WAR IN THE PACIFIC

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Volume II Contents:

Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
List of Illustrations xi
1. The 1927 Tanaka Memorial 1
2. Chinese Military Victories 7
3. Chungking: 1937-1941 23
4. Chiang Kai-shek 37
5.Captain Claire Chennault: The Flying Tigers 55
6. Did Roosevelt Know? 69
7. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington 83
8. Hector C. Bywater 93
9. Ensign Jimmy Daniels, U.S. Navy 107
10. Operation Watchtower: The Battle for Guadalcanal 117
11. Martin Clemens: Coastwatcher 125
12. The Ground Battle for Guadalcanal: August-September 1942 133
13. The Ground Battle for Guadalcanal: September-October 1942 145
14. The Ground Battle for Guadalcanal: October 1942-January 1943 155
15. The Navajo Code Talkers 163
16. Saburo Sakai 171
17. There’s More than Snow at Nagano 193
18. The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The First Striking Force 199
19. The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Jeep Carriers 209
20. USS Franklin 215
21. IMS Shinano 219
22. Sergeant Richard Fiske 227
23. Iwo Jima: February 1945: D-Day 233
24. Iwo Jima: February 1945: D-Day+1 249
25. The Potsdam Proclamation: July 26, 1945 263
26. The Horror of Sandakan 271
27. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz 283
28. Truk 299
29. Rabaul 305
30. The United States of America Versus Tomoyuki Yamashita 313
31. Jonathan M. Wainwright 329
32. Jonathan M. Wainwright: Surrender of Corregidor 341
33. Masaharu Homma: Los Banos: April 3, 1946 353
34. Curtis E. LeMay 369
35. The Silent Service 383
36. The Comfort Women 405
37. Shiro Ishii (Unit 731) 417