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Adams, Frederick, 10
African Americans, 25
not admitted to Marine Corps, 77
Aichi, 62
aircraft carriers, Japanese, U.S. destruction of, xiv
Air Force, Chinese, 167
airplane engines, 54–55
Air Service Command, 63
Akagi, 1, 2, 6, 190
Akers, Frank, 67, 68, 150
Akigumo, 2, 6
Alabama College Glee Club, 95
Alameda Naval Air Station, 39, 108, 115, 116, 119, 121–24
Aleutians, 307
Alexander, Edward, Chinese airfields prepared by, 166–69
Algeria, 475
Altick, Sherman, 367
American Red Cross, 77, 407
American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers), 102, 328, 344
Angsing, 383
anthrax, xiv, 385, 386, 387
Arcadia Conference, 28
Arisue, Colonel, 403
Arizona, 24
Army, Imperial:
planes of, 12
size of, 12
Army, U.S.:
Western Defense Force of, 76
Army Air Forces, U.S., shortages faced by, 27, 35, 54
Army Clothing Depot, 145
Arndt, Ralph, 236
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 112, 165, 276, 323, 330
B-25s ordered for raid by, 66
background of, 32–33
congratulatory message on raid from, 333–34
debriefed on raid by Doolittle, 357
Doolittle given top priority by, 58
Doolittle grounded by, 45, 53
Doolittle hired by, 56–57
Doolittle ordered to meet Halsey by, 115
and Doolittle raid plan, 62, 105, 106–7, 108
and Doolittle’s blind flight, 53
and Doolittle’s desire to lead mission, 97
Doolittle’s warning on Germany’s military preparations to, 55–56
executions and, 418
farewell note to Doolittle from, 127
FDR notified about raid by, 321
FDR’s dispute with, 33
fuel for raid moved by, 107–8
letters to families of dead raiders sent by, 457
Marshall and Doolittle’s meeting with, 357–59
medals given to raiders by, 368
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 26, 34
and outcome of raid, 317
and plan to bomb Tokyo, 28, 32, 34–37, 38, 318
Stilwell briefed on raid by, 106–7, 167
on success of raid, 321–22
worried about delay of raid, 169
Asahi Electrical Manufacturing Corporation, 199, 309
Associated Press, 14, 18, 319, 324, 330, 458
Atago, 190
Atlantic Monthly, 145
atom bombs, 449–50
Australia, 27, 75, 133, 136, 151
Avenger, 96, 224–26
Awata Maru, 237
B-18, 69
B-23s, 32, 36
B-25s, 32, 36, 288
California mechanics and, 112–14
cameras on, 61–62
carburetors on, 93–94, 113, 116
cost of, 59
crew requirements for, 59
design of, 59
development of, 58–59
engines of, 59
fuel capacity of, 61
meager armament of, 92
modified for raid, 58, 59–62, 92–94, 97, 111–12, 116, 177
names given to, 96
organizing crews for, 68–74
payload of, 59, 148, 160, 165, 184
Saylor’s repairs to, 153–54
size of, 101
weight of, 90, 95
wingspan of, 67
B-26 Marauder, 59
B-29 Superfortress, 59, 448–49
Backus, Edward, Chinese airfields prepared by, 166–69
bacteriological warfare, 386–89
Bailey, Forest, 39–40
Bailey, Jason, 466
Meder’s remains recovered by, 466–67
Bain, Edwin, 93, 150
in bombing raid, 227, 228–29
death of, 475
Balch, 157, 159
Barr, George, 345, 463
and Bat out of Hell, 183
China landing of, 265, 266
death of, 478
healing of, 478
illness of, 450, 455, 457–58, 459–62
mental breakdown of, 459–61
in move west, 110
in prison, 299, 347, 349, 400, 438, 439, 443, 444, 445, 450, 455, 460
recovery of, 463
sentence of, 404
as witness at international tribunal, 468
Bashi Strait, 190
Bataan Peninsula, 76, 152–53, 192, 324
Bates, James, 91, 116–17
Bat out of Hell, 96, 182–83, 185, 232–33, 265–69, 297, 307, 308, 395, 407
Baumeister, Karl, 71, 74
Bay Bridge, 32
Beardall, John, 16
Belgium, 10
Benham, 159
Benicia Arsenal, 112
Bereswill, Louis, 375
beriberi, 450
Bernstein, George, 179
Bettis, Cyrus, 48
Biddle, Francis, 21
on internment camps for Japanese Americans, 76–77
Birch, Bill, 163–64, 244, 333
in bombing raid, 222
training of, 73
Birch, John, 276–77
Bissell, Clayton, 168, 329, 330, 332, 334, 336
Bissell, Wayne, 218
Bither, Waldo, 223, 271
Bitter, Bruno, 210
Bland, W. H. P., 18
Blanton, Thad, 166, 224
blind flight, 52–53
Bloch, Claude, 13
Bogart, Larry, 121, 166
Bonin Islands, 190
Bordeaux Maru, 134
Boso Peninsula, 201, 204, 219, 308
Boston Globe, 317, 324, 449
Bourgeois, Robert, 70, 130, 155–56, 162, 245, 479
in bombing raid, 224–26
Bower, Bill, 70, 90, 123, 372
in bombing raid, 221, 223–24
in China, 328, 331, 333
departure on raid of, 128
Doolittle as hero of, 88
at launch, 182
made engineering officer, 88
Boyo Moyo, 82
Bradley, Follett, 421–22
Braemer, Fred, 179, 246, 270
bombing by, 197
in flight to Tokyo, 195, 196
wife’s inquiry about, 365
Brereton, Lewis, 102, 323
Bridge House, 395–400, 401, 438
Brown, Prentiss, 55
Browning, Miles, 100, 115
Browning, Patsy, 373
Buchanan, Jean, 371
Buckingham Palace, 148
Bungey, William, 396
Burchett, Wilfred, 388
Burma, Japanese assault on, 107
Burma Road, 107, 151
C-63, 36
California, 24
Campbell, Clayton, 224, 326
Campbell, Robert, 236
Carpenter, Edmund, 451
Carter, Amon, 34
Casey, Robert, 159–60, 161, 181, 183
Central Nippon Army, 310
Ceylon, 133
Charlie (Jai Foo Chang), 255, 292–93, 371
Cheek, Tom, 160
Chekiang Province, China, 275, 375, 387, 389
Chemical Warfare Services, 62
Chennault, Claire, 28, 63, 328
on Japanese drive through China, 383, 389–90
on secrecy of raid, 476
Chen Shenyan, 285, 296, 338, 341, 342–43
Chesapeake (floating lighthouse), 66
Chiang Kai-shek, 75, 102, 269
airfield use granted to raiders by, 169–70
China’s strategic value realized by, 104–5
Luce’s admiration for, 103–4
raiders invited to lunch by, 331–33
Stilwell’s disgust with, 103, 105, 389
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 104, 331, 332–33, 334
Chicago Daily News, 173, 239
Chicago Daily Tribune, 74–75, 324, 360–61, 373
Chicago Sun, 24
China, 75, 81, 139, 144, 191
airfields of, 31
bombers turned over to, 112
Japanese atrocities in, xiv, 105–6, 277, 376, 381, 384, 390, 482, 397, 520n
Japanese desire to wipe out airfields in, 375–80
Japanese torture of those who helped raiders in, 384–90
as landing spot for Doolittle raid, xiii, 31, 36, 58, 63–64, 105–6, 108, 115, 129, 146, 150, 166–70, 204, 242, 244, 308
preparations for raiders in, 102–8
strategic value of, 104–5
U.S. aid to, 28
U.S. bombers in, 35
U.S. search for prisoners of war in, 451–52
U.S. use of airfields in, 27
China Relief, 284
China Weekly Review, 397
Chita Wan, 226
