223
aviators on, 204, 207, 209–11, 215, 221, 437, 438
in Battle of Midway, 417, 419–20, 422, 425, 427–29, 437–38, 442, 447–48, 451, 453, 455, 458–59, 465–66, 471
Bombing Six of (VB-6), 219, 221, 421, 426, 432, 432, 465, 476
compiling of Midway information on, 437
Enterprise, USS (continued)
dive-bombers of, 420–21, 426, 429, 432, 442, 453, 465, 476
in Doolittle raid, 285–91, 293, 296, 318, 319
First Division of, 212
Halsey replaced by Spruance on, 393–96, 401
Midway preparations of, 392–93, 397–98, 401–2
raid on Marshalls by Task Force of, 200–230
Scouting Six of (VS-6), 204, 212, 419, 421, 426, 432, 453, 465
Second Division of, 213
Task Force 8 and, 150, 155, 200, 226, 227
in Task Force 16, 285–91, 293, 296, 298, 387, 390, 392–93, 401–2, 417, 436, 471
torpedo planes of, 420
Torpedo Six of (VT-6), 204, 425, 428
Erickson, James, 24
Erickson, Ruth, 37
Espiritu Santo island, 490
Etajima, Japanese Naval Academy at, 68, 84, 94–95, 230
Europe, 109
Allies’ prioritization of, see Allied Powers, Europe-first strategy of
fascism in, 76
Marshall Plan in, 162
naval arms race in, xvii, xviii–xix
Netherlands under Nazi conquest in, 253
prospects for invasion of, 317
relative stability in, 182
World War II in, 23, 25
European theater, 192
Ewa Field, 397, 400
Ewing, William, 158
Exeter, HMS, 256, 258, 260
F4F Wildcat fighter plane, see Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter plane
Farrow, Bill, 292–93
fascism, 75, 76
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 26
Federal Reserve Building, 179, 191
Fields, Alonzo, 174
51st Philippine Army Division, 241
fighter direction officer (FDO), 220, 222, 442
fighter escorts, 209, 415, 418, 428
fighters, 100, 351–54
Enterprise, 209
Japanese, 213, 218
Fiji, 3, 182, 184, 277
Japanese planned attack of, 281, 301, 319, 381, 385
Finnegan, Joseph, 391
fire director systems, xiii
Fisher, Alvin, 290, 292
Fisher, Clayton, 399–400, 418, 437, 472–73
Fitch, Aubrey “Jake,” 156, 319, 324, 330, 334, 338, 343, 351, 361, 363, 365, 369, 396
Flatley, James H., Jr., 336, 343, 376, 399
Fleet Radio Unit, Pacific (FRUPAC), 302
Fletcher, Frank Jack, 150–51, 153, 155–56, 203, 227, 319
Admiral King’s concern about, 318
battle command relinquished to Spruance by, 458, 477
in Battle of Midway, 390, 393, 437, 445–46, 452, 458, 466–67, 471, 477
in Battle of the Coral Sea, 329, 332–34, 337, 341, 344–47, 349, 367, 369–71, 373, 392
floatplanes, 99, 205, 344, 450
Japanese, 226, 257–58, 408, 412, 417, 442, 461, 474
Florida, 179
Florida Island, 329–30
“Flying Tigers,” 52
Fomby, Wiliam, 18, 33
Fontana, Calif., 138
Force Z, 53–57, 56, 172
Ford, John, 291
Ford Island, 9, 17–20, 22, 32, 33, 36, 40, 41, 227
Foreign Ministry, Japanese, 113, 115, 122
formation flying, Japanese, 100
Formosa (Taiwan), 82, 89, 238, 293
Japanese bases on, 48, 51
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 200–201
Fort Weaver, 401
Fourteenth Naval District, U.S., 14, 20, 199, 302, 307, 309, 383
France, 80, 156, 265
colonies of, 173, 186, 335
disintegration of, 115
fall of, 25
Fredericksburg, Tex., 131
Fremantle, 260
French, Free, 116
French, Howard, 19
French Frigate
Shoals, 385, 406
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 231, 278, 299, 382, 405, 409, 415, 423–24, 433, 440–41, 456, 461, 484–85
fueling stations, xxxiv, 236
floating, 206–7
Pacific, 184
fuel oil, xiii, 159
Pearl Harbor and, 159
Fujisawa, Chikao, 109
Fujita, Iyozo, 414
Fukuda, Keiji, 102
Fukudome, Shigeru, 281
Funafuti, 184
Furuta, Kiyoto, 441, 458
Gaido, Bruno P., 224
Gallaher, Wilmer Earl, 426, 453–54
Gaspar Strait, 254
Gavutu harbor, 330–32
Gay, George, 400, 418, 423–25, 456
Gayler, Noel A. M., 336, 354, 361, 365
Gee, Roy P., 437, 466
geishas, 72–75, 86, 89, 278, 403
