Book Read Free

Storm Over Leyte

Page 49

by John Prados


  Yap Island, 76, 78

  Yasukuni Shrine, 347

  Yawata, Kyushu, 33

  Yeager, Seaman John, 124, 158, 262

  Yogata, Commander Tomoe, 263

  Yokosuka Air Group, 28, 192

  Yokosuka Naval District, 27, 47, 126

  Yonai, Admiral Mitsumasa, 30, 32, 33, 65, 69, 126–27, 175, 334

  Yukikaze (destroyer), 229, 322

  Yura (light cruiser), 126

  Z Plan, 23, 35, 36, 97–99, 104, 111, 222–23

  Zacharias, Ellis, 95

  Zero fighters, 50–52, 56, 78, 79, 88, 89, 92, 135, 136, 140, 157, 158, 161, 191, 193–95, 257

  Zero floatplane “Jake,” 54

  Zoo, the, (Pearl Harbor), 73, 94, 97, 112–14, 139, 181–83, 255, 260

  Zufall, Private Darwin C., 160

  Zuiho (aircraft carrier), 56, 247, 265, 267–69

  Zuikaku (aircraft carrier), 26, 56, 218, 258, 259, 261, 262, 265, 267–69

  *U.S. official historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes the “two battleships” were the severed front and rear of the ship Fuso. Anthony Tully argues convincingly that this was not possible. Morison and Tully agree the ship was Fuso, which is significant because some recent accounts of Surigao Strait have reversed the identities of the two Japanese battleships.

  * Lundgren plots Haruna headed almost directly east, with the Ugaki unit converging on a southeast heading. He also locates the Hoel ahead and to the east of both Japanese units, and moving to the southwest. This chart differs from long-standing accounts of these events, including those of Samuel Eliot Morison and James A. Field, who chart these events in the fashion described here. Lundgren uses his analysis to defuse Ugaki’s implicit anger at Kurita. But I believe Ugaki’s anger had the purpose of hiding his own responsibility.

  *Only later did Americans begin calling this huge action the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In October 1944, alluding to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot—aka the Battle of the Philippine Sea—the “second battle” nomenclature prevailed. Japanese commentators persisted much longer in using the Philippine Sea tag.

  Looking for more?

  Visit Penguin.com for more about this author and a complete list of their books.

  Discover your next great read!

 

 

 


‹ Prev