Norden bombsight, 216, 218
Normandy, Allied landing at, 131-32, 185, 277n, 331
North Africa, 61, 83-85, 123
U.S. offensive against Germans in, 83-85
nuclear power, 347
Nuremberg Tribunal, 365n
Nycum, Chester, 129
O’Donnell, Emmett “Rosie,” 216, 217-18
Office of War Information, 121
oil, 7-8, 123, 130, 240 Japan’s need for, 1-2, 4, 5
Okinawa, 183, 240, 244, 276-313, 278, 303, 331, 332, 356, 359
American Army on, 274, 299-302, 305, 307-8, 310, 311
American vs. Japanese casualties on, 311
artillery on, 300-301
assault on, 246
casualties on, 245, 305, 311
cave flushing on, 303, 307-8, 308
civilian casualties on, 308-10
civilian population of, 283
defenses on, 281-82
delaying action of, 281-82
description of, 281
1st Marine Division on, 276-77, 284-87, 298-307, 310-11
Half Moon Hill on, 302
invasion force for, 277-78
invasion plan for, 282-83
Japanese defense strategy on, 286-87
kamikaze raids on, 288, 289
Kunishi Ridge on, 310
landing on, 283-85
logistics on, 311-12
Motobu Peninsula of, 282, 285
neuropsychiatric casualties from, 301
night operations on, 174
prisoners taken on, 312-13
Shuri Line on, 286-87, 298-307, 300
6th Marine Division on, 298, 299-300, 302, 305-7
Sugar Loaf Hill on, 300, 302, 305
Oklahoma, USS, 14-15, 16, 17
“Old Breed,” see 1st Marine Division
Oldendorf, Jessie B., 188
Oliphant, H. N., 200
Olivi, Fred, 357, 358-60, 362
Olympic, Operation, 330, 331
Omaha Beach, 169
Omori Prisoner of War Camp, 328
Omuta slave labor camp, 322-24
147th Army Regiment, 274
Open Door policy, 4-5
Operation Galvanic, 101
Operation Iceberg, 281
Operation Olympic, 366
Operation Shoestring, 99
Operation Starvation, 238
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 334, 341, 347
Oran, 84
Ormoc, 192
Oryoku Maru, 319-20
Osaka, 232
casualties in, 233-34
Ouellette, Albert J., 254
Outerbridge, William W., 12
Owen Stanley Mountains, 46, 78, 80
Ozawa, Jisaburo, 137-40, 187, 188
P-51 Mustangs, 274
Pacific Fleet, U.S., 6, 17, 38 aircraft carriers of, 13, 15-16
expansion of, 100-101
Pacific strategy, of U.S., 158-62
Page, Tom, 58-59, 60
Palau Islands, 161-62, 163 see also Peleliu
Palawan Massacre, 337
Panamint, USS, 283, 285
Papua,89, 128
Parsons, William “Deak,” 333, 339, 341, 351
Pasig River, 197
Passchendaele, 299
Patch, Alexander M., 75
Patrick, Hodgen Othello, 56-57, 58, 60
Patton, George S., 85, 86, 125
Pavuvu Island, 165, 181, 276
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 2, 6, 9-10, 11-19, 22, 38, 99, 148
Japanese reaction to, 18
U.S. reaction to, 17-18
Peleliu, 161-62, 163-82, 164, 257, 258, 276
African-American supply company on, 170
and Bloody Nose Ridge, 169, 173-76
cave defense system of, 176
coral caves of, 168-69
defenses on, 170-71, 176
enemy infiltration on, 173, 174, 180
futility of, 181-82
Japanese counterattack on, 172
landing at, 167-73
savagery on, 179-81
The Point on, 167, 169, 172
Umurbrogol on, 175-76, 177, 179
Penang, Malaya, 32
Pennsylvania, USS, 110
Percival, Arthur E., 32, 196, 368, 369
Perry, Matthew, 281
Philippines, 9, 45, 90, 91, 95, 365n
Battle of Leyte Gulf in, 185-90, 194
Japanese losses in, 207
Japanese seizure of, 2, 21
liberation of, 184, 196-201
Los Baños Raid, 201-5
POWs liberated from, 321
U.S. defenses in, 6-7
U.S. imports from, 6
U.S. invasion of, 183-207
see also Bataan
Philippine Sea, 159
