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Authors: Ian W. Toll
Twenty-Fifth Air Flotilla, Japanese, 29, 40, 68, 238
Twenty-Sixth Air Flotilla, Japanese, 419
Twining, Merrill B., 19, 25, 36, 71, 102, 104, 139, 141, 142
222nd Regiment, Japanese, 454
U-boats, in merchant shipping attacks, 253, 278
Ugaki, Matome, 116, 122, 146, 147, 180â81, 182, 201, 202, 454, 455, 456, 469â71, 473, 492, 535
and death of Yamamoto, 205â6
diary of, 120
Guadalcanal strategy of, 120â21
pessimistic diary entries of, 450â51
on possible withdrawal from Guadalcanal, 179â80
Ultra (decrypted Japanese radio messages), 62
“Umi Yukara” (Across the Sea), 3
Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), 464
United Press, 97
United States:
internationalism in, 88
isolationism in, 87, 88
U.S. Naval Institute, xv
USO tours, 192, 520
Utah
, USS, 289, 300
“Valley of Hell,” 503
Vandegrift, Alexander Arthur, 12, 102, 103, 167, 174, 183, 199, 236, 365, 434, 513, 514
Clemens and, 66â67
Fletcher's withdrawal criticized by, 57â58
on Japanese refusal to surrender, 74
Nimitz's meeting with, 129â31
on psychological effects of heavy bombardment, 139
reporters encouraged by, 98
Solomons offensive and, 15â16
on Tarawa battle, 366
Vandegrift, Alexander Arthur, in Guadalcanal campaign, 17â18, 22â23, 26, 34â35, 39, 40, 43, 49, 53, 71, 75, 83, 146, 159, 317
food supplies as concern of, 61
morale issues and, 65
perimeter defenses and, 64â65, 72, 104, 141, 147
Point Cruz offensive ordered by, 155
reinforcements requested by, 133â34
retreat contemplated by, 142
Vanguard Force, Japanese, 69, 77
Vella Gulf, Battle of, 234
Vella Lavella, 238
U.S. assault on, 234â35
Versailles, Treaty of, 506
Vila Airfield, Kolombangara, 232, 233
Vincennes
, USS, 27, 46, 48â49, 50
Vincent, Harry, 50
Virginia Military Institute (VMI), 5
Vitiaz Strait, 239â40, 267
Vollinger, John, 192
Vouza, Jacob C., 72, 74
Vraciu, Alex, 101, 357, 406, 462â63, 479, 483, 484, 492
Vungana, Guadalcanal, xxix
Wahoo
, USS (SS-238), 250â51, 276â77
in attack on Japanese submarine I-2, 263â64
destroyer sunk by, 270â71
equator-crossing ceremony on, 272
in failed attack on
Chiyoda
, 257â58
first kill of, 262
first patrol of, 257â59, 260,
275
four-ship Japanese convoy sunk by, 272â75
Japanese troop transport sunk by, 273â75
landing of, 252
mechanical problems of, 258
Morton appointed commander of, 266â67
second patrol of, 261â62, 265,
275
third patrol of, 267â76,
275
torpedoes of, 251â52
in Wewak harbor attack, 268â71
Wahoo Daily Gazette
, 261
Wakefield
, USS, 15
Wake Island, 7, 132, 141, 314, 453
Walke
, USS, 169
Walker, Frank R., 234â35
Waller, Raoul, 329, 332
“Waltzing Matilda,” 212
Wamai River, 206
War Department, U.S., 209
Pentagon building of, 89â90
War Without Mercy
(Dower), 507
“Washing Machine Charlie” (Japanese float plane patrol), 63, 72, 98â99, 139, 353
Washington, D.C.:
Allied conference in (1942), 95
Allied conference in (1943), 312
temporary government buildings in, 89
wartime population explosion in, 88â90
Washington
, USS, 56, 160
in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 168â69, 170â72
Washington Post
, 86
Wasp
, USS, 17, 20, 25â26, 33, 37, 59, 76, 107, 111, 484
sinking of, 109â11, 124
WATCHTOWER
, Operation,
see
Guadalcanal campaign
Watson, Thomas E., 399, 400
Webb, W. B. “Spider,” 487
Wehrmacht
, 11, 94
Wellington, New Zealand, 12, 15, 17, 19
Wendy Point, 393
West Point,
see
Military Academy, U.S.
West Virginia
, USS, 291, 292
Wewak, New Guinea, 267
Wahoo
's attack on, 268â71
White House:
Map Room in, 93â94, 95
Oval Study in, 92
Widdy, Charles, 18, 66
Widhelm, William J. “Gus,” 150
William Ward Burrows
, 103
Willkie, Wendell, 88, 94
Wilson, Woodrow, 91
Withers, Thomas, Jr., 254, 255, 256, 278
Wolfert, Ira, 97
Woodlark Island, 222, 239
Works Progress Administration, 88
World War I, 253
FDR and, 91
German-Soviet peace treaty in, 95
World War II:
calls for second European front in, 94â95
eastern front in, 11, 94, 96, 308â9, 530
expansion of federal bureaucracy in, 88â89
expansion of presidential power in, 88
Normandy invasion in, 530
see also
Pacific War
Wotje Atoll, 379, 384, 385
strike on, 380
Wright, Carleton, 177â78
Yamada, Sadayoshi, 30
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 108, 122, 146, 147, 154, 185, 187, 188, 195, 201â2, 403, 415, 416
death of, 203â6,
207
, 446
funeral of, 207â8
Guadalcanal campaign, and, 204
KA-Go offensive of, 68â69, 75â83
luxurious lifestyle of, 116â17
Midway battle and, 119
Operation I-Go and, 202â3
Pearl Harbor attack and, 117, 118â19
political career of, 117â18
strategic failures of, 204
war with U.S. opposed by, 118, 202
Yamato
, 76, 116, 119â20, 121, 147, 156, 416, 450, 452, 455, 471
Yamato Damashi
(Japanese fighting spirit), 444
Yamauchi, Takeo, 503, 507
Yamazaki, Yasuyo, 230
Yank
, 98
Yano Battalion, Japanese, 183, 184
Yarbrough, Tom, 97
Yarnell, Harry E., 435
Yasukuni Shrine, 114
Yokaren
pilot training program, 430, 431â32
Yokoi, Shoichi, 521â22
Yokosuka D4Y
Suisei
(“Judy”), 427â28
Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, 428
Yomiuri
, 529
Yonai, Mitsumasa, 208, 533, 534, 535, 536
Yorktown
, USS (CV-5), xxvii, 7, 59, 326
Yorktown
, USS (CV-10), 301, 323, 326, 339, 341, 368, 370, 371â72, 373, 377, 379, 381â82, 388, 404, 405, 478
in arrival at Pearl Harbor, 332
commissioning period of, 328â30
FM-1 Wildcat crash on, 372â73
sea trials of, 330
Young, Cassin, 161, 164
“Young Turks,” 324, 326
Yubari
, 41, 46, 453
Yugumo
, 234
Yunagi
, 41
Yura
, 147
Z, Operation, 368, 418
Zen-Gen Sakusen
(attrition operations), 41â42
“Zero” (A6M) fighters, xxii, 187, 303
alterations to, 425
in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 149â50
in dogfights with U.S. fighters, 31â34, 100â101
as obsolete, 424
strafing by, 101â2, 135
Zuiho
, 149, 419
Zuikaku
, 69, 82, 147, 149, 405, 419, 423, 428, 473, 486, 490â91
Zurlinden, Pete, 465
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941â1942
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
The Conquering Tide
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