gekokujo, 86
Genda, Minoru, 101, 102, 118, 321–22, 382, 409, 475, 485
Gendreau, Elphege, 12
Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1908, xxxi
George VI, King of England, 193
Germany, xxi, xxvii, 112, 133, 202, 484
Allied soldiers from Asia and Pacific Rim sent to fight in, 185–86
“Channel Dash” by, 265
colonies of, 82
in European war, 123
fascism and Nazism in, 75, 115
Japanese alliance with, 70, 112, 114–15, 265
Lebensraum for, 89
Mahan’s influence in, xviii–xix
Midway’s impact on, 479
military triumphs of, 115
Paris attacked by, 156
Pearl Harbor and fate of, 62
Pearl Harbor unconnected with, 29
as predominant member of Axis Powers, 180–81, 248
rearmament of, 177
Tripartite Pact and, 114–15
U-boats from, xxxv
war declared against U.S. by, 59–60, 171
war production of, 489
in World War I, 35
Ghormley, Robert L., 318
Gilbert Islands, 184, 199, 269
carrier raids on, 200, 203, 205, 218, 226–27
Gladstone, William, xviii
Glassford, W. A., 236
Goebbels, Joseph, 59, 61
Golden Gate Bridge, 43, 282
Gota, Eiji, 222
Goto, Aritomo, 333, 341
Grabinski, Louis, 17
Gray, James S., 216–17, 219, 438
Grayling, USS, 160
Great Britain, xiv, xix, xxiv, xxvii, 53, 59, 60, 61, 181, 272, 488
Admiral King’s perceived animosity towards, 162, 185
in Africa, 182
on Allied command unity, 189–93
Asian colonies of, 25, 59, 82, 115, 195
Australia’s relationship with, 186
battleships of, 105
CCOS and, 191–93, 195
codebreakers of, 309–10, 314
German air assault on, 245
Germany’s rivalry with, xvii–xix, xxi
India ruled by, 25, 59, 252, 273
Japanese attacks on western Pacific bases of, 48–58
Japanese view on imperialism of, 64
Japan’s dependence on resources from, 115–16
Japan’s desire to be seen as equal to, 84
Mahan’s influence in, xviii
military aid to Chinese Nationalists from, 112
overconfidence of, in Malaya, 244–48
Pacific troops of, 181–82, 188
possessions of, 308
royal family of, 79–80
seapower of, 57
shipboard landings and take-offs from, xxxv
U.S. friction with, 176–77, 188, 195, 317
and U.S. Pacific deployment, 267
U.S. supplies sent to, 174
war against Japan by, 24–25, 34, 100
war cabinet of, 174, 190
war production of, 489
Great Depression, 76, 89, 125, 195, 202
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 110
Great White Fleet, xxxii–xxxiii
Grew, Joseph, 114
Grey, Sir Edward, 25
Groton, 28
Grumman airplanes, 141, 218
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighter plane, 140–42, 154
Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter plane, 399
Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter plane, 32, 146, 211–12, 216, 217, 219–20, 222, 225–27, 229, 282, 289, 323, 330, 335, 336, 337, 343, 347, 351, 354, 358, 375–76, 378, 399
at Midway, 410, 419–20, 428–29, 431, 434, 437–38, 442, 444, 449–50, 453
Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane, 400, 411, 413, 426
Guadalcanal, 330, 332, 333, 490
Guadalcanal Campaign, 268, 320, 479
Yamamoto and failure of, 67
Guam, xxxii, xxxiv, 82, 140
Japanese attack on, 36, 47, 58
radio intercept station on, 309–10
Gulf of Siam, 54
GYMNAST, 185
Haguro, 257–59
Halsey, Billy, 394
Halsey, Fanny, 394
Halsey, William F., 32, 39–42, 137, 150–51, 155
background and personality of, 201–2
in Doolittle raid, 285–89, 318
in Marshalls raid, 200–204, 207, 209–10, 214–15, 218, 219, 221–23, 225, 227–28, 230–31, 278, 308
and Task Force 16, 387–88, 392–95, 401, 458, 477
Hamaguchi, Osachi, 86
Hamilton, Weldon L., 341–42
Hammann, USS, 368, 467–69, 471
Hampton Roads, Va., xxxiii, 164, 172
Hara, Kiyoshi, 108
Hara, Tadaichi, 320, 333, 336, 339, 344–45, 347, 349, 355, 377
Hara, Tameichi, 256, 257, 270, 408, 447, 456
Harada, Kumao, 117
Harding, Warren G. (president), 13
