All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [470]
United States Army Air Force (USAAF): strategy in Pacific, 433; bomber offensive against Germany, 471–2, 480–2, 484, 486–7, 493; losses, 475, 484, 487, 492; strength, 481; bases in England, 491; bombs Japanese mainland, 637–9
United States Marine Corps: at Guadalcanal, 254–60, 263; strength increased, 260; casualties, 263, 644, 670; landing craft, 361; in Pacific, 363, 433, 436–7, 440, 565, 567–8, 570; qualities, 438; at Iwo Jima, 635–6; on Okinawa, 640–1, 644; achievements, 664
United States Navy: in Pacific, 236, 268; power, 240; torpedo inaccuracies, 240–1; quality of crews, 241–2; officer corps, 242; defeat at Savo, 255–7; Pacific strategy, 433, 436; growth, 435; number of planes, 481; dominance in Pacific, 558, 564; submarine successes and losses, 558–9; Japanese kamikaze attacks on, 636–7, 641–2, 644; and damage control, 637; achievements, 664; casualties, 670
VESSELS: Astoria (cruiser), 251, 255; Bagley (destroyer), 255; Bunker Hill (carrier), 644; Chicago (cruiser), 255; Enterprise (carrier), 196, 241, 244, 249, 253, 261, 644; Essex (carrier), 642; Franklin (carrier), 637; Hornet (carrier), 237, 242, 244, 247, 249, 251–3, 261; Intrepid (carrier), 644; Juneau (cruiser), 243, 262; Lexington (carrier), 237–40; Manila Bay (carrier), 573; Missouri (battleship), 652; North Carolina (battleship), 261; Paterson (destroyer), 255; Princeton (carrier), 658; Quincy (cruiser), 256; Saratoga (carrier), 261, 564; South Dakota (battleship), 262; Spearfish (submarine), 234; Vincennes (cruiser), 255; Wainwright (destroyer), 291; Washington (battleship), 262; Wasp (carrier), 261; Yorktown (carrier), 237–8, 240, 244–5, 249, 251–3
Uprichard, Sgt. Bill, 475
Uranus, Operation (Russia), 314–16
Urbanowicz, Witold, 5, 22
U Saw, 220
Ushijima, Gen. Mitsuru, 640
Ustaše (Croatia), 405, 465, 467, 469
Utah beach, Normandy, 534
V-weapons (Germany), 343, 486
Vallicella, Vittorio, 134–5, 137–8, 370–2, 374, 377
Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr, 320, 383, 617, 668
Vass, Dénes, 600
Vatutin, Nikolai, 383, 405
Vavin, Nikolai, 169
VE-Day (8 May 1945), 630
Vendetta, HMAS (destroyer), 203
Veritable, Operation, 610
Vértessy, Col. János, 603
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 448
Vienna, 618
Vierkom, Karl-Gottfried, 175
Vietminh movement (Indochina), 407
Vietnam, 407–8
Vistula, river, 613–14
Vlasov, Lt.Gen. Andrey, 300
Volga Germans: deported in Russia, 151
Volga river: freezes, 316
Völkischer Beobachter (Nazi newspaper), 14
Voronezh, 302–3, 315
Voroshilov, Gen. Kliment, 168–9
Vorster, John, 412
Wacht (German army newspaper), 585
Wade, Robert, 466
Wagner, Gen. Eduard, 70, 163, 504
Wainwright, Gen. Jonathan, 233–5
Walcheren, 584
Waldheim, Kurt, 671
Waldron, Lt.Cdr. John, 247–8
Wallenberg, Raoul, 602
Wallis, Barnes, 481
Walters, Anne-Marie, 406
Walther, SS Panzergrenadier Herbert, 556
Wannsee conference (1942), 519
war crimes: punishments for, 671–2
Warlimont, Gen. Walter, 98
Warsaw: destroyed and occupied by Germans, 17–20; Hitler visits, 22; ghetto, 509, 515, 522; uprising (1944), 549, 588
Washington summit (May 1943), 443
Waskow, Capt. Henry, 458
Watson, Lt. Robert, 639
Waugh, Evelyn, 8, 102, 343, 441
Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald (later 1st Earl): Middle East command, 105; in Egypt, 107, 109; mounts offensive against Italians, 110–11; troops sent to Greece, 111; orders to Neame, 114; and evacuation of Greece, 122; and expedition to Iraq, 124; sends force to Syria, 125; failed offensive against Rommel, 128; loses Middle East command, 128; numbers of troops, 135; and defence and fall of Singapore, 212; and proposed shooting of Australian deserters, 213; dismisses army commanders in Burma, 222; unable to send reinforcements to Burma, 221; command in South-East Asia, 222; leaves Singapore, 236; on Bengal famine, 351; organises relief for Bengal famine, 424; offensive in Burma, 433