Chkalov, Russia, 429–37
Chokyu Maru, 237
cholera, xiv, 385, 387, 389
Choshi, Japan, 223–24
Chuchow, China, 63, 107, 108, 167, 169, 342, 376
Japanese raids against, 327, 385, 389
Chugai Shogyo, 312
Ch’u Hsien, 389
Chungking, China, 63, 329–31, 333, 457, 458
Church Committee on China Relief, 385
Churchill, Winston:
Doolittle raid and, 172
FDR’s message on raid to, 321
future of war as concern of, 151–52
and Pearl Harbor announcement, 17–18
speech style of, 19
on Time, 104
Washington trip of, 26–27
Cimarron, 125, 128, 131, 160, 162
Civil War, U.S., 21
Clapper, Raymond, 410
Clark, D. Worth, 318
Clark, John, 111, 117–18
Cleveland, Grover, 13
Cleveland Athletic Club, 374
Cleveland Press, 419
Clever, Bob, 252, 253, 337
death of, 475
injury of, 253, 282–83, 285
in landing after raid, 282–83, 284
in launch, 177
coal, 80
Cole, Richard, 95, 125, 155, 157, 245, 246, 247, 479–80
bombing by, 199
brought to Chinese military, 272–74
in flight to Tokyo, 184, 195
at launch, 181
letters to parents by, 334–35
medals awarded to, 363–64
Collier’s, 77
Colorado, 125
Columbia Army Air Base, 69, 70–71
Communication Ministry, 309
Congress, U.S., 317–18
Connally, Tom, 22
Connecticut, 165
Coolidge, 143
Cooper, Merian, 369
rescue mission and, 335–36
Coral Sea, 341, 415
Corregidor, 76, 152–53, 192, 339
Cromley, Ray, 144
Crouch, Horace, 129, 219, 220
Crow Indians, 25
Cunningham, Winfield Scott, 75, 455
Currie, Laughlin, 104
Cushing, 125
Cyclops (Japanese guard), 443
Daily News, 361
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, 51
Davenport, Dean, 123, 244, 251–52
in battle with Japanese vessel, 186–87
in bombing raid, 208
injury of, 253, 254, 285
in landing after raid, 280, 283
medal awarded to, 369
Davis, Dwight, 49
Davis, Elmer, 414
DC-2, 35–36
DC-3, 35–36
Death March, 153
DeMille, Cecil B., 45
Denmark, 10
DeShazer, Jacob, 110, 243
and Bat out of Hell damage, 186
in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 175
in bombing raid, 232–33
China landing of, 265–69
in evacuation to China, 457
fears of, 157
interviewed in press, 458
at launch, 178, 182–83
missionary work of, 477–78
in prison, 297–98, 299, 347–48, 351, 398, 401, 438–39, 440–43, 444, 445, 446–47, 448, 450, 455, 456, 460
recovery of, 463
report on imprisonment by, 457
in return to U.S., 458–59
sentence of, 404
torture of, 298
training of, 72
as witness at international tribunal, 468
Detroit, Mich., 80
DeWitt, John, 76
Dickson, W. N., 391
Diet, Japanese, 143, 147, 218
Dieter, Bill, 363
in bombing raid, 206
death of, 278, 457
grave of, 465
injuries of, 465
Nielsen’s letter to mother of, 465
Dodson, Oscar, 66–67
Doolittle, Jimmy:
airplane acrobatics of, 36, 44–47, 51, 53–54
airplane racing by, 48–49, 53
ankle injury of, 49–51
Army joined by, 41–42
Arnold’s and Marshall’s meeting with, 357–59
Arnold’s congratulatory message to, 333–34
arrival back in U.S., 357
B-26 investigated by, 56–57
background of, 38–57
Barr aided by, 461–62
and battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 176
blind flight mastered by, 52–53
in bombing raid, 194–97, 209
boxing practiced by, 39–41
and California mechanics, 113–14
in charge of Mitchel Field laboratory, 51–53
charisma of, 88
in China, 270–71
departure on raid of, 127–28
desire to lead mission, 97
dive bombing contemplated by, 148–49
education of, 41, 47, 48
executions and, 418
experiments on plane, 47–48
fame of, xiii
in flight to China, 242, 246–47
in flight to Japan, 194
flying learned by, 41–44
on Germany’s World War II preparations, 55–56
Halsey’s meeting with, 115, 158
as hero to raiders, 88
Japanese park in honor of, 477
Japanese propaganda against, 415
and launch of raid, 176, 179, 180
on Leonard’s death, 475
manufacturers thanked by, 372–73
marriage of, 40–41, 42
Marshall’s call to, 127–28
Medal of Honor awarded to, 358–60, 362, 415
Meder memorialized by, 444
and modifications to B-25, 59, 60–62, 92–94, 97, 111–12, 116
in move west, 108, 109, 110, 111–12
placed in charge of raid, 37
plane for raid chosen by, 36
in press, 361
reaction to Pearl Harbor, 56
report by, 371
at Shell, 53, 54–55, 56
stature and appearance of, 38–39, 80, 88
stronger airplane engine favored by, 54–55
in talks with Chinese military, 272, 274–76
Tokyo as target of, 195–97
top priority given to, 58
and training for raid, 85–92, 94
upset with York, 369
as witness at international tribunal, 468–69
and work report incident, 117
Doolittle, Jimmy, Jr., 362
Doolittle, John, 362
Doolittle, Josephine Daniels, 40–41, 42, 48, 127
Doolittle, Rosa, 39, 40
Doolittle raid, 221–33, 368
casualties of, xiv, 197, 201, 202, 207, 220, 231, 307, 309, 311, 351, 411–12, 469
Chiang’s desire for delay of, 169–71
China as landing destination for, xiii, 31, 36, 58, 63–64, 105–6, 108, 115, 129, 146, 150, 166–70, 204, 242, 244, 308
Chinese casualties as result of, 384–90, 476
civilian property destroyed in, xiv, 201–2, 231
and concerns about planes being hit, 148–49
damage from, 197, 201–2, 205, 217, 218–20, 222, 225–26, 227–28, 231, 238–39, 308–9
effect on Japan of, 311–12
effect on U.S. of, 317–19
enemy patrol boats and, 236–37
erroneous Japanese reports on, 306–7
FDR’s reaction to, 318–21
as iconic, xii
Japanese anticipation of, 189–92
Japanese editorials on, 312–14
Japanese fighters against, 201, 203
Japanese government’s reassurances after, 309–11
Japanese leaders’ response to, 375
Japanese report on, 414–15
launch of, 176–85, 192
length of flights for, 93, 177
military targets and, 148, 468–69
radio reports of, 239–40
risk of, xiii, xiv–xv
Roosevelt administration deception about, xiv, 412, 476
secrecy of, 172
targets of, xiii, 144–45, 146–47, 148, 195–97, 468–69
Tokyo bombed in, 196–214, 215–21
see also Hornet
Doolittle raid, plan for, 28, 31–32, 34–37, 38
aircraft carrier in, 65–66
aircrews chosen in, 68–74
cities chosen in, 62
and dumping of fuel tins, 150
launch of B-25s in, 116
liftoff time decided in, 146
night attack envisioned in, 63
number of bombers needed in, 35
oil moved for, 107–8
outline in, 62
planes chosen in, 35–37
practice in, 66–67
report on, 62–63
route in, 130
safety as paramount in, 130–31
Stilwell briefed on, 106–7
takeoff in, 58, 89–90, 132, 163
targets chosen in, 146–47
weather and, 63, 162
wide front in, 146–47
Doolittle raid, raiders of, 479, 480
