Read The Conquering Tide Online
Authors: Ian W. Toll
Benhaum
, 169â70
Betchik, Tony, 141
Betelgeuse
, 53
Betio Island, 338,
345
, 364, 367
Japanese fortifications on, 320, 321â22, 334, 343, 345â46, 358, 362â63
Japanese troop strength on, 345
naval and air bombardment of, 343â44, 346
rebuilding efforts on, 361
U.S. landings on, 346, 348â49
Biak Island, 456, 462
Japanese determination to hold, 454â55
Bierer, Bion B., 48
Bismarck, Battle of the, 225
Bismarck Archipelago, 11, 235, 242, 418
Blair, Clay, 278
Blanchard, J. W., 484
Blandy, William H. P. “Spike,” 282
“Bless 'Em All,” 212
Bloody Ridge, Battle of, 106, 121, 130
Blue
, USS, 43, 45
Bluefish
, USS, 453
Bluegill
, USS, 453
Board of Information, Japanese, 526, 527, 532
Bode, Howard D., 43, 46, 57
Bogese, George, xxviii
Boise
, 135
BOLERO
, Operation, 95, 96
Bombing Squadron 10, 404
Bond, Roger, 340, 387
Bonefish
, 453
Bonin Islands, 449
Bonis, 235
Bonnell, Lieutenant, 243
Book of Five Spheres
(Musashi), 188
Borneo, oil fields on, 282, 285, 416, 448
Bougainville Island, xvii,
13
, 30, 37, 76, 99, 157, 184, 203, 205, 224, 232, 233, 238, 262
Buka Airfield on, 62
coastwatchers in, 157
Japanese troops on, xxv, 235
U.S. landings on, 236, 340
Bougainville Strait, 263
Boulier, Kenneth A., 205
Boyington, Gregory “Pappy,” 408
Bradlee, Ben, 501â2
Briggs, Laura, 247
Brisbane:
MacArthur's headquarters in, 217
New Farm Wharf in, 264â65
1942 riots in, 214, 265
Brisbane
Courier-Mail
, 214, 215
British Empire, racism in, xx
Brooke, Alan, 10, 95â96
central Pacific offensive opposed by, 307â12
Brown, Julian, 198, 199
Browning, Miles, 198, 200â201
Bryan, Joseph, III, 323
Buell, Harold, 105, 191, 305, 386, 463â64, 490â91, 492, 494, 495
Buin, Bougainville, xxv, 62, 157, 179, 203, 206, 234, 235, 419
Japanese airstrip at, 122
Buka Island, xxvi, 37, 38, 157, 235
Buka Passage, xxv, 37
Buna, 220
Bunker Hill
, USS (CV-17), 328, 405, 530
Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy, 301, 304, 305, 323
Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, 255â56, 277, 278, 279, 281â82
Burke, Arleigh “31-Knot,” 233, 236, 389, 476â77, 479, 494
appointed Mitscher's chief of staff, 436
Burma, 418
bushido
, 186â87, 507
Butaritari Island, 320, 361â62
Cabot
, 405, 478
Cactus Air Force, 71, 103, 166, 222, 458
daily missions of, 135â36
in dogfights with Japanese, 100â101
Enterprise
and
Saratoga
squadrons in, 82, 103, 105
Japanese troop transports attacked by, 167â68, 172â73
night missions of, 104
October 13â14 decimation of, 140
reinforcements for, 102â3, 135
see also
Marine Aircraft Group 23
Cairo Allied conference (November 1943), 437, 438
Calhoun, C. Raymond, 162
Calhoun, William L., 198, 333, 440
California
, USS, 291, 292
Callaghan, Daniel J., 22, 160, 161
in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 162, 164
Camp Cable, 209
Canberra
, HMAS, 45â46, 51, 53
cannibalism, xviii, 191
Canton Island, 124, 144, 342, 389
Cape Esperance, 164, 178, 184
Cape Esperance, Battle of, 135
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 240
Cape Moira, Bougainville, 206
Cape St. George, New Ireland, 41
Cape Torokina, Bougainville, 235, 236
Carney, Robert B., 146, 201, 222, 232, 440
Carney Field, 190, 242
Caroline Islands, 116, 312, 449
Carpender, Arthur S., 218
carrier bombers, Japanese, 470
Carrier Division 1, Japanese, 419, 448, 473, 482
aircraft of, 420
Carrier Division 2, Japanese, 486
aircraft losses of, 420â21
aircraft of, 419
Carrier Division 3, Japanese, 473
CARTWHEEL
, Operation, 224,
241
, 313
air campaign in, 231, 236â39
Bougainville landings in, 236, 340
Emirau Island landings in, 242
Green Islands landings in, 240, 242
leapfrogging strategy in, 232, 240, 242
morale and discipline problems in, 231â32
naval battles in, 233â35, 236â37
New Britain campaign in, 239â40
New Georgia campaign in, 222, 231â32
Rabaul bypassed in, 232, 235, 240
Casablanca conference (1943), 10, 307â11
CATCHPOLE
, Operation,
see
Eniwetok, Battle of
Cavalla
(submarine), 471, 473, 475, 485
Cavite Naval Base, Manila Bay, 254â55
Cawley, David, 404
Central Pacific Fleet,
see
Fifth Fleet, U.S.
