Thomas, Francis
time of delivery message
Tinker, Clarence L.
Tirpitz
Toei Maru
Togo Heihachiro
Togo Shigenori
messages intercepted
Toho Maru
Tojo Hideki
Tokyo
Tomioka Sadatoshi
Tone
tonnage war (Tonnageskrieg)
torpedo attack, aerial
torpedo bombers
attack on Pearl Harbor
torpedoes
modified
Torres Straits
Towers, John H.,
Toyoda Teijiro
trade embargo
Train, Harold C.
training
Treaty of Commerce
treaty system
Trever (DD-339)
Tripartite Pact
Triton (SS-201)
Truman, Harry S.
Tsushima, Straits of
Turner, Richmond Kelly
and decrypted messages
and Roberts Commission
war warnings
Tuscaloosa (CA-37)
27 November war warning
Two Ocean Navy Bill
Tyler, Kermit
U-boats
Ugaki Matome
Underkofler, Oliver H.
United States
conflict with Japan regarding China
disarmament compacts
embargo on exports to Japan
industrial capacity
losses in North Atlantic
military recommendations in war preparations
and movement toward war with Japan
naval construction program
principles for dealing with Japan
United States Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan (Rainbow 5)
United States Naval Academy
Upson, John
U.S. Army
and attack on Pearl Harbor
defense responsibility of
defensive forces
preparedness for war
responsbility and blame for defeat at Pearl Harbor
see also Army Department
U.S. Congress
U.S. Fleet
expansion of
Japanese intelligence about
U.S. Navy
aerial reconnaissance
battleship central in
Bureau of Navigation
in defense plan
effect of loss of battleships on
first ship sunk in World War II
Fleet Problem
intercepts of Japanese messages
plan for war with Japan
planes in attack on Pearl Harbor
preparedness for war
responsibility and blame for defeat at Pearl Harbor
see also Navy Department
U.S. State Department
Far Eastern Division
modus vivendi document
Utah (AG-16)
Vacant Sea
“Val” bombers
Valkenburgh, Franklin Van
Vestal (AR-4)
Virginia
Wake Island
attack on
destruction of documents on
War Department
blame/responsibility
code room
decrypted messages
war warnings
war games
war plan (Japan)
War Plan WPL-14
War Plan WPPac-46
war plans
War Plans
war warnings
missed
from Navy Department
war with Japan
first overt act
Ward (DD-139)
warships
Washington (BB-56)
Washington Naval Conference
Washington Treaty of 1922
Wasmuth (DD-338)
Wasp (CV-7)
Watanabe Yasuji
weather
weather belt
Welles, Sumner
West Virginia (BB-48)
attacked
Wheeler Field
White, Harry Dexter
Wichita (CA-45)
Wilkinson, Theodore S.
Willkie, Wendell
Winds Code
Wohlstetter, Roberta
Worden (DD-352)
World War I
World War II
Yamamoto Isoroku
and attack plan
command of Combined Fleet
death of
in ending primacy of battleship
and success of Pearl Harbor attack
Yamato
Yonai Mitsumasa
Yorktown (CV-5)
Yoshida Zengo
Yoshikawa Takeo
Zero (Zeke) fighters
Also by Michael Gannon
BLACK MAY
OPERATION DRUMBEAT
About the Author
Michael Gannon is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida. The author of two previous books on World War II naval warfare, Operation Drumbeat, and Black May, he lives in Gainesville, Florida.
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*(1) Because that type of bomb contained a small charge, less than seventy pounds of TNT; and (2) because the initial fire was not one that shot skyward from a hole but, as the film showed, a spreading fire that moved laterally above the waterline.