Battle of the, 137-40, 158
Phillips, Charlie, 225-26, 232
Phillips, Tom, 21
phosphorus grenades, 307
photographs, 120-21
pinned down thinking, 253
Piolata, Joseph, 291-92
plutonium, 335n
poison gas, 264
Poland, 363
Polaris, 239
Pope, Everett, 175
Port Moresby, New Guinea, 37, 45, 46, 78, 83
Potsdam Declaration, 336-39, 362
Price, The, 171
Prince of Wales, HMS, 21
Princeton, USS, 187
prisoners of war (POWs), 317-28, 366-67
atrocities against as motive for atomic bombing, 330-31
on death ships, 317-22, 318
diet of, 323-24
Japanese treatment of, 70-71, 317-2
liberation of, 366-67
Kill-All Order and, 331
Palawan Massacre and, 337
self-mutilation of, 323
at slave labor camps, 322-24
torture of, 324-28
see also specific camps
propaganda, 156
Puller, Lewis “Chesty,” 65, 67, 73, 163, 169, 172, 173, 175-76
Purnell, W. R. E., 353
Purple Passion, 217
Pyle, Ernie, 86, 123, 150, 264, 283, 284, 286
death of, 285-86
Quantico, Va., 62, 99
Quebec Conference, 314
Rabaul, New Britain, 34, 51, 83, 88-93, 130
racism, 2, 126
of Japanese, 157
radiation sickness, 347
Raider battalion, 63, 64
Ramsey, Edwin, 21
Ramsey, Norman, 351
Randolph, USS, 296
Rangoon, 46, 317
Rape of Nanking, 4, 25, 365n
Red Army, 34-35, 124, 222
redline airspeed, 226
Reed, Bill, 259
Regal, Evan, 307-8
remote-controlled firing system, 212
Rendova, 88
Repulse, HMS, 21
rice, 5, 130
Richardson, Dave, 81-82
Ringler, John, 204
Rochefort, Joseph J., 38-39, 45, 49
Rodenhaus, Robert, 238
Roebling, Donald, 98n
Roi, 127
Rolo, Charles, 316
Romania, 123
Rommel, Erwin, 84, 85
Romulo, Carlos, 24, 201
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1, 4-5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 23, 61, 93, 93n, 121, 156, 264, 314
at Casablanca Conference, 84-85
death of, 279, 285
declaration of war by, 17
Doolittle raid and, 35, 36
freeze on Japanese assets ordered by, 7-8
Hawaii strategy meeting with MacArthur of, 160, 161
MacArthur and, 23
reaction to Pearl Harbor of, 17-18
sanctions against Japan by, 6
and Tarawa film, 121-22
Rosen, Melvin, 319, 320, 322
Rosenthal, Joe, 251, 262-64
Rover Boys Express, 325
Royal Air Force:
German bombing of, 8
4
Hamburg bombed by, 221-22
Royal Dutch/Shell Group, 8, 33
Royal Navy, 297
Pacific Fleet of, 290
rubber, 1, 5, 6, 9-10, 130
Rupertus, William, 166, 175-76
Russia, 3, 18, 34-35, 124, 336, 363
Manchuria invaded by, 362
Russo-Japanese War, 19, 25
Ryan, Michael, 105, 112-13, 115
Ryukyu Islands, 244
Saigon, 8
Saipan, 125, 130-31, 131, 157, 168, 174, 215, 243
artillery fire on, 133, 149
banzai charge on, 146-47
and Battle of the Philippine Sea, 137-40, 158
casualties on, 134, 147-48, 257
civilian deaths on, 151-58
civilians on, 141-44, 142, 143
construction of airbases on, 208-11
flamethrowers on, 140, 143, 145
internment camp on, 147-48, 148
Japanese counterattack on, 132-33
Japanese troops on, 131, 141
landing on, 132, 136-37
and Marpi Point, 151-58
taking of, 140-51
types of wounds on, 148-49
underwater demolition teams, 132
U.S. forces on, 131, 133, 136, 144-45
vengeance raids on, 244-45
Saipan Hunting Club, 216-17
Saito, Yoshitsugu, 131, 145-46
Salamaua, 90
Salerno, 124
Saltonstall, Leverett, 304
Sanananda, 80, 82
San Bernadino Strait, 186, 187, 189
San Fernando, Philippines, 29
Sansapor, 159
liberation of, 197-99, 200
Santo Tomás Internment Camp, 25