bombs inscribed by, 165–66
capture of, xiv
Chiang’s lunch invitation to, 331–33
courage of, xiv–xv, 475–76
departure of, 126–29
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 330–31, 334, 367–69
Eglin field training of, 85–97
execution of, 407–9, 412–13, 416–17, 418, 438, 456, 457, 475
gambling by, 156–57, 163
gear carried by, 149
hair length of, 162
hiding in China by, 292–95
hunt for remains of, 465–67
Imperial Palace as favored target of, 147–48
inoculations of, 95, 150
internment escape planned by, 427–28, 430–37
Japanese trial of, 400–401
meals of, 155–56
missionaries’ aid to, 376–84
mission training for, 70–72, 85, 87–92, 94, 96–97, 108–18, 122, 129
in move to California, 101–2
naval etiquette course of, 95
North Africa reunion of, 474
ordered west, 101, 108–13
parties for, 462, 474–75, 476–77, 478–79
personal preparations for mission, 163–64
pre-raid ceremony of, 165–66
in prison, 438–48, 450, 454–57, 458
recovery of, 463–64
relaxation by, 95–96, 114–15, 156–57, 163
reports on capture of, 409–19
response to executions of, 418–19
in Russian internment, 287–91, 391–407, 420–37, 477
sailing toward Japan by, 153–58, 160–68
sentencing of, 438–39
targeting of residential areas and, 148
torture of, 396–97
waterboarding of, 299, 301–2, 457
whiskey given to, 150
Dorn, Frank “Pinkie,” 103, 329–30
Douglas, William, 416
Duncan, Donald:
Doolittle ordered west by, 101, 108–11
Halsey’s meeting with, 115
Japanese attack plan of, 31–32, 64, 65–66, 67, 68, 318
at practice takeoff, 67, 68
on secret visit to Nimitz, 98–101
Dunker, Steve, 376–78
Dunker, Wendelin, 371, 377–79, 380, 381, 383
Duquette, Omer, death of, 475
Dutch East Indies, 11, 75, 82, 151, 152
Dwyer, Robert, 469
Dykema, Mrs. T. J., 362
Dynan, Joseph, 214
dysentery, 385
Early, Steve, 14–15, 16, 20, 21, 419
Eastern District Army, 310
East Indies, 27
Edgewood Arsenal, 62
Eglin Field, 71–72, 85–97, 110, 113, 129
Egoricheff, Ivan, 141–42
Eierman, Jacob:
in bombing raid, 227, 228–29
final letter of, before raid, 114–15
at launch, 178, 179
Eighty-Ninth Reconnaissance Squadron, 68
Eikichi Maru, 237
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 322
Electric Machinery Works, 231
Eleventh Army, 375
Elizalde, Joaquim, 18
Ellet, 159
Emmens, Bob, 69, 74, 91–92, 122, 129, 164, 355, 356
in bombing raid, 215–16, 217
in flight to Tokyo, 187, 188, 189
in internment escape, 433, 435
at launch, 182
and low gas gauge of, 188, 189
and move to south of Russia, 420, 477
in move west, 109–10
in Russian internment, 287, 289, 290, 392, 393, 394, 420–21, 422, 424–27, 429, 430, 431, 433, 434, 477
Russian landing of, 257–61
training of, 72
Emmens, Justine, 393
Enemy Airmen’s Act, 403, 469, 470
England, Frank, 336–37
Enterprise, 5, 32, 65, 75, 101, 130, 159, 160–61, 162, 164, 172, 173, 183, 184, 234, 235–36, 237, 239, 241
En-Tse Hospital, 285
Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit of the Kwantung Army, 385
Executive Order 9066, 76–77
Fairbanks, Douglas, 49
Faktor, Leland, 271, 326, 333, 363, 364
Fanning, 159
Farrow, Billy, 71, 95–96, 125, 155, 243, 419, 477
and Bat out of Hell damage, 186
in bombing raid, 226, 232–33
burial of, 467
China landing of, 257, 269
execution of, 407–9, 411–12, 438, 457, 464, 465, 475
final letters of, 405–7
at launch, 178, 183, 234
letter from mother of, 366–67
personal testimony of, 410–11, 418
in prison, 350, 399, 400, 405, 410
remains of, 465–66
sentence of, 404
Farrow, Jessie, 411
Fat Man, 449–50
Federal Reserve Building, 28
Fengtai, 454
Fickle Finger of Fate, 96, 223–24
Field, John, 130, 163, 183
Fiji, 136
First Fleet, 190
Fitzgerald, John, Jr., 66, 67
Fitzhugh, Bill, at launch, 181
Fitzmaurice, Donald, 249
death of, 278, 419, 457
grave of, 465
injuries of, 465
Flying Tigers, 102, 328, 344
Ford, John, 159
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 34
Fourth Cruiser Division, 190
France, 10
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 6, 135, 315, 316
baptism of, 478
and preparations against Doolittle raid, 190
Fujita, Chosei, 407
Fukudome, Shigeru, 137
Furusawa, Yukiteru, 202
Futsin, China, 387
Gardner, Melvin, 94
in bombing raid, 221
death of, 366, 475
fiancée’s inquiry about, 365–66
last letter of, before raid, 115
gasoline, 80
Genda, Minoru, 135
Geneva Convention, 403, 413
Genghis Khan, 83
Germany, 75
countries invaded by, 10, 59
Japanese alliance with, 11, 80
World War II preparations of, 55–56
Gilbert Islands, 134, 135
Ginza, 143, 210
glanders, 385
Glines, Carroll, 479–80
Glynn, Bill, 328
Golden Gate Bridge, 323
Grand Peking Hotel, 456
Gray, Robert, 91
bombing by, 198, 202, 309
death of, 475
inquiries by parents of, 366
at launch, 181
Grayson, 125, 128
Great Britain:
and fall of Singapore, 75
German bombing of, 10
Greater Japan Airlines, 230
Green Hornet, 96, 187, 205–7, 395
crash of, 248–50, 277, 419, 465
Greening, Ross, 71, 86, 94, 244
B-25 modified by, 92–93
in bombing raid, 221–22, 312
in China, 327, 332
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 367
at Doolittle’s party, 475
at launch, 176, 177–78, 180, 182
made flight commander, 88
relaxation by, 114
suburbs as target of, 146
Grew, Joseph, 211–12
Griffin, Tom, 372
Griffith Stadium, 18–19
Gripsholm, 315
Gross, Sid, 419
Grow, Malcolm, 461–62
Guam, 4, 20, 104, 448
fall of, 25, 27, 153
Guggenheim, Harry, 52
Guillain, Robert, 210–11, 314–15
Gwin, 125, 128
Haguro, 190
Hallmark, Dean, 114, 187, 248–49, 363, 364–65, 470, 471
in bombing raid, 204, 205–7
burial of, 467
dysentery of, 399, 401
execution of, 407–9, 438, 457, 464, 465, 475
final letter from, 405
Hite’s letter to family of, 464
in prison, 300, 302, 304, 399, 400, 404–5
remains of, 465–66
sentence of, 404, 405
Tokyo landing of, 345
torture of, 302
Hallmark, Ollie, 464
Halsey, William, “Bull” Jr., 100, 101–2, 130, 164–65, 172–74, 318
departure on raid of, 115
Doolittle admired by, 362
Doolittle’s meeting with, 115, 158
Hornet’s merging with task force of, 160–61
at launch, 179
Marcus Island attacked by, 135
Nimitz’s meeting with, 159
in return to Pearl Harbor, 158–59
secrecy of, 159–60
Hamada, Dick, 451, 452
Hannibal, 82–83
Hanson, James, 50
Hari Kari-er, 96, 221–22
Harmon, Millard, Jr., 97, 371
Harp, Edward, Jr., 157–58, 163, 240
Wall’s injury and, 235
Harper’s Magazine, 104
