Pearl Harbor Christmas (30 page)

Acknowledgments

Archival and institutional acknowledgments are cited in the Source Notes and in illustrations’ captions. I am further indebted for information and for good offices to Jason Alt, Jonathan, Crowe, Robert C. Doyle, William H. Duncan, Aviva Erlich, Charles E. Green, Robert Guinsler, Paul M. Kennedy, Elizabeth Kerr, Kay Li, Lannie Leggera, Michael Lipschutz, Christine E. Marra, Phoebe Mont, J. Daniel Mullin, AnnaLee Pauls, Michel Pharand, Bob Pigeon, Ben Prinmer, Mark Renovich, Richard Swain, Gabriel Swift, Lisa Tenaglie, Gregory J. W. Urwin, Rodelle Weintraub, Richard E. Winslow III, and James Zobel.

Index

Adversario, Domingo

Agaki

Akigumo

Amigai, Takahisa

Arcadia Conference

Arnold, Henry H.

Asahi Shimbun

“Associated Powers,”

Attlee, Clement

Auchinleck, Claude

Barker, Albert S.

Barman, Charles

Beach, Sylvia

Beardall, John R.

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, Viscount

Bermingham, John M.

Black, George

Brantley, Hattie

Brett, George

Brooke, Alan

Brooke-Popham, Robert

Brooks, Phillips

Bullitt, William

Burfeind, Henry F.

Cadogan, Alexander

Canopus

Capone, Al

Catlett, W. J.

Catledge, Turner

Cheu, Ah

Chigusa, Sadao

Chubb, Percy

Churchill, Clementine

Churchill, Jack

Churchill, Mary

Churchill, Sarah

Churchill, Winston

as his own minister of defence

Arcadia Conference

Christmas Eve message

church attendance in Washington area

pre–Pearl Harbor,

post–Pearl Harbor sea travel to U.S.

post-Christmas speech to Congress

address to Canadian Parliament

self-serving revisions of fact in memoirs

stay in White House

Clapp, Verner W.

Cooper, Gary

Corrigan, Joseph

Cross, Jon

Cunningham, Winfield Scott

Curtin, John

Daranowski, Gerda

Darrah, C. A.

de Gaulle, Charles

Devereux, James

DeWitt, John

Dill, John

Don Esteban

Doe, H. D.

Duke of York

Early, Stephen

Eden, Anthony

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Helen Eakin

Eisenhower, Mamie

Eisenhower, Milton

Elizabeth, Queen

Enterprise

Fatamese, Teiji

Fero, John

Fields, Alonzo

Finnegans Wake

Fletcher, Frank Jack

Flugzeugträger A
(
Graf Zeppelin
)

Flynn, Errol

Ford
,
John D.

Forester, C. S.

Foxall, Henry

Fryman, M. E.

Fuchida, Mitsuo

Gabčik, Jozef

Gable, Clark

George V

George VI

Gerow, Leonard T.

Goebbels, Joseph

Gold Star

Göring, Hermann

Greene, B. E.

Guam, invasion of

Guderian, Heinz

Gunn, Georgie

Gunnison, Royal Arch

Halder, Franz

Halifax, Edward Wood, Earl of

Hamlin, Huybertie

Hamlon, Matthew C.

Harmon, Joseph

Harriman, W. Averell

Harris, Arthur (“Bomber”)

Harris, Lester

Hart, Thomas

Harvey, Oliver

Hayate

Hayworth, Rita

Henderson, Leon

Heron

Heydrich, Reinhard

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

Hiryu

Hitler, Adolf

Hollis, Leslie

Homma, Masaharu

Hong Kong, invasion of

Hopkins, Diana

Hopkins, Harry

Houston

Huff, Sid

Hughes, J. Q.

Hull, Cordell

Ismay, Hastings

Jacob, Ian,

Jenkins, Roy

Johnson, Paul

Jones, Albert M.

Kaiser, Henry J.

Kaishek, Chiang

Kawashima, Colonel

Karsh, Malak

Karsh, Yousuf

Katsumi, Nihro

Keith, Harry H.

Kido Butai
(see Pearl Harbor attack)

Kimmel, Husband E.

King, Edward

King, Ernest J.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

Kinna, Patrick

Kluge, Gunther von

Knox, Frank

Knudsen, William S.

Kovisto, M.M.

Kubiš, Jan

Kusaka, Ryunosuke

LaGuardia, Fiorello

Lamar, Howell

Larsen, Harry (
Regnbue
engineer)

Lash, Joseph

Leahy, William D.

LeHand, Marguerite (“Missy”)

Lexington

Libya, war in

Liebling, Abbott. Joseph

Lilienthal, David

Litvinov, Maxim

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Loudon, Alexander

MacArthur, Arthur

MacArthur, Douglas

MacArthur, Jean

MacDonnell, John C.

Mack, William

Mackenzie King, William Lyon (
see under
King)

MacLeish, Archibald

Madrigal, Vincente

MacPherson, Robert A.

McKean, Mac

Maeda, Minoru

Malaya, invasion of (and threat to Singapore)

Maltby, Charles

Man Who Came to Dinner, The

Manchester, William

Mandel, Georges

Mareschal Joffre

Marshall, George C.

