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D-DAYS IN THE PACIFIC

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by Donald L. Miller

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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