by Craig Nelson
Daniels, Josephus, 4
Dargue, Herbert, 354
Darwin, Australia, Japanese attack on, 350
Dauntless (ship), 372
Davenport, Ernest, 208
Davenport, Russell, 273, 274, 275
Davidson, General, 229
Davis, Allan, 292
Davis, Bert, 328
Deacon, Edward, 243
Declaration of Principles of Inter-American Solidarity and Cooperation (1936), 43
“Declaration of United Nations,” 434
Defeat in Showa 16 (Japanese television drama), 421
Delano, Victor, 263
Delano, Warren, 4
DeLong, George, 269
Denmark, German invasion (1940) of, 52
De Profundis (Wilde), 408
Derrow, Dean and Alice, 333
DeShazer, Jacob “Jake,” 368, 396–97, 403–4, 409, 412, 424, 425–26
detention camps, 356. See also internment camps
on Sand Island, 211 (map), 319, 341
Detroit (cruiser), 246
Dewa, Kichiji, 137, 183
DeWitt, John, 356, 358
de Yarmin, Ray, 342
Dickinson, Clarence, 243–44
Dieter, Bill, 383
Dill, John, 370–71
dive-bombers (divers), 7, 27, 60, 71, 101, 102, 103, 108, 134, 150, 188, 190–93, 197, 206–7, 211 (map), 213, 217, 218, 220, 221, 227, 229, 241–42, 243, 247, 282, 297, 301, 342, 375, 387, 388–89, 426
divers, and ship salvage, 282, 361–63, 415
Divine Thunderbolt Corps, at Okinawa, 400, 422
Divine Wind Special Attack Squad, at Philippines, 400
Dole, Sanford, 9
Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 327
Doolittle, James “Jimmy,” 435
background of, 369–70, 375
as first to depart from carrier for raid, 376–77
Japan’s surrender and, 407
later career and death of, 419
on his raid, 383
raid targets set by, 374–75
special mission to bomb Japanese targets and, 372, 374–79, 382
Doolittle Raiders, 384
capture of members of, 392, 396
“confessions” signed by, 392, 393–94
crimes against Chinese who helped, 418
Doolittle as leader of, 369, 383
Doolittle on, 383
effects of raids of, 382
execution of, 394, 396
ground support problems for, 378–79
Japanese capture and imprisonment of, 383–84, 385, 392, 403–4
Japan’s anger at China over, 382–83
landing in China by, 379–81, 382, 383
landing in Russia by one plane from, 379
preparations by, 375–77
raids conducted by, 377–79
Roosevelt on, 382–83, 390, 396
targets set for, 374–75
Dooman, Eugene, 74, 133
Dorsetshire (cruiser), 351
Dower, John, 467
Downes (destroyer), 258, 260, 330, 363
draft, registration for, 59–60
Dreadnought (ship), 6–7, 101
Driscoll, Agnes “Miss Aggie” Meyer, 77, 80
Drought, James M., 65
dry dock, 44n, 303
attack on ships in, 207, 258–59, 260, 300
repair work in, 7, 390, 415
Ducolon, Fred, 243
Duncan, Donald “Wu,” 372, 378
Duncan, James, 215
Dusenbury, Carlisle Clyde, 179
Dutch East Indies. See Netherlands East Indies
Dyer, George, 13
Earle, John B., 199–200, 260
Earle, Mrs. John B., 225, 260
Early, Steve, 279, 320, 321
East India Squadron, 22
East Indies. See Netherlands East Indies
Economic Cooperation Act (1948), 433
Edgers, Dorothy, 177
Edgerton, Robert, 47–48
Edwards, Webley, 292–93
Eglin Air Corps Proving Ground, Florida, 368–69, 373
Egusa, Takeshige, 103, 191
Eight Pillars of Peace (Hull), 43
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 370, 410, 416, 418, 433
Eisenhower, Milton, 359, 414
Eldred, Phillip, 218
Ellet (destroyer), 374
Elliott, George, 202, 203, 204, 205
Ellis, Albert, 265, 269
Elmer, Elizabeth, 329–30
emergency, state of, in Hawaii, 317
Emerson, D. C., 255
Emmerson, John K., 41
Emmons, Delos, 356, 357
emperor of Japan. See also specific emperors
attack on Tokyo seen as attack on, 383
Chrysanthemum Throne and, 27
Hirohito’s address on defeat as first communication directly between emperor and his people, 406
