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Abbott, John S., 65ABD Afloat, 414Adak, Alaska, 104Adams, Charles Speed, 97Adams, George L., 98Aden, Arabia, 63Ahua Point Lighthouse, 280Aiea Heights, 297Army Air Corps, 104Aikin, W. B., High School, 422Air Force, 323, 420aircraft carriers, 374Ala Moana Park pavilion, 222Alaska, 18, 164Alaska-Hawaii-Panama line, 101Albuquerque, New Mexico, 265Alert June 1940, 186, 196, 208,

281, 445Alexandria, Egypt, 63Allen, A. M. R., 266Allen, Robert S., 160, 206Allied prisoners of war, 399Allied Translator and Interpreter

Section (ATIS): 366; inBrisbane, Australia, 376

Allies, 301, 367Ambrose Light, New York, 60America’s anti-Japanese feeling,

173American Airlines, 225

American consul, 69American Consular Service, 70American Expeditionary Forces,

19, 60Americans evacuating the Far

East, 239Americans of Chinese Ancestry

gathering, 170Ames Tool Company, 48amnesia, 409Amoy, China, 63amphibious building programs,

250amphibious landing equipment,

249Anderson, Charles Carter, 403Anderson, Edwin A., 63Anderson, Walter S., 34, 253,

291, 302Andrews, Adolphus: in Annapolis,

32; 84, 106, 109, 112, 130,145, 154, 165, 187, 216, 278,281, 343, 436

antiaircraft artillery: firing, 125;terrible equipment, 208; parkedat Schofield Barracks, 456

Antigua, 261antisubmarine patrol, 280antitorpedo boat boom, 161Arabic (White Star passenger

liner), 52Araki, Sadao, 369

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Army at Pearl Harbor: bombers,157; Hawaiian Department,162; means to defend the fleet,284; Industrial College, 430

Army-Navy Country Club, 109Army-Navy football game, 36,

240, 243Army-Navy YMCA (in Honolulu),

152Asheville, North Carolina, 25, 43Asiatic Fleet, 61-62, 90, 96, 225,

236-37, 304Asiatic Station, 38, 58, 241Associated Press, 94Atkins, J. G., 432Atlantic Fleet, 43, 54Atlantic Neutrality Patrol, 145Atlantic Patrol, 243, 276, 301Atlantic Squadron, 189Atlantic Torpedo Boat Flotilla, 45Australia, 116, 182, 224aviation gasoline (and scrap iron),

200aviators, 177; from sources other

than Naval Academy, 201Axis powers, 184, 301Azores, 63, 327

BB

Babcock & Wilcox, 46Badger, Oscar, 263Baecher, John Ford, 348Bahamas, 261Balboa, Canal Zone, 110Baldwin, Raymond E., 414Ballantine, Joseph W., 372balloon barrage, 268, 378, 381

Banks, Elizabeth Wingo, 404Bantry Bay, Ireland, 58Barbers Point (in Hawaii), 214Barkley, Alben W., 228, 348Base Force, 304Bases, new: Pensacola and

Jacksonville (in Florida), 127Batavia, Java, 265Battle for Leyte Gulf, 328Battle of Missionary Ridge, 24Battle of Savo Island, 156Battle of Shiloh, 24Battleship Division Six, 58-59Battleship Force Two, 61Baughman, C. C., 193, 233Bay of Biscay, Atlantic, 34Bayonne, New Jersey, 46beach landings, 283beer, 27Belgium, 253Bell, William, 45Bellinger, Patrick L.: 240, 275,

285, 303, 335, 360; unpub-lished manuscript, 413

Bemis, Harold M., 19, 166, 431Bemis, Mrs. Harold M., 240Berehaven, Ireland, 58Bergen, Edgar, 234Berle, Adolf, 379Bermuda, 63, 261Berry, Albert O., 43Bethel College (in Kentucky), 29Bethesda, Maryland, 308Bethlehem Steel Company, 209Bidwell, Robert G., 135Bieri, Bernard H., 123, 135, 217,

