The Conquering Tide (110 page)

Benhaum
, 169–70

Betchik, Tony, 141

Betelgeuse
, 53

Betio Island, 338,
345
, 364, 367

Japanese fortifications on, 320, 321–22, 334, 343, 345–46, 358, 362–63

Japanese troop strength on, 345

naval and air bombardment of, 343–44, 346

rebuilding efforts on, 361

U.S. landings on, 346, 348–49

Biak Island, 456, 462

Japanese determination to hold, 454–55

Bierer, Bion B., 48

Bismarck, Battle of the, 225

Bismarck Archipelago, 11, 235, 242, 418

Blair, Clay, 278

Blanchard, J. W., 484

Blandy, William H. P. “Spike,” 282

“Bless 'Em All,” 212

Bloody Ridge, Battle of, 106, 121, 130

Blue
, USS, 43, 45

Bluefish
, USS, 453

Bluegill
, USS, 453

Board of Information, Japanese, 526, 527, 532

Bode, Howard D., 43, 46, 57

Bogese, George, xxviii

Boise
, 135

BOLERO
, Operation, 95, 96

Bombing Squadron 10, 404

Bond, Roger, 340, 387

Bonefish
, 453

Bonin Islands, 449

Bonis, 235

Bonnell, Lieutenant, 243

Book of Five Spheres
(Musashi), 188

Borneo, oil fields on, 282, 285, 416, 448

Bougainville Island, xvii,
13
, 30, 37, 76, 99, 157, 184, 203, 205, 224, 232, 233, 238, 262

Buka Airfield on, 62

coastwatchers in, 157

Japanese troops on, xxv, 235

U.S. landings on, 236, 340

Bougainville Strait, 263

Boulier, Kenneth A., 205

Boyington, Gregory “Pappy,” 408

Bradlee, Ben, 501–2

Briggs, Laura, 247

Brisbane:

MacArthur's headquarters in, 217

New Farm Wharf in, 264–65

1942 riots in, 214, 265

Brisbane
Courier-Mail
, 214, 215

British Empire, racism in, xx

Brooke, Alan, 10, 95–96

central Pacific offensive opposed by, 307–12

Brown, Julian, 198, 199

Browning, Miles, 198, 200–201

Bryan, Joseph, III, 323

Buell, Harold, 105, 191, 305, 386, 463–64, 490–91, 492, 494, 495

Buin, Bougainville, xxv, 62, 157, 179, 203, 206, 234, 235, 419

Japanese airstrip at, 122

Buka Island, xxvi, 37, 38, 157, 235

Buka Passage, xxv, 37

Buna, 220

Bunker Hill
, USS (CV-17), 328, 405, 530

Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy, 301, 304, 305, 323

Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, 255–56, 277, 278, 279, 281–82

Burke, Arleigh “31-Knot,” 233, 236, 389, 476–77, 479, 494

appointed Mitscher's chief of staff, 436

Burma, 418

bushido
, 186–87, 507

Butaritari Island, 320, 361–62

Cabot
, 405, 478

Cactus Air Force, 71, 103, 166, 222, 458

daily missions of, 135–36

in dogfights with Japanese, 100–101

Enterprise
and
Saratoga
squadrons in, 82, 103, 105

Japanese troop transports attacked by, 167–68, 172–73

night missions of, 104

October 13–14 decimation of, 140

reinforcements for, 102–3, 135

see also
Marine Aircraft Group 23

Cairo Allied conference (November 1943), 437, 438

Calhoun, C. Raymond, 162

Calhoun, William L., 198, 333, 440

California
, USS, 291, 292

Callaghan, Daniel J., 22, 160, 161

in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 162, 164

Camp Cable, 209

Canberra
, HMAS, 45–46, 51, 53

cannibalism, xviii, 191

Canton Island, 124, 144, 342, 389

Cape Esperance, 164, 178, 184

Cape Esperance, Battle of, 135

Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 240

Cape Moira, Bougainville, 206

Cape St. George, New Ireland, 41

Cape Torokina, Bougainville, 235, 236

Carney, Robert B., 146, 201, 222, 232, 440

Carney Field, 190, 242

Caroline Islands, 116, 312, 449

Carpender, Arthur S., 218

carrier bombers, Japanese, 470

Carrier Division 1, Japanese, 419, 448, 473, 482

aircraft of, 420

Carrier Division 2, Japanese, 486

aircraft losses of, 420–21

aircraft of, 419

Carrier Division 3, Japanese, 473

CARTWHEEL
, Operation, 224,
241
, 313

air campaign in, 231, 236–39

Bougainville landings in, 236, 340

Emirau Island landings in, 242

Green Islands landings in, 240, 242

leapfrogging strategy in, 232, 240, 242

morale and discipline problems in, 231–32

naval battles in, 233–35, 236–37

New Britain campaign in, 239–40

New Georgia campaign in, 222, 231–32

Rabaul bypassed in, 232, 235, 240

Casablanca conference (1943), 10, 307–11

CATCHPOLE
, Operation,
see
Eniwetok, Battle of

Cavalla
(submarine), 471, 473, 475, 485

Cavite Naval Base, Manila Bay, 254–55

Cawley, David, 404

Central Pacific Fleet,
see
Fifth Fleet, U.S.

