plans to base B-29s in Marianas, 56, 91
plans for final defeat of Japan, 662
precision bombardment, 521–22, 526
projected expansion of bombing after August 1945, 688–89
rivalry with U.S. Navy, 22, 35–36, 96, 315, 484, 537–538
rushed early deployment of B-29s, 337–40
target selection decisions, 347–48
Army Air Transport Command, 749
Army Rangers, U.S., 207–8
Arnold, Henry “Hap”
B-29 airbase development on Guam, 538
B-29 dispute with Nimitz, 315
and bottlenecks caused by limited runway capacity in Marianas, 521
and CAUSEWAY, 56, 91
demand for upgrade to Mariana air defenses, 520
and firebombing, 526, 540, 541
on Iwo Jima’s importance, 518
projections of bombing tonnage to be used against Japan, 688
and Tokyo B-29 raid, 350
and 21st Bomber Command, 344
Art of War, The (Sun-Tzu), 217–18
Aruga, Kosaku, 583, 585–88
Asagumo (Japanese destroyer), 252, 259–60
Asahi Shinbun, 180, 528, 553
Asakusa Kannon Buddhist Temple, 550
Asano Park, 701
Asashimo (Japanese destroyer), 586
Ashworth, Frederick L., 712–13, 715, 719
Aslito Airfield (Saipan), 54
Atago (Japanese cruiser), 212, 215–17, 297
atomic bomb, 85, 667–72, 674; See also Hiroshima atomic bomb attack; Nagasaki atomic bomb attack
first test, 676–79
and negotiations over Japanese conditions of surrender, 728
orders to carry out attacks, 684–85, 688
Atomic Bomb Countermeasure Committee, 704
At Sea Logistics Service Group, 105
Atsuchi, Kanehiko, 493, 495
Atsugi Air Base, 523, 749, 750, 753, 756
Atsuta Shrine, 724
Attlee, Clement, 675
Auchincloss, Louis, 782
Augusta, USS, 674–75, 702–3
Austin, Bernard, 276–77, 814n77
Australia, HMAS, 288
Axis, Japanese decision to join, 311, 770
B-17 Flying Fortress, 12, 336–40, 522, 638
B-24 Liberator bomber, 146, 291, 473–74, 485, 505
B-29–45-MO (Enola Gay), 692–97
B-29 Superfortress bomber, 56; See also Army Air Forces (USAAF); Arnold, Henry “Hap”; atomic bomb; incendiary bombing attacks; Lemay, Curtis
and aerial minelaying, 659
aircrew for, 346
and atomic bombs, 684, 690–96, 709–16, 718–20
creation of Twentieth Air Force, 315–16
design flaws, 338–39
F-13 configuration for photo reconnaissance, 347
first B-29 mission over Tokyo, 348–50
incendiary bombing, 539–57
and Japanese fighter defenses, 522–25
loss rate in Japanese bombing missions, 525, 661
and MATTERHORN, 169, 340–43, 527
Nimitz and Arnold’s dispute over uses for, 315–16
and Okinawa campaign, 596–97, 614–15
operations in Marianas, 343–46, 519–21, 526m, 536–39
origins and development of, 336–40
plans to base in Marianas, 56, 91
“shot calling” leaflets, 689
Bache, USS, 255
Baguio, Luzon, 436
“bailey bridges,” 638
BaitDiv 1, 173–74
Bak, Michael, Jr., 263, 284
Baker, Russell, 421
Baldwin, Hanson, 27
Baliuag, Luzon, 444–45
“balloon bombs,” 186
Baltimore, USS
and FDR’s 1944 Pacific tour, 50, 58, 60–64, 85
journey from Hawaii to Aleutians, 86–87
reception in Hawaii, 60–61
typhoon (June 5, 1945), 628
“Banda Unit,” 372
Bangkok, Thailand, 342
Barahona, Cayetano, 457–58
Barb, USS, 333
Barber, Charles F., 108, 487, 568, 618–19
Barbey, Daniel E., 54
Bard, Ralph, 671, 681
Barnett, USS, 25
BARNEY, Operation, 657–58
Bartol, 709
Basic Field Manual for Correspondents, 18