279, 299, 303Big Cabin, Oklahoma, 208


Index 509

Bikini Island, 428Binford, T. H., 216Binford, Mrs. T. H., 240Blakely, Charles A., 45, 137blame: on Pearl Harbor com-

manders, 342blind man’s bluff, 177Bloch, Claude C.: 70, 83, 88, 90,

94, 100, 108, 122, 126, 130,137, 140; proceeded toWashington, 142, 159, 162,187; kept a jealous eye on thesituation in the Pacific Fleet,218; war plans officer, 248,277, 284, 290, 304; left Hawaiiin the spring of 1942, 315;hoped Richardson would “notrock the boat,” 316, 321;escaped scrutiny, 336, 344,355, 411

Block Island, 48blockade plan, 231, 235-36Blocklinger, Gottfried, 39Bobo, W. S., 432Boca Tigris fort (in China), 65“bomb plot” message, 377Bombay, India, 63bombers: to give assistance to the

Chinese, 96Boone, Dr. Joel T.: pallbearer for

unknown solder, 136Borneo, 268, 478Boston, Massachusetts, 43, 46, 72Bowron, Fletcher, 211Bradley, Omar, 324Bragg, Braxton, 24Brainard, R. M., 331Brannon, John G., 370, 373

Bremerton, Washington, 42, 84,234, 243

Brest, France, 60Brewster, Owen, 241, 348, 356Briggs, Ralph, 408Bristol, Arthur A., 169, 280-81British Fleet, 62British Guiana, 261Bronstein, Leon, 59. (See also

Leon Trotzsky)Brookline, Massachusetts, 352Brooklyn, New York, 47Brown, Wilson, 431Buena Vista Hills Reserve #2, 52Bund (district), Shanghai, China,

204Bureau of Aeronautics, 135Bureau of Construction and

Repair, 108, 181Bureau of Engineering, 56Bureau of Navigation, 44, 73, 83,

100, 105, 194Bureau of Ordnance, 61, 70Bureau of Steam Engineering, 50-

51Burgess, R. H., 135Burke, Arleigh, 111, 113, 148,

155, 327Burma Road, 223, 235-36, 255-

56, 258, 260Burrows, William Ward, 271Butcher, Harry C., 324Byrnes, James, 196Bywaters Park, 312

CC

C-47, 325



Calhoun, W. L. “Bill,” 137, 147,279, 304, 412

Calhoun, Mrs. W. L., 240California, 21, 52, 190California Clipper, 194California Institute of Technology,

316. (See also Caltech)Callaghan, Daniel J., 111, 203Callan, John Lansing, 326Caltech, 331Camp Ord, 250Camp, Walter, 61Canton, China, 64, 297Canton Harbor, 65Capitol Hill, 53Caribbean, 49, 110, 138Carney, Robert B. “Mick,” 19, 54,

118, 138, 329, 413Carolines, The, 101, 258, 329,

375Carpender, Arthur S. “Chips,” 87,

431Carson, John H., 233Casablanca, Morocco, 326Cassidy, Earl W., 134Catholic, 326Cavite (in the Philippines), 42,

63, 265CBS: 306; Sports Review, 145Centenary Methodist Church, 44Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA), 212Chaing Kai-shek, 63, 94, 96, 186,

292Chamber of Commerce

(Honolulu), 216Chamberlain, Neville, 98Chambers family, 197Chambers, David, 140

Chambers, Jessie Richardson,459

Charleston, South Carolina, 62Charlotte News, 130Chayinzi, Japan, 370Chefoo, China, 39Chen Chiung-Ming, 66Chevy Chase, Maryland, 122Chiba, Kazuo, 367Chicago Daily News, 334Chief of Naval Operations (CNO),

50, 114Childs, Harold David, 36China: 63; planes unloaded at San

Pedro, 94; bombers to giveassistance to the Chinese, 96,192, 255, 371

Chinese Maritime Customs, 65Christmas, 246Christmas Eve, 246Christmas Island, 237Chugoku district (in Japan), 384Chungking, China, 270Churchill, Winston, 257Civil War, 18Claridge’s Hotel, 373Clark, Bennett Champ, 161Clark, Frank H., Jr., 79Clark, J. Bayard, 232, 348Clark, Mark Wayne, 142, 325Clausen, Henry, 308, 381Clemenceau, Georges, 59Clement, Samuel A., 431Cleveland, Grover, 246Clinton, Bill, 364Colclough, O. S., 348, 476Cole, Phillip, 326Cole, W. C., 428Coleman, Beverly, 368, 370


