by Craig Nelson
Theobald, Robert “Fuzzy,” 451
Thessman, Irvin, 273–74, 275
Thomas, Robert Jr., 299, 300, 301, 302, 303
Thompson, Warren, 255
Thresher (submarine), 372
Tibbets, Paul, 425
Tientsin, China, 38
Time (magazine), 28, 40, 57, 139
Timor, 164, 165
Toei Maru (oiler), 165
Togo, Heihachiro, 23, 24–26
Togo, Shigenori, 121–22, 123, 129, 130, 131, 132–33, 135
Tojo, Hideki
arrest for war crimes of, 410–11
background of, 28, 29
captured Doolittle Raiders and, 392, 393, 394
China Incident (1937) with Japan and, 114, 117
as Control Faction member seeking radical change, 33
declaration of war by, 324–25
International Military Tribunal and, 393–94
Konoye’s cabinet with, 54
later views on blame for war of, 421
Midway losses hidden from, 399
suicide attempt of, 410–11
Tsushima battle (1905) and, 25, 176, 399
war crime tribunals and, 411, 422
Tokyo, 424
assassination (1932) of leaders in, 34
Hirohito on defense of, 495
Japan’s surrender and fears in, 407
US bombing (1942) of, 374–75, 378, 381–82, 383, 384, 395, 400–402, 407
US planned invasion of, 403
Tokyo Bay, Japanese surrender in, 407
Tomberlin, Tommy, 215
Tomich, Peter, 254, 459–60
Tominaga, Shozo, 34
Tomioka, Sadatoshi, 72, 96, 122, 150–51, 176
Tomura, Morio, 178, 279
Tone (cruiser), 165, 189, 391
torpedoes, aerial
against ships on the high seas, 345
Fuchida’s modification of, 102–3
Japanese superiority in, 57, 101
Japanese testing of techniques in, 102, 108, 138, 190
launch problems in shallow water with, 61, 69, 71, 87, 96, 150, 173
Operation Z’s possible use of, 69–70, 71
Pearl Harbor attack using, 126, 134, 150, 191, 197, 206–7, 247, 248, 251–52, 254, 255, 261, 262, 265, 266, 267, 268–69, 280, 294–95, 299, 300, 312, 360
Pearl Harbor defenses against, 75, 177, 196, 294
pilot training in use of, 101, 102
US analysis of possibilities of attack by, 61, 69
US and British technology in, 87–88, 99, 101–2
torpedoes, submarine
midget subs with, 73
Nazi use of, 364
Pearl Harbor attack using, 208, 254–55, 276
zigzagging maneuver to avoid, 7
torpedo nets, 60–61, 81, 102, 171, 173, 177, 196–97, 297
tourism, and Pearl Harbor, 16, 417–18, 424
Train, Harold, 173
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, 56
Tripartite Pact (1940), 36, 51, 58–59, 89, 99–100, 110
Tripler General Hospital, Oahu, 224–25, 231, 329–30, 331
Trippe, Juan, 51
Trout (submarine), 372
Truk, taking of (1944) Truk, 398
Truman, Harry, 78, 398, 402, 407, 418, 428, 431, 433, 454
Truman Commission, 450
Trumbull, Robert, 360–61
Tsingtao, 28, 449
Tsuji, Masanobu, 42, 164–65
Tsukada, Osamu, 130
Tsushima, Battle of (1905)
Japan’s later desire to re-create, 71, 176, 395
strategy in, 24–26, 27, 399
Tully, Grace, 320, 322, 326, 343, 381
Turner, Lieutenant, 225
Turner, Richmond Kelly, 78, 167–68, 175, 447–48
Turpin, Raymond, 267, 270–71
Tutuila (gunboat), 95
Tversky, Amos, 429
Tyce, Edna, 215–16
Tyce, Robert “Bob,” 214, 215–16
Tyler, Kermit, 204–5
U-117 (submarine), 30
U-boats, 56, 126, 364, 393
Ugaki, Matome, 132, 163, 313, 352–53, 376
United Kingdom
“Asia for Asians” policy of Japan and, 39
declaration of war against Germany by, 52
German bombing of, 106–7, 375
independence of the American service chiefs and, 370–71
Italian fleet attacked at Taranto (1940) by, 60, 61, 158
Japanese attacks on Asian colonies of, 51, 350, 351, 363
Japanese perception of being encircled by colonies of, 28
Japan’s declaration of war against, 324–25
Japan’s signing of Tripartite Pact and, 59
Japan’s surrender and, 407
petroleum embargo against Japan and, 56
Royal Navy of, 60, 162
U-boats and, 364
US attempt to negotiate peace before outbreak of war, 52
US freeze on Japanese assets in, 94
US plans for fighting on multiple fronts in case of war and, 62
