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Twenty-Fifth Air Flotilla, Japanese, 29, 40, 68, 238

Twenty-Sixth Air Flotilla, Japanese, 419

Twining, Merrill B., 19, 25, 36, 71, 102, 104, 139, 141, 142

222nd Regiment, Japanese, 454

U-boats, in merchant shipping attacks, 253, 278

Ugaki, Matome, 116, 122, 146, 147, 180–81, 182, 201, 202, 454, 455, 456, 469–71, 473, 492, 535

and death of Yamamoto, 205–6

diary of, 120

Guadalcanal strategy of, 120–21

pessimistic diary entries of, 450–51

on possible withdrawal from Guadalcanal, 179–80

Ultra (decrypted Japanese radio messages), 62

“Umi Yukara” (Across the Sea), 3

Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), 464

United Press, 97

United States:

internationalism in, 88

isolationism in, 87, 88

U.S. Naval Institute, xv

USO tours, 192, 520

Utah
, USS, 289, 300

“Valley of Hell,” 503

Vandegrift, Alexander Arthur, 12, 102, 103, 167, 174, 183, 199, 236, 365, 434, 513, 514

Clemens and, 66–67

Fletcher's withdrawal criticized by, 57–58

on Japanese refusal to surrender, 74

Nimitz's meeting with, 129–31

on psychological effects of heavy bombardment, 139

reporters encouraged by, 98

Solomons offensive and, 15–16

on Tarawa battle, 366

Vandegrift, Alexander Arthur, in Guadalcanal campaign, 17–18, 22–23, 26, 34–35, 39, 40, 43, 49, 53, 71, 75, 83, 146, 159, 317

food supplies as concern of, 61

morale issues and, 65

perimeter defenses and, 64–65, 72, 104, 141, 147

Point Cruz offensive ordered by, 155

reinforcements requested by, 133–34

retreat contemplated by, 142

Vanguard Force, Japanese, 69, 77

Vella Gulf, Battle of, 234

Vella Lavella, 238

U.S. assault on, 234–35

Versailles, Treaty of, 506

Vila Airfield, Kolombangara, 232, 233

Vincennes
, USS, 27, 46, 48–49, 50

Vincent, Harry, 50

Virginia Military Institute (VMI), 5

Vitiaz Strait, 239–40, 267

Vollinger, John, 192

Vouza, Jacob C., 72, 74

Vraciu, Alex, 101, 357, 406, 462–63, 479, 483, 484, 492

Vungana, Guadalcanal, xxix

Wahoo
, USS (SS-238), 250–51, 276–77

in attack on Japanese submarine I-2, 263–64

destroyer sunk by, 270–71

equator-crossing ceremony on, 272

in failed attack on
Chiyoda
, 257–58

first kill of, 262

first patrol of, 257–59, 260,
275

four-ship Japanese convoy sunk by, 272–75

Japanese troop transport sunk by, 273–75

landing of, 252

mechanical problems of, 258

Morton appointed commander of, 266–67

second patrol of, 261–62, 265,
275

third patrol of, 267–76,
275

torpedoes of, 251–52

in Wewak harbor attack, 268–71

Wahoo Daily Gazette
, 261

Wakefield
, USS, 15

Wake Island, 7, 132, 141, 314, 453

Walke
, USS, 169

Walker, Frank R., 234–35

Waller, Raoul, 329, 332

“Waltzing Matilda,” 212

Wamai River, 206

War Department, U.S., 209

Pentagon building of, 89–90

War Without Mercy
(Dower), 507

“Washing Machine Charlie” (Japanese float plane patrol), 63, 72, 98–99, 139, 353

Washington, D.C.:

Allied conference in (1942), 95

Allied conference in (1943), 312

temporary government buildings in, 89

wartime population explosion in, 88–90

Washington
, USS, 56, 160

in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 168–69, 170–72

Washington Post
, 86

Wasp
, USS, 17, 20, 25–26, 33, 37, 59, 76, 107, 111, 484

sinking of, 109–11, 124

WATCHTOWER
, Operation,
see
Guadalcanal campaign

Watson, Thomas E., 399, 400

Webb, W. B. “Spider,” 487

Wehrmacht
, 11, 94

Wellington, New Zealand, 12, 15, 17, 19

Wendy Point, 393

West Point,
see
Military Academy, U.S.

West Virginia
, USS, 291, 292

Wewak, New Guinea, 267

Wahoo
's attack on, 268–71

White House:

Map Room in, 93–94, 95

Oval Study in, 92

Widdy, Charles, 18, 66

Widhelm, William J. “Gus,” 150

William Ward Burrows
, 103

Willkie, Wendell, 88, 94

Wilson, Woodrow, 91

Withers, Thomas, Jr., 254, 255, 256, 278

Wolfert, Ira, 97

Woodlark Island, 222, 239

Works Progress Administration, 88

World War I, 253

FDR and, 91

German-Soviet peace treaty in, 95

World War II:

calls for second European front in, 94–95

eastern front in, 11, 94, 96, 308–9, 530

expansion of federal bureaucracy in, 88–89

expansion of presidential power in, 88

Normandy invasion in, 530

see also
Pacific War

Wotje Atoll, 379, 384, 385

strike on, 380

Wright, Carleton, 177–78

Yamada, Sadayoshi, 30

Yamamoto, Isoroku, 108, 122, 146, 147, 154, 185, 187, 188, 195, 201–2, 403, 415, 416

death of, 203–6,
207
, 446

funeral of, 207–8

Guadalcanal campaign, and, 204

KA-Go offensive of, 68–69, 75–83

luxurious lifestyle of, 116–17

Midway battle and, 119

Operation I-Go and, 202–3

Pearl Harbor attack and, 117, 118–19

political career of, 117–18

strategic failures of, 204

war with U.S. opposed by, 118, 202

Yamato
, 76, 116, 119–20, 121, 147, 156, 416, 450, 452, 455, 471

Yamato Damashi
(Japanese fighting spirit), 444

Yamauchi, Takeo, 503, 507

Yamazaki, Yasuyo, 230

Yank
, 98

Yano Battalion, Japanese, 183, 184

Yarbrough, Tom, 97

Yarnell, Harry E., 435

Yasukuni Shrine, 114

Yokaren
pilot training program, 430, 431–32

Yokoi, Shoichi, 521–22

Yokosuka D4Y
Suisei
(“Judy”), 427–28

Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, 428

Yomiuri
, 529

Yonai, Mitsumasa, 208, 533, 534, 535, 536

Yorktown
, USS (CV-5), xxvii, 7, 59, 326

Yorktown
, USS (CV-10), 301, 323, 326, 339, 341, 368, 370, 371–72, 373, 377, 379, 381–82, 388, 404, 405, 478

in arrival at Pearl Harbor, 332

commissioning period of, 328–30

FM-1 Wildcat crash on, 372–73

sea trials of, 330

Young, Cassin, 161, 164

“Young Turks,” 324, 326

Yubari
, 41, 46, 453

Yugumo
, 234

Yunagi
, 41

Yura
, 147

Z, Operation, 368, 418

Zen-Gen Sakusen
(attrition operations), 41–42

“Zero” (A6M) fighters, xxii, 187, 303

alterations to, 425

in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 149–50

in dogfights with U.S. fighters, 31–34, 100–101

as obsolete, 424

strafing by, 101–2, 135

Zuiho
, 149, 419

Zuikaku
, 69, 82, 147, 149, 405, 419, 423, 428, 473, 486, 490–91

Zurlinden, Pete, 465

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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

The Conquering Tide

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