Harriman, Averell, 17
Harsch, Joseph, 417
Hassett, Bill, 319
Hastings, Everett, 373–74
Hata, Itsuro, 400, 401, 407
death of, 467
Hata, Shunroku, 402–3, 404
arrest of, 467
Hattori, Takushiro, 211
Hawaii, 101, 133
Japanese invasion planned for, 134, 136
martial law in, 17
Hayes, Rutherford, 9
Henderson, George, 121
Hendren, John, Jr., 468, 472
Heng-yang, China, 169, 328, 344
Henry Snyder High School, 411
Herndon, Nolan, 257, 356, 430, 479
in bombing raid, 216–17
in flight to Tokyo, 188
Hibiya Public Hall, 191
Hilary P. Jones, 66
Hilger, Jack, 94–95, 149, 271–72, 364
in bombing raid, 226–28, 229
in China, 325, 328, 333, 335
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 367
industrial cities as target of, 146
at launch, 178
and list of crew in order of expertise, 116–17
made flight commander, 88
in move west, 111
target selection by, 146–47
training of, 71, 72, 73, 86, 88
Hill, Joseph, 318
Hilton, James, 319
Hindrava, Alexander, 401
Hinner, Ralph, 473
Hirohito, Emperor, xiv, 143, 311, 316, 402, 403
birthday celebration of, 193
FDR’s message to, 12, 15
public appearance of, 82
surrender of, 451
Hiroshima, Japan, 140
nuclear bombing of, 449
Hiryu, 190
Hite, Bobby, 155, 243, 479
and Bat out of Hell damage, 186
in bombing raid, 233
China landing of, 264, 266–67
daily struggles of, 478
illness of, 447, 450, 457
interrogation of, 307
at launch, 182
letters to families of raiders from, 463–65
in prison, 347, 350, 398–99, 400, 401, 410, 438–39, 440–43, 444, 445, 446–47, 448, 450, 455, 456, 460
recovery of, 463
report on imprisonment by, 457
in return to U.S., 458–59
sentence of, 404
as witness at international tribunal, 469
Hitler, Adolf, 10, 55
speech style of, 19
on Time, 104
Hiyo, 231
Hokkaido, Japan, 307, 308
Holcomb, Leslie, 367–68
Holstrom, Everett “Brick,” 85, 114, 129, 185
in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 175
in China, 333
at launch, 178
in move west, 108
in raid, 198, 202–4
Hong Kong, 11, 20, 191
Hoover, Herbert, 13
Hoover, Travis, 96, 124
bombing by, 198, 199, 309
in landing after raid, 270
at launch, 181, 184
made flight commander, 88
northern Tokyo as target of, 146
supplies overseen by, 88
Hopkins, Barbara Duncan, 31
Hopkins, Harry, 10, 16, 26
and FDR’s congressional message on Pearl Harbor, 20
illnesses of, 74
Hori, Tomokazu, 312
Hornet, 30, 32, 36–37, 60, 64, 90, 101, 116, 129, 239, 360
and battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 173–76, 234
capacity of, 65–66
departure of, 115, 136
design of, 119–21
Doolittle’s quarters on, 121
loading of, 108
merged with Halsey’s task force, 160–61
Mitscher put in charge of, 65
in move west, 119–21
in raid practice, 66–67
sailing toward Japan by, 153–58, 160–68, 172–89
House of Representatives, Japanese, 82
Houston, 139
Howze, Harry, 63
Ho Yang Ling, 275
Ho Ying-chin, 330
Hull, Cordell, 13, 16, 21, 74, 353, 393
and execution of raiders, 413
FDR’s Pearl Harbor speech and, 19
Hypothe Bank of Japan, 313
Idaho, 125
Ihrig, Russell, 119, 131
battle instructions of, 162
Ihwang, China, 376, 381
Imperial Diet, 143, 147, 218
Imperial General Headquarters, 375
Imperial Hotel, 144
Imperial Palace, 143, 209, 305, 360
as raiders’ favored target, 147–48
Imperial Theater, 311
Independent Tribune, 417
India, 75, 133
Indonesia, U.S. search for prisoners of war in, 451–52
Industrial Bank of Japan, 313
International Military Tribunal of the Far East, 467–73
International News Service, 14–15, 478
International Red Cross, 410
Inubo Saki, 185, 194, 198, 204
iron, 80
iron ore, 11
Ishide, Minosuke, 202
Ishii, Shiro, 385–87
isolationists, 74–75, 80
Italy, Japanese alliance with, 11, 80
Ito, Akinobu, 407
Jacot, Nestor, 451
Jai Foo Chang (Charlie), 255, 292–93, 371
Japan:
aircraft industry in, 62–63
alliance of Germany and Italy with, 11, 80
atomic bombing of, 449–50
B-29 bombings of, 448–49
bacteriological warfare by, 386–89
Bataan overrun by, 152–53, 192
British declaration of war against, 17
Chinese war crimes of, xiv, 105–6
effect of Doolittle raid on, xiii–xiv
King’s desire for offensive against, 29, 30–32
Manchuria invaded by, 11
material bankruptcy of, 11, 27, 83
naval call signals changed by, 5
Pearl Harbor euphoria in, 79, 81–82
rationing in, 82
Soviet intelligence on, 141–42
supplies of, 11–12
surrender of, 451–52
U.S. break with, 4, 11
U.S. invasion contemplated in, 83
U.S. spying on, 139–40
Japan Diesel Manufacturing Corporation, 201, 309
Japanese Americans, in internment camps, 76–77
Japanese embassy, 16
Japanese Special Steel Company, 218
Japan Oil, 224
Japan Steel Fuji Steelworks, 206–7
Japan Steel Piping factories, 209, 224
Japan Times & Advertiser, 82–83, 138, 192, 211, 311, 313
Jarman, Fontaine, Jr., 451, 452
JOAK, 187, 218, 229, 238
Johnson, Allan, 58
Johnson, Harry, 149
Jones, Aden, 110, 201
Jones, Davy, 73, 91, 156, 242, 344
in bombing raid, 202, 204–5, 309
in China, 325, 326, 327, 333, 340
China landing of, 271
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 367
at Doolittle’s party, 475
in flight to Tokyo, 185, 188
made flight commander, 88
parade in honor of, 385
relaxation by, 114
Tokyo city center as target of, 146
training of, 8, 86–87, 88, 89–90
Jordan, Bert, 185
training of, 72–73
Jordan, James, 362
Joyce, Richard, 186
in bombing raid, 219–21, 309
hit by antiaircraft fire, 242
inquiries by father of, 366
Judd, Walter, 415
Jurika, Stephen, Jr., 124–25, 145, 149, 165, 187, 238, 263, 269
background of, 138–39
and flight plan of raid, 147
intelligence work of, 139, 140–42, 415
Justice Department, U.S., 16, 20
Kabukiza, 311
Kaga, 6, 190
Kagoshima, Japan, 306
Kaijin Maru, 237
Kamimura, Vice Admiral, 84
Kanagawa, Japan, 146, 221–22
Kappeler, Frank, 94
at launch, 177
Kasumigaura Lake, 221
Katori naval air station, 222
Kawai, Chiyoko, 306
Kawai, Kazuo, 211
Kawasaki, Japan, 62, 63, 140
Kawasaki Dockyard Company, 231
Kawasaki Truck and Tank plant, 218
Kearsarge, 165
Kelley, Ed, 15
Kelsey, Ben, 52
Ken-kwo-gee, China, 379
Kent, Fred, 152
Kernan, Alvin, at launch, 179, 183
KGMB, 6
Khabarovsk, Russia, 288–89, 352, 354–55
Kian, China, 107, 167, 169
Kiangsi Province, China, 276, 375, 389
Kiangwan Military Prison, 400–407, 438, 440, 446
Kido, Koichi, 403–4
Kimmel, Husband:
on night before Pearl Harbor, 4
