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’s role in, 13.3; secret codes broken by U.S.A., 14.1; Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 16.1; rule in Indochina, 16.2; Malayan support for, 16.3; sympathisers in conquered Asian countries, 16.4; treatment of conquered people, 16.5; and Indian National Army, 16.6; biological warfare, 17.10, 26.5; use of “comfort women,” 17.11; Allied commitment to campaign against, 17.12; declares Burma independent, 17.13; defensive tenacity in Pacific, 17.14, 18.1, 25.4; refuses to concede defeat, 17.15, 25.5, 25.6; aircraft quality, 19.1; air force effectiveness, 19.2; blockaded and shipping losses, 22.3, 22.4; land war against British, 22.5; attacks in Arakan, 22.6; defeated in Battle of Kohima, 22.7; fanatical fighting on Pacific islands, 22.8; defeat in battle for Marianas, 22.9; Slim defeats in Burma, 25.7; casualties in 1945 Burma campaign, 25.8; kamikaze attacks on U.S. Navy and aircraft, 25.9, 25.10; coastal waters mined, 25.11; proposed U.S. attack on mainland, 25.12, 25.13; unconditional surrender, 25.14; under MacArthur’s rule, 26.6; prisoners’ deaths in Soviet custody, 26.7; reaction to surrender, 26.8; strategic mistakes, 26.9; war criminals executed, 26.10; postwar attitudes, 26.11

Japanese (Nisei): U.S. detention of citizens

Japanese navy: actions, 10.1; quality of, and seamen, 10.2; codes, 10.3; decline in performance, 17.1; losses, 22.1 VESSELS: Abukuma (cruiser), 22.2; Akagi (carrier), 10.4; Chikuma (cruiser), 22.3; Chokai (cruiser), 10.5, 22.4; Fuso (battleship), 22.5; Hiryu (carrier), 10.6; Hiyu (carrier), 22.6; Kaga (carrier), 10.7; Kako (heavy cruiser), 10.8; Kirishima (battleship), 10.9; Mogami (heavy cruiser), 22.7; Musashi (battleship), 22.8; Shoho (carrier), 10.10, 10.11; Shokaku (carrier), 10.12, 18.1, 22.9; Soryu (carrier), 10.13; Suzuya (cruiser), 22.10; Taiho (carrier), 22.11; Tone (heavy cruiser), 10.14; Yamashiro (battleship), 22.12; Zuikaku (carrier), 10.15, 10.16

Java (Dutch cruiser), 9.1

Jenkins, Roy (later Baron), itr.1

Jeschonnek, Hans, 6.1, 19.1

Jews: genocide, itr.1, 20.1, 20.2, 26.1; sufferings, itr.2, 20.3; persecuted in Poland, 1.1, 1.2, 20.4; courage in French army, 3.1; persecuted in France, 4.1, 5.1; killed in Lithuania, 6.1; and Nazi final solution, 6.2, 20.5, 20.6; slaughtered in Russia, 6.3; denied sanctuary in Switzerland, 16.1; U.S. suspicion of, 16.2; deported from France and Holland, 16.3; in Hungary, 20.7, 20.8, 24.1; confined to ghettos, 20.9; deported from Germany to east, 20.10; and extermination camps, 20.11; suicides, 20.12; fate little known in West, 20.13; “ordinary men” as killers of, 20.14; protected by individual Germans, 20.15; total fatalities, 26.2; and Zionism, 26.3; see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust

Jodl, Gen. Alfred, 6.1, 24.1

Joest, Eleonore

Joffe, Constantin

Johnson, Gen. Hugh

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnston, George

Johnston, Richard

Johnstone, Sandy, 4.1, 4.2

Joint Intelligence Committee (British)

Jones, Corp. James, 10.1, 13.1

Josefów, Poland: Jews massacred

Ju-88 (German light bomber)

Juin, Gen. Alphonse, 18.1, 21.1

Juricka, Cmdr. Stephen, USN

Kabouky, Val

Kageler, Georg

Kahn, E. J.

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, Dahlem

Kalinichenko, Evdokiya, 12.1, 13.1

Kalitov, Pavel, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

Kamenev, Lev

Kameneva, Olga

kamikaze tactics, 19.1, 25.1, 25.2

Kampen, Elizabeth van

Kappler, Lt. Col. Herbert

Karski, Lt. Jan, 1.1, 20.1

Kasserine Pass, Battle of (1943)

Kathigasu, Sybil

Katyn forest massacre (1940)

Katyusha rockets (Russian), 7.1

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm

Kellas, Lt. Arthur

Kelly, Lt. Robert

Kemp, Peter

Kennard, Sir Howard

Kennedy, David

Kennedy, Gen. Sir John

Kennedy, Joseph, 2.1, 8.1

Kenney, George

Kerr, Lt. Michael, 5.1, 21.1

Kershaw, Brigade-Maj. Anthony, 21.1, 21.2

Kershaw, Ian

Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert: opposes assault on Britain, 4.1; commands in Italy, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 21.1; and Patton’s strategy in Sicily, 18.4; evacuates Sicily, 18.5; rule in Italy, 18.6; retreats before Alexander’s attacks, 21.2; succeeds Rundstedt, 24.1; qualities, 26.1

Key, Maj. Gen. Billy