Read The Conquering Tide Online
Authors: Ian W. Toll
Hokkaido, 226
Holland, F. L. G., 322
Hollandia, New Guinea, 242, 441, 453
Holmes, Jasper, 203
Holtz Bay, Attu, 230
Honolulu, Hawaii, servicemen and defense workers in, 292â93
Hoover, Gilbert, 166
Hoover, John H., 333, 389, 434, 517
Hopkins, Harry, 92, 94, 95, 128
Horaniu, Vella Lavella, 234
Horikoshi, Jiro, 424, 426
Hori, Teikichi, 416
Hornet
, USS (CV-8), 7, 21, 59, 83, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110â11, 127, 146, 150
sinking of, 150â51, 154, 158
Hornet
, USS (CV-12), 201, 301, 327, 383, 387, 478, 493
Hosogaya, Boshiro, 225, 227, 229
“Hotel De Gink,” 190
Hoyo Maru
, 407
Hull
, 22
Hunters Point, San Francisco, 246
Huon Gulf, 239
Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, 239
Hurlbut, James, 35, 98
Hyakutake, Harukichi, 133, 224
Hynes, Samuel, 293, 304â5
I-19
(Japanese submarine), 110â11
I-26
(Japanese submarine), 108
Ichiki, Kiyonao, 72, 74, 104
I-Go, Operation, 202â3
Ijuin, Matsuji, 234
Ilu River, 34, 35, 65
Imamura, Hitoshi, 179, 181, 224
Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ), 67, 122, 174, 181, 187, 227, 346, 421, 454, 530
press releases from, 527â28
U.S. losses on Savo Island inflated by, 67
Imperial General Staff, British, 307
Imperial Japanese Army:
banzai
charge as main tactic of, 106â7
Imperial Navy's rivalry with, 6, 179â80, 181â82, 188, 534
kodo
faction of, 533â34
as unconcerned about U.S. Solomon campaign, 68
Imperial Japanese Navy, 9, 174, 236, 385, 404, 461, 514
A-Go battle plan of, 447, 449, 451, 454
aircraft of, xxii
antisubmarine warfare ignored by, 282â83
battleship strategy of, 119â20
captured war plans of, 446
crude oil employed as fuel for, 449, 451
“decisive fleet battle” strategy of, 415â16, 429, 449, 450
fuel shortages of, 416
fuel supply problems of, 121, 201
Imperial Army's rivalry with, 6, 179â80, 181â82, 188, 534
importance of airpower and submarines downplayed by, 416
loss of “face” and chain-of-command in, 447
night-combat expertise of, 41â42
pilot exhaustion discounted by, 430
pilot training program of, 428â32
possibility of Marianas fleet battle discounted by, 449
shuttle-bombing tactic of, 451â52, 470
Yokaren
program of, 430, 431â32
Inazuma
, 453
Independence
, USS (CVL-22), 301, 370
Indiana
, 480
Indianapolis
, USS, 245, 339, 343, 344, 458, 471, 500, 513
Indispensable Strait, 147
Inland Sea, 69, 75, 120, 419, 531
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia
, 209â10, 213
International News Service, 97
Intrepid
, 405, 412, 413
Iowa
-class battleships, 386â87, 410
Ironbottom Sound (Savo Sound), xxiv, xxix, xxxi, 19, 25, 31, 34, 35, 41, 43, 49, 50â51, 52, 55, 63, 67, 68, 69, 72, 98, 101, 102, 104, 107, 132, 133, 134â35, 137â38, 155, 160, 161, 165, 174, 176, 178, 183, 189, 243, 261
Ishida, Sumio, 541
Ishida, Yahachi, 184â85
isolationism, 87, 88
Italy, capitulation of, 444
Iwakuni Naval Air Station, 423
Iwo Jima, 440, 449, 463, 531
Izumi, Toru, 524
Jackson, Robert H., 85
Jaluit Atoll, 368, 384, 385
Japan:
aircraft production in, 423â25
black market in, 539, 540, 541
class antagonisms in, 540
conscription of labor in, 445â46
contrast of old and new in, 113
cremated remains of soldiers returned to, 523â25
critical lack of oil reserves in, 284â85
“dark valley” period in (1930â45), 117
declining steel production in, 285
deteriorating living conditions in, 114â15
expanded draft in, 115, 446
food shortages in, 539, 541
increasingly dark mood in, 443â46
new operational policy of, 418
Pacific and Southeast Asian conquests of, 114, 119
rise of crime in, 541
shipping losses of, 283, 413, 417, 423, 452, 539
undercurrents of dissent in, 539â41
in war with China, 437