Basilone, John, 501
Bataan (C-54), 753–54
“Bataan gang,” 33
Bataan Peninsula, 15, 39, 439, 442, 443m, 445, 448, 468, 469, 772
battle neurosis, 785–87
Battle of the Philippine Sea, 51, 111, 189, 277, 301, 302, 308, 333, 743, 773
B Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 147
B Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Marines, 512
Beach, Edward, 324
Beaumont, Texas, race riots, 410
Beaver, Floyd, 25n
Beightler, Bob, 444
Bell, William A., 425–27, 429
Belleau Wood, USS, 228, 370, 371, 382, 662
Belle Isle Park riots (1943), 408–9
Benevolence, USS, 751
Benion, USS, 255, 260
Bennington, USS, 628
Berkey, Russell S., 257
“Big Ben,” See Franklin, USS
“Big Blue Blanket,” 381, 393, 433
Big Six (Supreme War Direction Council), 182–83, 601, 649, 704, 709, 720–24
Big Stink, The (camera plane), 713
Bilibid Prison, 448
Binkley, David V., 447
biofuel, 578
Birmingham, USS, 226–28
Bismarck Sea, Battle of the, 35–36
Bismarck Sea, USS, 502
black market, in Japan, 178, 774
black rain, 700, 717
blackshoes, 111, 114, 301
Blaik, Red, 70
Blenny, USS, 656
blind censorship, 19–20
Bloody Nose Ridge, 141, 143, 148–49
Bloody Ridge, 604
Blue Beach 2, Iwo Jima, 489, 491
Blue Beaches, Luzon, 435
Board of Information (Japan), 179
Bock, Frederick C., 711, 714
Bockscar (B-29 bomber), 710–16, 719–20
Boehm, Harold C., 508
Boeing Corporation, 337
Boeing–Stearman N2S, 420–21
Bofors antiaircraft gun, 101, 598
Bogan, Gerald
on Halsey’s actions in typhoon, 402
and Seventh Fleet, 280
and Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 221
and sighting of fleet heading towards San Bernardino Strait, 240
and suicide attacks against Intrepid, 370
and Task Force 38’s need for more fighters, 378–79
and Task Group 38.2, 162
and Task Group 58.2, 115
Boise, USS, 433, 438
Bonefish, USS, 658
Bonin Islands, 118–19, 472, 777, 802n35
Borneo, 188, 312, 331
Boston, USS, 173
Boxer Rebellion, 467
Bradlee, Ben, 791
Bradley, James, 119
Breakneck Ridge, 366, 386–87
Bremerton Naval Shipyard (Puget Sound), 618
Bricker, John W., 413
Brinkley, David, 23, 24
Brisbane, Australia, 32–36, 40, 88, 92
British Pacific Fleet (Task Force 57), 566, 663
Browder, Earl, 413
Brown, Walter, 674
Brown, Wilson, 49, 69, 641–43
Brown & Root Construction, 418
brownshoes, 111, 114, 115, 301, 378–79
Bruce, Andrew D., 390, 391
Bruenn, Howard, 46–47, 49, 78
Brunei Bay, North Borneo, 212
Buchanan, USS, 757
Buchter, Norris, 634
Buckner, Simon Bolivar
and CAUSEWAY, 91–92, 94
death of, 639
/> Okinawa command, 565
Okinawa ground offensive, 602, 603
Okinawa invasion plans, 589
Okinawa surrender appeal to Ushijima, 636
and Shuri Line, 605, 607
Buddhism, as justification for kamikaze missions, 195–96
Buell, Harold L. “Hal,” 116–17, 123, 124, 420, 746
Bulge, Battle of the, 415
Bull, Cornelius (“Nelie”), 28–32
Bull Run, See Cape Engano, Battle off
Bungo Suido, 583
Bunker Hill, USS, 115, 559, 584, 616–18
Buracker, William H., 225–28
Bureau of Ordnance, 322, 323
Burgin, R.V., 132, 141, 152
Burke, Arleigh, 100, 111, 240
Bush, George H. W., 119
Bush, USS, 581
Bush, Vannevar, 671
bushido (way of the samurai), 193, 195–98
Byrnes, James F.
