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Great Artiste, The, 235, 236
Great Britain, xvi, 11, 25
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 30, 169
Great Kanto earthquake (1923), 143, 157
Greening, Charles R., 5, 279n
ground control approach (GCA) radar, 182
Groves, Leslie R., 225–26, 234
Guadalcanal, 67, 82, 87, 127, 251
Guam, 1, 32, 68, 71, 72–73, 84, 91, 93, 98, 167, 189, 194, 196, 240, 241, 242, 246–47
North Field of, 80–81, 100, 137
Haley’s Comet, 96
Hall, Douglass C., 248–49
Halloran, Paul, 75
Halloran, Raymond “Hap,” 96, 171
Halpro (Halvorsen Project), 32–33
Halsey, William F. “Bull,” 3, 110, 133, 241, 249, 260–61
harbor war against Japan and, 199, 201, 205–6, 208, 209, 210, 212, 217–19
Halvorsen, Harry A., 32
Hamburg, Germany, 141
Hancock, USS, 113, 116, 202, 212, 215, 244
Handley Page, 10, 13
Handy, Thomas T., 231
Hankow, China, 53, 101
Hansell, Haywood S. “Possum,” 19, 20, 21, 45, 53, 56, 77–79, 80, 85–86, 88–91, 93, 97, 100, 103, 164, 188, 195, 259
Hansen, Herman, 125, 127
Hansen, Theodore, 244
Harman, Leonard F., 43
Harmon, Millard F., 72
Harper, Bryan B., 180–81
Harpoon bombers, 275
Harrison, Howard M., 244
Haruna, 129, 130, 215
Harvard University, 139
Hastings, Max, 26, 261
Hawaii, 68, 78, 91
Hawes, Edmund H., 219–21, 222, 296n
Hayashi, Yoshishige, 128
Haynes, Caleb V., 32
Heavenly Body, 60
Hellcat (F6F) fighters, xv, 106, 115–19, 121, 123, 124, 127–29, 132, 133, 201–3, 207, 211–12, 216, 217, 243–44
Helldiver dive bombers, xv, 115, 118, 119, 128–29, 210, 213, 216
Hickey, Robert F., 113
Higashikuni, Prince of Japan, 82
high-velocity aerial rockets (HVARs), 129–30, 187, 216
Hilger, John A., 2, 279n
Hinoki, Yohei, 82
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, xvi, 27, 29, 151, 157–58, 168, 203, 243, 245–46, 268, 269, 270
Hiroshima, Japan, 108, 196, 219
atomic bombing of, 223–24, 229–34, 262, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 297n, 301n
Hitler, Adolf, 167, 225, 267
Hockley, Fred, 244, 245
Holstrom, Everett “Brick,” 5–6
Holzapple, Joseph, 239
Honma, Tadahiko, 245
Hoover, Herbert C., 268, 301n-2n
Hoover, Travis, 5
Horikoshi, Jiro, 77
Hornet (CV-8), USS, 1–3, 107, 111
Hornet (CV-12), USS, 114–15, 118, 124, 128, 130
Hosho, 108
Houck, Herbert N., 116
Hutchinson, Wendell, 92
Hutto, Ernest E., 210–11
Hyuga, 130, 212–13
Ie Shima, 238, 246
Imperial Navy of Japan, 7, 28, 29–30, 54, 68, 115, 117, 168, 178, 186, 198, 232, 245, 247, 274–75
aircraft losses by, 83, 131
final destruction of, 208–22
U.S. carrier targeting of, 124–32
incendiary bombs, 4, 31–32, 51, 64–65, 76, 114, 139–41, 147, 148, 156, 260
AAF tests of, 138–39
first large-scale use on Japan of, 101–5
Indefatigable, HMS, 205, 244–45
Independence class (CVL) carriers, 110–11, 112, 122
India, 29, 32, 78, 91, 167
B-29 operations in, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 50, 58, 63, 65, 258
Indomitable, HMS, 205
Intrepid, USS, 131, 132
Inubo-Saki, Japan, 3, 187
Irish Lassie, 95
Irving (J1N) night fighters, 83–84, 276
Ise, 130, 212, 215
Isely, Robert, 71
Italy, 12, 266
strategic bombing plan for, 20
World War I and, 9–10
Ivanovic, Dushan D., 51–52
Iwakuni, Japan, 254
Iwo Jima, xv, 80, 82, 86, 159, 163, 164, 166, 238
invasion of, 106, 123, 134–35
P-51 bomber escort from, 174–93
U.S. bombing missions over, 87, 117, 123, 124
Jack (J2M) fighters, 83, 117, 178, 185, 276
Japan:
aircraft production of, 82–83, 262
air defenses of, 81–84
Allied blockade of, 48, 194–99, 264
atomic bombing of, xv, 223–24, 261–62, 265–69, 270–71, 297n, 298n, 301n
B-29 development and, 39–40
“Blitz Week” and, 154–58
carrier-based air war on, 106–33
carrier force of, 67
China-based B-29 operations against, 31–66, 79, 91, 97, 101, 259
Chinese aggression of, 17–18, 27, 29, 30
civil defense in, 142–46, 173
civilian defense of, 228
coal ferries of, 201–2, 209, 264
defense shortcomings of, 252–56
Doolittle’s raid on, 1–7, 33, 48, 68, 80, 102, 107, 111, 187, 279n
firebombing raids against, 102–3, 134–58, 161–70, 172–73, 292n
first carrier-based attacks on, 113–24
first U.S. pilots to land in, 248–49
harbor war against, 194–222, 264