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ABBREVIATIONS
AMF | Australian Military Forces |
AWM | Australian War Memorial |
CAB | Cabinet Office (Great Britain) |
CCS | Combined Chiefs of Staff |
CG | Commanding General |
CIGS | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
COS | Chiefs of Staff |
LCMD | Library of Congress, Manuscript Division |
Msg | Message |
NOA | Navy Operational Archives |
ONH | Office of Naval History |
OPD | War Department Operations Division |
OpOrder | operation order |
OpPlan | operation plan |
Phib For | amphibious force |
PREM | Prime Minister’s Office (Great Britain) |
RG | record group |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |
USNI | U.S. Naval Institute |
WO | War Office (Great Britain) |
PREFACE
1. Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (New York, 1964), pp. 275-76.
2. Ibid., p. 145.
3. Daniel E. Barbey, MacArthur’s Amphibious Navy (Annapolis, 1969), pp. 24-25.
4. Jay Luvaas, ed., Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger’s War in the Pacific, 1942-1945 (Westport, Conn., 1972), p. 20.
5. Gordon Walker, “General Walter Krueger: Mystery Man of the Pacific,” Christian Science Weekly Magazine, June 9, 1945, p. 3.
6. See Roger Olaf Egeberg, The General (New York, 1983), pp. 40-41, and Weldon E. Rhodes, Flying MacArthur to Victory (College Station, Tex., 1987).
7. D. Clayton James, The Years of MacArthur, 3 vols. (Boston, 1972-85), 2:538.
8. Leary, Interview with C.D. Eddleman, August 24, 1985.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
1. The definitive biography of Douglas MacArthur is D. Clayton James, The Years of MacArthur, 3 vols. (Boston, 1970-85), of which vol. 2 covers World War II. Carol Petillo, Douglas MacArthur: The Philippine Years (Bloomington, 1981), explores the general’s obsession with the islands and offers psychological insights into his personality. The volumes of the official series, The United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific, provide basic material on strategy, operations, and logistics. Louis Morton, Strategy and Command: The First Two Years (Washington, D.C., 1962), in the official series, and Ronald H. Spector, Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan (New York, 1984), are basic overall accounts.
2. Louis Morton, The Fall of the Philippines (Washington, D.C., 1953), pp. 79-90; Walter D. Edmonds, They Fought with What They Had (Boston, 1951), pp. 73-109; Robert F. Futrell, “Air Hostilities in the Philippines, 8 December 1941,” Air University Review 16 (January-February 1965):33-45.
3. Carol M. Petillo, “Douglas MacArthur and Manuel Quezon: A Note on an Imperial Bond,” Pacific Historical Review 48 (1979):107-17. See also Petillo, MacArthur, pp. 203-13. Petillo suggests that Washington approved the gift from fear that MacArthur was losing his nerve and needed this encouragement in order to continue a maximum effort against the Japanese.
4. Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (New York, 1965), p. 158.
5. Lida Mayo, Bloody Buna (Garden City, 1974), pp. 171-77.
6. Australia’s military role is described in the multivolume official Australian and British histories, Australia in the War of 1939-1945 and History of the Second World War: The War against Japan. Blamey is quoted from John Robertson, Australia at War, 1939-1945 (Melbourne, 1981), p. 179, a separate one-volume account. See also David M. Horner, Crisis in Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat, 1941-1943 (Canberra, 1978).
7. MacArthur to Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, January 10, 1943, quoted in Morton, Strategy and Command, p. 375.
8. The statement was made by his chief of staff, apparently quoting MacArthur; ibid., p. 542, n. 60.
9. James, MacArthur, 2:864, n. 43; MacArthur, Reminiscences, pp. 181-82.
10. Quoted in James, MacArthur, 2:349.
11. Maurice Matloff, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 (Washington, D.C., 1959), chap. 17; Robert W. Coakley and Richard M. Leighton, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1943-1945 (Washington, D.C., 1968), chaps. 16-20.
12. Forrest Pogue, “The Military in a Democracy: A Review of American Caesar,” International Security 3 (1979):60-62, 66-68.
13. E.B. Potter, Nimitz (Annapolis, 1976), p. 280.
14. James, MacArthur, 2:189.
15. MacArthur, Reminiscences, pp. 178-79.
16. Ronald Lewin, The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan (New York, 1982), chaps. 8 and 12; Alexander S. Cochran, “MacArthur, ULTRA, et La Guerre du Pacifique,” Revue d’histoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale et des conflits contemporains 34 (January 1984);17-27; Edward J. Drea, “ULTRA Intelligence and General Douglas MacArthur’s Leap to Hollandia, January-April 1944,” in Michael Handel, ed., Intelligence and Military Operations (forthcoming). I am indebted to Dr. Drea for a prepublication copy of his manuscript.
17. MacArthur to the Chief of Military History, March 5, 1943, quoted in John Miller, jr. [sic], CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul (Washington, D.C., 1959), p. 173.
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