Harding, Warren G. (seaman), 23
Harper’s Weekly, xxxi
Harriman, Averell, 24
Hart, Thomas C., 53, 190, 235–37, 254
Haruna, 415, 454
Harvard University, xxvii, 28, 69, 113
Hashimoto, Toshio, 448, 450
Hashirajima Island, 65, 105, 117, 255, 380, 404–5, 484
Hatta, General, 272
“Haul Ass with Halsey,” 225, 228
Hawaii, xxi, xxxii, xxxiv, 14, 15, 28, 48, 122, 127, 138, 142, 152, 156, 182, 276, 322, 389
in Allied Pacific strategy, 192
climate of, 129
concerns about attack on, 316, 384–85, 475, 479
ethnic Japanese in, 149
Fourteenth Naval District in, 14, 20, 199, 302, 307, 309, 383
military censorship in, 44, 147–50
state of emergency and martial law in, 14, 147–48
unfamiliarity of, 23
U.S. airbases on, 280
Hawaii-Midway line, 312
Hay, John, xx
Hayate, 145
Healy, H. R. “Pop,” 361–62
Hearst, William Randolph, xxxi
Hebel, Fritz, 32, 33
Helfrich, Conrad E. H., 236, 254, 256, 262–63
Heller, Joseph, 125
Henderson, Lofton R., 414
Henley, USS, 345
Hermes, HMS, 265
Hewlett, Frank, 244
Hibiya Park, 269–70
Hickam Field, 7, 32
Hiraide, Hideo, 483
Hiranuma, Kuchiro, 116
Hirohito, Emperor, 64, 78, 90, 269, 272, 377
assassination attempt on, 80
early political leanings of, 79–80
enthronement ceremonies for, 80–81
on entry into war, 121–22, 123
fear of danger to, 278
on invasion of Philippines, 242
Japanese surrender and, 491
on Midway losses, 482–83
on naval arms limitation, 83
punishments not administered by, 86,
87
tributes paid to, 404, 462, 463
Hirosawa, Ei, 64
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 491
Hiroshima Bay, 65, 380
Hirota government, 91
Hiryu, 295, 377, 414, 441–42, 446–48, 451, 453–55, 476
loss of, 455, 459–60, 462–63, 465, 473, 484
Hitler, Adolf, 25, 29, 35, 91, 115, 181, 186, 266
on Lebensraum, 89
response to Battle of the Coral Sea by, 377
response to Pearl Harbor by, 59–61
Hobart, 254
Hochi Shinbun, xxx
Hokkaido, 82
Holcomb, Bankson T., Jr., 207–8
Hollingsworth, Bill, 219, 221
Holmes, Charles, 143
Holmes, Ephraim, 17
Holmes, Jasper, 158–59, 303–7, 312–14, 387, 391–92, 479–80, 482
Home Ministry, Japanese, 270
Homma, Masaharu, 240, 242
Hong Kong, 25, 246
Japanese attack on, 36, 48, 58, 182
honne, 70–72
Honolulu, 7, 8, 23, 38, 148, 149, 156, 386, 397–98
false reports of post-Midway attack on, 483
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 158
Honshu, 80, 89, 404
Hoover, Herbert, 13
Hoover, Travis, 292–93
Hopkins, Harry, 14, 28, 162, 173, 194–95, 196
Churchill and, 174–75, 190, 197–98
on Russian supply deliveries, 187
on unified command, 190, 192
Hopping, Halstead L., 212–13
Hori, Kenji, 355
Horikoshi, Jiro, 93
Hornet, USS, 323, 418
air group of, 421, 423, 458, 477
aviators of, 437, 472
B-25s transported by, 281–83, 285
in Battle of Midway, 417–19, 421–25, 427, 437–38, 442, 447–48, 451, 455, 458, 465–66, 471, 478
Bombing Squadron Eight of (VB-8), 399–400, 437
dive-bombers of, 397, 422–23, 455, 465
losses of, 438
and Midway preparations, 397–98, 401–2
Scouting Eight of (VS-8), 437
in Task Force 16, 285–93, 295–98, 297, 319, 387, 390, 392, 401–2, 417–19, 471
in Task Force 18, 285
Torpedo Eight of (VT-8), 400–401, 418, 419, 421–25, 428, 437–38, 456, 472–73
VF-8 of, 437
House of Commons, British, 24, 198
House of Peers, Japanese, 88
House of Representatives, U.S., 35
declaration of war against Japan in, 36
Houston, USS, 235, 254, 256, 258, 260–62
Hughes, USS, 466
Hull, Cordell, 15, 28–29, 116, 121–22
Hultgren, Vivian, 37
Hun River, 91
Hyde Park, N.Y., 13, 266
Hynes, Samuel, 490
I-16 fighter, 93
Iba, 58
IBM tabulators, 302, 304, 313, 384, 388
Iceland, troops scheduled for, 186, 187
Ickes, Harold, 26–27, 29
identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) systems, 205
Illustrated London News, xxvi
Imamura, Hitoshi, 261