Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
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Williams, Griffith, 229, 230, 336, 337, 372
China landing of, 261, 262
Willoughby, Charles, 473
Wilson, Frank, 15
Winant, John, 17
Wiseman, Osborne, 173
World War I, 41–43, 97
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 144
Wright, Orville, 33
Wright, Wilbur, 33
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 54, 372, 417
Wright Cyclone engines, 59, 154
Wright Field, 60, 112
Yaeger, George, 384
Yahagi, Nakao, 414–15
Yamagata, Seigo, 190
Yamamoto, 79, 189, 305
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 173
annihilation of U.S. Pacific fleet sought by, 133–34
as architect of Pearl Harbor, 79, 81, 82, 84, 137
background of, 79–80
and evacuation of Japanese cities, 84
flattops as target of, 101, 135–36
on future of war, 79, 80–82
on Japan’s material inadequacies, 83
long-range patrols ordered by, 84
Midway attack desired by, 136–37, 211
outraged at raid, 308
reaction to raid, 305–6, 315
United States education of, 80
U.S. attack feared by, 79, 84–85, 133, 189
Yang Kang, 388
Yashiro, Yukicki, 134
Yasukuni Shrine, 314
Yasukuni Shrine Festival, 192, 193
Yintang, China, 383
Yokohama, Japan, 62, 83, 140, 144, 145, 146, 165, 306
air raid drills in, 191
bombing of, 221–22, 239, 305
Yokosuka, Japan, 306
Yokosuka navy yard, 146, 219, 226
Yokoyama Industries, 205
York, Edward “Ski,” 70, 71, 86, 91, 112, 122
in bombing raid, 215–16, 217
and change of carburetors, 116
in flight to Russia, 242
in flight to Tokyo, 188
in internment escape, 434, 435, 436
at launch, 182
low gas gauge of, 188
made flight commander, 88
made operations officer, 88
and move to south of Russia, 420, 477
in move west, 110
relaxation by, 114
in Russian internment, 287–88, 391, 392, 394, 395, 420–22, 424, 425–26, 427–28, 429, 430, 431–32, 433, 477
Russian landing of, 257–61, 271, 322, 369
southern Tokyo as target of, 146
training of, 88
on volunteers for Doolittle raid, 74
Yorktown, 32
Youngblood, Lucian, 203
Yukiang, China, 381
Yukihiko, Yasuda, 81
Yushan, China, 107, 167, 169, 376
Japanese raids against, 385, 387, 389
Yuzawa, Michio, 311
Zacharias, Ellis, 239–40
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