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by Bill O'Reilly

Great Artiste, The

  Great Britain

  colonialism

  London bombings

  postwar

  Potsdam Conference

  World War II

  Yalta Conference

  grenades

  Groves, Leslie

  Guadalcanal

  Guam

  Gwinn, Wilbur G.

  Hague Conventions

  Hagushi Bay

  Hakone

  Hall, Theodore

  Halsey, William “Bull”

  Hamai, Shinso

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Hanayama, Shinso

  Handy, Thomas

  Harrison, George L.

  Hashimoto, Mochitsura

  Hatanaka, Kenji

  Hemingway, Ernest, To Have and Have Not

  Hensel, H. Struve

  hibakusha

  Hideyoshi, Toyotomi

  Higgins boats

  Hill 154, Battle for

  Hinduism

  Hirohito, Emperor Michinomiya

  atomic bombings and

  death of

  expansionist policies

  MacArthur and

  postwar Japan and

  postwar life of

  refusal to surrender

  surrender of

  Truman’s ultimatum to

  war crimes

  Hiroshima

  aftermath of explosion

  air-raid warnings

  American reaction to bombing

  amputees

  casualties

  chosen for attack

  explosion of Little Boy

  firestorm

  hypocenter

  Japanese reaction to bombing

  postwar

  preparations for attack on

  radiation poisoning

  relief efforts

  survivors

  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

  Hirota, Koki

  Hisatsune, Sakomizu

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hockley, Fred

  Hokkaido

  Honshu

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopkins, James I. “Hoppy”

  Hungary

  hydrogen balloons

  Idaho, USS

  I-58 submarine

  Imperial Japanese Army

  atomic bombings and

  battle for Manila

  Iwo Jima

  Okinawa

  Peleliu invasion and

  Soviet invasion of Manchuria

  surrender and

  war with China

  Imperial Japanese Navy

  submarine warfare

  Imperial Palace

  Indianapolis, USS

  rescue operation

  submarine attack on

  Ishii, Shiro

  Ishino, Setsuo

  island-hopping strategy

  Island X

  Itakagi, Seishiro

  Italy

  Iwabuchi, Sanji

  Iwo Jima

  Battle of

  Jabit III

  Jackson, Arthur J.

  James, Woody

  Japan

  aftermath of atomic explosions

  air force

  army. See Imperial Japanese Army

  attack on Pearl Harbor

  civilian defense of homeland

  culture

  daimyo rule

  expansion

  firebombing of

  food shortages

  Hiroshima attack

  invasion of Philippines

  Iwo Jima

  kamikazes

  Nagasaki attack

  natural resources

  navy. See Imperial Japanese Navy

  Okinawa

  Peleliu invasion and

  planned Allied invasion of

  plans for Pearl Harbor attack

  postwar

  preparations for atomic bomb launch on

  radiation sickness

  reaction to atomic bombings

  samurai

  Soviet relations with

  submarine warfare

  surrender

  surrender ceremony

  Truman’s ultimatum to

  war with China

  war crimes

  Japanese-Americans

  Jeppson, Morris

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  kaiten torpedoes

  Kalanta, Ed

  kamikazes

  Kase, Toshikazu

  Ketsu-Go strategy

  Kimura, Heitaro

  King, Ernest

  Kistiakowsky, George

  Kita, Isao

  Koiso, Kuniaki

  Kokura

  Konoe, Fumimaro

  Korea

  Korean War

  Kuharek, John D.

  Kure

  Kyoto

  Kyushu

  Laurence, William

  Lawrence, David

  Leahy, William D.

  LeMay, Curtis

  Lend-Lease program

  Lewis, Bob

  Leyte

  invasion of

  Little Boy

  aiming point

  arming of

  casualties

  explosion of

  Hiroshima attack

  survivors

  transport and preparations for launch

  Los Alamos, New Mexico

  Lowry, USS

  MacArthur, Arthur, Jr.

  MacArthur, Arthur, IV

  MacArthur, Douglas

  becomes commander of American forces

  death of

  end of military career

  Hirohito and

  Hiroshima bombing and

  inability to keep war secrets

  Korean War and

  landing at Atsugi

  Leyte invasion

  Manchurian invasion and

  in Philippines

  planned invasion of Japan

  postwar Japan and

  press and

  surrender ceremony

  Truman and

  views on atomic bomb

  MacArthur, Jean

  Maeda Escarpment

  Mae West flotation device

  Malik, Yakov

  Malinta Tunnel

  Maltese Falcon, The (film)

  Manchuria

  Japanese invasion of

  Soviet interests in

  Soviet invasion of

  Manhattan Project

  Trinity test

  Manila

  battle for

  war crimes in

  Mao Tse-tung

  Mariana Islands

  Marine Corps, US

  Iwo Jima

  Okinawa

  Peleliu

  planned invasion of Japan

  in postwar Japan

  Marks, R. Adrian

  Marquardt, George

  Marshall, George C.

