World War II in the Pacific

An Encyclopedia
Herausgeber: Sandler, Stanley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 269mm x 206mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1656g
• ISBN-13: 9780415763721
• ISBN-10: 041576372X
• Artikelnr.: 40812437

Autorenporträt

Stanley Sandler is one of America's best-known military historians. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London Department of War Studies, where he studied under the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard. He was a Command historian for the US Army Special Operations Command for fourteen years and was a Visiting Professor in the History of Sea Power at the US Naval Academy. He will hold the Edwin Conquest '14 Chair in history at Virginia Military Institute, 1999-2000. Dr. Sandler has received numerous academic and professional awards, including a New York State Regents' Teaching Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Secretary of the Army Research and Writing Fellowship. His publications include The Emergence of The ModernCapital Ship (1979), Segregated Skies: The All-blackUSAAF Squadrons of World War II (1992), The Korean War: AnEncyclopedia (Garland, 1995), and numerous articles in military history.

Inhaltsangabe

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