debate over USSR’s involvement in East Asian war, 674
and Japanese conditions of surrender, 727–29
and Manhattan Project, 671
and news of successful atomic bomb test, 679
and Potsdam Conference, 674
and Potsdam Declaration wording, 683
Cabanatuan POW camp, 441
Cabinet Information Board (Japan), 730
Cabinet Planning Board (Japan), 312
Cabot, USS
and BaitDiv 1, 173
and “Cripple Division 1,” 170
damage from suicide attacks, 382
and Japanese approach to Leyte, 219
Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 221
suicide attacks against, 381
Cagayan Mountains, 430, 433, 436, 439, 440
Cagayan Valley, 469
Cairo Conference (November 1943), 340
Calhoun, William L., 369–70
California, 5, 49, 325, 344, 345, 346, 406, 419, 424, 494, 517, 520, 568, 666, 780, 781
housing shortages, 406–7
returning veterans in, 781
California, USS, 432
Camotes Sea, 387
Camp Pendleton, California, 494
Camp Stewart, Georgia, 410
Camranh Bay, Indochina, 426
Canberra, USS, 169–74
Cape Engano, Battle off, 271–74, 273m, 291–92
Cape Esperance, Battle of, 27–28
Carigara, Philippines, 368
Carigara Bay, 366
Carney, Robert “Mick”
and Dirty Tricks Department, 114
and Halsey’s attempts to revise STALEMATE plans, 121
and Halsey’s dispute with Samuel Eliot Morrison, 308
and Halsey’s explanations for leaving San Bernardino Strait undefended, 300
and Halsey’s Leyte operation orders, 207
and Halsey’s Leyte strike proposal, 126
and Halsey’s obsession with destroying Japanese carriers, 241, 242
and Halsey’s plan to pursue Northern Force, 238
and Halsey’s reaction to Nimitz’s message asking for location of Task Force 34, 278–79
and Japanese attack on Third Fleet, 166
at Japanese surrender ceremony on Missouri, 757, 762
on naval bombardment of Hokkaido, 662
and New Jersey antiaircraft drills, 120
and Nimitz’s message asking for location of Task Force 34, 280
and October 1944 raid on Okinawa, 163
opposition to CAUSEWAY plans, 56
on prohibition against bombing of Imperial Palace, 664
and raids against Japanese home islands, 662–64
and reaction of Yorktown crew to Japanese peace offer, 728
on reception of U.S. troops in Yokosuka, 752
and typhoon (December 17, 1944), 395–97
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 749
and “Zoo plan,” 314
Caroline Islands, 120–21
Cartwright, Marjorie, 407, 416, 787
Casey, Bob, 22
Cassin Young, USS, 227, 599
Cates, Clifton B., 507
CAUSEWAY, Operation, 55–57, 75
final defeat of plan, 94
JCS cable to MacArthur, 88–89
opposition to plan, 56, 90–92, 94
Cavite Naval Base, 450, 465
CBI (China–Burma–India) theater, 340–43, 527
Cebu, Philippines, 93, 123–25, 201, 214m, 221, 374, 469
Cebu airfield, Philippines, 123–25, 201
“Cebu Barbeque,” 124
cemeteries, military, 777–78
censorship, 8–11, 19–20, 22
Center Force (Japan), 213n
at Leyte, 295
Battle off Samar, 280–81, 289
and San Bernardino Strait, 231–34, 239–40, 260–61, 303–4
and Sibuyan Sea, 228–30
and Surigao Strait, 246
and Tablas Strait, 220
Chambers, Justice M., 489, 491
Chandler, Theodore E., 433
Charles J. Badger, USS, 597
Cheek, Mike, 241
Chengdu, China, 341–43
Chennault, Claire Lee, 342
Chiang Kai-shek, 86, 184, 654
at Cairo conference, 340
and Chusan Islands, 644
and Imperial Iron and Steel Works mission, 342
and Potsdam Declaration wording, 683
Chicago Tribune, 5, 25
Chichi Jima, 119
Chickering, William Henry, 432
Chikuma (Japanese heavy cruiser), 267, 283–85
children, in Japanese war effort, 531–35
China; See also Chiang Kai-shek; MATTERHORN, Operation
Allied plans to land on coast of, 42, 51–52, 55–56, 643–45, 648
as base for B-29s, 169, 315, 340–43, 349, 527, 660
and BELEAGUER, 789–90
Boxer Rebellion, 467
Civil War, 94–95, 672, 727, 779
historical consequences of defeat of CAUSEWAY plan, 94–95
Japanese efforts to end the war with, 184, 654, 656
and JCS “Strategic Plan for the Defeat of Japan,” 51
and Operation “Ichi-Go,” 343
