The Conquering Tide (109 page)

Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, Commander Task Force 58, with his chief of staff, Commodore Arleigh A. Burke. Photo taken in spring 1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

A basketball game in the forward elevator well of the USS
Monterey
(CVL-26). The jumper on the left is Lieutenant Gerald R. Ford, an athletics officer and future president of the United States. Circa June–July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.

Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19, 1944. A Hellcat recovers aboard the
Lexington.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver enters the
Yorktown
's landing pattern, circa June–July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.

Army reinforcements wade ashore on Saipan, June or July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.

A marine discovers a Japanese family hiding in a cave on Saipan, June 21, 1944.
U.S. National Archives.

SB2C Helldivers return to the
Yorktown
after a raid in the Marianas in early July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.

Admiral Spruance and Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, USMC, at a flag-raising ceremony at Smith's headquarters on Saipan, marking the end of organized Japanese resistance on the island, July 10, 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

INDEX

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Page numbers in
italics
refer to maps.

Abe, Hiroaki, 69, 77

Abe, Zenji, 450, 482, 483–84

Adachi, Hatazo, 224

Adak Island, U.S. airfield on, 227

Admiralty Islands, 235, 242, 456

King's proposed Allied offensive in, 223–24, 232

Advance Force, Japanese, 69, 77

African Americans:

and Espiritu Santo base, 15

in San Francisco, 247–48

Afrika Korps, 97

Agano
, 413

A-Go battle plan, 447, 449, 451, 459

Aikoku Maru
, 407

Ainsworth, Walden Lee “Pug,” 233

Air Command Solomons (AIRSOLS), 222–23, 231, 236, 237, 238, 419, 420

aircraft carriers:

changing tactics of, 387

Combat Information Centers in, 369, 371, 387

conservative deployment of, 373

CVEs, 301

Essex
-class, 301–2, 313, 328, 428

in
GALVANIC
, 340–42

Japanese night attacks on, 373

in Marshall Islands campaign, 373–74

new methods for resupply of, 387

strategic role of, 59, 60

vulnerability of, 59

see also specific ships and task forces

Aircraft Central Pacific, 333

Air Group Five, 330

Akagi
, 9

Akigumo
, 153

Alabama
, 478

Alameda Naval Air Station, 246

Alamo Force, 240

Albacore
(submarine), 484–85

Aleutian Islands:

air war in, 226–27

Japanese forces in, 225–31

Japanese supply convoy for, 228

submarine warfare in, 227, 229

Allied conference (August 1943), 436–37

Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), 218

Allies:

Casablanca conference of, 10, 307–11

Germany-first strategy of, xiii, 10–11, 93, 94, 127–29, 307–8, 310–11

London conference of, 95

Quebec conference of, 235

unconditional Japanese surrender demanded by, 537

Washington conference of (1942), 95

Washington conference of (1943), 312

Amatsukaze
, 76, 78

Amchitka Island, 227

Americal Division (U.S. Army), 134

amphibious warfare, 17–18

interservice rivalries and, 8–9

marines' experience in, 17–18, 322

amtracs (LVTs), 347, 348, 351, 364, 390, 391–92, 400

in Tarawa assault, 335

Anderson, George W., 329

Anderson
, USS, 153

Annapolis,
see
Naval Academy, U.S.

antiaircraft fire, radar-directed, 369

antisubmarine warfare (ASW), Japanese inattention to, 259, 282–83

Anzai, Hitoshi, 524

Aoba
, 41

Aola, Guadalcanal, xxiv, xxv, xxvii

Apamama, 342

Apra Harbor, 511, 512, 513, 516–17, 518, 519

Arakawa, Hiroyo, 115

Arashio
, 225

Arawe, New Britain, 240

Archibald, Katherine, 248, 249

Argenlieu, Georges Thierry d,' 200

Argonaut
, USS, 251

Argonne
, USS, 125, 197, 199

Ariyama, Sachi, 532

Arizona
, USS, 289, 290, 292

Army, U.S., 500

in interservice rivalries, 5–9, 158

methodical tactics of, 395–96, 499

see also specific units

Army Air Forces, U.S. (USAAF), 6–7, 20, 56, 438

exaggerated claims of, 158

and Germany-first strategy, 127–28

Navy rivalry with, 227, 324

promotions in, 324

Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 56, 125, 223, 324, 434, 438, 441

Germany-first strategy backed by, 127–29, 157–58, 159

King and, 437

Arnold, Jackson D., 490

Asahi Shinbun
, 527, 529, 535

Ashford, Bill, 198

Ashizuri
, 453

Aslito Airfield, 467, 468, 498

Associated Press, 97

Astoria
, USS, 46, 47–48, 51–52, 53

Atago
, 147

Atlanta
, USS, 155, 162, 165

Atlantic Ocean, German wolf packs in, 278

Attu Island, 417

Japanese forces on, 225–30

U.S. assault on, 229–30, 444

Auckland, New Zealand, 12

Austen, Mount, Guadalcanal, 26, 138, 175

Australia, xxiii,
13

distrust of authority in, 215

MacArthur in, 215–16

sports as obsession in, 212

Australia, U.S. servicemen in, 209–10

in Brisbane riots, 214–15

strained relations between civilians and, 213–15

warm welcome given to, 212

women and, 210–11, 213

Australia
, HMAS, 39, 43

B-17 Flying Fortresses, 100, 223

B-24 Liberators, 342

B-29 Superfortresses, 307

Backus, Paul, 478, 495

Badoglio, Pietro, 444

Bagley
, 52

Bak, Michael, 364

Baker Island, 342

Baldwin, Hanson, 97, 98

Ballale Island, 157, 203, 205

Ballantine, Robert, 99

Ballentine, John J., 328, 329

Baltimore
, 410

banzai
charges, 504–6, 510

Barbey, Daniel E., 239

Barton
, 163

Bataan Peninsula, Philippines, xxi, 141

“Bat Team” fighters, 374–76, 463

battleships,
Iowa
-class, 386–87

Beach, Edward L. “Ned,” Jr., 278

Beaurepaire, Frank, 213

Beaver, Floyd, 152, 245

Becker, Adolph E., Jr., 516–17

Belleau Wood
, 301, 405, 463, 478, 494, 495–96