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Authors: Mark Perry
and Eichelberger, Robert,
261
and Far East assistance plan,
88–90
and France, second front in,
184
and Japan, invasion of,
343
and MacArthur,
22
,
28–29
,
47
,
48
,
50
,
62
,
63
,
64
,
101–102
,
146
,
324–325
and Marshall, George,
339
and Patton, George,
228
and Philippine Army,
54–56
,
62
,
63
and Philippines,
59
and promotion to general of the army,
309
and Rabaul,
194
and Roosevelt, Franklin, criticism of,
6
and Russia,
89
as supreme Allied commander in Europe,
163
and Truman, Harry,
340
and warfare, principles of,
277
Evart, H. V.,
182
Farrell, Thomas,
345
Fasari airfield,
210
Fechteler, William,
255
First Battle of Savo Island,
202
Fletcher, Frank “Jack,”
187
,
202–203
Foulois, Benjamin,
27–28
,
30–32
,
36
France,
68
,
182
,
183–186
,
189–191
,
250
French Indochina,
68
Fuller, Horace,
263–264
,
265
,
266
Garner, John Nance,
1
Garrett, Harold J.,
117
Gavin, James,
6
Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men
(Lamb),
34
Germany-first war strategy,
95
,
100
,
182–183
Ghormley, Robert,
193–194
,
202
,
204
,
205–206
,
208
,
223
,
224
Gilbert Islands,
88
Gill, William,
296
Gonzaga,
87
Grant, Ulysses S.,
82
,
112–113
,
235
Great Britain,
88
,
141
,
338–339
.
See also
Churchill, Winston
Griswold, Oscar,
239
,
300
,
313–314
,
315
,
319–322
,
344
,
357
Grose, John E.,
222
Guam,
88
Guderian, Heinz,
138
Halsey, William,
103
,
223
,
245
,
268
,
309
,
313
,
357
and Casablanca Conference, 1943,
231
,
232
and Hawaii,
257–258
and Japan, invasion of,
342
and Japan, surrender of,
350
,
351
and Leyte,
281
,
284
,
285
,
286–287
,
290
,
291–292
,
292–294
,
307
and Operation Cartwheel,
239
,
242
and Rabaul,
237–238
and Seeadler Harbor,
255–256
Harding, Edwin,
213
,
214–216
,
217–218
,
221–222
,
223
Harmon, Millard,
231
Hart, Thomas,
71
,
76–77
,
87
,
88
,
92–93
,
93–94
,
148
Hawaii,
257–258
Herring, Edmund,
214
,
215
,
216
,
217
Hester, John,
239
Hiroshima,
345
Hitler, Adolf,
36
,
64
,
65
,
68
,
275
,
317
Hodge, John,
297
Holbrook, Lucius,
53
Hollandia,
260
,
261–264
.
See also
Operation Reckless
Homma, Masaharu,
93–94
,
96–100
,
106
,
176
,
257
,
357
and Bataan, U.S. retreat into,
111–118
and Bataan and Corregidor, victory at,
171–172
and Battle of Bataan,
122–123
,
129–131
,
134
and Battle of the Pockets,
135
,
147–148
and Battle of the Points,
147–148
and Manila,
111–112
,
113
,
118–119
,
123
Honnen, George,
237
Honolulu, and MacArthur and Roosevelt, July 1944 meeting,
269–273
Hoover, Herbert,
1
,
2
,
13
,
15
,
22
,
23
,
24
Hopkins, Harry,
185
Horii, Tomitaro,
196
,
197
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199
,
200
,
201–202
,
204
,
208–209
Huff, Sidney “Sid,”
51
,
108
,
118
,
148
,
153
,
157
,
159
,
168
,
348
Hull, Cordell,
70
Huon Peninsula,
232
Hutter, Howard,
47
Hyakutake, Haruyoshi,
201–202
Iba Airfield attack,
76
.
See also
Clark Field Attack
Ichiki, Kiyonao,
202–203
Ickes, Harold,
4
,
18
,
25
,
45
,
174
,
357
and MacArthur, criticism of,
3
,
5
,
18–19
,
26
,
278–279
,
328
,
335
,
336
The Influence of Sea Power upon History
(Mahan),
3
Inoue, Shigeyoshi,
187
Iron Bottom Sound battles,
203
Irwin, Constant,
168
Japan
and army-navy competition,
276–277
bombing of,
276
and China,
60
and French Indochina,
68
and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs dropped on,
345
invasion of,
326
,
336
,
341–345
(
see also
Operation Coronet
;
Operation Downfall
;
Operation Olympic
)
MacArthur and Quezón’s visit to,
56–57
MacArthur and Roosevelt’s misjudgment of,
61–62
occupation of,
346–347
and Pearl Harbor attack,
71–74
,
85–86
and Philippine independence, promise of,
123–124
and Philippines,
42
,
43
,
54
,
59
,
60–61
and Philippines, plan to defend,
277–278
,
290–291
and Philippines, U.S. airfields attack in (
see
Clark Field attack
;
Iba Airfield attack
)
surrender of,
345–351
and Tokyo, aerial attack on,
186
,
238
and war weariness,
318
See also specific battle sites, battles, officers, etc.
atrocities,
172–173
(
see also
Bataan Death March
;
Japanese soldiers: sacrifice and savagery of
)
Japanese officers,
136
,
138–139
.
See also
specific officers
Japanese soldiers
and disease and food scarcity,
201
,
209–210
and kamikaze attacks,
287
,
294
,
306
,
308
,
309
,
313
,
347
sacrifice and savagery of,
136–137
,
138
,
318
(
see also
Japanese military: atrocities
)
strengths and weaknesses of,
136
,
138–139
Johnson, Harold K.,
172
Johnston, Joe,
112–113
Jones, Albert,
99–100
,
108–109
,
119
,
122
Kazume, Naoyuku,
265–266
Kenney, George,
176
,
191–193
,
245
,
246
,
252
,
267
,
309
,
357
and Arnold’s commander assessment,
206
and Battle of the Bismarck Sea,
228–230
and Buna,
210
,
214
,
215
,
216–217
,
218
and Casablanca Conference, 1943,
231
and Holandia,
262–263
and Kinkaid, Thomas,
253–254
and Leyte,
282
,
284–285
,
286
,
288
,
290–294
,
298
and Los Negros,
253
and MacArthur,
192–193
,
210–211
,
216
,
233
,
250
,
289
and New Guinea,
195–196
,
198
,
210–211
,
212
,
213
and Operation Cartwheel,
240
,
242
and Operation Dexterity,
247
and overall commander in the Pacific compromise,
327–328
and Roosevelt, Franklin,
232–233
and Wakde,
264
Kesselring, Albert,
138
King, Ernest,
107
,
144
,
185
,
197
,
223
,
226
,
234
,
313
,
323
,
357
and Arnold’s commander assessment,
208
and Battle of the Bismarck Sea,
229
as commander in chief of U.S. Fleet,
102–105
and Formosa,
306
and Great Britain,
338–339
and Guadalcanal,
204