Washington Naval Conference (1922) and, 27
United Nations
critics of, 434
founding of, 433–34
US Defense Department, 431, 451
US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 15, 82, 98, 138, 166, 167, 176, 293, 316, 318, 355
US National Archives, 317
US National Park Service, 417
US Naval Academy, 428
US Naval Institute, 341
US Navy Court of Inquiry, 439, 442
US Navy Department, 431, 431
US Secret Service, 50, 277, 321, 343–44
US Supreme Court, 27, 344, 357
US Treasury Department, 321, 344
US War Department, 10, 31, 32, 52, 61–62, 84, 157, 158, 194, 202, 310, 321, 360, 431, 439–40, 448
Unit 731, in Japanese army, 47
“unknowns” among Pearl Harbor dead, 243, 276, 332, 333
Uritsky (Soviet trawler), 169–70
USSR. See Soviet Union
Utah (battleship), 207, 251–52, 253, 254, 276, 328, 415, 420, 428, 460
Utterback Charles, 232
Uttrick, B. C., 195
Uyeda, Sadamu, 183–84
Vampire (destroyer), 351
Vandenberg, Arthur, 430
Van Valkenburgh, Franklin, 3, 281, 460
Vestal (repair ship), 280, 285, 328, 460–61
veterans of World War II
later talking about experiences by, 413–14
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association for, 415, 424, 426, 427
Vichy France, 53, 88
Vietnam, 53, 58, 340, 351, 409. See also French Indochina
Vincennes (carrier), 374
Vireo (minesweeper), 339
Vitousek, Roy and Martin, 216
Vogt, John, 243
von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 52, 53, 88
Wagner, Glenn, 425
Wahiawa, Oahu, 316
Waipahu Plantation, Oahu, 316
Wake Island, 51, 351, 385
Japanese attacks on, 107, 164, 326, 342, 343, 345, 348
planes sent to defend, 151, 152, 153, 171, 441
US base on, 75, 115
Waldron, John, 307, 388
Walker, Frank C., 65
Walker, W. J., 180
Wallace, Henry, 344
Walsh, James E., 65
Walsh, John, 126
Walt Disney Company, 420, 423, 428
Walters, George, 259–60
war bonds
Japanese, 82
US, 342, 396
war crimes, conviction of American POWs on, 394, 409
war crime tribunals
in China, 411
in Japan, 278, 410, 411–12, 422
Ward (ship), 195–96, 198, 199–200, 201, 233
Ward, James Richard, 460
Warden, Horace, 256
war games, 32, 96, 107–8, 111, 214, 258, 319, 439
/> war grave, Utah as, 415
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 359, 414
Warren, Earl, 358, 414
Washington, DC, Japanese cherry trees in, 142, 346
Washington, George, 371
Washington Conference (1921–22), 27, 76
Washington Post, 123–24, 370
Watanabe, Michio, 421
Watson, Edwin “Pa,” 42
Watson, Kara, 463
Watson, Myrtle, 330
Weber, Frederick, 242
Webster, Leon, 221
Weisman, sailor, 275
Welch, George, 307, 308–9, 310, 419
Welles, Sumner, 34, 43, 52, 54, 56, 59, 92–93
West, Chinese immigrants (1850s) in, 23
West, Robert, 268, 269, 272
Westbrook, Clint, 3, 284, 336
Western Defense Command, 157, 358–59
Western Union, 194
Westfall, Daniel, 269–70
West Virginia (battleship), 246, 261
attack on and sinking of, 247, 262–65, 294, 298, 300, 330, 361, 399
campaigns of, 391
casualties on, 265, 455
sailors’ memories of, 17, 204, 247, 262–65, 284, 333
salvage of, 360–61, 362, 363
survivors of, 333, 427, 428
Wheeler Field, Oahu, 148, 181, 191, 210 (map), 213, 225–29, 247, 293, 309, 310, 333, 335, 420
White, Doc, 380
Whitehead, Robert, 101
Whiteman, George, 239–40
Widgeon (ship), 274
Wilde, Oscar, 408
Wilkins, Roy, 428
Wilkinson, Gerald, 167
Wilkinson, Theodore, 108, 445
Willis, Walter, 243
Willmott, H. P., 390
Wills, Forest, 225
Wilson, Eunice, 316
Wilson, Frank, 321
Wilson, Woodrow, 4
Winant, Gil, 321, 322
wireless radio, Japan’s early use of at Tsushima (1905), 24–25
Wiseman, O. B., 375
Wohlstetter, Roberta, 152, 452
Wong, Captain, 381
Wong, Rose, 316–17
Wood, Edward, 1st Earl of Halifax, 159
Woodhead, Edwin, 257
Woodrum, Henry, 226–27, 227–28, 335, 338–39
Worden (ship), 258