Index 511

Coletta, Paolo E., 413Collier’s (weekly magazine), 174,

345Collins, W. M., 193Colombo, Ceylon, 63Coman, Robert G., 431Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 52Committees on Public Lands, 53Communications Intelligence

Unit (at Pearl Harbor), 293Compton, Louis, 162, 225, 238Conger, Edwin Hurd, 41Congress, United States, 22Congress of Nations, 132Congressional Pearl Harbor

Hearings in 1945-46, 76, 197,225, 285

Consolidated “bomber,” 214contraceptives, 54Cook, Arthur B., 214Cook, M. G., 36Cooke, Charles M. “Savvy,” 212,

248, 250, 255, 431Cooke, Charlie, 457Coolidge, Calvin, 136Cooper, Jere, 348Cooper, P. H., 42copying (a document), 350Corcoran Gallery, 404Cornell University, 68Coronado, California, 99, 411Corregidor Island: 63, 102, 267,

293; decoded messages fromgiven to Roosevelt, 296

Cousins, Ralph W., 136Craig, Howard A., 324Crane, Charles, 162, 214, 240Cranford, John W., 30Crenshaw, Russell S., 250

Crewe, England, 428Crossing the Line, 204Cruiser Division, 6, 84cryptanalytic training (at OP-20-

G), 85cryptographic decoding device

(on ship), 293cryptographic systems, 146Cuba, 76, 309Cuban blockade (in 1898), 51Cuban waters, 48Culebra, Puerto Rico, 111Curts, Maurice E. “Germany,”

135, 218, 303, 376Curts, Robert I., 305, 375

DD

Dairen, Manchuria, 67Dahlgren Hall, 34Dallas Morning News, 139, 410Daniels, Josephus: 49, 51; moral

structure, 54, 152Danzig, Poland, 2, 72. (See also

Gdansk, Poland)Davis, Arthur C., 279, 303Davison, F. Trubee, 323, 325, 328Davison, Ralph E., 470Dawson, Azalea, 405De Leon, Rudy, 479“dead wood,” 55Dean family, 300, 309Dean, Walter C., 28Debuchi, Katsuji: protested so

many U.S. ships stationed onPacific Coast, 77, 210

decrypted messages: not sharedwith planners, 272; interceptionof diplomatic messages, 399

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decryption machine, 297. (Seealso “MAGIC” and Purple)

DeKalb County, Alabama, 24Del Ray Beach, Florida, 352DeLany, W. S., 267, 303, 411Delaware, 47, 49Denby, Edwin, 62Denebrink, F. C., 432Department of Defense, 323, 330,

420Department of Interior, 52. (See

also Interior Department,United States)

Department of Steam Engineering(at the Naval Academy), 61

Destroyer Division, 38, 67, 71detention: of 1,200 Japanese,

German, and Italian diplomats,480

Detroit, Michigan, 343, 406Detroit, Texas, 140Deyo, Morton L., 148, 212, 219,

433Diamond Head (in Hawaii), 156,

308, 413Dill, Betty, 422Dillon, Clarence, 354diplomatic messages: intercepts,

178; interceptors at PearlHarbor, 191, 292, 377, 379,399

Dixie. (See USS Dixie)Dodson, Joseph A., Jr., 134Dohoney, E. L., Jr., 29Doihara, Kenji, 369Dong Dang, Viet Nam, 222Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,”

212, 215, 218Doolittle raid, 273

Doolittle, Jimmy, 389Dorn, Dr. Edwin, 479Douglas, Archibald, 181Douglas, William O., 129Draemel, Milo F., 431dress uniforms (Navy), 236dry dock: from New Orleans, 205DuBorg, F. R., 272Dudley, Sidney E., 134Duncan, Evan, 429Dupre, Marcy M., 135Dutch East Indies, 174, 176, 180,

228, 261; bases in, 292, 296,412. (See also East Indies andNetherlands East Indies)

Dyer, George Carroll: 22, 87, 89;just come from sea duty, 122;chosen as aide and flag secre-tary, 135; did alert tip-off tonewsmen, 190-91, 278, 299,303, 406; book with Turner,413, 415; began interviews atRichardson residence, 417; vis-ited Richardson home everyother week, 417; completedmanuscript in 1958, 418;hashed over blame for PearlHarbor (with Richardson), 419

