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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy To Greatness

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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] |

  Includes bibliographical references.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016018490 (print) | LCCN 2016018644 (ebook) | ISBN 9781451660494 | ISBN 9781451660517

  Subjects: LCSH: Pearl Harbor (Hawaii
), Attack on, 1941.

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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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