Japan, press in:
censorship of, 525â26, 527â28
consolidation of, 529â30
government reprisals against, 526â27
Imperial General Headquarters and, 527â28
liberal and intellectual papers in, 528â29
newsprint shortages and, 527, 529
propaganda in, 114, 116, 180, 187, 196, 443â45, 507â8, 526, 527, 529, 532, 538
references to Hirohito in, 528
reports of American savagery played up in, 196
Saipan battle reports in, 532
war dead stories in, 525
Japanese fleet, destruction of, as primary U.S. goal, xiv
Japan Times and Advertiser
, 445
Jarman, Sanderford, 499
Jarvis
, USS, 39
Java, xxiii
Jett, Charlie, 77
Jintsu
, 68â69, 83
Johore Strait, xxiii
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 6, 12, 16, 91, 92, 157, 192, 196, 220, 227, 312, 313, 319, 342, 434, 438, 440, 441
central Pacific offensive backed by, 306
Leahy as de facto chairman of, 93
Solomons offensive and, 223, 224
Joint Expeditionary Force, 457
Jones, John Paul, 145
Jones, Louis R., 394
Juneau
, USS, 163
sinking of, 165â66
Junyo
, 147, 155, 419, 428, 450, 491
jushin
(senior statesmen), 533â34
Jutland, Battle of, 252, 415â16
Kaga
, 9
KA-Go offensive, 68â69, 75â83
Kahili, 157
Kaiser, Henry, 247, 248â49
Kaiyo
, 531
Kako
, 41
Kakuta, Kakuji, 452, 454, 456, 463, 470, 488
kamikaze
(divine wind) attacks, 537â38
Kangu Beach, Bougainville, xxv
Kanto Plain, 514
Kasumigaura Naval Air Training Center, 429, 432
Katori
, 410â11
Kauffman, J. L. “Reggie,” 373, 378, 383
Kavieng, New Ireland, 41, 62, 235, 399
Allied bypassing of, 240, 242
Kawachi, Uichiro, 525, 527, 528
Kawaguchi, Kiyotake, 174, 187
Edson's Ridge attack of, 106, 121, 130
at Taivu Point landing, 105
Kawaguchi, Taro, 505
KE, Operation (Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal), 183â85
Kempeitai
(security service), 527, 535, 540, 541
Kennedy, Marvin G. “Pinky,” 251, 252, 260, 265
cautious tactics of, 258, 262, 264, 266
in first
Wahoo
patrol, 157â58
reassignment of, 265â66
in second
Wahoo
patrol, 262â64
Kenney, George C., 125, 126â27, 217â18, 219, 221, 223, 236, 438, 440
Kernan, Alvin B., 151, 374â75
Kido, Marquis Koichi, 533, 534, 536
and possible peace overtures, 537
Kido Butai
, 41, 428, 459
King, C. S., 387â88
King, Ernest J., 6, 9â10, 91, 92, 96, 97, 102, 109, 143, 158, 197, 201, 220, 235, 279, 317, 324, 332, 386, 434, 435, 436, 459, 461, 502, 514â15, 516
Admiralty Islands offensive proposed by, 223â24, 232
Arnold and, 437
Battle of Savo Island and, 55â56, 57
belligerent personality of, 10
at Casablanca Conference, 307â8, 309â11
central Pacific offensive and, 235, 306â7, 308, 313, 320
GALVANIC
and, 367
and Ghormley's relief of command, 144
Guadalcanal campaign and, 19, 20, 21, 60, 97, 123, 142, 185â86
interservice rivalries and, 434
Marianas campaign and, 436, 440, 441
Marshalls invasion deadline of, 313
Pacific counteroffensive urged by, xiii, 10, 11â12
personality of, 193â94
Solomons offensive ordered by, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17
Tarawa battle and, 366
on unrestricted submarine warfare, 253
at Washington conference, 312
King, Richard, 468, 499â500
Kingman, Howard F., 365
Kinkaid, Thomas C., 146, 160, 161, 166, 221, 440, 442, 453
appointed commander of Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), 218
in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 148â49, 152
MacArthur and, 218â19
in Guadalcanal campaign, 33â34
Kinryu Maru
, 83
Kinugasa
, 41
Kirishima
, 69, 171, 172, 416
Kiriwina Island, 239
Kiska Island:
Japanese forces on, 225â31
U.S. landing on, 230â31, 445
Kittredge, George, 36
Kiyosawa, Kiyoshi, 207, 432, 444, 535, 539
Kiyozumi Maru
, 407
Knox, Frank, 7, 57, 142, 197, 201, 317, 436
Kobayashi, Masami, 407