planned role in postwar order, 86, 94–95, 643–44, 672, 674, 727, 779
and Potsdam Declaration, 685, 705
as source of infantry manpower, 51, 86
and Soviet Union’s role in war against Japan, 86, 674, 727
and surrender of Japan, 656, 705, 727, 730, 733, 737, 758–761
Third Fleet carrier raids on, 427–28
China–Burma–India (CBI) theater, 169, 315, 340–43, 349, 527, 660
Chinese Civil War, 94–95, 672, 727, 779
Chiran Airfield, 611–12
Chitose (Japanese carrier), 272, 274
Chiyoda (Japanese carrier), 272, 291
Cho, Isamu, 575, 576, 592, 606, 635–36
Chokai (Japanese heavy cruiser), 267, 283–84
Christians, among Nagasaki victims, 718
Christie, Ralph W., 215, 331
Churchill, Winston
and atomic bomb project, 667–68
and DOWNFALL, 645
and Leyte strike authorization by JCS, 127
and news of successful atomic bomb test, 679–80
at Potsdam Conference, 675
and unconditional surrender discussions, 82
Chusan Islands, 644
Ciardi, John, 524, 525
CIC (Combat Information Center), 100
CINCPAC (commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet), 21, 56, 537
CINCPOA (commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas), 22–23
“circular run,” 324
civil defense, in Japan, 530–31
civilian militias, 652
civil rights movement (U.S.), 788
Civil War (U.S.), 82–83
Claggett, Bladen, 213, 216, 217
Clapper, Raymond, 796n89
Clark, Joseph “Jocko,”
125, 126, 580
battle fatigue at Okinawa, 594
and Bonins, 118–19
on breakdown of discipline during demobilization, 782
on constant attacks off Okinawa, 616
court of inquiry on Halsey’s and McCain’s conduct during typhoon, 629
on Halsey’s actions in typhoon, 402
and “Jocko Jimas,” 119
and kamikaze attack at Ulithi, 558, 559
on King’s response to Halsey’s leaving San Bernardino Strait unguarded, 276
Kyushu strikes, 628–29
at Okinawa, 627
John A. Roosevelt and, 600
and Task Force 38, 116
and Task Force 58, 559
and Task Group 58.1, 115
and typhoon (June 5, 1945), 627–28
and Yamato’s last sortie, 582
Clark Field (Luzon), See Mabalacat Airfield/Clark Field (Luzon)
Claxton, USS, 376
Clayton, William, 671
coal, 311, 321, 662, 783
code of ethics, for Japanese military personnel, 466–67
“Code of Wartime Practices for the American Press,” 10
Colhoun, USS, 581
Collier’s magazine, 40, 109
Colorado, USS, 383
Columbia, USS, 259
COMAFPAC (Commander in Chief, United States Army Forces in the Pacific), 647–48
Combat Information Center (CIC), 100
combat stress reaction, 785–87
Combined Fleet (Japan), 190–91, 194, 232–33, 299
COMINCH (commander in chief of U.S. fleet), 16, 25n, 94, 278; See also King, Ernest J., Jr.
Commander in Chief, United States Army Forces in the Pacific (COMAFPAC), 647–48; See also MacArthur, Douglas
commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC), 21, 56, 537; See also Nimitz, Chester
commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), 22–23; See also Nimitz, Chester
commander in chief of U.S. fleet (COMINCH), 16, 25n, 94, 278; See also King, Ernest J., Jr.
command reorganization, 32, 305, 369, 403, 647
command unity, 18, 32, 305, 369, 403, 646–48
commerce raids, 187, 189, 310–16, 319–22, 325–29, 332–36, 656–58
Company B, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 147
Company B, 1st Battalion, 28th Marines, 512
Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 495, 507
Company I, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 512–13
Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 132, 135, 138, 140
Company K (King), 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 150
Composite Squadron Ten (VC-10), 791–92
Composition B explosive, 709
Compton, Karl, 671
Conant, James, 671, 672, 677
“Condition Zed,” 597
Congress, U.S.
and 1942 midterms, 27
and Battle of Leyte Gulf controversy, 305
MacArthur and, 12–16, 35–42
and Manhattan Project, 668
and merger of War and Navy Departments, 18, 32, 496
service unification bill, 32
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