central Pacific offensive, 237,
314
, 320

Brooke's opposition to, 307–12

conservative deployment of carriers in, 373

interservice sensitivities in, 321

King's advocacy of, 235, 306–7, 308, 313

Kwajalein landing in,
see
Kwajalein, Battle of

leapfrogging strategy in, 384, 401, 403

MacArthur's opposition to, 306, 313

Marianas in,
see
Marianas campaign

Nimitz and, 312–13, 317

Spruance placed in command of, 315–16

submarine warfare in, 368–69, 402, 413

central Pacific offensive, air war in, 368–83

airfield attacks in, 388

Bat Team tactics in, 374–76

dogfights in, 371, 388

Japanese losses in, 456

Japanese night attacks in, 369–70, 381–82

U.S. night attacks in, 412

Chambers, Justice, 21, 36

Chambers
, USS, 50

Chambliss, William C., 110, 111

Chamorros, 511, 517, 521

Charan Kanoa, 465, 468

Cheetah Shoals, 23

CHERRY BLOSSOM
, Operation, 236

Chevalier
, USS, 234–35

Chiang Kai-Shek, xxii, 437

Chicago
, USS, 36, 43, 45–46, 53, 57, 60, 183

Chichi Jima, 440, 449, 463, 464

Chikuma
, 69, 78, 150

Childs, Marquis, 87

China:

basing of B-29s in, 437–38

in war with Japan, 437

China Air Fleet, 447

China Incident (1937), 429

Chinese air force, Japanese superiority over, xxii

Chitose
, 69, 453

chivalry, modern warfare and, 204

Chiyoda
, 257–58, 491

Choiseul Island, 42

Chokai
, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48

Christie, Ralph, 278

as Southwest Pacific Area submarine commander, 280

torpedo performance defended by, 280–81

Chuo Koran
, 528–29

Churchill, Winston, 9, 94, 128
n
, 308, 311, 390

map room of, 93

TORCH
proposed by, 97

and U.S. pressure for invasion of France, 95, 96

CINCPAC, 297–98, 477

CINCPAC Hill, 519–20

Civilian Conservation Corps, 88

Clark, Joseph J. “Jocko,” 327, 368, 370, 371, 382, 388, 463, 472–73, 474, 477

Cherokee ancestry of, 326

competitiveness of, 329

conservative deployment of carrier criticized by, 373

and Japanese Kwajalein counterattack, 379–80

in Kwajalein raid, 377

in Operation
TORCH
, 327–28

personality and appearance of, 326–27

Pownall and, 341

and Pownall's refusal to order second strike in Kwajalein, 379, 381, 382–83

in race to beat
Essex
to Pearl Harbor, 328–29

SB2Cs rejected by, 331–32

as stern taskmaster, 326–27, 330–31

as
Yorktown
(CV-10) commander, 328–29

as “Young Turk,” 326

Clarke, Charles P., 44

Clemens, Martin, 141, 156

as Guadalcanal district officer, xxiv–xxviii

in Guadalcanal campaign, 66–67, 71, 72, 73, 107, 140

in move to Palapao, xxviii

in move to Vungana, xxix–xxx

native constabulary of, xxviii, xxix, 72, 74

coastwatching service, xxiv–xxv, xxvi, xxvii, 37–38, 66, 99–100, 157

Cogswell
, USS, 253

Colorado
, USS, 301, 343

Columbia University, xv

Combat Information Centers (CICs), 233, 369, 371, 387, 480–82

Combat Intelligence Unit (“Station Hypo”), 203

Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCOS), 232, 235, 307, 309, 312, 437, 438

