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38th Bomb Group, 219
39th Bomb Group, 159–60, 190–92
Thorsen, William R., 73
302nd Naval Air Group, Japanese, 83, 178, 211
304th Naval Squadron, Japanese, 245
305th Bomb Group, 57
313th Bomb Wing, 92, 100, 102, 136, 195, 198, 240
314th Bomb Wing, 98, 100, 136, 137
315th Bomb Wing, 167, 239–40, 242
318th Fighter Group, 238
319th Bomb Group, 239
343rd Naval Air Group, Japanese, 126–28, 179
348th Fighter Group, 246
Tibbets, Paul W., 37, 229, 230, 231–34, 236, 239, 270
Tice, Clay, 248–49
Ticonderoga, USS, 212, 243
Tinian, 65, 68, 71, 73–75, 92, 102, 165, 167, 197, 241
atomic bomb and, 230, 234, 235, 237
Tirpitz, 221
Tojo, Hideki, 229, 268, 276
Tojo (Ki-44) fighters, 85, 95, 119, 121, 184
Tokyo, Japan:
bombing casualties in, 153, 292n
civil defense in, 143–45, 146
Doolittle’s raid on, 1–7, 33, 48, 68, 80, 102, 107, 111, 187, 279n
firebombings of, 102–3, 136–37, 146–54, 168–70, 171, 172, 292n
first B-29 attack on, 84–86
first carrier-launched attacks on, 118–23
Great Kanto earthquake and, 143, 157
Musashino aircraft factory in, 84–86, 87–88, 89, 91–92, 94–97, 120, 164
strategic bombing of, 76–77, 84–105, 134–42, 146–54, 164, 168–70, 171, 172, 184–85
Tokyo Electric Power Company, 148
Tokyo Rose, 102
Toland, John, 147
Tone, 214
Tony (Ki-61) fighters, 83, 121, 164, 184, 276
torpedo planes, 110
Toyu Maru, 202
Trenchard, Hugh, 11, 12, 16, 18
Truk Atoll, 116
Truman, Harry S., 165, 166, 228, 234, 241, 266–67, 270
Tsuchikura, Hidezo, 150
Tsurgi (Sword), Operation, 241
Tupolev TU-4 “Bull,” 54
20th Air Force, 45, 47, 53, 56, 58, 64, 68, 77, 91, 102, 136, 142, 158–63, 265
atomic bomb and, 231–37, 265–69
captured fliers of, 170–72
postwar operations of, 250–51
21st Fighter Group, 175–76, 181, 182, 184–85, 189
29th Bomb Group, 152, 165, 171
29th Construction Regiment, U.S. Navy, 73
Twining, Nathan, 231
Typhoon McGoon III, 62
U-boats, 2, 7
Ugaki, Matome, 159
Ulithi Atoll, 112
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 89
Utter, Harmon T., 210
Ventura bombers, 274–75
very long range (VLR) escorts, 174–93
Vian, Philip, 205, 206, 221
Vickers, 10
Victoria Cross, 221–22
Victorious, HMS, 205
Victory Through Air Power (Seversky), 22, 280n-81n
Views on the Use of Crash Tactics in Aerial Protection of Vital Defense Areas-No. 2 (JAAF), 40
VII Fighter Command (Sunsetters), 175–93
Vining, Gerald, 92
Vladivostock, U.S.S.R., 6, 54, 61
Wagner, Sam P., 85
Wake Island, 1, 32, 40
Walker, Kenneth N., 19, 21
Walker, William, 89
War Department, U.S., 237
War Plan Orange, 108
Wasp, USS, 112, 118, 119, 125, 130, 215
Watanabe, Yukihiro, 128
Wayne, John, 68
Wedemeyer, Albert, 64
Weller, Oscar “Tex,” 125
Welling, Alvin C., 42
Welsh, John D., 129
Were Wolf, 96
White, Donald, 121
Whitehead, Ennis C., 239
Wildcat (F4F) fighters, 114
Wilson, Donald, 19
Winged Defense (Douhet), 13
Wolf, Fritz E., 114, 117
Wolfe, Kenneth B., 37, 38, 43, 46, 50, 53, 58, 89, 91, 97, 259
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), 37
World War I, 9–12, 22, 25, 109, 217
World War II:
airbase construction in Pacific in, 68–75, 237–38, 285n
aviators trained in, 79–80
Japanese surrender in, 242–47
Pearl Harbor attack in, 1, 21, 34, 126, 132, 185, 211
strategic bombing casualties in, xvi, 153, 256
U.S. industrial production in, 161, 262
war crimes in, 168, 171–72, 245, 293n, 294n
XB-15 bomber, 14, 34, 35
XB-19 bomber, 14–15, 34
XX Bomber Command, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 52, 56, 61, 63–65, 79, 91, 99
XXI Bomber Command, 56, 59, 63, 77–79, 80, 86, 90, 91, 98, 134, 146, 147, 158–63, 167, 172, 197
captured fliers of, 170–72
firebombing tactic adopted by, 102–3, 142, 154–56
loss rate of, 99–100
postwar missions of, 250–51
Yalta Conference (1945), 234
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 7, 185, 210, 211
Yamato, 126, 131, 132
Yamazaki, Iwao, 173
Yawata, Japan, 50–51, 54–56, 65, 235, 284n
Yokohama, Japan, 5, 143, 172, 185
Yokosuka, Japan, 5, 209–11, 264, 296n
Yokosuka Air Group, 117
York, Edward J. “Ski,” 5, 6, 279n
Yorktown, USS, 114, 117, 127, 244, 249, 250
Yoshida, Kihachiro, 85
Yoshimura, Matake, 215
Zeppelins, 9, 11
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