Read The Conquering Tide Online
Authors: Ian W. Toll
5th Naval Construction Brigade, 517
Fifth Air Attack Force, Japanese, 67
Fifth Air Force, U.S., 223, 224, 236, 238, 420, 438
“skip-bombing” technique of, 224â25
Fifth Amphibious Corps (VAC), 317, 321, 434, 458, 459, 468
H. Smith as commander of, 317
Fifth Amphibious Force, 333
Fifth Fleet, U.S., 237, 242, 313, 315, 316, 339, 373, 384, 386, 402, 419, 436, 438, 449, 453, 456, 531
amphibious fleet of, 317
Spruance appointed commander of, 315, 325
Fifty-First Division, Japanese, 179
Fiji Archipelago, 11, 20, 21, 125, 190
Finschafen, New Guinea, 239
fire control systems, 49, 153, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 186
1st Marine Division, 12, 15â16
in assault on Cape Gloucester, 240
in evacuation from Guadalcanal, 209
in Guadalcanal campaign,
see
Guadalcanal campaign
in Marshall Islands campaign, 313
in Melbourne, 209â10, 212
Tulagi landing of, 26, 29
1st Marine Engineer Battalion, 69
1st Marine Raider Battalion, 21, 104, 106
1st Provisional Marine Brigade, 512
First Air Fleet, Japanese, 449, 452, 463
First Battleship Division, Japanese, 450, 473
First Marine Amphibious Corps, 236
First Mobile Fleet, Japanese, 447, 461â62, 469â72, 473, 497, 530, 531
in A-Go battle plan, 449
crude oil employed as fuel for, 451
fuel shortages of, 448
inexperience of pilots in, 447â48
submarine threat and, 448
U.S. submarine tracking of, 453
Fitch, Aubrey “Jake,” 129, 158
Flatley, Jimmy, 167, 330
Fleet Radio Unit Pacific (FRUPAC), 284
Fletcher, Frank Jack, 108, 220
and Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 77â79, 83
in Guadalcanal campaign, 20, 22, 23, 30â31, 34, 37, 43, 51, 57â58, 60, 61â62
and KA-Go counteroffensive, 75â76
in Solomons offensive, 107â8
Fletcher
, USS, 161
FLINTLOCK
, Operation,
see
Kwajalein, Battle of
Flying Fish
, USS, 253, 471
Fomalhaut
, USS, 61
FORAGER
, Operation,
see
Marianas campaign
Forrestal, James V., 325, 398, 436
Forty-Seventh Independent, 459
Forty-Third Division, 459, 460
Foss, Joe, 100, 137
442nd Regimental Combat Team, 295
475th Fighter Group, 223
4th Marine Division, 457, 468, 498â99, 510, 512â13
in Kwajalein battle, 390, 391â95
Fourth Infantry Regiment, Japanese, 156
Fox, Clifford, 102
France, Vichy regime in, 200
France, Finley, Jr., 380
Franks
, USS, 364
Fraser, Peter, 197
Fraser, Thomas E., 169
Free French, 200
Freemantle, 255
Fujita, Iyozo, 157, 425
Fukudome, Shigeru, 405, 446
Fulton
, USS, 265
Funafuti atoll, 333, 342, 370
Furlong, William R., 292
Furutaka
, 41, 46
Galvan, David, 71, 106
GALVANIC
, Operation, 315, 317, 320, 325, 333,
345
, 364, 367, 499
carrier operations in, 340â42
chain of command in, 318â19
Ellice Islands landings in, 315
Funafuti atoll as forward base for, 333
interservice rivalries in, 362, 434
land-based air support for, 333
logistics of, 332â33
Nauru landings in, 315
Nimitz and, 325
Spruance and, 325
Towers and, 325
Turner and, 325
see also
Tarawa, Battle of
Gard, Ray, 339
Garrett, Vern, 355
Gavutu Island, xxiii, 25, 75
Japanese resistance on, 36â37
Geiger, Roy, 103, 106, 130, 136, 138, 458, 497â98, 511, 513
in Guadalcanal campaign, 140
George, Flavius J., 161, 163
George III, King of England, 253
George F. Elliott
, USS, 39, 45
Germany, Nazi, xiii, 94
air campaign against, 128
eastern front and, 11, 94, 96, 308â9, 530
Getting, Frank, 45
Gettysburg, Battle of, 366
Ghormley, Robert L., 12, 15, 16â17, 20, 56, 198, 199, 514
appointed COMSOPAC, 12
deteriorating health of, 125, 143
FDR and, 143
and Guadalcanal campaign, 18, 22, 43, 57, 58, 60, 62, 83, 109, 123, 125â26, 134, 142
KA-Go counteroffensive and, 75
relieved of command, 143â44
