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Authors: Mark Perry
Mussolini, Benito,
275
Nadzab,
240–241
Nagasaki,
345
Nanking,
137
National Recovery Administration (NRA),
6
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal,
224
. See also
Guadalcanal
Netherlands East Indies,
339
Neutrality Act,
64
New Britain,
193
.
See also
Rabaul
New Georgia campaign,
238–239
New Guinea,
161–162
,
182–183
,
186
,
191
,
194–200
,
210–211
,
212
,
213
,
232
,
239
,
261
MacArthur’s war plan for,
166–169
See also
Buna
;
Kokoda
;
Milne Bay
;
Papua New Guinea
;
Rabaul
;
other specific towns, etc.
Newman, Aubrey,
288
Nimitz, Chester,
102
,
103
,
187
,
189
,
281
,
358
and army-navy competition,
163–164
,
243–246
,
248
,
276
,
354
Arnold’s assessment of,
205
and Central Pacific campaign,
243–246
,
248
,
276
as commander in chief, Pacific Ocean,
163
and Iwo Jima and Okinawa war plan,
306
,
307
,
313
and Japan, invasion of,
342
,
344
and Japan, surrender of,
346
,
349–350
,
351
and MacArthur, and Pacific war plan,
267–269
and MacArthur, and Pacific war plan meeting, in Australia,
259–261
and MacArthur, competition between,
163–164
,
243–246
,
248
,
276
and MacArthur, relationship between,
163–164
,
271
and overall commander in the Pacific compromise,
326–327
and overall commander in the Pacific debate,
256–259
and Philippines, invasion of, debate over,
260
and promotion to fleet admiral,
309
and Roosevelt’s visit to Honolulu, July 1944,
270
,
271
Nishimura, Shoji,
291–292
North Africa,
142
,
143
,
191
,
205
.
See also
Operation Torch
Nothing but Praise
(H. Lee),
173
NRA.
See
National Recovery Administration
Ohnishi, Takejiro,
287
Oldendorf, Jesse “Oley,”
292
Operation A-GO (Japanese),
265–266
Operation Bagration,
275
Operation Blacklist,
346
Operation Campus,
346
Operation Cartwheel,
238–243
,
251
,
354
.
See also
Rabaul
Operation Coronet,
342–343
,
345
.
See also
Japan: invasion of
Operation Dexterity,
246–248
.
See also
Rabaul
Operation Downfall,
326
,
341–345
.
See also
Japan: invasion of
Operation Ichi-Go (Operation number one; Japanese),
278
Operation King II,
281–283
.
See also
Leyte
Operation KON (Japanese),
265–266
Operation Musketeer,
305
,
306
.
See also
Luzon
Operation Oboe,
336–341
.
See also
Borneo
Operation Olympic,
342
,
344
,
345
.
See also
Japan: invasion of
Operation Reckless,
261–264
.
See also
Hollandia
Operation Sledgehammer,
184
,
189–191
Operation Torch,
191
,
220
,
223
.
See also
North Africa
Operation Victor,
332–333
Osmeña, Sergio,
278–279
,
287
,
288
,
333–334
,
335–336
Owen Stanley Mountains,
178
,
197
Ozawa, Jisaburo,
264
,
291
,
292
,
294
Pacific war plan,
259–261
,
267–268
Pandan,
87
Papua New Guinea,
177–178
.
See also
New Guinea
;
specific cities, etc.
Parker, Frank,
42
Parker, George,
67
,
97
,
98
,
108–109
and Bataan, retreat into,
113
,
116
,
117
and Battle of Bataan,
122–123
,
128–131
Patch, Alexander,
206
Patrick, Edmund,
264
Patton, George,
30
,
36
,
144–145
,
213
,
220
,
226
,
228
,
324–325
,
354
Pearl Harbor attack,
68
,
71–73
,
85–86
Perkins, Francis,
18
Pershing, John,
14
,
20–22
,
38
,
40
,
45
,
77
,
78
,
168
Philippine Army,
48
,
53–54
,
54–56
,
59–60
,
61–62
,
62–63
,
66
,
67
and collaboration during the war,
334–336
independence and neutrality for,
123–124
,
125–126
,
126–128
,
335
invasion of,
278–279
,
279–281
,
304–305
(
see also
Leyte
;
Luzon
)
invasion of, debate over,
257
,
260
,
267–269
,
270–273
Japanese war plan to defend,
277–278
,
290–291
and MacArthur’s command,
75
(map)
MacArthur’s preparation for war with Japan in,
66–68
MacArthur’s promise to return to,
159–160
,
165–166
,
245–246
,
250
,
256–257
(
see also
Philippines: invasion of
)
negative assessment of,
93–94
Roosevelt’s abandonment of,
124–125
Roosevelt’s commitment to,
110
U.S. airfields attack in (
see
Clark Field attack
;
Iba Airfield attack
)
See also
specific cities, islands, provinces, battle sites, battles, etc.
Pierce, Clinton A. “Clint,”
133–134
,
147
Port Moresby,
177–178
,
191
,
195
,
196
,
197
,
199
,
200
,
211
,
216
POWs/POW camps,
172–173
,
279
,
347
,
348
Public Works Administration (PWA),
18–19
Quebec Conference, September 1944,
280
Quebec Conference (Quadrant), August 1943,
243–244
death of,
278–279
inauguration of, as commonwealth president,
121
and Japan and U.S., visit to,
56–58
and MacArthur,
42–43
,
44
,
56–58
,
59–60
,
63
,
118
,
121
,
146
and Manila, evacuation of,
94
and monetary compensation to active-duty U.S. officers,
44
,
117–118
and Philippine independence and neutrality,
123–124
,
125–126
,
126–128
and Roosevelt, Franklin,
57–58
,
118
and Elkton I and II,
230–231
MacArthur’s war plan for,
236–238
and three “tasks” strategy,
194
See also
Operation Cartwheel
;
Operation Dexterity
Rape of Nanking,
137
Reminiscences
(D. MacArthur),
50
,
99
,
323
Rice, George,
168
Richardson, Robert,
144–145
,
221
,
231
,
269
,
326
Ritchie, William,
244
Rockwell, Francis,
148
Rogers, Paul,
175
,
176
,
207
,
283
,
306
,
323
Romulo, Carlos,
109
,
130
,
141
,
160
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
2
,
3
,
8
,
39
,
183
,
249–250
Roosevelt, Franklin
and army budget,
2
,
9
,
13–16
,
16–19
,
36–37
,
40
and Arnold’s commander assessment,
208
and Australia, base in,
102
and Australia, MacArthur’s request for reinforcements in,
180
and Bataan, promise of relief to MacArthur in,
119–120
,
123–125
,
140
,
173
and Bataan, surrender of,
170
,
171
and Bataan, surrender of, responsibility for,
174
and Battle of Midway,
189
and Casablanca Conference, 1943,
231–233
and Churchill, Winston,
100
,
223
and Civilian Conservation Corps,
7–13
and Clark Field attack, responsibility for,
80
and Cooper, Isabella Rosario,
25–26
and Craig as MacArthur’s successor, significance of,
48–50
and France, second front in,
182
,
183–186
,
189–191
and Germany-first war strategy,
95
,
100
,
183
and Guadalcanal,
223–224
,
225–226
health of,
1
,
2
,
8
,
303–304
,
325–326
and Ickes, Harold,
279
and informal war room in White House,
183–184
and Japan, misjudgment of,
61–62