Unit 731, 364n
Until They Eat Stones (Brines), 235-36
Urakami Cathedral, 373
Urakami River Valley, 360, 371
uranium, 335n
Ushijima, Mitsuru, 281, 286-87, 300, 305, 312
Vandegrift, Alexander A. “Archie,” 49-50, 61-62, 69, 70, 75-76, 96, 99-100, 122, 136
Van Pelt, Jim, 359-60
Vella Lavella, 88
Verdun, 299
Vichy France, 5
vivisection experiments, 325
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 222
Vraciu, Stanley, 139
Wainwright, Jonathan, 22, 24, 25, 37, 69, 205, 368-69, 368
Wake Island, 30-32, 35
Waldron, John C., 40-41
“Wa Operation,” 193
war bonds, 121
war criminals, 364-65n
Ward, USS, 12
war of extermination, 235-36
War Plan Orange, 97
War’s End (Sweeney), 350
Washington, USS, 56, 61
Washington Post, 31, 76
Wasp, USS, 278
Wedemeyer, Albert C., 316
Welles, Sumner, 9
Wellington, New Zealand, 62-63
Werrell, Kenneth P., 234
West Virginia, USS, 15
Wewak, 91
Wheeler, Keith, 152, 253, 272
Wheeler, Richard, 272, 273-74
Wildcats, see 81st Army Division
Wingate, Orde, 316
With the Marines at Tarawa, 121-22
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Sledge), 164
Wolfert, Ira, 54, 74-75
World War I, 2, 3, 25, 124
Wornham, Thomas, 250-51
Wright, John M., 320
Wyler, William, 216
Wylie, Evan, 291
XXIV Corps Artillery, 191
Yahagi, 290
Yahara, Hiromichi, 281, 299
Yakushima, 350, 353
Yamaguchi, Tamon, 43
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 7, 9-10, 12, 17, 38, 44
death of, 89
Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 32, 185, 190-91, 196, 199
trial of, 206-7
Yamato, 38, 187
and Okinawa, 289-90
Yanagimoto, Ryusaku, 43
Yancey, Thomas, 246-47
Yank, 56, 223, 229, 259
Yokohama, 238
casualties in, 233
Yonabaru, 299
Yonai, Mitsumasa, 45
Yontan, 282
Yontan Airfield, 284-85
Yorktown, USS, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 44, 278
You Can’t Fight Tanks with Bayonets (Gilmore), 312n
Young, Don, 340
Young, Mark, 32
Young, Stephen Bower, 14-15
Zeros, Japanese, 100, 287
Zimmerman, Mort, 279, 297-98
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