Dyer, Mary Adaline, 122Dyer, Tommy, 85

EE

Earhart, Amelia, 93, 408, 420Earl, Clifford, 25Earle, J. B., 412Early, Stephen, 172East Coast, 75East Indies, 173. (See also Dutch


Index 513

East Indies and NetherlandsEast Indies)

East Orange, New Jersey, 352East, Walter J., 135, 303Eberle, Edward W., 121Eddy, Daniel T., 135, 165, 184,

219Edinburgh, Scotland, 428Edison, Carolyn Hawkins, 138Edison, Charles: 107, 117;

named acting secretary, 118,128, 138; observed FleetProblem, 147, 172; left office,190, 286

Edison, Thomas Alva, 148Edwards, Frederick A., 77Eighth Fleet, 325Eisenhower, Dwight D., 324electric drive (on ship), 400Eliott, George F., 160Elk Hills Reserve #1, 52Eller, E. M., 487Elliott, George, Jr.: obituary, 475Ellis, H. E., 189embargos: aviation fuel, 200;

high-octane gas, 201, 244; alltrade with Japan, 292

Embick, Stanley D.: Chief of theArmy War Plans Division, 101,268

Embick-Richardson staff, 104Emeny, Dr. Brooks, 176Empress of Australia, 67Engineering Duty Only officer,

55England, 252equator, 153, 200espionage, 295, 375, 382, 399Estonia, 47, 133

Etorofu (Iturup) Island, 383European waters, 72evacuees (from Tokyo early

1941), 295Evans, Robley, 41Export Control Act, 194

FF

fair play mentality, 384Fairchild, H. B., 36Fairfield, A. P., 315Fairmont Hotel, 295Falls Church, Virginia, 403Far East: 94, 197; American busi-

nessmen in, 200Far East desk (of the ONI), 292Far Eastern Affairs, 372Farrell, Eugene H., 405, 467FBI: 221; radio, 340, 378, 380,

480Fechteler, Bill, 427Federal Shipbuilding Company,

352Fenet home, 47, 53, 312Fenet, Joe Porter, 103Fenet, Mary, 426Fenet, May (Mrs. J. O.

Richardson), 45Ferguson, Homer, 236, 348Fifth Army, 325Finland, 47, 133First Army, 324Firth of Forth, Scotland, 59Fisher, Joseph O.: FDR threat-

ened to order to Guam, 56Fitch, Aubrey W., 169, 275, 281Flake Island, 41Flanigan, Howard A., 345



Fleet Base Force, 119Fleet Exercise 1913, 48Fleet Exercise V 1939, 12Fleet Joint Air Exercises 114 and

114A, 151Fleet Landing Exercise VI, 145Fleet Operating Plan: 254, 271;

non-assumption of attack onHawaii, 273

Fleet Problem VIII 1928, 73Fleet Problem XII 1931, 155Fleet Problem XIII 1932, 76, 431Fleet Problem XIV 1933, 79, 157Fleet Problem XVI 1935, 84Fleet Problem XVIII 1937, 89,

158Fleet Problem XIX 1938, 158Fleet Problem XX 1939, 109, 111,

130, 138Fleet Problem XXI 1940: night-

time practice, 121, 124; dis-guised radio orders, 146; nightfleet engagement, 155; nightfighting, 156, 164, 178, 208,251, 279, 435

Fleet Problem XXII 1941, 300Fleet Reserves, 128, 244, 256Fleet Train, 119Fleet Training, 251Fleet, United States: 19; formed,

62, 73; readiness, 142; exercisecritique, 170; in Hawaiianwaters for some time, 169,174; moving in secrecy, 192,199, 204, 244, 300; morale,203; lacked “war-mindedness,”217; returned to West Coast,226; not prepared for whatJapan could throw out, 226;

not war ready, 230; back in thefall or for Christmas, 237; leftPearl Harbor on June 24, 187;sent to Singapore, 257; insidePearl Harbor, 289; intelligencework, 290; intelligence officer,291; command turned over toKimmel, 297; left anchorage onJanuary 6, 301; at Hawaii act-ing as deterrent, 304; littlethreat to Japan’s military lead-ership, 399

