Okinawa

Index

Abele

Ainu

Amamiya, Tatsumi

ambush tactics

ammunition, supplying of

Anderson, Beauford “Snuffy”

Anthony

Ara Point

Archer, Robert

Ariga, Kosaku

Arima, Masafumi

Aristotle

Arkansas

Army Air Forces (POA)

Army Ground Forces (POA)

Arnold, Archibald

Arnold, H. H. “Hap”

Asa River

Asashimo

Asato River

Astoria

atomic bombs

dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Australia

Axtell, George

B-29 bombers (Superfortresses)

Bache

Badoglio, Pietro

baka (Oka; Cherry Blossom) bombs

Banzai charges

Barry

Bates

Beary, D. G.

Belman, Dave

Bennington

Biak

Bimbo Butai (Poor Detachment)

Birmingham

Biscansin, Al

Blakelock, David

Boeitai

Bonin Islands

Borneo

Bourne, R. F.

Bradford, William

Bradford Force

Bradley, James

Bradley, Omar

Braine

Brocade Banner affair

Bruce, Andrew

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr.

death of

Minatoga landing rejected by

surrender appeal of

Tenth Army and

Turner and

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Sr.

Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Bay)

Buddhism

Bulge, Battle of the

Bunker Hill

Burma

Bush

Bush, Richard

Bush, Robert

Bushido see also Samurai

Canberra

Cary, Donald

Cassidy, John

Catholicism

Catmon Hill

Cernawsky, Anthony

Cherry Blossom (Oka; baka) bombs

Cherry Society (Sakura-kai)

Chicago

China, Okinawa and

Cho, Isamu

Buckner’s surrender appeal and

character of

in conspiracy plots

counter-attack plans of

farewell dinner of

kamikaze and

suicide of

Chocolate Drop

Christianity

Clark, Joseph “Jocko”

Colhoun

Collins, “Lightning Joe”

Colorado

Comfort

Conical Hill

Connor, John

Cook, Paul

“corkscrew and blowtorch” tactics

Coronet, Operation

Courtney, Henry

Curran, Bill

Curtis

Daily, William

daimyos

Dakeshi Ridge

Dakeshi Town

Dale, Guy

Davison, R. E.

del Valle, Pedro

Detroit

Deyo, Morton

Dick Hill

Divine Wind, see kamikaze

Doniphan, Dennis

Doss, Desmond

Douw, Volckert

Dovel, David

Drexler

Dusenbury, Julius

Dutch East Indies

Easley, Claudius

death of

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

El Dorado

Elliott

Enterprise(“Big E”)

Essex

Evans

Fardy, John

Finn, John

Finn, Mickey

“firebase psychosis”

Fitz, Hal

flamethrowers

Flattop Hill

Floating Chrysanthemums (kikusui)

Ford, Leo

Formosa (Taiwan)

Foster, William

Four Sitting Ducks, Battle of (Battle of Savo Island)

Francis Xavier, Saint

Franklin

Fraught, Harold

Frozen Guns, Battle of the

Fuelling, J. L.

fuel oil

Fujioka, Takeo

gasoline, aviation

Gehres, Leslie

Geiger, Roy

Geneva Convention

George F. Elliott

Germany, Nazi

Golar, Donald “Rusty”

Gonsalves, Harold

Grant, Ulysses S.

Griner, George

Griswold, Oswald

Guadalcanal

conditions on

Guam

Guerard, John

Gusukuma

habus

Hackleback

Hadley

Haggard

Hagushi Anchorage

Hagushi Beaches

Half-Moon Hill

Halloran, Michael “Screamin’ Mike”

Halsey, William “Bull”

Halyburton, William

Hamakaze

Hamilton, Stephen

Hancock

Hansen, Dale

Hara, Munetatsu

hara-kiri (seppuku)

of Ushijima and Cho

Harmon, Millard

Hartline, Franklin

Hauge, Louis

Hawaii

Pearl Harbor

Hazelwood

Heavenly Operation (Ten-Go)

Hinsdale

Hirohito, Emperor

Hiroshima, atomic bombing of

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbs Victory

Hodge, John

Bradford Force formed by

hurricane attack of

May and

as tactical chief

Hokkaido

Holms, John

Honshu

Hornbeck, Kenneth

Horseshoe Hill

Hugh W. Hadley

Iceberg Operation, planning of

Ichiki Detachment

Ie Shima

India

Indochina

Isherwood

Ishikawa Isthmus

Isokaze

Item Pocket

Ito, Seichi

Iwa

Iwo Jima

battle of

flag-raising at

Japan, Japanese

Ainu people in

Catholic missionaries and

defeats not reported by

Geneva Convention ignored by

history of

imperial family in

isolation of

Meiji Restoration in

poor communication among

religions in

Samurai culture in

Western influences in

Jones, Jim

Jurka, Stephen

Kadena Airfield

Kai, Tomai

Kakazu Ridge

kamikaze (Divine Wind) (suicide bombers)

American attacks on bases of

baka

Comfort bombed by

farewell ceremonies for

kikusui

mandatory duty and

success rates of

Yamato

kamikaze (Divine Wind) (typhoon)

Kanoya Airfield

Kasumo

Kelly, Don

Kelly, Gerard

Kerama Islands

Khan, Genghis

Khan, Kublai

Kidd

Kikai Jima

kikusui (Floating Chrysanthemums)

Kikusui 2

Kikusui 4

Kikusui 7

Kikusui 8

Kikusui 9,

Kikusui 10

Kimmel, Husband

King, Ernest

Kinser, Elbert

Kiyamu Peninsula

Klingman, Robert

Knox, Frank

Kobe

Kokobu Airfield

Kulak, Victor

Kunishi Ridge

Kwantung Army

Kyushu

L day (Landing Day; Love Day)