warned about possible Japanese attack, 4
worried about Japanese carriers, 5–6
Kimura, Heitaro, 402
King, Ernest, 28–32, 68, 105, 127
aircraft raids urged by, 100–101
FDR informed about Pearl Harbor by, 26
offensive against Japan favored by, 29, 30–32
secrecy order of, 66
King Kong (film), 335
Kinhwa, China, 387
Kinney, Herbert, 145
Kisarazu Air Base, 190
Knobloch, Richard, 150, 376
in bombing raid, 225
at launch, 180
on secrecy of training, 96
volunteering for raid by, 74
Knox, Frank, 12–13, 16, 21, 22, 165, 318
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 26
Pearl Harbor surveyed by, 23–24
Kobayashi, Asasaburo, 312
Kobe, Japan, 62, 63, 83, 306
air raid drills in, 191
bombing raid in, 226, 230–31, 310
Koiwa, Kazuei, 226
Kojima, Shigeru, 197
Kollsman, Paul, 52
Kolya, 429, 430–32
Kondo, Nobutake, 190
Konoye, Fumimaro, 80–81
Korea, 189, 257
U.S. search for prisoners of war in, 451–52
Koshien stadium, 230
Kowa Maru, 237
Kuhn, Irene, 466, 467
Ku Klux Klan, 25
Kumano, Tatsuo, 269
Kumashiro, Moritada, 470
Kunming, China, 459
Kuroshima, Kameto, 136, 316
Kusaka, Ryunosuke, 3
Kusama, Kazuko, 191
Kwei, Joseph, 377
Kweilin, China, 107, 108, 167, 168
Kweiyee, China, 383–84
Kyoto, Japan, air raid drills in, 191
Laban, Theodore, 189, 215
in internment, 420, 430, 431
Lae, 135
Landon, Alf, 24
Lang, Frederick, 424–25
Langley Field, 69
Larkin, George, 128, 330
in bombing raid, 220–21
death of, 475
Laurey, John, 165
Lawrence, David, 410–11, 418
Lawson, Ellen, 251, 369–70
Lawson, Ted, 60, 70, 123, 125, 129, 154–55, 166, 188, 244, 295, 344
arrival in U.S., 369–70
on B-25 mechanics, 113
in battle with Japanese vessel, 187
in bombing raid, 204, 207–10
injury of, 251–52, 253–54, 255, 285–86, 296–97, 336–40, 341–42, 343, 369–71
in landing after raid, 250–56, 270, 281–82, 283–84, 291–92
landing in U.S., 369
in launch, 177, 181–82, 185
on modifications of B-25, 93
in move west, 110
raiders’ search for, 295–96
on size of B-25, 69
Thatcher’s saving of, 479
Layton, Edwin, worried about Japanese attack, 5–6
Leahy, William, 322
Leonard, Paul:
Birch’s meeting with, 277
bombing by, 197
brought to Chinese military, 274
death of, 475
in flight to Tokyo, 195
landing in China by, 247–48
at launch, 179, 180
Lexington, 4–5, 29, 32, 75, 132
Life, 103, 130, 163, 183, 329
light metals, 80
Linchwan, China, 376, 377, 383, 384
Lincoln, Abraham, 21, 80
Lindbergh, Charles, 51–52
Lindley, Ernest, 438
Lindsey, Robin, 162, 237
Lishui, China, 107, 167, 169, 376, 389
Little Boy, 449
Long, Breckinridge, 26, 151, 412–13
Long Island, 31
Los Angeles Times, 26, 44, 76, 324, 390
Lost Horizon (Hilton), 319
Louisville, 139
Low, Francis, 29–30, 31, 101, 318
Luangshuan, China, 388
Luce, Henry, 103–4, 329
Ludlow, 66, 68
Luxembourg, 10
Lynch, John, 129–30
Maas, Grace, 461
MacArthur, Douglas:
in escape from Philippines, 152
General Shimomura protected by, xiv, 472–73
in retreat to Bataan, 76, 129
Wako’s sentence commuted by, 471
Macia, Herb, 126
in bombing raid, 226–28
Doolittle as hero of, 88
at launch, 178
letter to Hallmark’s mother from, 467
training of, 73
Ma Eng-lin, 384
Magpie, 451–52, 455–57
Magruder, John, 330
Majestic Theater, 19
malaria, 152
Malaysia, 4
Manch, Shorty, 163, 271
in bombing raid, 201
and Doolittle’s party, 475
in launch, 177
Manchuria, 385
Japanese invasion of, 11
U.S. search for prisoners of war in, 451–52
Manila, 25
Manske, Joseph, 70, 150, 158, 162, 185, 327, 333, 419
Mao Zedong, 103
Marcus Island, 135, 161, 189, 306
Marianas, 448
Marine Corps, blacks not admitted to, 77
Marshall, George, 16, 152, 165, 323, 330, 334, 353
Chinese government not trusted by, 105
Doolittle and Arnold’s meeting with, 357–59
Doolittle called by, 127–28
farewell note to Doolittle from, 127
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 26, 27
worried about delay of raid, 169–71
on York’s crew in Russia, 322
Marshall Islands, 134, 135, 189
Martin B-26, 32
Doolittle’s examination of, 56–57
Maryland, 24, 125
Masutani, Maruo, 407
Matsuhigecho oil storage, 227
Maya, 190
McCabe, Robert, 424, 425
McCarthy, James, 67
McClellan Field, 108, 111, 112, 121
McClure, Charles, 122–23, 126, 147, 194, 244, 337, 340–41, 369
in battle with Japanese vessel, 187
in bombing raid, 208–9
Doolittle as hero of, 88
injury of, 25, 281, 283, 284–85, 371
in landing after raid, 250–56, 281, 282, 283, 284–85, 286
at launch, 180
in move west, 110
onboard gambling and, 156, 157
McCool, Harry, 70, 204
Doolittle as hero of, 88
McElroy, Edgar, 69, 150, 244, 328, 344
in bombing raid, 221, 224–26
and launch of planes, 176
training of, 72
McGuire, Frederick, 382
McGurl, Eugene:
in China, 326, 331
death of, 475
McIntyre, Marvin, 16, 318
McKenzie, Marjorie, 77
McKissick, J. Rion, 411
McMahon, W. A., 417
McQuay Company, 61
Meder, Bob, 206, 249
burial of, 467
captured in China, 279
farewell letter of, 443–44
illness and death of, 442–44, 446, 457, 464, 468, 475
morse code developed by, 442
mother notified of death of, 419
in prison, 300, 302, 304, 400, 438, 442–43
remains of, 466–67
sentence of, 404
Tokyo landing of, 345
Meeus, Charles, 384–85
Mehle, Roger, in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 175
Mele, Tony, 373
Meredith, 128, 162
Mexico, 80
Michela, Joseph, 392, 421–23
Mid-Continent Airlines, 60
Middle East, 75
Midway, Battle of, xiv, 415, 476
Midway Island, 20, 101, 136–37, 211, 316
Mike (interpreter), 355, 426, 427
Miles, John, 24
Military Law Concerning the Punishment of Enemy Airmen, 403, 469, 470
Miller, Edmund, 357
Miller, Henry, 85, 96, 124–25, 131–32
crew listed in order of expertise by, 116–17
at launch, 177, 178, 179, 181, 184
and loss of B-25, 91
in move west, 109
takeoff procedure formulated by, 89–90
training of, 86–87, 89–90
Miller, Richard:
bombing by, 198–99
death of, 475
Mills, William, 74, 91–92, 109
training of, 71, 72
Milwaukee Sentinel, 60
Mindanao, 138
Ministry of Railways Supply Bureau, 220
Minneapolis, Minn., 60
Misake (guard), 445
missionaries, 376–84
Mississippi, 125
Missouri, 452
Mitchel Field, 48, 51–53
Mitchell, William “Billy,” 58
Mitscher, Marc, 64, 121, 129, 159, 238
background of, 64–65
and departure of raiders, 127
drills run by, 162
escorts of, 130
formation of bombers ordered by, 66
Hornet commanded by, 115
and launch of raid, 176, 183–84