in Solomons offensive, 107
Gilbert Islands,
13
, 237, 319, 333, 419
aerial and submarine reconnaissance of, 321â22
lack of accurate charts for, 321
U.S. airfields in, 389
U.S. invasion of, 314â15, 342
Ginder, Samuel P., 399
Gizo Harbor, 105
Goettge, Frank, 65â66
Goto, Aritomo, 135
Great Britain:
buildup of U.S. forces in, 95, 96
Germany-first strategy of, 306, 308, 310â11
Mediterranean operation advocated by, 309, 311
Great Depression, 85â86
Green Islands, U.S. landing on, 240, 242
Greenman, Captain, 51â52
Greenman, William G., 47
Grider, George W., 257, 258, 259, 260, 262, 265, 267, 268, 272, 273
Grumman Corporation, 304
Guadalcanal, Naval Battle of, 174
Japanese defeat in, 174
Phase One of, 162â66,
164
Phase Two of, 168â73,
171
Guadalcanal campaign, xxxi, 16, 17â18,
27
, 58, 95, 97, 123, 130â31, 142, 257, 317, 318, 416, 417, 458, 501, 514â15
aerial reconnaissance for, 19
aftermath of, 189â90
army reinforcements as lacking in, 131â32, 159
chain of command in, 20, 60
coastwatchers and, 99â100
as decisive conflict in Pacific War, 120
deteriorating Japanese morale in, 175
disease and, 64, 131, 175
“Dugout Sunday” (October 25) in, 156
Edson's Ridge (Bloody Ridge) in, 104, 106, 121, 130
1st Marine Division evacuated from, 209
first Japanese counterstrike against,
see
Savo Island, Battle of
food supplies in, 61, 99, 132
Halsey's appointment as morale booster in, 145
Hirohito and, 122
inadequacy of maps for, 18â19
intelligence on Japanese troops as lacking in, 65â66
Japanese airstrikes in, 30â34, 38â39
Japanese bombing and strafing in, 62â63, 65, 156
Japanese caught by surprise by, 29
Japanese contemplation of withdrawal from, 179â80
Japanese estimates of U.S. troop strength in, 121â22
Japanese evacuation (Operation KE) in, 183â85
Japanese food shortages in, 125, 174â76, 178
Japanese mortality in, 175â76
Japanese naval bombardments in, 63, 102
Japanese reinforcements in, 63, 72, 105, 133, 141, 147, 155, 156, 167â68, 174, 176
Japanese strategic and tactical blunders in, 188â89
Japanese supply problems in, 121, 155, 174â77, 183
Japanese troop strength in, 174, 176
Japanese underestimation of Marine troop strength in, 68, 155
Japanese vs. U.S. troop losses in, 187
King's deadline for, 12, 15, 19, 20, 21
Koro rehearsal in, 21â22, 26
landing of munitions and supplies in, 39â40, 53â54
McCain and, 124â25
morale issues in, 62, 63â64, 65, 71, 131â32, 141â42
mutilation of Japanese dead in, 196
naval losses in, 186
“The Night” (October 13â14) in, 137â41
164th Infantry in, 134
press coverage of, 97â98
reinforcements for, 107
Seabees in, 70, 103, 135, 190
2nd Marine Division in, 53
submarines and, 261, 262, 263
Task Force 16 in, 33
Task Force 61 in, 20, 23â24, 37, 43, 51
Task Force 62 in, 20â21, 23â24, 43, 52â53
Task Group 62.6 in, 20, 42â43
Tenaru River battle in, 73â76, 121
Tulagi landings in, 26, 29, 35â36
25th Infantry Division in, 183
Ugaki's strategy for, 120â21
unburied Japanese dead in, 130, 131, 184, 189â90
U.S. landings in, 26â28, 34â35, 102, 120
U.S. naval barrage in, 29, 35â36, 155
U.S. perimeter in, 64â65, 72, 104, 130, 147
U.S. supply operations in, 19, 60â61, 83, 107, 125â26, 132â33, 160â61, 175
Guadalcanal campaign, air war in, 22, 31â34, 37, 38â39, 43, 53, 59, 98â104, 160â61, 304
aircraft losses in, 186
air search radar in, 100
aviator losses in, 186â87
Cactus Air Force in,
see
Cactus Air Force
dogfights in, 100â101
fighter losses in, 34, 58, 59
inexperience of Japanese pilots in, 156â57
Japanese losses in, 157â58
Marine Aircraft Group 21 in, 61
Marine Aircraft Group 23 in, 70â71
McCain and, 102â3, 124â25
pilot fatigue in, 125, 130, 136â37, 156
scouting patrols in, 103â4