Le May, Curtis

Lester, Fred

Leyte

Liscome Bay

Little

Logan Victory

logistics

Lowry

Luce

Luzon

Mabie, Howard

MacArthur, Douglas

McCarthy, James

MacDonnell, Theodore

McDonough, John

Machinato Airfield

Machinato Inlet

McMillan, George

McTureous, Robert

Magellan, Ferdinand

Mahoney, James

Makin

Malaya

Manchuria

Manert L. Abele

Manila

Marianas Turkey Shoot

May, Edwin “Eddy”

death of

May, Martin

Meagher, John

Meiji Restoration

Mezado Ridge

Midway, Battle of

Mikawa, Gunichi

Minatoga Beaches

Missouri

Mitchell, Willard “Captain Hoss”

Mitscher, Marc

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Morrison

mortars

Moskala, Edward

Motobu Peninsula

Mount Suribachi

Mount Yaetake

mud

Mulcahy, Francis

Mullaney, Baron

Murphy. L.

Murphy, George

Musashi

Nagano, Osami

Nagasaki, atomic bombing of

Nagomo, Chuichi

Nagoya

Naha

Nakagusuku Bay (Buckner Bay)

Nakamuta, Tetsuo

Naoyuki, Kuzume

napalm

Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Naval Operations, U.S.

Navy Medical Corps

New Guinea

New York

New York Herald-Tribune

Nimitz, Chester

Nippon, see Japan, Japanese

Nishibaru

Nishibayashi, Kosuke

Nist, Cecil

Nolan, Daniel

Normandy, invasion of

O’Brien, Lawrence

O’Callahan, Joseph

oil

Oka (Cherry Blossom; baka) bombs

Okinawa

China and

history of

Japan’s annexation of

mud in

rain in

religions in

roads in

Okinawa Group

Old Breed, The (McMillan)

Olympic, Operation

O’Neill, Owen

Onishi, Takejiro

Operation Coronet

Operation Iceberg, planning of

Operation Olympic

Ormoc

Oroku Peninsula

Osaka

Ota, Minoru

Ouki

Ouki Hill

Ozawa, Jisaburu

Pacific Ocean Area (POA)

Palaus

Parker, E. B.

Patton, George

Pearl Harbor

Peleliu

Perry, Matthew

Philippines

kamikaze in

Leyte

Luzon

Philippine Sea, Battle of

Pittsburgh

Poor Detachment (Bimbo Butai)

Putnam, W. H.

Pyle, Ernie

Quincy

Radio Tokyo

rain

refueling

Reusser, Kenneth

Rocky Crags

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

death of

Royster, Jack

Rupertus, William

Russia

Ryan, Bernard

Ryan, V. R.

Ryukyu Islands

Saigo, Takamori

Saipan

Sakura-kai(Cherry Society)

Salvaggio, Jack

Samurai

Bushido,code of

Sangamon

Santa Fe

Savo Island, Battle of (Battle of the Four Sitting Ducks)

Schoeff, Ernest

Schwab, Albert

Seaman, J. B.

seppuku (hara-kiri)

of Ushijima and Cho

Shapley, Alan

Shea

Sheetz, Joseph

Shelburne, Charles

Shepherd, Lemuel

Shibasaki, Keiji

Shikoku

Shinto

Shirigaku

shoguns

Shuri

Shuri Castle

Shuri Heights

Shuri Ridge

Singapore

Skyline Ridge

slow assault tactics

Smith, Aubrey

Smith, Howland M. “Howlin’ Mad”

Smith, Ralph

Soballe, Victor

Solch, Joseph

Solomon Islands

Soviet Union

Spruance, Raymond

Stalin, Joseph

Stare, Edward

Sterner, Cyril

Stormes

Strawberry Hill

Sturgeon

Sugahara, Michio

Sugar Loaf Hill

suicide bombers, see kamikaze

Sumatra

Superfortresses (B-29 bombers)

supplies

Suribachi, Mount

Sutten, Stanley

Suzuki, Kantaro

Swallow

Taiwan (Formosa)

Takeda, Fujio

Taluga

Tanabaru

Tarawa

Task Force Fifty-eight (TF 58), In

Franklin

Task Force Thirty-eight (TF 38), In

Taylor, Joe

Ten-Go (Heavenly Operation)

Tennessee

Thailand

Thought Police

Tojo, Hideki

Tokyo

Tokyo Plain

Tombstone Ridge

Tooker, Adin

Toyama Maru

Toyoda, Soemu

Truman, Harry S.

Turner, Richmond Kelly

Udo, Kensuke

Udo, Takehiko

Ugaki, Matome

Uhlmann

“Umi Yukaba,”

Urasoe-Mura Escarpment

Ushijima, Mitsuru

American victory and

character of

Conical Hill and

exaggerated battle reports of

farewell dinner of

last stand of

Ushijima, Mitsuru (cont.)

and material vs. spiritual power

Minatoga Beaches and

Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru Line and

at Shuri Castle

suicide of

surrender appeal made to

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey

Vandegrift, Alexander

Van Schuyler, Philip

Vincennes

Vogt, John

Wada, Kosuke

Wake

Wallace, Clarence

Wana Draw

Wana Ridge

Wart Hill

Washington Star

Wasp

Watson, Thomas

Westmoreland, William

World War I

Wray, George

Xavier, Francis

Yaeju-Yuza Peaks

Yaetake, Mount

Yahagi

Yahara, Hiromichi

Yamamoto, Isoroku

Yamato

Yamato clan

Yokoi, Toshiyuki

Yonabaru

Yonabaru Airfield

Yontan Airfield

Yoshida, Masaru

Yoshida, Mitsuru

zaibatsu

Zampa Cape