and onboard gambling, 157
at practice takeoff, 67, 68
at pre-raid ceremony, 165
Mitsubishi, 62, 63, 227
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, 233, 309
Miura, Yasutoshio, 407
Miwa, Yoshitake, 133, 134, 135, 215, 305, 307, 310, 317
on Japanese propaganda, 310
Miyako, 312
Miyano, Masatoshi, 403
Miyo, Tatsukichi, 136–37
Mizumoto Primary School, 202
Mochi, 312
Mongolia, 77
Monssen, 125, 128
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 26, 318, 371
financial market worries of, 12
White House ordered protected by, 15
Morris, John, 210
Moysey, Frank, 213, 314
Mukden, 458
Mulder, Karel, 457–58
Muñiz Lavalle, Ramón, 213, 314
Murphy, Clarence, 376–77, 380
Murray, George, 65
Myoko, 190
Nagano, Osami, 316, 401–2, 448
Nagasaki, Japan, nuclear bombing of, 449–50
Nagato Maru, 237, 307
Nagoya, Japan, 62, 63, 306, 309, 350, 354, 395, 458, 478
air raid drills in, 191
bombing raid in, 226–29, 232, 309
leveling of, 449
Nagoya castle, 227
Nagumo, Chuichi, 4, 6, 7, 130, 133–34, 136, 190
Pearl Harbor worries of, 1–3
Nakajima, 62
Nakajima Type 97, 83
Nakajo, Toyoma, 400
death of, 467
Nakamura, Yoshiro, 207
Nanchang, China, 265, 266, 269, 276, 376
Nancheng, China, 343, 382–83, 384
Nanking, China, xiv, 106, 376, 381, 387, 453, 520n
Nashville, 125, 128, 160, 164, 236–37
in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 173–76, 237
National Hemp Dressing Corporation, 309
National People’s Party, 103
Navy, Imperial:
planes of, 12
strength of, 2, 12
U.S. intelligence on, 139, 141
war games of, 81
Navy, U.S.:
Bureau of Aeronautics, 86
FDR’s worries about weakness of, 25
Pacific drive of, xiv
worried about Japanese attack, 4
Navy General Staff, 189
Netherlands, 10
New Caledonia, 136
New Guinea, 135
New Mexico, 125
News, 415
News Digest, 240
New York Daily News, 74–75
New York Herald Journal, 419
New York Herald Tribune, 24
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, 19
New York Times, 11, 38, 53, 59, 75, 143–44, 153, 164, 214, 243, 323–24, 390, 414, 458, 459
Nichi Nichi, 218, 234, 312
Nichols, Ray, 451, 452, 453–54
Nielsen, Chase, 147, 149, 248–50, 419
in bombing raid, 206
captured by Chinese, 277–80
and Doolittle’s party, 475
in evacuation to China, 457
on grave-finding mission, 465
injury of, 395
JOAK listened to by, 187
and launch of planes, 177
letter to Dieter’s mother from, 465
letter to FDR from mother of, 366
outraged at tribunal verdict, 471
in prison, 300–304, 345–49, 398, 438, 441, 444, 447, 455–56, 460
recovery of, 463
report on imprisonment by, 457
in return to U.S., 458–59
sentence of, 404
Tokyo landing of, 345
torture of, 300–304
as witness at international tribunal, 468
Niigata Prefecture, 306
Nimitz, Chester, 101–2, 135, 318
background of, 99–100
Halsey ordered to meet Doolittle by, 115
Halsey’s meeting with, 159
ordered to conduct Pacific raids, 100–101
Ninety-Fifth Squadron, 68
Nippon Machine Works, 209
Nishi Nasuno train station, 217
Nisshin, 80
Nitto Maru No. 23, 173–76, 189, 198, 234, 237, 242, 307
No. 1 Iwate Maru, 237
No. 2 Asami Maru, 237
No. 3 Chinyo Maru, 237
No. 26 Nanshin Maru, 237
Noone, Robert, 166
at launch, 183
Norden, Carl, 95
Norden bombsights, 95, 112, 347–48
Norfolk Naval Air Station, 66
Norfolk Naval Operating Base, 64
North Africa, 35
North American Aviation Company, 58–59, 314, 372–73, 417
Northampton, 159, 160, 164, 172
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, 411
Norway, 10
Oahu, 4, 6, 135
O’Brien, Pat, 18
Office of Strategic Services, 98, 214, 315, 451
Ohara, 345–46
oil, 11, 80, 133, 151, 167
U.S. exports to Japan shut off, 11
Okada, Ryuhei, 400
arrest of, 468
Sawada’s desire for release of, 471
trial of, 466, 470
Okazaki Hospital, 196
Oklahoma, 18, 24, 99
Ollivier, Ivor, 25
Omi, Heijiro, 306
Operation Plan No. 20–42, 159
Operations Office, 88
Opper, Frederick, 398
Osaka, Japan, 62, 83, 307, 354
air raid drills in, 191
bombing raid in, 226, 230, 232
leveling of, 449
Osaka Mainichi, 82, 451, 486
Osborne, Edgar, at launch, 180
O’Shea, John, 378, 381
Osterloh, Edwin, 235
Ozuk, Charles, Jr., 70, 271, 364
in bombing raid, 201, 202
injuries of, 327
training of, 72
Pacific Fleet, 100
Pacific Fleet, flattops of, 32, 35, 36, 60, 101, 124
Japan’s underestimated number of, 189
as Yamamoto’s target, 101, 135–36
Pacific Fleet, redeployed to Hawaii, 11
Page, Edward, Jr., in Russian internment, 392–93
Palm Beach Post, 24
paratyphoid, 387
Parker, James, 164
Patrick, Mason, 47, 49, 50
Pattison, Alfred, 395
Patton, George, 13
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, xiii, 1–7, 70, 153, 189, 324, 330
blame for, 22, 26
casualties from, 14, 17, 18
damage from, 14, 23–24, 34, 99, 101, 206–7
Doolittle’s response to, 56–57
FDR informed about, 12–14, 16–17, 18
FDR’s cabinet meeting on, 21–22
FDR’s congressional speech on, 19–20, 23
FDR’s statement on, 14–15
fear after, 25, 34
Knox’s survey of damage from, 23–24
night before, 4–5
preparations for, 2–3, 133
risk of, 1–2
U.S. announcement of, 9
U.S. public opinion on, 18–19, 24–25
U.S. ships tied up at, 22
Yamamoto as architect of, 79, 81, 82, 84, 137
Pennsylvania, 4, 24, 125
Perkins, Frances, 21–22
Perkins, Mahlon, 451, 453
Philadelphia Daily News, 470
Philadelphia Inquirer, 24, 420
Philippines, 4, 20, 152
Japanese attack on, 25, 27, 76, 104, 129, 412
Pillsbury, 226
Pingfan, China, 385
Pittsburgh Courier, 77
Pittsburgh Press, 305, 323
plague, xiv, 385, 386, 387, 388
Pohl, David:
in bombing raid, 216, 217
in internment, 420, 430
low gas gauge of, 188
Poindexter, John, 17
Poizat, Michael, 384
Poland, German invasion of, 10, 59
Polish-Soviet War, 335
Popular Mechanics, 42
Portal, Charles, 34, 35
Potter, Hank, 126, 155, 245, 246, 362
brought to Chinese military, 273–74
in flight to Japan, 194, 195
at launch, 178, 179
Pound, Bill:
in bombing raid, 223–24
at launch, 182
Powell, John, 397
Poyang, China, 376
Poyang, Lake, 276
Pravda, 394
Preston, 125
Prince of Wales, 25
Pringle, Henry, 397
prisoners of war, search for, 451–57
Public Cemetery no. 1, 407
Pulitzer race, 48
Pyle, Howard, 474
Quigley, Daniel, 165
Quinn, Charles, 379, 381–82
Rabaul, 135
Radio Tokyo, 164, 409
Radney, Douglas, 200, 366, 479
Rangoon, 151
Rape of Nancheng, 382–83, 384
Rape of Nanking, xiv, 106, 376, 381, 520n
Rayburn, Sam, 22, 416