  Maryland, USS

  Mashbir, Sidney

  Matsui, Iwane

  Matsushige, Yoshito

  McIntire, Ross T.

  McKnight, Charles

  McLoy, John L.

  McVay, Charles, III

  Medal of Honor

  Meretskov, Kirill

  Meuse-Argonne Offensive

  Mikami, Yosaku

  Mindanao

  Missouri, USS

  kamikaze attack on

  surrender ceremony

  Mitsuhide, Akechi

  Miyazaki, Shuichi

  monsoons

  Montgomery, Bernard Law

  Moore, K. C.

  Moras, Esther Garcia

  Mori, Takeshi

  Morse code

  Mount Suribachi

  M-69 firebombs

  Murai, Kenjiro

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mutanchiang

  Muto, Akira

  Nagai, Yatsuji

  Nagasaki

  aftermath of explosion

  casualties

  explosion of Fat Man

&n
bsp; postwar

  preparations for attack on

  survivors

  Nakagawa, Kunio

  Nanking

  napalm

  Nashville, USS

  National Press Club

  natural resources

  Navy, US

  firebombing of Japan

  Iwo Jima

  Japan plans attack on Pearl Harbor

  kamikaze attacks on

  Okinawa

  Pearl Harbor attack

  Peleliu invasion

  planned invasion of Japan

  in postwar Japan

  submarine attacks on

  surrender ceremony on Missouri and

  Nazism

  Necessary Evil

  Nevada, USS

  New Britain

  New Deal

  New York

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Times

  NHK

  Niigata

  nijyuu hobakusha

  Nimitz, Chester

  Ninoshima

  Nixon, Richard

  Normandy invasion

  North Africa

  Nuremberg trials

  oil

  Okazaki, Katsuo

  Okinawa

  Battle of

  Oklahoma, USS

  Olivi, Fred

  Oneida, USS

  Onogi, Akira

  painting by

  Operation Coronet

  Operation Downfall

  Operation Magic

  Operation Magic Carpet

  Operation Meetinghouse

  Operation Olympic

  Operation Stalemate

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  death of

  Manhattan Project and

  postwar life of

  reaction to Hiroshima

  Trinity test

  Oppenheimer, Kitty

  O’Reilly, Angela

  O’Reilly, John

  O’Reilly, William James

  O’Reilly, William James, Jr.

  Osaka

  Ota, Saburo

  Pacific Fleet

  Pacific war

  aftermath of atomic explosions

  battle for Manila

  casualties

  end of

  firebombing of Japan

  Hiroshima attack

  island-hopping strategy

  Iwo Jima

  Leyte invasion

  Nagasaki attack

  Okinawa

  Peleliu

  in Philippines

  planned Allied invasion of Japan

  preparations for atomic bomb launch

  Soviet invasion of Manchuria

  submarine warfare

  surrender ceremony

  surrender of Japan

  Pal, Radhabinod

  Palau

  Palawan

  Panama Canal

  Parsons, Bob

  Parsons, William S. “Deak”

  Patton, George S.

  Pearl Harbor

  attack on

  Japan plans attack on

  Peg, William

  Peleliu, Battle of

  Penney, William

  Pennsylvania, USS

  pens, ceremonial

  Percival, Arthur

  Perry, Matthew

  Philippines

  Japanese invasion of

  Japanese war crimes in

  Leyte invasion

  World War II

  plutonium

  Poland

  Pope, Everett P.

  Potsdam Conference

  Potsdam Declaration

  POWs

  Allied

  casualties

  Japanese

  war crimes against

  press

  Hiroshima bombing and

  on Japanese surrender

  MacArthur and

  Nagasaki bombing and

  on war criminals

  PT boats

  Puller, Lewis “Chesty”

  Pu Yi, Emperor

  Pyle, Ernie

  Rabaul

  radar

  radiation poisoning

  radio, Japanese

  surrender broadcast

  rape

  comfort women

  Manchuria

  Manila

  Nanking

  Rayburn, Sam

  “reverse slope defense”