central Pacific offensive, 237,
314
, 320
Brooke's opposition to, 307â12
conservative deployment of carriers in, 373
interservice sensitivities in, 321
King's advocacy of, 235, 306â7, 308, 313
Kwajalein landing in,
see
Kwajalein, Battle of
leapfrogging strategy in, 384, 401, 403
MacArthur's opposition to, 306, 313
Marianas in,
see
Marianas campaign
Nimitz and, 312â13, 317
Spruance placed in command of, 315â16
submarine warfare in, 368â69, 402, 413
central Pacific offensive, air war in, 368â83
airfield attacks in, 388
Bat Team tactics in, 374â76
dogfights in, 371, 388
Japanese losses in, 456
Japanese night attacks in, 369â70, 381â82
U.S. night attacks in, 412
Chambers, Justice, 21, 36
Chambers
, USS, 50
Chambliss, William C., 110, 111
Chamorros, 511, 517, 521
Charan Kanoa, 465, 468
Cheetah Shoals, 23
CHERRY BLOSSOM
, Operation, 236
Chevalier
, USS, 234â35
Chiang Kai-Shek, xxii, 437
Chicago
, USS, 36, 43, 45â46, 53, 57, 60, 183
Chichi Jima, 440, 449, 463, 464
Chikuma
, 69, 78, 150
Childs, Marquis, 87
China:
basing of B-29s in, 437â38
in war with Japan, 437
China Air Fleet, 447
China Incident (1937), 429
Chinese air force, Japanese superiority over, xxii
Chitose
, 69, 453
chivalry, modern warfare and, 204
Chiyoda
, 257â58, 491
Choiseul Island, 42
Chokai
, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48
Christie, Ralph, 278
as Southwest Pacific Area submarine commander, 280
torpedo performance defended by, 280â81
Chuo Koran
, 528â29
Churchill, Winston, 9, 94, 128
n
, 308, 311, 390
map room of, 93
TORCH
proposed by, 97
and U.S. pressure for invasion of France, 95, 96
CINCPAC, 297â98, 477
CINCPAC Hill, 519â20
Civilian Conservation Corps, 88
Clark, Joseph J. “Jocko,” 327, 368, 370, 371, 382, 388, 463, 472â73, 474, 477
Cherokee ancestry of, 326
competitiveness of, 329
conservative deployment of carrier criticized by, 373
and Japanese Kwajalein counterattack, 379â80
in Kwajalein raid, 377
in Operation
TORCH
, 327â28
personality and appearance of, 326â27
Pownall and, 341
and Pownall's refusal to order second strike in Kwajalein, 379, 381, 382â83
in race to beat
Essex
to Pearl Harbor, 328â29
SB2Cs rejected by, 331â32
as stern taskmaster, 326â27, 330â31
as
Yorktown
(CV-10) commander, 328â29
as “Young Turk,” 326
Clarke, Charles P., 44
Clemens, Martin, 141, 156
as Guadalcanal district officer, xxivâxxviii
in Guadalcanal campaign, 66â67, 71, 72, 73, 107, 140
in move to Palapao, xxviii
in move to Vungana, xxixâxxx
native constabulary of, xxviii, xxix, 72, 74
coastwatching service, xxivâxxv, xxvi, xxvii, 37â38, 66, 99â100, 157
Cogswell
, USS, 253
Colorado
, USS, 301, 343
Columbia University, xv
Combat Information Centers (CICs), 233, 369, 371, 387, 480â82
Combat Intelligence Unit (“Station Hypo”), 203
Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCOS), 232, 235, 307, 309, 312, 437, 438
Combined Fleet, Japanese, 9, 68, 82, 105, 118, 122, 147, 201, 202, 224, 368, 403, 404, 416, 418, 446, 454, 531
restructuring of, 447
COMSOPAC staff:
esprit de corps
of, 198â99
in move to Noumea quarters, 199â200
Conger, Jack, 101
Congress, U.S., partisanship in, 87â88
Conolly, Richard L., 390, 391â92, 458, 511
Cooke, Charles M., Jr. “Savvy,” 325
Cooperman, Al, 380
Coral Sea, xvii, xxix,
13
, 23