Reddy, Ken, 94, 95, 128, 155, 166, 173, 244, 287, 372
in bombing raid, 221, 222
in China, 327, 328–29, 330, 331, 332
on church service, 158
death of, 475
injury of, 333
money lent by, 163–64
in move west, 109
relaxation by, 114
Reilly, Mike, 15
Remedios, Caesar Luis Dos, 401, 404, 407, 409, 466
Repulse, 25
rice, 11
Richter, Melvin, 451
Riefkohl, Frederick, 184
Ring, Stanhope, 240–41
Roberts, John, in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 175
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 10, 14, 25, 26
column of, 78, 318
revenge against Japanese Americans disapproved by, 77
Roosevelt, Franklin D.:
Arnold’s dispute with, 33
“arsenal of democracy” speech of, 10–11
bombing of Japan desired by, 28, 32, 77
at cabinet meeting on Pearl Harbor, 21–22
Churchill’s call to, 17–18
congressional message on Pearl Harbor from, 19–20, 23
Doolittle given Medal of Honor by, 359
effect of war news on, 74, 150–51
executions kept secret by, 412, 413–14, 416
on fall of Wake Island, 75
on hopes to avert war, 12
and Japanese aggression in China, 11
Japanese assets frozen by, 11
Latin American trip of, 139
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 23, 26–28, 34
message to Hirohito, 12, 15
naval weakness as troubling to, 25
Nielsen’s mother’s letter to, 366
Pearl Harbor information given to, 12–14, 16–17, 18
Pearl Harbor statement of, 14–15
Philippines worries of, 76
reaction to raid, 318–21
on secrecy of Doolittle raid, 172
stamp collection of, 10
study of, 9–10
on Time, 104
U.S. public opinion buoyed by, 27, 78
war production and, 82
worries for safety of, 25–26
Roosevelt, James, 12, 16
Roosevelt, Theodore, 10
Roosevelt administration:
bond offering by, 12
Doolittle raid deceptions of, xiv, 412, 476
Rosenman, Sam, 318, 319
Rotary Club of St. Louis, 373
Rowe, James, Jr., 76
rubber, 11
rubber tank, 61
Ruptured Duck, 96, 122–23, 162, 177, 181–82, 208, 209–10, 244, 250–56, 280, 286, 291–92, 296, 371, 479
Russia, 35, 75, 188–89, 352–56
landing of raiders in, 257–61, 271, 322, 369
raiders interned in, 287–91, 391–407, 420–37, 477
Russo-Japanese War, 80, 84, 305
Rutherford, Al, 71
Ryuho, 225
Sabine, 159, 160
Sagami Bay, 203
St. John, Robert, 416
St. Louis, 125
Saipan, 448
Sakai, Saburo, 315–16
Sakasegawa, Minami, 231
Salamaua, 135
Salt Lake City, 159, 160, 161, 164, 172, 173, 181, 239
Samoa, 136
San Diego Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 373
San Francisco Chronicle, 24, 153
Sanrakuso apartment building, 202
Saratoga, 5, 31, 32, 75, 85, 132, 139
Sasebo navy arsenal, 226
Sato, Naotake, 353–54
Saturday Evening Post, 65
Sawada, Shigeru, 402, 466, 471, 472
arrest of, 467
trial of, 466, 470
Sawara, Japan, 306
Saylor, Edward, 153–54, 244, 337, 479
in bombing raid, 230, 231, 232
China landing of, 261
hiding in China by, 294
Japanese vessel spotted by, 186
Schmaring, Mihaiel Constantinovich, 290–91
Schneider, Jacques, 49
Schneider Cup race, 48–49
Scott, Eldred, 186, 244, 271
in bombing raid, 218, 219
Searles, Wilson, 14
Secret Service, 15
Sessler, Howard, 229, 231, 337, 418
China landing of, 262
Seventeenth Bombardment Group, 68, 69–70
Shanghai, China, 63
fall of, 106
Shanghai Military Police, 407
Shanghai Telephone Company, 397
Shell Petroleum Corporation, 53, 54–55, 56
Sheridan, Martin, 449
Sherman, Boyd, 50
Sherwood, Robert, 10, 19
Shiga, Fumiko, 6
Shiga, Yoshio, 6
Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 312
Shimada, Maszumi, 466
Shimomura, Sadamu, investigation of, 472–73
Short, Walter:
on night before Pearl Harbor, 4, 5
warned of possible Japanese attack, 4
Showa Electric factory, 224
Sims, Jack, 69, 244–45
in bombing raid, 227
and launch of planes, 176
sailing toward Japan by, 153
Singapore, 11, 75, 78, 152, 192
Sisters of Charity, 379–80
Smith, 125
Smith, Donald, 337
in bombing raid, 226, 229–32
in Chinese hut, 291
Chinese landing of, 261–62, 270
death of, 475
Japanese vessel spotted by, 186, 187
training of, 90
Smith, Merriman, 20
Smith, Mrs., 338, 341–42
Smith, Vincent, 380, 381, 384
Smith-Hutton, Henri, 139–40, 212
Snyder, John, 318
Solomon Islands, 415
Somiya, Shinji, 469
Soryu, 190
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, 27
Soviet Union, 133, 141, 477
Japanese intelligence of, 141–42
Spaatz, Carl, 62
Spatz, Harold:
China landing of, 265–69
execution of, 407–9, 438, 457, 464–65, 475
final letter from, 405
Hite’s letter to family of, 464–65
interrogation of, 307
in Japanese captivity, 351
in prison, 400, 405
remains of, 465–66
sentence of, 404
Special Aviation Project No. 1, 167
Special Service Section, 395
Sperry, Elmer, 52
Spurrier, Lieutenant, 168
Stalin, Joseph, 322, 352
raiders’ letter to, 426, 427
and U.S. use of Vladivostok, 27–28
Standard Oil of Calcutta, 107
Standley, Joseph, 421
Standley, William, 322, 351–53, 393
Stark, Harold:
FDR informed about Pearl Harbor by, 13–14, 16–17
and FDR’s safety, 25
Japanese attack expected by, 4
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 26
and planning of Japanese bombing, 35
State Department, U.S., 105–6, 412, 414
Stein, Bill, 380
Stephens, Robert, 204
Stern, General, 288–89
Stewart, Tom, 416
Stilwell, Joseph, 75, 102, 169–71, 452
acerbic personality of, 102–3
briefed on raid, 106–7, 167
Chiang as viewed by, 103, 105, 389
on Madame Chiang, 331
and raid planning, 106–7, 184
Stimson, Henry, 13, 16, 21, 322–23, 410
at meeting on U.S. entry into World War II, 26
Stintzi, Vernon, ulcer developed by, 109
Strategic Bombing Service, U.S., 476
Suckley, Daisy, 318, 319
Sugamo Prison, 471, 472
Sugiyama, Hajime, 349, 402–3, 404
Sui-ning, China, 168
Sumatra, 191–92
Sumida River, 195, 199
Sutherland, John, 130
in battle with Nitto Maru No. 23, 174
Suzuki, 397
Suzuki, Teiichi, 82
Tachikawa railroad, 195
Tactical Method No. 3, 308
Taft, William Howard, 13
Taigei, 225, 306
Takahashi, Lieutenant General, 453
Takao, 190
Takasu, Shiro, 190
Takung Pao, 383, 388
Tama River, 147
Tanabe, Moritake, 402
Tanaka, Ryukichi, 402, 403
Tanaka, Shinichi, 316
Tan Do San, 264
Tashima, Goyo, 408–9
Task Force 16, 115–16
Tatsuta, Sotojiro, 472
arrest of, 468
as executioner, 404
at executions, 407–9
and remains of raiders, 465
Sawada’s desire for release of, 471
trial of, 466, 470
Tega Numa, 195
Tennessee, 18, 24, 125
Texas, 80
Texas, 30, 85
