Authors: Ed Offley
USS Hambleton
,
149–152
USS Hornet
,
169
,
172
USS Idaho
,
100
USS Kearny
,
43
USS Massachusetts
,
97
USS McCormick
,
239
USS Mississippi
,
100
USS New Mexico
,
100
USS Quincy
,
108
USS Reuben James
,
44
USS San Diego
,
183
USS Scorpion
,
249
USS Spencer
,
245
USS St. Augustine
,
207
USS Texas
,
40
,
98
,
108
USS Trippe
,
146
USS Tuscaloosa
,
108
USS Wasp
,
108
USS Wichita
,
108
USS Yorktown
,
100
,
173
USS YP-389
,
202
,
255
attack on,
203–204
UZO.
See
Uboot-Zieloptik
Vaupel, Maschinenmaat (Machinists Mate 3rd Class) Ludwig,
222
,
229
Verrazano Narrows,
112
Virginia Beach,
175
mines erupting at,
184–186
offshore action viewed at,
188–189
Virginian-Pilot
,
185
,
190
Vizeadmiral
,
1
von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther,
139
firing of,
50
von Enderndorf, Kapitän zur See (Captain) Baron Harsdorf,
19
von Forstner, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Siegfried,
238–239
von Schroeter, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Horst,
113
von Tippelskirch, Kurt Wilhelm Viktor,
20–21
von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Georg,
164
Vorhaltrechner
,
94
Wallaschek, Matrosengefreiter (Seaman 2nd Class) Alfred,
74
war diary
of Degen, Kapitänleutnant Horst,
72
,
75
,
120
of Dönitz,
70
,
159
,
240
Washington, DC,
114
Washington Times-Herald
,
47
Watts, Gordon P., Jr.,
253
Wehrmacht,
13
,
50
,
88
Weinitschke, Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant j.g.) Bernfried,
65
death of,
68
Wellborn, Charles, Jr., Commander, USN,
152
West Coast
army reinforcements for,
131
blackout regulation of,
134–135
Japanese attack on,
131
mass panic in,
134
,
135
paranoia of,
130–131
patrols at,
241
Western Approaches Command,
79
,
83
,
88
William Rockefeller
,
208–210
destruction of,
211–212
Williams, Lieutenant R. C., USN,
146
Wimble Shoals,
150
,
183
Winn, Commander Rodger, RNVR,
88
,
89–90
,
128
wolf pack,
244–245
Wolf’s Lair headquarters,
139
,
165
Wolfsschanze,
45
WPL-46,
99
Wright, Orville,
144
Wright R-1820–53,
66
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku,
134
Zapp, Korvettenkapitän (Commander) Richard,
95
,
118
Zeiss binoculars,
218
Zentrale
,
7
Ziethen,
90
zigzag maneuver,
180–181
,
187–188