Ugaki and, 121
U.S. fuel shortages in, 133, 140
U.S. reinforcements for, 102â3, 135
Guadalcanal Diary
(Tregaskis), 97
Guadalcanal Island, xviii, xix, xxiv,
13
, 14, 19, 22, 23â24, 26,
27
, 49, 60, 108, 514
Carney Field on, 190
geography of, xxviiâxxviii, 34â35
Henderson Field on,
see
Henderson Field
“Hotel De Gink” on, 190
I-Go aerial attack on, 203
Japanese landing on, xxviiiâxxix
Japanese withdrawal from, 444
Lever Brothers plantation on, 64
Tatvu Point in, 105
unfinished Japanese airstrip on, xxix, xxxi, 24, 25, 35, 37
“Guadalcanal twitch,” 63
Guam Island,
13
, 307, 437, 438, 441, 451, 456, 458, 459, 461, 462, 467, 470, 474, 478, 497â98, 506, 511â12, 516â19, 530
American personnel on, 520
CINCPAC on, 519â20
Japanese holdouts on, 521â22
landing on, 512â13
naval bombardment of, 511â12
rebuilding of, 517â21
Guimaras Strait, 456
Gwin
, USS, 169â70
HAILSTONE
, Operation,
see
Truk Atoll, carrier raid on
Hale, Willis H., 7, 434
Haley, Alex, 211
Halsey, William F., Jr., 7, 125
n
, 168, 172, 240, 261, 317, 324, 340, 399, 420, 440, 515
Admiralty Islands offensive and, 223â24
anti-Japanese rhetoric of, 146, 159, 194â95
appointed COMSOPAC, 144, 145
atomic bombing of Japan criticized by, 195
Bougainville assault and, 236
CARTWHEEL
and, 224
chain of command and, 220
and death of Yamamoto, 204â5
“Dirty Tricks Department” of, 232, 235
Guadalcanal campaign and, 183, 184, 185, 186
Guadalcanal trip of, 159â60
interservice rivalry detested by, 199
leadership qualities of, 197â98
MacArthur's relationship with, 221â22
press and, 194, 197
in rash prediction of war's end, 197
“rough brush” style of, 145
Solomons offensive and, 313
transfer of forces to central Pacific opposed by, 313
Hampton, Woodward M., 409â10
Hanks, Ralph, 368, 371
Hara, Tameichi, 150, 154, 181, 188, 234
Harder
, USS, 453
Hardison, Osborne B., 152
Harmon, Millard F., 125, 134
Harper, John A., 494, 496
Harrill, William K., 463, 472â73, 478
Hart, Thomas C., 255
Haruna
, 122, 137â38, 491
Hashimoto, Shintaro, 184
Hata, Shoryu, 527
Hatanaka, Shigeo, 528â29
Hawaii:
CINCPAC headquarters in, 297â98
defense workers in, 292â93, 295â96
interracial dating and marriages in, 296
Pacific War as gold rush for, 293â94
servicemen in, 296
USO clubs in, 294â95
Hawkins, William D., 355
Hawkins Field, 355
Hayanami
, 453
headhunting, xviii, 191
Hearst, William Randolph, 87, 94, 366
Hedding, Truman J., 341, 369, 370, 372, 390, 436, 476, 489
Helena
, USS, 155, 163, 165, 166, 255
Henderson Field, 62, 64, 65, 70â72, 75, 76, 80, 82, 83, 147, 156, 166, 175, 179, 189, 190, 203, 205, 353
Air Control at, 99â100
as AIRSOLS headquarters, 222
Japanese bombing of, 63, 78, 98â100, 105, 133, 135, 138, 156, 183
Japanese failure to recapture, 120
Japanese snipers at, 98
Japanese strafing of, 101â2, 135
naval bombardment of, 98, 122, 135, 137â39, 155, 167
primitive conditions at, 72
race to finish, 69â70
upgrading of, 103
Henderson, Lofton R., 63
Henkel, 427
Hepburn, Arthur J., 56â57
Hersey, John, 97
Hiei
, 69, 416
in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 163â65
sinking of, 166
Higgins, Andrew, 317
Higgins boats (LCVPs), 335, 347, 348â49, 391
Hill, Harry W., 55, 338, 343, 361, 362, 365, 398, 399, 400
in Tarawa assault, 333â34, 346â47
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 195, 417, 530, 531, 538
decisive fleet battle urged by, 417â18
Guadalcanal campaign and, 122
and Guadalcanal withdrawal, 182
and possible peace overtures, 536
public appearances of, 113â14
Tojo and, 422â23
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 195
Hiryu
, 9
Hitler, Adolf, 11, 95
Hiyo
, 419, 428, 491, 530
Hobart
, HMAS, 43
Hogan, Thomas W., 453