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Authors: Ian W. Toll
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, Commander Task Force 58, with his chief of staff, Commodore Arleigh A. Burke. Photo taken in spring 1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
A basketball game in the forward elevator well of the USS
Monterey
(CVL-26). The jumper on the left is Lieutenant Gerald R. Ford, an athletics officer and future president of the United States. Circa JuneâJuly 1944.
U.S. National Archives.
Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19, 1944. A Hellcat recovers aboard the
Lexington.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver enters the
Yorktown
's landing pattern, circa JuneâJuly 1944.
U.S. National Archives.
Army reinforcements wade ashore on Saipan, June or July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.
A marine discovers a Japanese family hiding in a cave on Saipan, June 21, 1944.
U.S. National Archives.
SB2C Helldivers return to the
Yorktown
after a raid in the Marianas in early July 1944.
U.S. National Archives.
Admiral Spruance and Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, USMC, at a flag-raising ceremony at Smith's headquarters on Saipan, marking the end of organized Japanese resistance on the island, July 10, 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
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refer to maps.
Abe, Hiroaki, 69, 77
Abe, Zenji, 450, 482, 483â84
Adachi, Hatazo, 224
Adak Island, U.S. airfield on, 227
Admiralty Islands, 235, 242, 456
King's proposed Allied offensive in, 223â24, 232
Advance Force, Japanese, 69, 77
African Americans:
and Espiritu Santo base, 15
in San Francisco, 247â48
Afrika Korps, 97
Agano
, 413
A-Go battle plan, 447, 449, 451, 459
Aikoku Maru
, 407
Ainsworth, Walden Lee “Pug,” 233
Air Command Solomons (AIRSOLS), 222â23, 231, 236, 237, 238, 419, 420
aircraft carriers:
changing tactics of, 387
Combat Information Centers in, 369, 371, 387
conservative deployment of, 373
CVEs, 301
Essex
-class, 301â2, 313, 328, 428
in
GALVANIC
, 340â42
Japanese night attacks on, 373
in Marshall Islands campaign, 373â74
new methods for resupply of, 387
strategic role of, 59, 60
vulnerability of, 59
see also specific ships and task forces
Aircraft Central Pacific, 333
Air Group Five, 330
Akagi
, 9
Akigumo
, 153
Alabama
, 478
Alameda Naval Air Station, 246
Alamo Force, 240
Albacore
(submarine), 484â85
Aleutian Islands:
air war in, 226â27
Japanese forces in, 225â31
Japanese supply convoy for, 228
submarine warfare in, 227, 229
Allied conference (August 1943), 436â37
Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), 218
Allies:
Casablanca conference of, 10, 307â11
Germany-first strategy of, xiii, 10â11, 93, 94, 127â29, 307â8, 310â11
London conference of, 95
Quebec conference of, 235
unconditional Japanese surrender demanded by, 537
Washington conference of (1942), 95
Washington conference of (1943), 312
Amatsukaze
, 76, 78
Amchitka Island, 227
Americal Division (U.S. Army), 134
amphibious warfare, 17â18
interservice rivalries and, 8â9
marines' experience in, 17â18, 322
amtracs (LVTs), 347, 348, 351, 364, 390, 391â92, 400
in Tarawa assault, 335
Anderson, George W., 329
Anderson
, USS, 153
Annapolis,
see
Naval Academy, U.S.
antiaircraft fire, radar-directed, 369
antisubmarine warfare (ASW), Japanese inattention to, 259, 282â83
Anzai, Hitoshi, 524
Aoba
, 41
Aola, Guadalcanal, xxiv, xxv, xxvii
Apamama, 342
Apra Harbor, 511, 512, 513, 516â17, 518, 519
Arakawa, Hiroyo, 115
Arashio
, 225
Arawe, New Britain, 240
Archibald, Katherine, 248, 249
Argenlieu, Georges Thierry d,' 200
Argonaut
, USS, 251
Argonne
, USS, 125, 197, 199
Ariyama, Sachi, 532
Arizona
, USS, 289, 290, 292
Army, U.S., 500
in interservice rivalries, 5â9, 158
methodical tactics of, 395â96, 499
see also specific units
Army Air Forces, U.S. (USAAF), 6â7, 20, 56, 438
exaggerated claims of, 158
and Germany-first strategy, 127â28
Navy rivalry with, 227, 324
promotions in, 324
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 56, 125, 223, 324, 434, 438, 441
Germany-first strategy backed by, 127â29, 157â58, 159
King and, 437
Arnold, Jackson D., 490
Asahi Shinbun
, 527, 529, 535
Ashford, Bill, 198
Ashizuri
, 453
Aslito Airfield, 467, 468, 498
Associated Press, 97
Astoria
, USS, 46, 47â48, 51â52, 53
Atago
, 147
Atlanta
, USS, 155, 162, 165
Atlantic Ocean, German wolf packs in, 278
Attu Island, 417
Japanese forces on, 225â30
U.S. assault on, 229â30, 444
Auckland, New Zealand, 12
Austen, Mount, Guadalcanal, 26, 138, 175
Australia, xxiii,
13
distrust of authority in, 215
MacArthur in, 215â16
sports as obsession in, 212
Australia, U.S. servicemen in, 209â10
in Brisbane riots, 214â15
strained relations between civilians and, 213â15
warm welcome given to, 212
women and, 210â11, 213
Australia
, HMAS, 39, 43
B-17 Flying Fortresses, 100, 223
B-24 Liberators, 342
B-29 Superfortresses, 307
Backus, Paul, 478, 495
Badoglio, Pietro, 444
Bagley
, 52
Bak, Michael, 364
Baker Island, 342
Baldwin, Hanson, 97, 98
Ballale Island, 157, 203, 205
Ballantine, Robert, 99
Ballentine, John J., 328, 329
Baltimore
, 410
banzai
charges, 504â6, 510
Barbey, Daniel E., 239
Barton
, 163
Bataan Peninsula, Philippines, xxi, 141
“Bat Team” fighters, 374â76, 463
battleships,
Iowa
-class, 386â87
Beach, Edward L. “Ned,” Jr., 278
Beaurepaire, Frank, 213
Beaver, Floyd, 152, 245
Becker, Adolph E., Jr., 516â17
Belleau Wood
, 301, 405, 463, 478, 494, 495â96