State Department, U.S., 27, 66
Station Belconnen, 315
Station Cast, 309–10
Station Hypo (Combat Intelligence Unit), 302–16
Coral Sea news from, 329, 337
criticism for Pearl Harbor attack directed at, 310
and Midway decrypts, 383–92, 479–81
plotting board of ship positions at, 312–13
Redman’s rivalry with, 310–12, 316, 386–87, 481–82
steel, 115, 138
Stilwell, Joseph W. “Vinegar Joe,” 179
Stimson, Henry, 15–16, 27, 29–30, 43, 59, 126, 242, 244
codebreaking seen as unethical by, 303
Strait of Malacca, 265
Stroop, Paul D., 334–35, 343, 348, 360, 365
Subic Bay, xxxiv
Submarine I-23, 222
Submarine I-168, 467–69
submarines, xiv, 83, 118, 313, 460, 466
Allied, 405
bogus contacts for, 151
German, see U-boats, German
hazard pay for testing of, xxiii
Japanese, 24, 184, 231, 265–66, 316, 320, 369, 483, 485
Japanese picket line of, 406, 480
Nimitz and, 132
Pearl Harbor and survival of, 159, 238
rules of naval warfare rewritten by, xxxiv–xxxv
seaborne supply lines and, xxxv
U.S., 159–60, 163, 164, 214, 256
substitution codes, 391
Suez Canal, xxxiii, 265
Sugimoto, Goro, 78
Sugiyama, Hajime, 121
Sulu Sea, 234, 255
Sumatra, 234, 254, 312
oil fields in, 182, 234, 237
Sumitomo, 86
Sunda Strait, 260, 261
Sun-Tzu, 5, 51
supercarriers, 298, 300
supply lines, seaborne, xxxv
Supreme Court, U.S., 35
Supreme War Council, Japanese, 123
Surabaya Harbor, 235, 254, 255–56, 258–60
Surgi, Bill, 450
Sutherland, Richard K., 48, 241
Suva, 184
Suzuki, Daisetz T., 110
Suzuki, Hiroshi, 414–16, 433–34, 463
Swanson, Claude A., 168
Sweden, 202
Sweeney, Walter C., 407–8, 414, 455
Sydney, 182
Japanese shelling of, 483
tabulators, IBM, 302, 304, 384, 388
punch cards for, 313
Tactical Method No. 3, 293
Taft, William Howard, xxxii
Tagaya, Osamu, 95
Tagula Island, 339, 341
Tainan Air Corps, Japanese, 233
Taisho Democracy, 76–77
Taisho Emperor, see Yoshihito, Emperor of Japan
Takagi, Takeo, 257–60, 320–22, 336, 338, 339, 344, 349, 370–71, 377
Takahashi, Kakuichi, 355
Takechi, Susumu, 241
Talbot, Paul, 237
Tambor, USS, 464
Tamura, Yoshiro, 112
Tanabe, Yahachi, 467–68
Tanaka, Giichi, 86, 301
Tanaka, Raizo, 406–8
Tandjong Priok, 256, 260
Tangier, USS, 150–51, 153
Tanikaze, 465
Tarakan Island, 234
Tarawa, 490
Taroa, 230
carrier raid on, 208, 215, 217, 219, 222, 224
Task Force 8, 150, 155, 200, 226, 227
Task Force 11, 150, 151, 155, 319, 329, 334
Task Force 12, 151
Task Force 14, 150, 151, 153, 155–56
Task Force 16, 285–93, 295–98, 297, 319
and Battle of Midway, 387, 389–90, 392–94, 401–2, 406, 417–19, 420–21, 436, 464–66, 471
Task Force 17, 203, 226, 319, 328, 333, 334, 338–39, 346–47, 351, 354–55, 368–70
in Battle of Midway, 390, 393, 402, 406, 442, 458, 466, 471
Task Force 18, 285, 297
Task Force 44 (Royal Navy), 328
Task Group 17.3, 338–40
tatemae, 70–72
Tatsuta, 146
TBS (“talk-between-ships”), 257, 258, 348
Tennessee, USS, 10
Tenno (emperor), 77–78, 80, 88
divine descent of, 78, 79, 108–9
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 423–24
Tenryu, 146
10th Indian Division, 245
Terauchi, General, 91
Texas, 133
Thach, Jimmy, 399, 428, 430–31, 444, 449, 459
Thach weave, 399, 428
Thailand, see Siam
Thompson, Tommy, 172
time-date cipher, 391
Timor, 234–35, 269
eastern, 236
Tippecanoe, 329, 333
Tirpitz, Alfred von, xviii
Tjan, 217
Tjilatjap, 262
Tobruk, 182, 265
Togo, Heihachiro, xix, xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, 67, 69, 79, 85, 132