kokutai (Japanese uniqueness) belief and, 37
soldier’s duty to, 120, 141, 185, 325, 382
traditional separation between politics and leadership role of, 37–38, 49, 91, 154
Empire (tanker), 126
Empire at Peace Shrine, Tokyo, 421–22
England. See United Kingdom
Enterprise (carrier), 153, 171, 205, 238, 241, 242, 244, 245, 252, 306–7, 316, 334, 338, 342, 348, 374, 375–76, 386, 387, 388–89, 393
Eslick, Garlen, 265, 268, 269, 275
espionage. See spies
Ethiopia, Italian invasion (1935) of, 51
European Union, 435
Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Oahu, 171, 191, 210 (map), 213, 240–41, 243, 244, 245, 309
Ewa Plantation, Oahu, 316
Executive Order 9066 (1942), 358
Fahlgren, Warner, 280
Fahrner, Arthur, 227
families of servicemen
declaration of war and, 347
as “forgotten victims of Pearl Harbor” from explosions, 316–17
Pattens, with nine members serving, 298–99
Pearl Harbor attack on houses of, 225, 248–51, 255, 303
survival in cave on Ford Island by, 249, 250, 303–4, 324, 347
Fanning (destroyer), 374
Farrow, William, 394
Farthing, William, 98–99
Ferris, Mark, 414–15
Field, Ensign, 288
Fielder, Kendall, 176, 183, 450
Fields, Alonzo, 326
fifth columnists, concerns about, 15, 80n, 82, 308, 316, 337, 355
Fillmore, Millard, 22, 23
Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, The (Theobald), 451
Finkel, Arthur, 337
Finley, William, 262
Finn, John, 236–38, 419–20, 455
Fishencord, Harold, 223
Fiske, Bradley, 101–2
Fiske, Richard, 17, 204, 247, 262, 264, 427–28
Fitzgerald, W. F. Jr., 294
Fitzmaurice, Don, 383
Flaherty, Francis C., 456
Flannigan, G. S., 288
Fleming, Ian, 98
Fletcher, Frank Jack, 386
Flood, Charles, 247
Flood, William, 226, 229
Flying Tigers, 371
Flynn, David, 339
Fonderhide, Mrs. Claire, 225
Ford, John, 376
Ford Island, Oahu, 8, 210 (map), 336, 420
Army’s Luke Field on, 243, 420
families’ survival in cave on, 249, 250, 303–4, 324, 347
Missouri docked as museum at, 407, 415
Naval Air Station on, 1, 171, 191, 201, 206, 213, 225, 241, 242–43, 244, 246, 247–51, 256, 258, 259, 261, 269, 276, 281, 286–87, 288, 290, 293, 296, 298, 305, 306, 307, 338–39, 354, 420
Pacific Aviation Museum at, 420
survivors swimming to, 253–54, 271, 291, 303, 330
Forgy, Howell M., 256, 257
Formosa, 107, 163, 342, 343, 363
Forrestal, James, 399, 450
Fort, Cornelia, 215
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Fort Kamehameha, Oahu, 307
Fort Shafter, Oahu, 211 (map)
information center at, 201, 202, 204, 229, 232
Tripler General Hospital at, 224–25, 231, 329–30, 331
Foster, Jim, 281, 282, 291
Four Principles (Hull), 111, 112, 114
France
battleship development and, 6
declaration of war against Germany by, 52
Japan and Asian colonies of, 53
Nazi invasion of, 52, 62, 80n, 443, 453
sanctions against Japan and, 54
US attempt to negotiate peace before outbreak of war, 52
Frankfurt (light cruiser), 30
French, Edward, 194
French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), 53, 58, 74, 75, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93–94, 97, 98, 107, 111, 153
From Here to Eternity (Jones), 16, 229, 233, 233n
Fromkin, David, 43
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 70
Arizona sinking and, 283
attacks on American air forces and, 213
background of, 100–101
British attack on Italian fleet at Taranto (1940) and, 61
Colombo, Ceylon, attack and, 351
Combined Fleet in Pacific and, 398
as commander of First Air Fleet, 101
contempt for the US Navy felt by, 297
damage reports made by, 293, 311
Darwin, Australia, attack by, 350