liberation of, 197-99, 200
Saratoga, USS, 15-16
Savo Island, 52
Savo Sound, Battle of, 52
Sawyer, Raymond, 300, 302, 305-6
Sayre, Early, 293
Schaffer, Marty, 239, 240
Schmidt, Harry, 246, 253, 273
Schrier, Harold G., 260, 262
Schwartz, Robert L., 56-61
Scott, Norman, 55
Seabees, 97, 115, 151, 209-10, 211, 274
Second Front, 84
2nd Marine Division, 102, 105
Seidler, James D., 165
Seitz, George A., 296
Sevareid, Eric, 315
Seventh Fleet, 185, 189
7th Infantry Division, 126-27
in Aleutians, 87-88
77th Army Division, 193, 285
Shanghai, 4
Shapley, Alan, 283-85
Sherman medium tanks, 258
Sherrod, Robert, 88, 103, 105-6, 110, 111, 115, 118, 119, 121-22, 130, 132, 134-35, 145, 146, 148, 149, 151, 246, 247, 253, 254-55, 257, 266, 278, 279, 283, 285-86, 297
Time articles by, 120, 152-55, 156
Sherry, Michael S., 233
Shibasaki, Keiji, 103
killed in naval bombardment, 111
Shimonoseki Strait, 237-38
Shizuoka, 375
shock troops, 248
Shoestring, Operation, 99
Short, Walter, 23
Shoup, David M., 110
situation report of, 115
Shuri Castle, 281, 299, 300
Shuri Line, 286-87, 298-307, 300
Siam (Thailand), 46
Siberian jet stream, 218
Sicily, 123-24
Sierra Madre Mountains, 205
Simmons, Edwin, 131
Singapore, 8, 21, 32, 196
Sino-Japanese War, 19
Sixth Army, 185, 195, 206
6th Marine Division, 110, 112, 115, 285-86
on Okinawa, 298, 299-300, 302, 305-7
6th Ranger Battalion Marines, 196-97
Skau, George, 202, 204
slaughter bombing, 232
slave labor camps, 322-24
Sledge, Eugene B., 163-64, 165, 166-68, 169, 172, 174, 175, 176-80, 181-82, 235, 276-77, 331, 366
diary kept by, 164
on leave on Mogmog, 279-80
nightmares of, 304
on Okinawa, 300-301, 302-4, 310-11, 313
Slim, William, 316
Smith, Holland “Howlin Mad,” 97, 102, 103, 104, 110, 119, 121, 132, 144-45, 155
Smith, Julian C., 102, 103, 110, 111-12
Smith, Ralph, 145
Smith, W. Eugene Smith, 501-2
Snowden, Lawrence, 256
Solace, USS, 15-14, 15, 148-49, 151
Solomon Islands, 34, 48, 49, 61, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95, 128
Soryu, 43
Soule, Thayer, 52
Sousley, Franklin, 262, 273
South China Sea, 160
South Dakota, 56-61
South Pacific, 128
American air superiority in, 89, 187
Japanese losses in, 88-89
see also specific islands
Soviet Union, 3
Spaatz, Carl “Tooey,” 214, 335, 343, 361
Spector, Ronald H., 97
Spitzer, Abe, 359
Sprague, Clifton, 188-89
Spruance, Raymond Ames, 39, 44, 101, 130, 137138, 145, 159, 183n, 244, 246
Stackpole, Peter, 152
Stalin, Joseph, 84, 124, 336
Stalingrad, 61, 86, 201
Standard Oil, 220
“Star Spangled Banner, The,” 264
Starvation, Operation, 238
Stassen, Harold, 366-67
State Department, U.S., 8
Stavisky, Samuel, 76-77
steelmaking, 6
Stilwell, “Vinegar Joe,” 46, 314-15, 316
Stilwell Road, 315-17
Stimson, Henry L., 23, 233, 337, 338
Storm Landings, 95, 97, 100, 122, 178, 264
in Central Pacific, 100
Straight Flush, 362
Strank, Mike, 262, 273
Strategic Air Forces, 335
strategic bombing, 130, 232, 338
long-range, 216
stretcher-bearers, 178-79
Strock, George, 121
Subic Bay, 199
submarines, 239-40
Sugamo Prison, 365n
suicide battles, 281
suicide boats, 284
suicide pilots, 288-89
suicides, 152-53, 309
citizen units and, 332
Japanese troops and, 70, 115, 287
suicide swimmers, 298
Sullivan, George, 56
Sullivan brothers, 55-56
Sumatra, 2, 33-34
Sunbachi, 247, 251, 253, 256, 258
assault on, 258-60, 261