Tojo, Hideki, 64–65, 67, 120–23, 242, 270, 274, 294, 483
Tokyo, 64, 65, 86, 89, 91, 94, 95, 102, 108, 111, 139, 230, 234, 242, 285, 403
air raids as concern for, 272, 278
Akasaka district of, 73
B-25 bombing raid on, 281–300, 318, 319
Great Kanto earthquake in, 278
Imperial Palace in, 79
Shinbashi district of, 73, 74, 278
Westernization of downtown, 76
Yamamoto’s warnings of air raids on, 67, 117, 231–32, 278
Tokyo Bay, 75, 81, 95–96, 114, 132, 294
Tominaga, Shozo, 112
Tomonaga, Joichi, 411, 413, 415–16, 422, 448–49
tonarigumi (neighborhood associations), 81, 107, 270
Tone, 408, 455
No. 4 floatplane of, 412–13, 416–17, 420
Tonga Islands, 182, 184, 370
Tongatapu, 184, 370
Toranomon Incident, 80
torpedo bombers, 100, 214, 332, 351, 352, 354, 356, 358–59, 370, 376, 413, 417, 434, 448, 454
fogging problem of, 353
torpedoes, 237, 411, 451
dud, 256
loading of, 417
Mark 13, 422
self-propelled, xiii
shallow-run, 118–19
shortage of, 205
Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8), 292
Tosa, 84
Tosa Gulf, 84
Townsville, Australia, 329, 335
Trafalgar, Battle of, xxiv
traffic analysis, 306–7
trains, wartime, 489–90
Treasury, U.S., 148
Treaty of Portsmouth, xxviii–xxix, 274
trenches, xxiv
Tripartite Pact, 114–17
Truk, 202, 228, 231, 295, 306, 314–15, 322, 354, 370, 384, 386
Truman, Harry S., 162
Tsuchiura, 94, 97
Tsushima, Battle of, xxiv, xxvi, xxviii, 67, 69, 118, 275
Tsuzuki, Ishichi, 295
Tulagi, 320, 329–33, 392
ordnance and ammunition wasted at, 333
Tulagi Invasion Force, 329
Tully, Grace, 15, 27
on Churchill, 174
Tully, Tony, 378, 380, 455
turbine engines, xiii
Turner, Richmond K. “Kelly,” 170, 189
24th Air Flotilla, Japanese, 222
22nd Air Flotilla, Japanese, 54, 66
Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940, 137
Type-3 Primary Trainer, 99
Type 80 land bombs, 412
Type 91 800-kilogram aerial torpedo, 93
Type 93 biplane (Akatombo), 99
typhoid, 300
U-boats, German, xxxv, 169, 171, 265
Ugaki, Matome, 66, 231, 275, 277, 279, 293, 295, 300, 377
on battleships, 380
at Midway, 455, 460, 461–62, 474–75
in Midway wargaming, 381–82, 383
Ulithi, 490
Ultra, 309, 337
Umi Yukab
a (“Across the Sea”), 474
Unalaska Island, 281, 379
Unit 731, 112
United Nations, Charter of, 195
United States, 100, 181
Australia’s relationship with, 185–86
Axis propaganda and, 62
United States (continued)
battleships of, 105
as British ally, 171, 188
British friction with, 176–77, 188, 195, 317
CCOS and, 191–93, 195
collective hysteria in, 43–45
as democracy, 176, 487–88
European intervention by, 187
Germany’s declaration of war against, 59–60
industrial economy of, 62, 70, 138
Japanese attacks on western Pacific bases of, 48–58
Japanese criticism of women in, 487
Japanese immigration limited by, xxix–xxxii, 77, 82
Japan’s dependence on resources from, 115–16, 120
Japan’s desire to be seen as equal to, 84
as Japan’s “hypothetical enemy,” 120
military aid to Chinese Nationalists by, 112
mobilization of, 478
morale in, 487–88
Pacific forces of, 182, 188
pilots of, 378, 397, 414, 415, 418–19, 435
ports closed to foreign shipping by, 43
seen as imperialist oppressor of Asia, 64, 82, 107, 110, 122, 272, 274
supplies to Allied forces by, 59, 61, 182, 187
territorial acquisitions of, xxi
viewed as malicious by Japanese right, 82–83
war declared against Japan by, 34–36, 62, 171
wartime production economy of, 47, 62, 172, 174, 194–95, 200, 317, 486–89, 491