Kodiak, Alaska, 226
Koga, Mineichi, 206, 224, 237, 242, 346, 368, 402, 405, 406, 415, 416, 420
death of, 446â47
Operation Z planned by, 418â19
Koiso, Kuniaki, 534, 535â36
Kokumbona, Guadalcanal, 105, 183
Kokusai Shashin Joho
, 114, 180
Koli Point, 155, 190
Kolombangara Island, 232â33
Japanese evacuation of, 233, 234
Komatsu, Sakio, 484
Kommandorski Islands, Battle of the, 228â29, 233
KON, Operation, 454, 456
Kondo, Nobutake, 69, 77, 147, 188, 447
Kongo
, 122, 137â38
Konoye, Prince Fumimaro, 533â34, 536
Korea, natural resources of, 284
Koro Island, 20
landing rehearsal on, 21â22, 26
Kossler, Herman J., 471, 485
Koyanagi, Tomiji, 183, 185
Krishima
, 170
Krueger, Walter, 240
Kukum, Guadalcanal, 25, 27â28, 35, 63, 64, 107, 141
Kula Gulf, Battles of, 233
kunai
grass, xx, 24
Kurile Islands, 226, 418
Kurita, Takeo, 237, 447, 473, 480, 482, 531
Kusaka, Jinichi, 122, 224, 233, 234, 236, 238
Kwajalein, Battle of, 384, 386, 390,
393
, 405, 441, 459, 499
aftermath of, 397â98
Kwajalein Island landings in, 395â96
landing craft problems in, 391â92
pre-landing bombardment in, 389â90, 392â93, 401
Roi-Namur landings in, 390â95
Task Force 58 in, 386â87
Kwajalein Atoll, 389, 455
Japanese airfields on, 368
Japanese troops on, 385
planned U.S. landings on, 384â85
Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. carrier raid on, 373, 377â78
Japanese counterattacks in, 379â80, 381â82
Pownall's refusal to order second strike in, 378â79, 381, 382â83, 389
Kwajalein Island, 389, 395, 400
Lae, New Guinea, 62, 157, 239
Laffey
, USS, 163
Lamar, Arthur, 129, 130, 297, 298, 362, 442, 519â20
Langley
, USS, 323, 399
Lapon
, 453
Larsen, Harold H. “Swede,” 103â4, 136, 137
Larson, Harold O., 234
Lasswell, Alva B., 203
La Vallette
, USS, 234
Lawrence, James, 145
Lawrence, John E., 141â42
Lawton, E. J., 494
Layton, Ed, 203â4
LCTs, 361
Leahy, William D., 94, 95, 158, 306, 312
as de facto Joint Chiefs chairman, 93
FDR's relationship with, 92â93
Leckie, Robert, 210
Lee, Fitzhugh, 237, 371
Lee, Willis A. “Ching,” 160, 168, 171â72, 464, 478
Lengo Channel, 177
Lennons Hotel, Brisbane, 217
Leonski, Edward Joseph, 213
Lewis, Don, 489â90, 491
Lexington
, USS (CV-2), 59, 124, 327
Lexington
, USS (CV-16), 301, 328, 368, 370, 371â72, 379, 382, 488, 495
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 145, 266, 515
Life
, 90, 97, 196, 380, 538
Lillibridge, G. D., 339, 348, 351â52
Lingayen Gulf, 155
Lingga Roads, 448, 453, 455
Lion Six, 516â17
Lippmann, Walter, 86
Liscome Bay
, USS (CVE-56), submarine attack on, 363â64
Lockwood, Charlie, 277, 278, 279, 286, 402, 471
appointed Pacific submarine force commander, 280
torpedo failures and, 280, 281â82
London Conference (July, 1942), 95
London Naval Conference (1935), 118
London Naval Treaty (1930), 253
Long Island
, USS, 70
long pig
, 191
Los Negros, 242
LSTs, 335
LST tank carriers, 392
Lucas, Jim, 359
Lukanai Field, 205
Lundstrom, John B., 58
Lunga Plain, 155, 189
Lunga Point, 25, 26, 42, 44, 49, 64, 104, 107, 132, 160, 175, 190
Lunga River, 24, 26, 131, 142
Lunga Roads, 44, 53, 60
LVTs,
see
amtracs
MacArthur, Douglas, 5, 7, 91, 103, 215â16, 235, 240, 420, 438, 456, 462, 514
Admiralty Islands offensive and, 223â24
Brisbane headquarters of, 217
CARTWHEEL
and, 224
central Pacific offensive opposed by, 306, 313
chain of command and, 220
in escape from Corregidor, 216â17
Germany-first strategy disdained by, 128â29
Guadalcanal campaign and, 18, 20, 57, 123, 125, 126â27
Halsey's relationship with, 221â22
“I shall return” declaration of, 219
Kinkaid and, 218â19
Marianas campaign opposed by, 439â40
as military leader, 217
New Britain campaign of, 239â40
in New Guinea campaign, 441, 453â54