World Trade Organization, 435
World War I
armistice after, 48
casualties in, 285
possessions awarded to Japan after, 28
World War II. See also atomic bombings
American POWs return at end of, 409–10
American values and point of view spread globally after, 430
cost in human life, 431
Doolittle Raid as first US victory of, 382
Genda on, 418
Japanese American soldiers in, 356
Marshall Plan after, 433
Midway intelligence in, 386
Pearl Harbor lessons and alliances for victory in, 431
possibility of seen as distant from life in Hawaii, 16–17
President George H. W. Bush on meaning of, 420
Roosevelt’s declaration of war against Japan and, 343–46
surrender of Japan (1945) and, 405–6
US industrial output during, 392–93
veterans’ later talking about experiences in, 413–14
Wren (destroyer), 303
Yamaguchi, Tamon, 122
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 13, 28, 422
assassination of, on New Guinea visit, 394–95, 396
background of, 26, 29
battle scars and handicap of, 26
bombing of Tokyo and, 384
concerns over signing of Tripartite Pact and, 59
damage reports after initial attack made to, 293
desire to avoid war with United States and, 56–57
influence of Mitchell’s air power theory on, 30–31
Japanese victory at Tsushima (1905) remembered by, 26
Midway as target and, 384–85, 386, 390, 394–95
as moderate considering war a last resort, 31
as naval attaché in United States, 28, 29, 30, 31
naval training program of, 51
night before Pearl Harbor attack and, 185
Operation Z for possible Pearl Harbor attack proposed by, 26, 53, 67–68, 70, 116, 443–44
personality of, 69
petroleum embargo against Japan and, 56
reaction to Pearl Harbor success of, 353
Roosevelt’s order on, 395
temper of, 13
Time magazine’s portrayal of, 28–29
US economic sanctions against Japan and, 55–56
Yamamoto, Tsunetomo, 48
Yamato (dreadnought), 13, 31
Yarnell, Harry, 54
Yasukuni-jinja, Tokyo, 421–22
yellow peril (Chinese immigrants), 23, 142
Yokohama, Japan, as US bombing target, 374
Yokosuka Air Group, 70, 102
Yokota, Minoru, 208
Yokoyama, Masaji, 183, 184
Yonai, Mitsumasa, 51, 53, 59, 159, 278
York, Ski, 367–68, 369, 379
York, Yee Kam, 292
Yorktown (carrier), 86, 385–86, 387, 388–90, 393
Yoshida, Peter, 359–60, 414
Yoshida, Shigeru, 418
Yoshikawa, Take
American patrol locations and, 115
codebook destruction by, after Pearl Harbor attack, 254
denial of espionage by, 318–19
espionage work (as Tadashi Morimura) in Honolulu by, 80–81, 82, 320
Kuehn as replacement for, 124
Pearl Harbor warships noted by, 108, 132, 139, 146, 147–48, 170–71
prisoner exchange with, 31
Yoshimi, Takeuchi, 352
Yoshino, Haruo, 138, 192–93, 312
Young, Cassin, 285, 460–61
Young, Howard “Brigham,” 241–42, 338
Young, Stephen, 274, 275
Yugoslavia, 98
Zacharias, Ellis, 64, 138
Zane (ship), 276
Zisking, Samuel, 208
Zuber, Adolph and Alice, 249, 250, 324
Zuber, Joan, 249, 250, 303, 324
Zuber, Peggy, 249, 250, 303
Zuikaku (ship), 145, 165, 191, 213, 350, 391
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Names: Nelson, Craig, [date] author.
Title: Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness / Craig Nelson.
Description: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, [2016] |
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016018490 (print) | LCCN 2016018644 (ebook) | ISBN 9781451660494 | ISBN 9781451660517
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On the cover: An armor-penetrating Japanese shell strikes destroyer USS Shaw’s forward magazine and ignites its cache of ammunition at 0912 on December 7, 1941, in a direct echo of the single blow that, minutes before, killed over a thousand men aboard the USS Arizona.
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