in World War I, 25
Yamamoto’s opposition to war with, 115
Yamamoto’s strategy towards, 273–74
United States–Australia lifeline, 182–84, 183, 186, 201, 264, 277, 311, 386
United States Embassy, in Tokyo, 72, 114
Utah, USS, 126
Vang, Pat, 24
VB-5, 340
Versailles Conference, 76–77
racial equality clause rejected by, 77, 82
VF-6 fighter plane, 216, 288
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 124n
Vindicator SB2U plane, 464
Vireo, USS, 467, 469
Virginia, 43
Vladivostok, 298
Waikiki Beach, 398, 475–76
Wainwright, Jonathan, 244
Wake Atoll, 144
Wake Island, 230
abandonment of relief operation for, 156–58, 160
code for, 308
Japanese aircraft based on, 471, 474
Japanese attacks on and capture of, 36, 47, 134, 139–47, 151–57, 182, 278, 385
Kimmel on, 150
relief efforts for, 151–55
revenge for, 208
Waldron, John C., 400–401, 418, 422–25, 438
Wall, Robert W., 292
Waller, George E., 39
Walsh, W. J., 132
Warden, Horace D., 150
War Department, U.S., 26, 43, 194–95, 244
Ware, Charles, 442
war industries, 47
War of 1812, xxiii
War Plan Orange (WPO), xxxiv, 133, 239, 241
War Production Board, U.S. (WPB), 195, 488–89
Warspite-class battleships, British, 339, 377
Washington, D.C., xxii, xxiii, 25–26, 52, 133, 135, 152, 165, 169–70, 202, 242, 267, 268, 298, 303–4, 310–11, 316, 373, 385, 387, 481–82
blackouts in, 42
Churchill in, 171–79, 197–98
first stages of mobilization in, 42–43
as unified command headquarters, 191–93
Washington Evening Star, 34, 36
Washington Mall, 124
attack on cherry trees on, 42
Washington Naval Conference of 1921–22, 83
Washington Navy Yard, 171
Washington Post, 177
Washington Star, 176
Watanabe, Katsumi, 97
Watanabe, Yasuji, 65, 279–81, 461–62
Wavell, Sir Archibald P., 190–91, 195, 234–35, 248–52
weapons systems, xiii
Wehrmacht, German, 25, 60
Welles, Orson, 8
Wenger, Joseph N., 310, 312, 481
West, Norman, 213
western Pacific, 48
West Point, U.S. Military Academy at, xv, 131
West Virginia, USS, 17, 30–31, 36
Wheeler Field, 12, 33
White Fleet, xxxii–xxxiv
White House, 24, 26, 29, 45, 124, 127, 162, 169, 189, 192
Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at, 176
Churchill as guest at, 173–79
Lincoln Study of, 173
Monroe Room of, 173
Oval Office of, 13, 175
Oval Study in, 12–14, 47, 197
press room of, 27–30
Rose Suite of, 173
security at, 34
South Portico of, 176
Wildcats, see Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter plane
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, xviii
Wilkes, Charles, 208
Wilkes Island, 139, 143, 145
Wilson, Edith, 35
Wilson, Woodrow, xxxvi, 29, 35
Winant, John “Gil,” 24
Wingo, Ted, 27
Wolfe, Thomas, 100
Wolf’s Lair, 59
Wordsworth, William, 132
World War I, xxiv, 24, 26, 159, 160, 236
Anglo-German naval arms race and, xviii–xix
arms limitations after, 83
beginning of, xxxiii
French battlefields of, 80
glimpses of future revealed in, xxxv
Japan in, 82
Nimitz in, 132
temporary buildings in, 124
United States in, 25
unity of command in, 188, 189
U.S. declaration of war in, 35
World War II:
atrocities in, 299
causes of, xxix
Indian Ocean in geopolitics of, 265
Mahanian dogmas and, xvi
Pearl Harbor as turning point of, 59, 61–62
World War II (continued)
ranking admirals in, xiv, 307
technological change in naval warfare leading to, xiv
U.S. entry into, 34–36, 62, 171
Wotje, Enterprise carrier raid on, 203, 208, 215–17, 220
Wright, Ham, 386, 391
Wright brothers, xiv