defense on, 257-58
mass celebrated on, 265
planting of flag on, 260-66
Surigao Strait, 186, 188
Sutherland, Richard K., 205
Suzuki, Kantaro, 233, 339
Sweeney, Charles W., 212, 334, 339, 340-41, 343-44, 348, 349-53, 352, 353-57, 358-59, 361-63, 371-72, 373
Swing, Joseph, 202
Taiwan, see Formosa
Tanambogo, 49
tanks, Sherman medium, 258
Tarawa, 100, 101-17, 106, 125, 128, 130, 131, 168, 174
dead of, 117-22, 118, 120
documentary on, 121-22, 157
Green Beach on, 112, 115
Japanese blockade of, 112
Japanese counterattacks on, 116-17
Marine and Navy casualties on, 117-18
Marine reinforcement of, 114, 115, 116
photographs of, 120-21
as search-and-destroy mission, 113-14
shattered Japanese pillbox on, 120
types of wounds on, 148
Tarawa Island, 122
Target Tokyo, 211
Task Force 17, 39
Task Force 38, 183, 329
Task Force 58, 100-101, 130, 131, 138, 139
kamikaze raids on, 278, 288-98
Ten-Go, 287-88
Tenney, Lester I., 21, 24, 25, 26-30,
201, 322-23, 324, 367
Tennozan, 305
Tenth Army, 282, 305, 307, 310, 311
10th Battalion Marines, 146
Terkel, Studs, 164
Thailand, see Siam
thermals, 224-26
Thin Red Line, The (Jones), 70-71
3rd Battalion Marines, 105
Third Fleet, U.S., 183, 183n, 185, 187
3rd Marine Division, 247, 266, 273
32nd Division, in New Guinea, 80
37th Cavalry Division, 199
313th Bomb Wing, 212
Tibbets, Paul, 214, 333, 334-35, 340, 348, 351-53, 356, 361-62, 371-72, 373
Hiroshima mission of, 339-44
Tibbs, Kenneth J., 135
Time, 120, 152-55
tin, 1, 6
Tinian, 130-31, 151, 333-34
U.S. airbase on, 209-10
Tojo, Hideki, 5, 9, 10-11, 155, 365n
Tokyo, 210, 238, 274, 328, 332
after fire bombings, 230
B-29 bombings of, 215-20, 327, 358
blockade of, 237-40
casualties in, 229, 233-34
Doolittle raid on, 35-37
incendiary raids on, 219, 222-23, 232, 240-42
Tokyo Express, 53, 76
Tokyo Imperial University, 17
Tokyo Rose, 250
Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 365n
Tokyo Zoo, 326
Tolley, Victor, 347
“torpedo juice,” 117
Torpedo Squadron 8, 40, 41
torture, 324-28, 374
Toyoda Auto Works, 363
Treasury Department, U.S., 8
Tregaskis, Richard, 55, 73
Tripartite Pact, 5
triphibious warfare, 94-95
Truk, 126, 130, 244
Truman, Harry S., 285, 329-30, 335, 337, 362
atomic bomb and, 336-37, 343, 348
Japan’s “conditional”
surrender accepted by, 362-63
Potsdam Declaration of, 336-39
Tsuyoshi, Sakata, 26
Tulagi, 49-50, 63
tungsten, 5
Tunisia, 86
Turkey, 97
Turner, Richmond Kelly “Terrible Turner,” 51, 104, 132, 137, 246, 281-82, 285
Twentieth Air Force, 211, 213, 234
20th Marine Depot Company, 135
21st Bomber Command, 211
27th Infantry Division, 95, 101, 144-45, 146
28th Marine Division, 265
29th Marine Division, 305
Two-Thousand-Yard Stare (Lea), 181
U-boats, 18, 84, 85-86
Ugaki, Matome, 290
Ulithi Atoll, 277
soldiers on leave on, 279
ULTRA, 7
Umurbrogol, Peleliu, 175-82, 177, 179, 277
enemy infiltration on, 180
unconditional surrender, 84-85, 155, 332, 336-39
underwater demolition teams, 122, 126
at Saipan, 132
United States, 1, 2, 35
change in policy after Saipan of, 156
Far East imports of, 5-6
Japanese energy reliance on, 4
losses of, 364
naval blockade by, 2
Open Door policy of, 4-5
Pacific strategy of, 158-62
response to formation of Manchukuo of, 3
sale of oil to Japan blocked by, 1
Tripartite Pact and, 5
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