Japan’s surrender and, 407
later life and conversion to Christianity by, 424–26
Midway attack and, 387–88
Pearl Harbor air attack and, 61, 70, 101, 151, 206–7, 208, 282, 398
Pearl Harbor departure by, 144–45, 145 (map)
Pearl Harbor planning by, 132, 134, 145, 148, 150
Pearl Harbor success and, 353
personality of, 100
plane damage sustained by, 293–94
postattack threats to task force and, 312
ritual dinner before attack and, 140–41
second round of attacks by, 294
strategy of sealing Pearl Harbor channel and, 300–301, 303
on success of Pearl Harbor attack, 311–12
torpedo use and, 61, 102–3
war crime tribunal and, 411–12
Fuchikami, Tadao, 201
Fujio, Masayuki, 421
Fujita, Iyozou, 185, 188, 189, 238, 240, 313
Fukudome, Shigeru, 68, 102, 111–12, 122–23
Fulton, Robert, 101
Fuqua, Samuel, 281–82, 283, 286, 287–88, 289–90, 416, 418, 456–57
Fusco, PFC, 225–26
G-102 (destroyer), 30
Gabik, George, 222–23, 224–25
Gable, Clark, 188–89
Gabreski, Francis, 229–30
Gaines, Jesse, 218
Gallaher, Wilmer, 285
Garcia, Herb, 233n
Garcia, Mal, 328
Gardiner, Mrs. Arthur, 324
Gay, George, 388, 390
Gayno, Nicholas, 347
Geiger, A. M., 420
Genda, Minoru
attack emphasis in naval aviation philosophy of, 27
attacks on American air forces and, 213
background of, 70
damage reports made to, 280, 293
death of, 418
decision to withdraw after success of attack and, 313
dress rehearsal for attack and, 134
later career and death of, 418–19
Pearl Harbor attack and, 189, 190–91, 206, 207, 280, 311
on Pearl Harbor issues and success, 418–19
personality of, 70
pilots recruited by, 100, 102
pilots’ rituals before departing and, 140
planning for attack by, 27, 70–71, 100–101, 103, 115, 132, 138, 150, 308, 313
route planning by, 114–15
threat of US counterstrike and, 312
torpedo use and, 102, 150
war games used by, 107–8
Washington Naval Conference (1922) and, 27
Germany, 80, 430, 449
air bombing techniques of, 400
Anti-Comintern Pact between Japan and, 38, 143
battleship development and, 6
belief that Pearl Harbor attackers to be mercenaries from, 335, 343, 355
declaration of war by France and Great Britain, 52
fascism in, 32
Hawaiian consulates of, 81
Hirohito on Tripartite alliance with, 51
imperial ambitions of, 35, 38
Japanese Army officers sent for training in, 48
Japanese perception of being encircled by colonies of, 28
Japanese students sent to, 22
Japanese view of European victories of, 55, 57
Japan’s diplomatic relations with, before World War II, 63, 88, 91, 92, 95, 143, 325
Japan’s need for oil from, 56
Japan’s signing of Tripartite Pact with, 58–59, 143
lack of involvement in Pearl Harbor attacks, 355
London bombing by, 106–7, 375
Poland invaded (1939) by, 52, 433
as possible threat to Japan, 93, 162
public war psychology in, 35, 156
refusal to negotiate before outbreak of war, 52
social chaos after Great Depression in, 32, 33
U-boat attacks by, 56, 126, 364, 393
US bombing of, 400
US internment of enemy aliens from, 318, 319
US plans for fighting on multiple fronts in case of war with, 62
World War I and, 28, 35
World War II and, 52, 57, 58, 59, 62, 88, 106–7, 126, 162, 170, 325, 326, 375, 382, 400, 420, 421, 430, 453
Gerow, Leonard T., 78, 108, 140, 342, 439
Gesell, Gerhard, 444
Gilbert Islands, 107, 351, 363, 428
Gillette, Cy, 235
Girocco, Dick, 338
Glaubitz, Gerald, 424
Gleaves, Capt., 4
Gloire (ship), 6
Gobeo, Frank, 227
Godwin, D. C., 294
Goebbels, Joseph, 124
Goepner, Oscar, 195, 198
Goldstein, Donald, 33, 42
Gonzalez, Manuel, 242, 243
Good, Roscoe, 183
Good Earth, The (Buck), 40
Goshen, William, 286–87
