The Mantle of Command

by Nigel Hamilton

  Thoma, Wilhelm von (general), [>]–[>]

  Thomas, Elbert D. (senator), [>]

  Thompson, Tommy (commander): reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

  Thomsen, Hans, [>]

  Thomsen, Malvina, [>]

  Timoshenko, Semyon (marshal), [>]

  Tobruk, surrender of (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Brooke and, [>]

  Cadogan and, [>]

  Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Dill on, [>]

  FDR’s reaction to, [>]

  German reaction to, [>]–[>]

  Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Halifax and, [>]

  Harriman and, [>]

  Long on, [>]–[>]

  Rommel and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Todt, Fritz, [>]

  Togo, Shigenori, [>], [>]

  Tojo, Hideki, [>], [>]

  Tokyo: Doolittle bombs, [>]

  Tripartite Pact (1940), [>]–[>], [>]

  Truscott, Lucian, Jr. (general), [>]

  Tugwell, Rexford, [>]

  Tully, Grace, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>]

  Turner, Richmond K. (admiral): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

  and war planning, [>]

  Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934), [>]–[>]

  Ugaki, Matome (admiral), [>]–[>]

  “Ultra” (intelligence): Churchill’s use of, [>]

  at El Alamein, [>]

  FDR’s use of, [>]

  United Nations: Allied coalition as, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  United States: and amphibious warfare, [>], [>]

  anti-British sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  anti-Japanese sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]

  assault on Guadalcanal, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Australia turns to, [>]

  British Dominions turn to, [>]–[>], [>]

  Churchill shifts blame to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  declares war on Germany and Italy, [>]–[>]

  declares war on Japan, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and defense of India, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Germany declares war on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  inability to relieve Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  isolationism in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Japan terminates “peace” negotiations with, [>]–[>], [>]

  Japan threatens mainland of, [>], [>]

  lack of preparedness for war, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Linlithgow despises, [>]

  Long on military isolation of, [>]

  military aid to Allies, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  military aid to China, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  military aid to Soviet Union, [>]

  and neutrality, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Philippine independence, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Philippines as ally of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  protects Australia and New Zealand, [>]

  relationship with Soviet Union, [>]

  rise to world power, [>]–[>]

  as senior partner in Allied coalition, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  shift in relations with Great Britain, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  threat of air raids on, [>]–[>], [>]

  unwilling to preserve British Empire, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Vichy France as possible ally of, [>], [>], [>]

  war production, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  unity of command: Brooke opposes, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Churchill and, [>], [>]

  FDR insists on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Jacob on, [>]

  Japan and, [>], [>]

  Marshall recommends, [>]–[>]

  Navy opposes, [>]

  U.S. Air Corps. See U.S. Army Air Forces

  U.S. Army: “citizen” character of, [>]–[>]

  decrypts Japan’s “Purple” code, [>]

  and desert fighting, [>]–[>]

  lack of cooperation with Navy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  North Africa landings as necessary experience for, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  reinforces Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]

  Second Armored Division’s tanks reinforce Egypt, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  U.S. Army Air Forces, [>], [>]

  Arnold builds, [>]–[>]

  compared to Japanese Navy, [>]–[>]

  and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>]

  U.S. Congress: Churchill addresses (1941), [>]–[>]

  power to declare war, [>], [>]

  reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

  wartime security for, [>]

  U.S. Conservation Corps, [>], [>]

  U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: and “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>]

  U.S. Marine Corps: and amphibious warfare, [>]

  U.S. Navy: errors of judgment by, [>]

  FDR’s personal preference for, [>]–[>], [>]

  fleet augmented at Pearl Harbor, [>]

  lack of cooperation with Army, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and needs of modern warfare, [>]–[>]

  opposes unity of command, [>]

  and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  rebuilding of at Pearl Harbor, [>], [>]–[>]

  use of air power by, [>]–[>]

  U.S. War Department: erroneous predictions by, [>], [>]–[>]

  FDR’s reaction to mutiny by, [>]–[>]

  mutinies against FDR, [>]–[>]

  opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  resistance to FDR in, [>], [>]

  unauthorized leaks by, [>], [>], [>]

  U.S. War Production Board, [>], [>]

  Vichy France. See France, Vichy

  “Victory Plan”: FDR and preparation of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  McCormick leaks, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  North Africa landings in, [>], [>]–[>]

  Wainwright, Jonathan (general), [>], [>]

  Wake Island: Japan attacks, [>], [>]

  Wallace, Henry, [>], [>]

  war crimes trials: FDR plans, [>]–[>]

  war production: of Canada, [>]

  Churchill and, [>]–[>]

  FDR announces goals for, [>], [>]

  FDR tours, [>]–[>], [>]

  of Germany, [>]

  Halifax on, [>]

  of Japan, [>], [>]

  Suckley on, [>]–[>], [>]

  of U.S., [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  women in, [>]

  warfare, amphibious: Hart on, [>]

  U.S. and, [>], [>]

  U.S. Marines and, [>]

  warfare, modern: Churchill’s ignorance of, [>]

  FDR and, [>]

  Hart and needs of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Navy and needs of, [>]–[>]

  Royal Navy’s ignorance of, [>]

  Washington, George, [>], [>]

  Watson, Edwin (general), [>]–[>], [>]

  at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>]

  Wavell, Sir Archibald (general), [>]

  and Hart, [>], [>]

  and India, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Singapore, [>], [>]–[>]

  as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Wedemeyer, Albert (colonel), [>]

  distrusts Churchill, [>]

  and proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]

  Welles, Sumner, [>], [>]

  and declaration of war, [>]

  drafts Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]<
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  at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Weygand, Maxime (general), [>], [>], [>]

  Wheeler, Burton K. (senator): as isolationist, [>], [>]

  White House: Churchill’s Christmas visit to (1941–42), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Map Room, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  wartime communications facilities, [>]–[>]

  wartime security for, [>]–[>], [>]

  Wilhelmina, Queen, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Willkie, Wendell, [>], [>]

  proposes MacArthur as “commander in chief,” [>]–[>]

  and Second Front strategy, [>]

  Wilson, Sir Charles: on Churchill, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and Churchill’s White House visit, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  on FDR, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Winant, John (ambassador), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, [>]

  Wolfe, James (general), [>]–[>]

  women: in war production, [>]

  World War I, [>], [>]

  military command in, [>]

  World War II: and collapse of British Empire, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Yamamoto, Isoroku (admiral): and Battle of Coral Sea, [>]–[>]

  and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>]

  and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]

  King and, [>]

  and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

  targets Midway, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Yorktown (aircraft carrier), [>], [>]

  Zhukov, Georgy (general), [>]

  About the Author

  NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the first president of the Biographers International Organization. He lives in Boston and New Orleans.