Combined Fleet, Japanese, 9, 68, 82, 105, 118, 122, 147, 201, 202, 224, 368, 403, 404, 416, 418, 446, 454, 531

restructuring of, 447

COMSOPAC staff:

esprit de corps
of, 198–99

in move to Noumea quarters, 199–200

Conger, Jack, 101

Congress, U.S., partisanship in, 87–88

Conolly, Richard L., 390, 391–92, 458, 511

Cooke, Charles M., Jr. “Savvy,” 325

Cooperman, Al, 380

Coral Sea, xvii, xxix,
13
, 23

Coral Sea, Battle of, xxvi–xxvii, 7, 59, 79, 83, 102, 124, 154, 186, 220, 301

Corlett, Charles H., 396

Corregidor Island, Philippines, xxi

MacArthur's escape from, 216–17

Cowpens
, USS, 368, 405, 411, 495

Creehan, E. P., 153

Creswell, L. B., 73

Crevalle
, USS, 453

Crommelin, Charlie, 370

Crossing the Line
(Kernan), 374

Crowe, Henry P., 355, 358

Cruiser Division 6, Japanese, 41

Cruiser Division 8, Japanese, 154

Crutchley, Victor A. C., 20, 42, 455

Cruz Point, Guadalcanal, 190

CUB-1 (navy construction team), 71–72, 103

Curtin, John, 216

Curtiss, Glenn, 323

Curtiss
, USS, 148

Cushing
, USS, 163

Daijo Zen
, 538

Daimler-Benz, 427

Dale
, USS, 14, 110

Daly, Joseph R., 32

Dashiell
, USS, 344

Davis, Arthur C., 79, 107–8

Davis, Bill, 296, 303–4

Dealey, Samuel D., 453

defense industry:

African Americans in, 247–48

in Hawaii, 295–96

in San Francisco, 246–49

unions in, 249

women in, 248

de Gaulle, Charles, 200

Democrats, 88

Depression, Great, 85–86

Destroyer Division 45, 236

Dewey
, 22

DeWitt, John L., 444

Dickson, Donald, 26, 35

Diller, LeGrande “Pick,” 219

Dirty Tricks Department, 232, 235

Doak, Ralph, 354

Dodson, Ken, 396–97

Dolphin
, 92

Domei
News Service, 536–37

Doolittle, James H., 7

Doolittle Raid, 7

Dower, John, 507

Duncan, Donald, 300–301, 302, 329

Duncan
, USS, 135

Dutch East Indies, xxiii, 441

oil fields of, 449

dysentary, 64

East Brother Island Station, 252

Eastern Solomons, Battle of the, 77–82,
80

East Indies, 255, 418

Edson, Merritt, 104, 106, 156, 359

Efate, 11,
13
, 14, 15, 60, 70, 132

Eichelberger, Robert L., 220

Eighteenth Army, Japanese, 224

Eighth Area Army, Japanese, 179, 224

Eighth Base Force, Japanese, 40

Eighth Fleet, Japanese, 29, 40–41, 67, 105, 189

in Battle of Savo Island, 43–51

8th Infantry Brigade Group (New Zealand), 236

8th Marine Regiment, 352, 354

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10

elections, U.S., of 1942, 86–87, 97, 146

Eleventh Air Fleet, Japanese, 105, 122, 189

ELKTON
offensive,
see
New Georgia campaign

Ellice Islands, 333, 389

U.S. invasion of, 315

Elliott
, USS, 51

Emirau Island, U.S. landings on, 242

Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, 235, 340

Engebi Island, 399, 400

English, Robert Henry, 255, 257, 260, 278, 280

Eniwetok, Battle of, 389–90, 400, 441

captured Japanese documents in planning of, 399–400

Eniwetok Atoll, 398–99, 418, 460

Japanese forces on, 399

Eniwetok Expeditionary Group (Task Group 51.11), 399

Enterprise
, USS, 7, 17, 20, 21, 33, 59, 76, 77–80, 83, 107, 127, 146, 149–50, 151, 154, 166, 167, 168, 186, 193, 194, 340, 373, 374, 376, 404, 405, 407, 484, 493, 495

in Battle of Eastern Solomons, 79–83

in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 149–52, 160

casualties on, 83–84

Escort Carrier Group, 364

Espiritu Santo,
13
, 43, 62, 70, 76, 83, 102, 108, 125, 132, 142, 167, 172, 191, 193

primitive conditions at, 129

Seabees on, 14–15

Essex
, USS, 300, 381, 388, 404, 405, 412, 428

Everton, Loren D. “Doc,” 70, 73

Ewa Field, 70

F4F Wildcats, 32, 79, 303

in dog fights with Zeros, 31–34, 100–101

F6F Hellcats, 302–4

“face”, loss of, in Japanese Navy, 447

Fahey, James J., 194, 211, 212, 236–37, 480, 501, 509

Farragut, David, 145

Fast Carrier Force,
see
Task Force 58

Felt, Harry D., 76–78

Fife, James, Jr., 264, 265, 271, 278

5th Marine Regiment, 34–35, 73, 156