Goto, Jinichi, 267
Graham, D. A., 289
Grannis, Lawrence, 198
Gratz, Tucker, 415–16
Grayson (carrier), 374
Great Britain. See United Kingdom
Great Depression, 1, 32–33, 431
Great East Asia War archives, Etajima, Japan, 422–23
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 39, 351
Great Pacific War, The (Bywater), 28
Greeley, Horace, 23
Greene, W. F., 282
Green Hornet (plane), 383, 392
Greer (destroyer), 126
Grew, Joseph, 279
as ambassador to Japan, 35
background of, 34–35
on eventual war, 94–95
letter to Roosevelt from, 62–63
moderation urged by, 54, 119
proposed Konoye-Roosevelt meeting and, 106, 109, 118–19
proposed sanctions against Japan and, 55
reports on Japan from, 35, 38, 41, 55, 57, 58, 73–74, 79, 95, 97, 106, 133, 141
Roosevelt’s cables to Hirohito and, 177, 178, 186, 187
Grotjan, Genevieve, 77–78
Guadalcanal campaign (1942–43), 397–98
Guam, 51, 69, 107, 149
Japanese control over, 351
Japanese invasion of, 164, 165, 326, 342, 345
US base on, 28, 78, 115, 342
Gwin (carrier), 374
Hague Convention (1907), 278–79
hakko ichiu philosophy, 39
Halawa, Hawaii, burial of Pearl Harbor dead in cemeteries in, 332
Haleiwa, Oahu, 207<
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Haleiwa Auxiliary Field, Oahu, 210 (map), 220, 308, 309
Halifax, Viscount, 159
Hall, Edward, 222
Hallmark, Dean, 383, 384
Halsey, William F. Jr., 241, 367, 386, 395
failure of US response and, 307
fifth column work in Hawaii belief of, 308
Roosevelt’s order to capture Yamamoto and, 395
search for Japanese craft by, 305, 306, 308, 338
task force organized under, 13
Wake Island and, 152–53, 441
Hamada, Dick, 408–9
Hanabusa, Hiroshi, 184
Handler, Frank, 247
Hanson, Murray, 233
Harada, Irene, 314, 316
Harada, Yoshio, 314, 315–16
Hardegen, Reinhard, 364
Harding, Warren, 296
Hardon, G. S., 276
Harper, John, 265
Harriman, Averell and Marie, 321
Hart, Thomas C., 167, 357
Hashimoto, Toshio, 203–4
Hawaii, 30
Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) on, 15, 82, 316, 423–24
civilian “forgotten victims of Pearl Harbor” from explosions in, 316–17
description and background of, 8–10
front lines of Pacific war and, 364
Japanese immigrants in, 26
Japanese perception of, as American colony, 28
joking about Japanese threat to, 183
martial law for, 317–18
Pearl Harbor as tourism attraction in, 16, 417–18
possibility of war seen as distant from life in, 16–17
servicemen’s easy life in, 16–17
soldiers’ social life in, 181–83
state of emergency in, 317
survey of military strength of, 32
US military expenditures on, 32
US treaty with, 9
war games’ simulation of attack on, 32, 107–8
Hawaiian Airlines, 216
Haynes, H. E., 361
Heaton, Leonard, 230–32
Hebel, Fritz, 339
Helena (ship), 246, 247, 254, 255, 301
Hell Divers (movie), 189
hell divers, Japanese pilots as, 189, 342
Hendon, Chief Gunner’s Mate, 336
Herman, Gayle, 339, 340
Hermes (carrier), 351
Herndon, Nolan, 379
Herrman, Andy, 248
Herron, Charles D., 10–11, 14, 15, 81, 439
Hewitt, Kent, 450
Hickam Field, Oahu, 85, 148, 171, 179, 191, 206, 210 (map), 213–14, 215, 234, 238, 243, 245, 247, 333, 338, 414, 420
description of, 217
Japanese bombing of, 217–20, 221–25
Hiei (battleship), 165
Higashikuni, Naruhiko, 96–97, 119, 417
Hill, Edwin Joseph, 457
Hillenkoetter, Roscoe, 265
Hilton, Hart, 244, 245
Hilton, James, 381
Hinsperger, Wilber, 274
Hinz, Earl, 240–41
Hiranuma, Kiichiro, 106
Hiraoka, Takashi, 421
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
action against China for help during US bombing campaign and, 382–83