Coral Sea, Battle of, xxviâxxvii, 7, 59, 79, 83, 102, 124, 154, 186, 220, 301
Corlett, Charles H., 396
Corregidor Island, Philippines, xxi
MacArthur's escape from, 216â17
Cowpens
, USS, 368, 405, 411, 495
Creehan, E. P., 153
Creswell, L. B., 73
Crevalle
, USS, 453
Crommelin, Charlie, 370
Crossing the Line
(Kernan), 374
Crowe, Henry P., 355, 358
Cruiser Division 6, Japanese, 41
Cruiser Division 8, Japanese, 154
Crutchley, Victor A. C., 20, 42, 455
Cruz Point, Guadalcanal, 190
CUB-1 (navy construction team), 71â72, 103
Curtin, John, 216
Curtiss, Glenn, 323
Curtiss
, USS, 148
Cushing
, USS, 163
Daijo Zen
, 538
Daimler-Benz, 427
Dale
, USS, 14, 110
Daly, Joseph R., 32
Dashiell
, USS, 344
Davis, Arthur C., 79, 107â8
Davis, Bill, 296, 303â4
Dealey, Samuel D., 453
defense industry:
African Americans in, 247â48
in Hawaii, 295â96
in San Francisco, 246â49
unions in, 249
women in, 248
de Gaulle, Charles, 200
Democrats, 88
Depression, Great, 85â86
Destroyer Division 45, 236
Dewey
, 22
DeWitt, John L., 444
Dickson, Donald, 26, 35
Diller, LeGrande “Pick,” 219
Dirty Tricks Department, 232, 235
Doak, Ralph, 354
Dodson, Ken, 396â97
Dolphin
, 92
Domei
News Service, 536â37
Doolittle, James H., 7
Doolittle Raid, 7
Dower, John, 507
Duncan, Donald, 300â301, 302, 329
Duncan
, USS, 135
Dutch East Indies, xxiii, 441
oil fields of, 449
dysentary, 64
East Brother Island Station, 252
Eastern Solomons, Battle of the, 77â82,
80
East Indies, 255, 418
Edson, Merritt, 104, 106, 156, 359
Efate, 11,
13
, 14, 15, 60, 70, 132
Eichelberger, Robert L., 220
Eighteenth Army, Japanese, 224
Eighth Area Army, Japanese, 179, 224
Eighth Base Force, Japanese, 40
Eighth Fleet, Japanese, 29, 40â41, 67, 105, 189
in Battle of Savo Island, 43â51
8th Infantry Brigade Group (New Zealand), 236
8th Marine Regiment, 352, 354
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10
elections, U.S., of 1942, 86â87, 97, 146
Eleventh Air Fleet, Japanese, 105, 122, 189
ELKTON
offensive,
see
New Georgia campaign
Ellice Islands, 333, 389
U.S. invasion of, 315
Elliott
, USS, 51
Emirau Island, U.S. landings on, 242
Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, 235, 340
Engebi Island, 399, 400
English, Robert Henry, 255, 257, 260, 278, 280
Eniwetok, Battle of, 389â90, 400, 441
captured Japanese documents in planning of, 399â400
Eniwetok Atoll, 398â99, 418, 460
Japanese forces on, 399
Eniwetok Expeditionary Group (Task Group 51.11), 399
Enterprise
, USS, 7, 17, 20, 21, 33, 59, 76, 77â80, 83, 107, 127, 146, 149â50, 151, 154, 166, 167, 168, 186, 193, 194, 340, 373, 374, 376, 404, 405, 407, 484, 493, 495
in Battle of Eastern Solomons, 79â83
in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 149â52, 160
casualties on, 83â84
Escort Carrier Group, 364
Espiritu Santo,
13
, 43, 62, 70, 76, 83, 102, 108, 125, 132, 142, 167, 172, 191, 193
primitive conditions at, 129
Seabees on, 14â15
Essex
, USS, 300, 381, 388, 404, 405, 412, 428
Everton, Loren D. “Doc,” 70, 73
Ewa Field, 70
F4F Wildcats, 32, 79, 303
in dog fights with Zeros, 31â34, 100â101
F6F Hellcats, 302â4
“face”, loss of, in Japanese Navy, 447
Fahey, James J., 194, 211, 212, 236â37, 480, 501, 509
Farragut, David, 145
Fast Carrier Force,
see
Task Force 58
Felt, Harry D., 76â78
Fife, James, Jr., 264, 265, 271, 278
5th Marine Regiment, 34â35, 73, 156