Marshall, Katherine

Marthe, Crown Princess of Norway

Martin, John

Mate, Henry

Matthews, H. Freeman

Mayon

Mearns, David C.

Midway Island, attacks on

Molotov, V. M.

Monroe, Lucy

Montgomery, Robert

Moore, George

Moran, Charles Wilson, Baron (
see
Wilson, Charles)

Morgenthau, Henry

Mount Vernon

Mullin, J. Daniel

Muselier, Émile

Nagano, Osami

Nagato

Nagumo, Chuichi

Nájera, Castillo

Nelson, Donald

Nesbitt, Henrietta

Netherlands Indies, threat to and invasion of

Nimitz, Chester W.

Normandie

Nowlin, Dan

Olav, Crown Prince of Norway

“Operation Archery,”

“Operation Arthropoid,”

Paul Jones

Pearl Harbor strike force (
Kido Butai)
and aftermath

Peary
,
Robert E.

Pensacola

Percival, Arthur E.

Pétain, Henri Philippe

Petersen, Willem

Philippines, invasion of (and U.S. retreats)

Phillips, Tom

Pillsbury
,
John E.

Pope, John

Portal, Charles

Potomac

Pound, Dudley

Powder, James

Pownall, Henry

Price, Byron

Prince of Wales

Pye, William

Quezon, Manuel

Quineaux, K. E.

Rains, Claude

Redner, Lewis

Regnbue

Repulse

Richthofen, Wolfram von

Rio Grande

Roberts, Owen

Robson, Flora

Rochon, Ann

Rockwell, F.W.

Romulo, Carlos

Roosevelt, Anna

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,

Arcadia Conference

Christmas tree lighting

church attendance with Churchill

pre–Pearl Harbor

at the White House

United Nations negotiations

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.

Roosevelt, Sara Delano

Russia (Soviet Union), German advance and retreat in

Sagiri

Sakai, Takashi

Sawyers, Frank

Schroeder, Christa

Sherwood, Robert

Shih, Hu

Short, Walter C.

Singapore, war toward (
see under
Malaya)

Smith, Kate

Soviet Union (
see under
Russia)

Soyars, R. M.

Speer, Albert

Sponeck, Hans von

Stalin, Joseph

Stark, Harold

Stilwell, Joseph

Stimson, Henry L.

Stocks, Artie

Stone, Harlan F.

Sutherland, Richard

Taka, Iwau

Takamura, Yoshiki

Tanaka, Roji

Terry and the Pirates

Thompson, Tommy

Todt, Fritz

Tsuji, Masanobu

Tully, Grace

Tydings, Millard

Ugaki, Matome

United Nations organization (
see under
“Associated Powers”)

Utah

Valentine, Lewis

Vargas, Jorge

Volckmann, Russell W.

Wainwright, Jonathan

Wake Island, attacks on and invasion of

Waldau, Hoffmann von

Wall, Charles C.

Wallace, Henry A.

Watson, Edwin (“Pa”)

Wavell, Archibald

Webb, Beatrice

Webb, Sidney

Welles, Edward Randolph

Welles, Sumner

Wenneker, Paul W.

Weygand, Maxime,

Wheeler, Burton K.

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Charles

Winant, John

Yamaguchi, Tamon

Yamamoto, Isoroku

Yamato

Young, Mark

1

Later he became Lord Moran.

2

One of the “old ideas” may have been inadequate anti-aircraft protection.
Yamato
participated (distantly) in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and was used sparingly thereafter. It was sunk by American torpedo planes in May 1945 as it was suicidally heading toward Okinawa.

3

The once-magnificent liner, set afire by a welder’s torch on February 9, 1942, would be destroyed beyond saving. After the war it was sold for scrap.

4

According to the menu kept by one of the group: lobster, oxtail soup, medallions of veal, roast goose with chestnuts, Christmas pudding, “Glace Surprises de Noël,” and “Corbeille de Fruits,” followed by coffee.

5

Forty in 1941, Marthe had become First Lady of Norway when her mother-in-law, Queen Maud, died in 1938. Her husband spent much of his time with the government-in-exile in London. The crown princess would never become queen. Marthe died in 1954.

6

In his memoirs Churchill, ignoring Kinna’s recollection, would own up to it but dated it as the morning of January 1, 1942, which is less logical and far less likely.

7

Kimmel took early retirement in February 1942 and spent years defending himself.

8

Lindbergh, who had noisily resigned his commission, would not be reinstated by the President. Quietly, several industrialist pillars of isolationism, then profiting by making armaments, employed Lindbergh, who had received the Cross of the German Eagle from Hermann Göring in 1938, as a consultant. Curmudgeonly Henry Ford brought him in to tinker with the B-24 Liberator bomber at the Willow Run plant, and the ex-colonel also tested the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter for Republic Aircraft. As technical adviser to United Aircraft he even flew several missions in the Pacific. Military chiefs knew but looked the other way.

9

The British would surrender a garrison of 85,000 to a lightly armed Japanese assault force of 30,000 on February 15, 1942. It would be the worst defeat under the Union Jack since Yorktown in 1781.

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