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INDEX
ABDACOM (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command), 190–91, 195, 234, 235, 248, 252, 263, 311
dissolution of, 252, 266
ABDA fleet (ABDAFLOAT), 233, 235–37, 254–63
“Combined Striking Force” of, 236–37, 254–60
Abe, Hiroaki, 446
Abo-Abo river valley, 241
Abucay-Mauban line, 240
Adamic, Louis, 197
Adams, John, xx
Admiralty Islands, 264, 277
Afrika Korps, 265
Agawa, Hiroyuki, 113
Aichi, 92
Aichi D3A1 Type 99 “Val” dive-bomber, 93, 154, 344–45, 347, 359, 441–42, 445
Aichi E13A1 Type 0 “Jake” floatplane, 226
Aiea Landing, 33, 38
aircraft carriers, 21, 58, 137, 152–53, 202, 231, 232, 485
flights returning to, 435–38
in hit-and-run warfare, 334
Japanese, 22, 30, 40, 41, 83, 118, 280, 311, 315, 316–17, 320–22, 336, 340–41, 344–46, 351–52, 369, 370, 379, 390, 411, 415–16, 417, 422, 425–26, 453, 485; see also specific carriers
U.S., 159, 163, 165, 194, 199–232, 275, 278, 281, 282, 293, 298, 308, 317, 321, 373, 375, 380–82, 385, 387, 390, 406, 426, 474; see also specific carriers and task forces
and Wake Island operation, 151–57
airfields, terrestrial, 283
air force:
Chinese, 93
Chinese Nationa
list, 52
air patrols, 30
airplanes:
rules of naval warfare rewritten by, xxxiv–xxxv
shipboard landings and take-offs from, xxxv
AirPlot, 419
airpower:
British, 50, 245
Japanese, 10–12, 14, 16, 21, 23, 24, 50–51, 52–53, 64, 66, 92–101, 112, 117–18, 141, 184, 199, 223, 230, 234, 237, 245, 254, 259, 308, 319, 320, 383, 478–79
U.S., 50, 159–60, 456
air raids:
blackouts as precaution against, 42
on Britain, 245
false reports of, 43–44
in Hawaii, 148–49
on Singapore and Malaya, 245–46, 249
on Tokyo, 281–300, 318, 319
Tokyo’s concern with, 67, 117, 231–32, 272, 278
air search patterns, 338
Akagi, 94, 295, 377, 381, 404–6, 409, 411, 414, 416, 424, 429, 431–33
loss of, 434, 435, 438, 439, 440–41, 442, 446–48, 458, 459–60, 462–63, 473, 484
Akebono Maru, 408
Alameda Naval Air Station, 281–82
Aleutian Islands, xxii, 285, 296, 300
airfields in, 283
Japanese naval forces at, 407, 461
Japanese operation in, 281, 378–80, 383, 391, 417, 447, 472, 477, 483
Allied air forces, 48, 50–52, 58, 141, 184, 236, 254–55
Allied naval forces, 319, 328, 338–39, 370–71, 383
Allied Powers:
in Asia and the Pacific Rim, 185
Churchill’s view on Pearl Harbor and, 24–25
command unity in, 188–93, 195–96
crumbling resistance of, 233
Europe-first strategy of, 56, 162, 171, 174, 180–81, 185, 195, 238, 242, 479
high command of, 252, 253
listening posts of, 308
MacArthur as Pacific celebrity of, 49
murder of prisoners from, 299
Pacific strategy of, 182
pilots of, 51–52
shipping of, 236, 277
supply lines of, 265
Wake as success of, 147
in World War I, 82
Amagai, Takahisa, 458
Amari, Hiroshi, 412–13, 417
Amaterasu-Omikami, 78, 108
Amatsukaze, 256, 257, 447
Amboina, 234