Thailand, 4
Thatcher, Dave, 154–55, 244, 337, 371
in bombing raid, 208
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 365, 369
Japanese vessel fired on by, 186
in landing after raid, 280, 284, 286
Lawson saved by, 479
Third Division Military Headquarters, 227
Thirteenth Army, 375, 404, 472
Thirty-Fourth Squadron, 68
Thirty-Seventh Squadron, 68
Thresher, 115
Tibbets, Paul, Jr., 449
Tillitse, Lars, 213
Time, 99, 104, 329
Times Square, 19
Tinian, 448, 449
TNT, 96, 229–32, 261–64, 291
Todd, Charles, 42
Togane, Japan, 306
Togo, Shigenori, 311
Toho Gas Company, 233, 309
Tojo, Hideki:
arrest of, 467
ouster of, 448
raiders’ fate decided by, 401–4
sailor’s mock letter to, 241
threat to Japan dismissed by, 83–84, 243
Tokkaido line, 140
Tokyo, 458
air raid drills in, 191, 192–93, 305, 315
air-raid sirens in, 200–201
bombing of, 196–214, 215–21
design of, 142–43
earthquake in, 144–45, 239
as inviting target, xiii, 144–45
leveling of, 449
plan for attack against, see Doolittle raid, plan for
population of, 142
Tokyo Gas, 62
Tokyo university, 191
Toles, Rollie, 417
Tolischus, Otto, 143–44, 214
Tomioka, Sadatoshi, 136, 211, 316
Towns, Eleanor, 461, 478
Trans-Pacific, 145
Treasury Department, U.S., 25
Trout, 115
Truelove, Denver:
in bombing raid, 204–5
death of, 475
Truman, Harry S., 471
Tsurumaki national school, 196
Tsurumi, Japan, 63
Tsushima Strait, Battle of, 80
Tsuzuki, Ishichi, 226
Tully, Grace, 15–17, 19, 318
Twenty-Sixth Air Flotilla, 190
typhoid, xiv, 385, 387
Udet, Ernst, 55
Ugaki, Matome, 309
on casualties from raid, 307
and fallout of raid, 306, 308
on future attacks by Japan, 133
ordered to invade Hawaii, 134
on Pearl Harbor attack, 1, 7
U.S. attack as viewed by, 135
Umekawa, Ryosaburi, 312
Unit 731, 385–89
United Church of Canada, 385
United Press, 14, 317, 458
United States:
isolationism in, 74–75, 80
Japanese break with, 4, 11
post-Pearl Harbor racism in, 76–77
spying on Japan by, 139–40
war production of, 79, 82
United States Rubber Company, 61
Universal Pictures, 373
Utah, 99
Valentine, Lewis, 323
Van Buren, Martin, 13
Vandenberg, Arthur, on Pearl Harbor, 23
Vandenberg, Herbert, 376–78
Van Norman, Jack, 458
Verdini, Humbert, 379, 382
Veterans Administration, 478
Victoria, Queen of England, 9
Vincennes, 125, 128, 160, 162, 164, 184
Vixen, 28–32
Vladivostok, Russia, 27–28, 61, 166, 352
Vormstein, Henry, 165
Wainwright, Jonathan, 152–53
Wakayama, Japan, 306
Wake Island, 20, 104, 161
siege of, 25, 27, 75, 153, 306
Wako, Yusei, 400, 407
arrest of, 468
sentenced to death, 471
trial of, 466, 470
Wall, Robert, injury at launch, 182–83, 234–35
Wallace, Henry, 21
Wall Street Journal, 144
Walter Reed Hospital, 369–70
war bond posters, xiii
War Department, U.S., 49, 353, 410, 459
Ward Road Jail, 468
War Ministry, Japanese, 84
Warner Brothers, 373
Wartime Sufferers Protection Law, 313
Waseda Middle School, 196–97
Washington Evening Star, 21
Washington Post, 317, 319, 323, 361, 418
Washington Times Herald, 74–75
Watanabe, Yasuji, 136, 137, 316
Watson, Edwin “Pa,” 34
Watson, Harold, 164, 186, 328, 371, 376, 476, 479
in bombing raid, 217–18
Chinese aid given to, 384
Doolittle’s letter to father of, 365
in launch, 177
training of, 90
Watson, John, 397
Webb, Spike, 85
Wedemeyer, Albert, 452, 453
rescue telegram of, 458
Well-Well, 346
Western Electric Company, 372
West Virginia, 24, 99
Whirling Dervish, 96, 185–86, 218–19, 244, 371
Whiskey Pete, 96, 201
White, Edith, 295
White, Thomas, 94–95, 371
on bombing raid, 229, 230, 231–32
China landing of, 261–64
at Chinese army headquarters, 295
in Chinese hut, 291, 292
in dispute with medical supply officer, 114
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 367, 369
in hiding in China, 294–95
at launch, 180–81
Lawson’s injury and, 336, 337, 338–39, 341–42, 343
medical kit packed for raid by, 95
in search for Lawson, 296
Stintzi diagnosed by, 109
vaccinations administered by, 150
White Snow, (Hirohito’s horse), 82
Wickard, Claude, 21, 22
Widhelm, William “Gus,” 156
Wilder, Hoss, parade in honor of, 385
Wilder, Rodney, 418
Wildner, Carl, 243
bombing by, 198, 199
in China, 325–26
at launch, 178–79, 184–85
Williams, Adam, 326
Williams, Griffith, 229, 230, 336, 337, 372
China landing of, 261, 262
Willoughby, Charles, 473
Wilson, Frank, 15
Winant, John, 17
Wiseman, Osborne, 173
World War I, 41–43, 97
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 144
Wright, Orville, 33
Wright, Wilbur, 33
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 54, 372, 417
Wright Cyclone engines, 59, 154
Wright Field, 60, 112
Yaeger, George, 384
Yahagi, Nakao, 414–15
Yamagata, Seigo, 190
Yamamoto, 79, 189, 305
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 173
annihilation of U.S. Pacific fleet sought by, 133–34
as architect of Pearl Harbor, 79, 81, 82, 84, 137
background of, 79–80
and evacuation of Japanese cities, 84
flattops as target of, 101, 135–36
on future of war, 79, 80–82
on Japan’s material inadequacies, 83
long-range patrols ordered by, 84
Midway attack desired by, 136–37, 211
outraged at raid, 308
reaction to raid, 305–6, 315
United States education of, 80
U.S. attack feared by, 79, 84–85, 133, 189
Yang Kang, 388
Yashiro, Yukicki, 134
Yasukuni Shrine, 314
Yasukuni Shrine Festival, 192, 193
Yintang, China, 383
Yokohama, Japan, 62, 83, 140, 144, 145, 146, 165, 306
air raid drills in, 191
bombing of, 221–22, 239, 305
Yokosuka, Japan, 306
Yokosuka navy yard, 146, 219, 226
Yokoyama Industries, 205
York, Edward “Ski,” 70, 71, 86, 91, 112, 122
in bombing raid, 215–16, 217
and change of carburetors, 116
in flight to Russia, 242
in flight to Tokyo, 188
in internment escape, 434, 435, 436
at launch, 182
low gas gauge of, 188
made flight commander, 88
made operations officer, 88
and move to south of Russia, 420, 477
in move west, 110
relaxation by, 114
in Russian internment, 287–88, 391, 392, 394, 395, 420–22, 424, 425–26, 427–28, 429, 430, 431–32, 433, 477
Russian landing of, 257–61, 271, 322, 369
southern Tokyo as target of, 146
training of, 88
on volunteers for Doolittle raid, 74
Yorktown, 32
Youngblood, Lucian, 203
Yukiang, China, 381
Yukihiko, Yasuda, 81
Yushan, China, 107, 167, 169, 376
Japanese raids against, 385, 387, 389
Yuzawa, Michio, 311
Zacharias, Ellis, 239–40