  Rhoades, Weldon “Dusty”

  rising sun emblem

  Ritchie, Bill

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  death of

  failing health of

  MacArthur and

  1944 presidential election

  nuclear policy

  war policy

  Yalta Conference

  Rupertus, William

  Russell, Richard

  Sachs, Alexander

  Sagami Bay

  Saipan, fall of

  samurai

  Saratoga, USS

  Sarawak

  Sato, Naotake

  Sea of Japan

  Second Armored Division

  Senjinkun

  seppuku

  77th Infantry Division

  sharks

  Sherman tanks

  Sherr, Pat

  Shiba, Katsuo

  Shigemitsu, Mamoru

  Shiizaki, Jiro

  Shillen, Dave

  shoguns

  Singapore

  Sixth Army

  Sledge, Eugene

  Slim, William

  sonar

  South Dakota, USS

  Soviet Union

  atomic bomb and

  communism

  expansion

  interests in Manchuria

  invasion of Manchuria

  Japanese relations with

  postwar

  Potsdam Conference

  Truman and

  World War II

  Yalta Conference

  Spaatz, Carl “Tooey”

  Spencer, Murlin

  Ssutaoling Hill

  Stalin, Joseph

  atrocities committed by

  Potsdam Conference

  Truman and

  Yalta Conference

  Stimson, Henry

  Stone, Harlan Fiske

  Straight Flush

  Strauss, Lewis L.

  submarine warfare

  Sugamo Prison

  Sugita, Kaziyi

  suicide, Japanese

  Supreme Council for the Direction of the War

  Supreme Court, US

  survivors of atomic bombings

  Sutherland, Richard

  Suzuki, Kantaro

  Sweeney, Charles W. “Chuck”

  Switzerland

  Szilard, Leo

  Taiwan

  Takakura, Akiko

  Target Committee

  Tatlock, Jean

  Tatum, Chuck

  Taylor, Ralph, Jr.

  Tennessee, USS

  Texas, USS

  Thirty-Seventh Division

  308th Counterintelligence Corps

  Third Army

  Third Fleet

  Tibbets, Enola Gay

  Tibbets, Paul W.

  Hiroshima attack

  postwar life

  Tinian

  atomic bomb transport and preparations

  Togo, Shigenori

  Toguri, Iva Ikuku

  To Have and Have Not (film)

  Tojo, Hideki

  execution of

  Tokyo

  Doolittle raid

  firebombing of

  Tokyo Rose

  Tokyo trials

  Tolman, Ruth

  Tomioka, Sadatoshi

  Top Secret

  Toyoda, Teijiro

  Trinitite

  Trinity test

  Truman, Bess

  Truman, Harry S.

  becomes president

  “The Buck Stops Here” motto

  criticism of

  death of
r />   Hiroshima bombing and

  MacArthur and

  middle name

  Nagasaki bombing and

  nuclear policy

  postwar policies

  Potsdam Conference

  Soviet Union and

  surrender of Japan and

  ultimatum to Japan

  as vice president

  war policy

  Truman, Margaret

  Tsuzuki, Masao

  Twentieth Air Force

  XXI Bomber Command

  Type 95 torpedoes

  typhoons

  Ulithi

  Umezu, Yoshijiro

  Umurbrogol Pocket

  United States Army Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USASTAF)

  Unit 731

  uranium

  US military. See Army, US; Army Air Forces, US; Marine Corps, US; Navy, US

  Utah, USS

  Van Kirk, Theodore

  venereal disease

  Wainwright, Jonathan “Skinny”

  Wake Island

  Wallace, Henry

  war crimes

  execution of war criminals

  German

  Japanese

  Tokyo trials

  Unit 731

  War Department, US

  Washington, DC

  Washington Post

  Watson, Edwin “Pa”

  West Point

  West Virginia, USS

  Whitney, Courtney

  Wild Hunter, USS

  Wilpers, John

  Wilson, Anne T.

  Wilson, John

  Wilson, Woodrow

  World War I

  World War II

  beginning of

  end of

  Roosevelt policy

  Truman policy

  see also European war; Pacific war; specific armies, battles, generals, and theaters

  Yalta Conference

  Yamamoto, Isoroku

  Yamashita, Tomoyuki

  Yamazaki, Battle of

  Yasukuni Shrine

  Yokohama

  Yokoyama, Ichiro

  Yonai, Mitsumasa

  ALSO BY BILL O’REILLY AND MARTIN DUGARD

  Killing Lincoln

  Killing Kennedy

  Killing Jesus

  Killing Patton

  Killing Reagan

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  BILL O’REILLY is the anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He is the author of many number-one bestselling books, including Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan. You can sign up for email updates here.

  MARTIN DUGARD is the New York Times bestselling author of several bestselling books of history and other popular nonfiction. He and his wife live in Southern California. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Epigraph

  Map Legend

  A Note to Readers

  Introduction

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

 

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