Wynn, Bert, 54
Yamaguchi, Tamon, 441–42, 447, 454, 463
Yamamoto, Isoruko, 230–31, 287
background and appearance of, 68–69, 272–73
Battle of the Coral Sea and, 370, 378
concerns about Navy’s attitudes by, 273–74
as foreign policy moderate, 70, 113–15, 117–18
as gambler, 70, 73, 119, 381
Midway Island and, 66, 67, 232, 277–81, 301, 371, 378, 380–83, 389, 390, 403–4, 406, 411, 414, 446–47, 455–56, 460–62, 464, 474–75, 477, 479, 485–86
as naval aviation proponent, 66, 69, 94, 102
Nelson compared to, 67–68, 72
Pearl Harbor attack planned by, 65–67, 118–19, 122, 279, 281, 383
in press on East Indies, 255
public vs. private personas of, 71–73
and relations with geishas, 72–75, 278, 403
and Task Force 16 bombing attack, 293, 295, 300
in Treaty faction, 70, 85
Tripartite Pact opposed by, 115–16
in U.S., 69–70, 75
as vice minister of navy, 114
on Yamato, 272–73
Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 250–51
Yamashita, Yoshiaki, xxvii
Yamato, 103–5, 272–73, 277, 280–81, 293, 403, 446–47, 460, 462, 464, 471, 474–75
Yanagimoto
, Ryusaku, 440
Yangtze River, 112
Yashiro, Yukichi, 215
Yatsushiro, Sukeyoshi, 222, 228, 230
Yayoi, 146
“Yellow Peril,” xxxii
YE-ZB radio homing signals, 435
Yokaren, 95
Yokohama, xxxi, xxxiii, 64, 286, 294
Great Kanto earthquake in, 278
Yokosuka, 92, 103
Yokosuka Naval Base, 75, 95–96, 294–95, 485
Yokoyama, Ryuichi, 64
Yonai, Mitsumasa, 114–16
Yorktown, USS, 323, 391
air group of, 398–99, 418, 422
antiaircraft guns on, 450
aviators of, 331–32, 343, 347, 349–50, 437
in Battle of Midway, 393, 417–19, 421–22, 428–29, 431, 436, 442–44, 451
in Battle of the Coral Sea, 329–30, 332–33, 336–41, 343–45, 347–53, 355–56, 361, 368–72, 387, 398
Bombing Five of, 353
Bombing Three of (VB-3), 421, 429, 432, 454, 457, 465
damage to, 361, 368–72, 373, 374, 375, 376–77, 396–97, 448
dive-bombers of, 330, 421, 431, 432, 476
fighters of, 421–22, 444
“Fighting 42” of, 336
Fighting Three (VF-3) of, 398, 399, 428, 432, 435, 444, 446, 449, 450
Lexington planes transferred to, 369
loss of, 445–53, 458, 466–70, 471, 477–78
at Midway, 393, 417
planes lost by, 374
raid on Gilberts and Marshalls by, 203, 205, 218, 226–27, 230
scout bombers of, 419, 453
Scouting Five of (VS-5), 330–31, 353, 398, 465
Task Force 17 of, 203, 226, 319, 328, 333, 338–39, 346–47, 351, 354–55, 368–70, 390, 471
torpedo bombers of, 330, 343, 353, 421–22
Torpedo Five of (VT-5), 399
Torpedo Three of (VT-3), 398–99, 428–30, 432
VF-42 of, 398, 399
Yoshida, Toshio, 63, 65
Yoshihito, Emperor of Japan, xix, 78, 79
Yoshihito, Miyasato, 474
Yoshino, Haruo, 440, 458
Young, Howard, 220
Yubari, 144–45
zaibatsu, 86
Zeros, see Mitsubishi AGM “Zero”
Zimm, Alan, 381n
Zuikaku, 231, 320, 322, 333, 343, 344, 350, 352, 353, 355, 370–71, 378, 485
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914). Getty Images.
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. From left to right, the stricken battleships West Virginia, Tennessee, and Arizona. FDR Library.
The USS Arizona shortly after the detonation of her forward magazine. Official U.S. Navy photograph.
A crowd gathers outside the White House, December 7, 1941. Getty Images.
FDR asks for war, December 8, 1941. Getty Images.
Isoroku Yamamoto in diplomat’s attire, 1934. Getty Images.
Admiral Yamamoto in the early 1940s, as commander in chief of the Combined Fleet. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph.