ABSTRACT
Stanley Sandler, one of America's most respected and best-known military historians, has brought together over 300 entries by some 200 specialists in the field to create the first encyclopedia specifically devoted to the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Extending far beyond battles and hardware, the coverage ranges from high policy-making, grand strategy, and the significant persons and battles of the conflict, to the organization of the Allied and Japanese divisions, aircraft, armor, artillery, psychological warfare, warships, and the home fronts, covering the interactions of each topic along the way.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |155 pages
A
entry |3 pages
ABDA Command
entry |2 pages
Aerial Resupply
entry |7 pages
African American Troops
entry |3 pages
A-Go Plan
entry |4 pages
Air Force, Royal
entry |2 pages
Air Force, Royal Australian
entry |8 pages
Air Offensive, Japan
entry |16 pages
Aircraft: Japanese, U.S., and British
entry |3 pages
Aircraft Carrier Raids, U.S. Navy (1942)
entry |12 pages
Aircraft Carriers: Japanese, U.S., and British
entry |3 pages
Alamo Scouts
entry |5 pages
Aleutian Islands Campaign
entry |2 pages
Americal Division
entry |4 pages
American Volunteer Group
entry |5 pages
Amphibious Operations
entry |4 pages
Armor, U.S.
entry |10 pages
Army, Japanese
entry |8 pages
Army, U.S.-Filipino
entry |10 pages
Army Air Corps/Air Forces, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Army Air Force, Japanese
entry |9 pages
Army Ground Forces, U.S.
entry |2 pages
Arnold, Henry Harley (“Hap”) (1886–1950)
entry |5 pages
Artillery, Japanese
entry |8 pages
Artillery, U.S.
entry |5 pages
Atomic Bomb, Decision to Use against Japan
entry |3 pages
Atomic Bomb Program, Japanese
entry |9 pages
Australia
letter |61 pages
B
entry |4 pages
Bataan Death March
entry |7 pages
Battleships
entry |2 pages
Bengal Famine
entry |2 pages
Biak, Battle for
entry |2 pages
Bismarck Sea, Battle of the
entry |2 pages
Bliuhker, Vasilii Konstantinovich (1890–1938)
entry |1 pages
Bomb Balloons, Japanese
entry |4 pages
Bombing of Civilians
entry |3 pages
Borneo, Allied Operations against
entry |3 pages
Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)
entry |2 pages
Bougainville, U.S. Operations against
entry |3 pages
Brown, Wilson (1882–1957)
entry |4 pages
Buck, Pearl S. (1892–1973)
entry |2 pages
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. (1886–1945)
entry |2 pages
Bulkeley, John Duncan (1911–1996)
entry |4 pages
Buna, Operations at
entry |4 pages
Burma
entry |4 pages
British Reconquest
entry |4 pages
Burma Road
entry |2 pages
Bushido
letter |56 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Cabanatuan Raid
entry |3 pages
Canada
entry |1 pages
Carrier Raids
entry |1 pages
Carriers
entry |2 pages
Cavite
entry |3 pages
Ceylon
entry |5 pages
Chaplains, U.S. Army
entry |3 pages
Chennault, Claire Lee (1893–1958)
entry |3 pages
Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975)
entry |6 pages
China-Burma-India Theater of Operations
entry |3 pages
Chindits
entry |3 pages
Chinese Communists versus Nationalists
entry |5 pages
Clark and Iba Airfields, Japanese Bombing of
entry |2 pages
Coastwatchers
entry |4 pages
Comfort Women
entry |1 pages
Communists
entry |8 pages
Coral Sea, Battle of the
entry |3 pages
Corregidor
letter |22 pages
D
entry |3 pages
Darwin, Japanese Bombing of
entry |1 pages
Detachment 101
entry |2 pages
Dive-Bombers
entry |4 pages
Doolittle (Tokyo) Raid
entry |6 pages
Downfall, Operation
entry |2 pages
Driniumor River Operation
entry |2 pages
Drought, James M.
entry |3 pages
Dutch East Indies
letter |19 pages
E
entry |5 pages
Eastern Solomons, Battle of
entry |4 pages
Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence (1886–1961)
entry |6 pages
Engineers, Allied Services
entry |2 pages
Eniwetok
entry |2 pages
“Europe First” Decision
letter |22 pages
F
entry |4 pages
Fertig, Wendell W.
entry |1 pages
Fiji
entry |6 pages
Film Treatment of the Pacific War, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Forrestal, James (1892–1949)
entry |2 pages
Franco-Thai War
entry |3 pages
Fraser, Bruce A. (1888–1981)
entry |3 pages
French Indochina
letter |27 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869–1948)
entry |4 pages
Gilbert Islands
entry |1 pages
Goodenough Island
entry |3 pages
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
entry |2 pages
Grenades and Land Mines, Japanese
entry |2 pages
Grenades and Land Mines, U.S.
entry |9 pages
Guadalcanal, Battle for
entry |3 pages
Gurkhas
letter |58 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882–1959)
entry |2 pages
Hart, Thomas C.
entry |1 pages
Hata Shunroku (1876–1962)
entry |2 pages
Hirohito (1901–1989)
entry |1 pages
Hiroshima
entry |6 pages
Historiography of the Pacific War
entry |2 pages
History Program, Japanese Air Force
entry |5 pages
History Program, Japanese Military
entry |4 pages
History Program, U.S. Army Military
entry |3 pages
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969)
entry |4 pages
Holcomb, Thomas (1879–1965)
entry |4 pages
Hollandia
entry |5 pages
Home Front, Japanese
entry |10 pages
Home Front, U.S.
entry |2 pages
Homma Masaharu (1887–1946)
entry |3 pages
Hong Kong
entry |2 pages
Hurley, Patrick J. (1883–1963)
letter |50 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Iba Airfield
entry |5 pages
Ichigo, Operation
entry |1 pages
Imperial Japanese Army
entry |3 pages
Imphal and Kohima, Battles of
entry |2 pages
India
entry |4 pages
Indian National Army
entry |2 pages
Indianapolis
entry |4 pages
Intelligence in the Pacific Theater
entry |4 pages
Intelligence Operations, Japanese
entry |3 pages
Internment and Relocation of Italian Americans
entry |7 pages
Internment of U.S. Citizens of Japanese Ancestry
entry |7 pages
Island-Hopping and Leapf frogging, U.S. Strategies
entry |1 pages
Italian Americans
entry |1 pages
Iwabuchi Sanji (d. 1945)
entry |2 pages
Iwakuro Hideo
entry |4 pages
Iwo Jima, Battle of
letter |21 pages
J
entry |12 pages
Japan, Occupation of
entry |1 pages
Jet and Rocket Aircraft, Japanese
entry |8 pages
Journalistic Coverage of the Pacific War, U.S.
letter |35 pages
K
entry |3 pages
Kamikazes
entry |1 pages
Kelly, Colin (1915–1941)
entry |2 pages
Kempeitai
entry |5 pages
Kenney, George C. (1889–1977)
entry |2 pages
Kimmel, Husband Edward (1882–1968)
entry |2 pages
King, Edward P. (1884–1958)
entry |2 pages
King, Ernest J. (1878–1956)
entry |1 pages
Knox, Frank (1874–1944)
entry |1 pages
Kobayashi lchizo
entry |5 pages
Konoe Fumimaro (1891–1945)
entry |3 pages
Korea and Koreans
entry |3 pages
Krueger, Walter (1881–1967)
entry |1 pages
Kurile Islands
entry |1 pages
Kurusu Saburo
entry |3 pages
Kwantung Army
letter |53 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Laurel, José Paciano (1891–1959)
entry |3 pages
Leahy, William D. (1875–1959)
entry |3 pages
LeMay, Curtis (1906–1990)
entry |3 pages
Lexington
entry |6 pages
Leyte Gulf, Battle of
entry |3 pages
Lim, Vicente (1888–1944/45)
entry |12 pages
Logistics, Japanese
entry |18 pages
Logistics, U.S.
entry |2 pages
Los Baños Raid
letter |106 pages
M
entry |16 pages
MacArthur, Douglas (1880–1964)
entry |4 pages
Madagascar, Allied Invasion of
entry |3 pages
Magic, Operation
entry |3 pages
Makin Atoll
entry |8 pages
Malaria
entry |7 pages
Malaya, Japanese Conquest of
entry |1 pages
Manchuria
entry |4 pages
Manila, Fall of
entry |27 pages
Marine Corps, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Marshall, George Catlett 1943–1945
entry |3 pages
Matsuoka Yosuke (1880–1946)
entry |6 pages
Matterhorn, Operation
entry |4 pages
Merrill's Marauders (Galahad)
entry |6 pages
Midway, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Mikawa Gunichi
entry |1 pages
Miles, Milton E. (1900–1961)
entry |2 pages
Mitscher, Marc Andrew (1887–1947)
entry |4 pages
Mountbatten, Louis (1900–1979)
entry |2 pages
Mukden Incident
letter |74 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Nagasaki
entry |2 pages
Nagumo Chuichi (1887–1944)
entry |3 pages
Nanking, “Rape” of
entry |2 pages
National Guard of the United States
entry |5 pages
Nationalist Army, Chinese
entry |4 pages
Natives, Pacific Islands
entry |2 pages
Nauru
entry |3 pages
Navajo Code Talkers
entry |11 pages
Navy, Japanese
entry |6 pages
Navy, Royal
entry |11 pages
Navy, U.S.
entry |1 pages
Netherlands East Indies
entry |1 pages
New Britain
entry |2 pages
New Caledonia
entry |2 pages
New Georgia
entry |7 pages
New Guinea
entry |2 pages
New Zealand
entry |2 pages
Nimitz, Chester William (1885–1966)
entry |1 pages
Noemf foor Island
entry |2 pages
Nomura Kichisaburo (1877–1964)
entry |4 pages
Nurses
letter |22 pages
O
entry |4 pages
Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101
entry |7 pages
Of fice of Strategic Services in the Pacific
entry |3 pages
Oil, Role of in the Pacific War
entry |4 pages
Okinawa, Battle for
entry |2 pages
Osmeña, Sergio (1878–1961)
entry |2 pages
Ozawa Jisaburo (1886–1966)
letter |78 pages
P
entry |8 pages
Pacific War Medicine
entry |2 pages
Palau
entry |3 pages
Panay
entry |12 pages
Pearl Harbor, Japanese Attack on
entry |2 pages
Pearl Harbor Conference
entry |2 pages
People's Liberation Army
entry |8 pages
Philippines, Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in
entry |8 pages
Philippines, Fall of the
entry |2 pages
Pick, Lewis A. (1890–1956)
entry |4 pages
Prince of Wales and Repulse, Sinking of
entry |9 pages
Prisoners of War
entry |9 pages
Prophets of the Pacific War
entry |2 pages
Psychological Warfare, Japan
entry |7 pages
Psychological Warfare, U.S.
letter |3 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
Quezon, Manuel (1878–1944)
letter |18 pages
R
entry |4 pages
Rangers
entry |2 pages
Romulo, Carlos P. (1899–1985)
entry |7 pages
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945)
entry |2 pages
Roxas, Manuel (1892-)
entry |3 pages
Russell Islands
letter |98 pages
S
entry |3 pages
Saipan, Battle of
entry |4 pages
Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of
entry |1 pages
Sato Naotake (b. 1882)
entry |4 pages
Savo Island, Battle of
entry |5 pages
Scouts, Philippine
entry |4 pages
Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr. (1896–1990)
entry |5 pages
Shipbuilding, U.S.
entry |4 pages
Shō-Go Plan
entry |3 pages
Short, Walter Campbell(1880–1949)
entry |5 pages
Singapore, Fall of
entry |3 pages
Slim, William Joseph (1891–1970)
entry |2 pages
Small Arms, Japanese
entry |4 pages
Small Arms, U.S.
entry |4 pages
Smith, Holland McTyeire (1882–1967)
entry |2 pages
Sorge, Richard (1895–1944)
entry |2 pages
Soviet Operations against Japan
entry |2 pages
Spruance, Raymond Ames (1886–1969)
entry |6 pages
Stereotypes, Japanese and American
entry |5 pages
Stilwell, Joseph Warren (1883–1946)
entry |4 pages
Stimson, Henry Lewis (1867–1950)
entry |12 pages
Submarines, Japanese
entry |10 pages
Submarines, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Sutherland, Richard K.
letter |30 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Taiwan (Formosa)
entry |4 pages
Tarawa, Capture of
entry |2 pages
Terauchi Hisaichi (d. 1946)
entry |2 pages
Thailand
entry |2 pages
Tinian, Battle for
entry |4 pages
Tokyo Fire Raid
entry |3 pages
Tokyo Rose
entry |1 pages
Tongan Army Self Def fense Forces
entry |2 pages
Torpedo, Long Lance (Japanese)
entry |2 pages
Tripartite Pact of 1940
entry |3 pages
Truk
entry |3 pages
Truman, Harry S. (1884–1972)
letter |5 pages
U
entry |3 pages
U-Boats in the Pacific
entry |2 pages
United Nations
letter |4 pages
V
entry |4 pages
Vandegrift, Alexander A. (1887–1973)
letter |21 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Wakde-Sarmi
entry |3 pages
Wake Island, Battle of
entry |4 pages
War Artist
entry |4 pages
Washington Naval Treaty (1922) and Japan
entry |2 pages
Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (1897–1989)
entry |3 pages
Wingate, Orde C. (1909–1944)
entry |2 pages
Women's Army Corps
letter |15 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Yalta Conference
entry |5 pages
Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943)
entry |7 pages
Yamashita Tomoyuki (1885–1946)
entry |1 pages
Yank
letter |3 pages
Z
entry |3 pages
Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich (1896–1974)