Fleet War Plans Director, 247Fletcher, Frank Jack, 110, 183,

216Fletcher, William Bartlett, 38Fleury, France, 60Flight Command (movie), 307Florence, Italy, 325flu epidemic, 60Foochow, China, 63Ford, Henry, 343Ford Island, Hawaii, 275, 277,

301, 377Ford Island Naval Air Station, 162Foreign Correlation Office, State

Department, 379Forrestal, James: 225, 277, 317;

first Secretary of Defense, 331,337, 345, 357; appointedRichardson as Navy’s witnessat Tokyo, 366, 369, 384-85,401

Forster, K. L., 432Fort Douaumont, France, 60Fort Lewis, Washington, 143Fort Myer, Virginia, 361Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 162, 310,

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Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 309Foster, Frances Goodlett, 24Foster, Garland and Nancy J.

Moss, 422Fourteenth Naval District Hawaii:

142; supply personnel, 174,178, 214, 256, 279, 284; intel-ligence staff, 290, 304, 412

Fourteenth Naval District(Com14), 382

Fourth Army, 300France: 59, 72; capitulated to

Germans, 185, 253Frankfurter, Felix, 333, 338Freidel, Frank, 441French Frigate Shoals, 89, 155French Indo-China (Viet Nam),

222, 296. (See also Indochina)Freseman, W. L., 110Friedman, William F., 184, 233,

464fuel oil: 51; shortage, 62fuel tanks, 177fueling destroyers (at sea), 124Fujii, Ichiro, 380-81Fukien Province (in China), 63Fukudome, Shigeru, 398Funchal, Portugal, 34Furlong, William R., 255, 431

GG

Gaimudaijin (from Tokyo), 290Gale, William H., 70Gannon, Sinclair, 33Gardiners Bay, 36Gauss, Clarence E., 182Gdansk, Poland, 72. (See also

Danzig, Poland)

Gearhart, Bertrand W., 348, 356General Board, 22, 87, 207, 310,

314, 333, 411, 414-15Geological Survey, 52George, Harold Lee, 323George, Walter F., 348Georgetown, 27, 93, 404German and Italian alliance, 116German High Seas Fleet, 59Germans: 47; proposing an

alliance with Mexico, 57; thirty-four miles from Paris, France,184

German-U.S.S.R. agreement, 72Gerow, Leonard T., 333Geyer, Lee E., 211Ghormley, R. L., 91, 211, 218,

237, 296Gibraltar, 63Gilbert Islands: atoll of Tarawa,

149, 155Gill Apartments, 240Glassford, William A., 242, 324Glolunsky, Sergei Alexandrovich,

368“gobbledygook,” 379Goldstein, Dr. Donald, 408golf, 101, 108, 124, 151, 164,

216, 246, 299, 315, 329, 339,370, 420

Goulett, Wilfred B., 136Graf Spee, 132, 145Graham School, 25Graham Street, 28Grand Fleet: at Scapa Flow, 59,

428Grand Hotel (on Maui), 208Gray, Augustine H., 431Gray, Ropes, 363



Great War (World War I), 59Green Hornet, 389Greenbrier, The (in West

Virginia), 480Greensboro, North Carolina, 480Greenslade, J. W., 112, 253, 270,

315Greiner-Kelly Drugstore, 30Grew, Joseph Clark: 96; never

talked with Japanese militaryofficers, 182, 196, 282, 296;January 27, 1941, report, 321-22, 371

Griest, Guinevere, 403, 486Griest, Jean, 403Griffin, R. M., 432Griffin, Robert Stanislaus, 51Gruenther, Alfred M., 326Guam, 19, 127, 243, 270, 293,

376, 481Guantanamo Bay (in Cuba), 61,

76

HH

Hadden, T. H., 25Haiphong, Indo-China, 215Haiti, 112Haleakala (side of Maui), 176Hallmark, Dean Edward, 389Halsey, W. F. “Bull,” Jr., 34-35,

130, 137, 168, 214, 236, 240,304, 323, 329, 413

Hampton Roads, Virginia, 43, 58,61, 76

Hanify, Edward, 363, 408Hankow, China, 94Hanoi, Viet Nam, 269Hansen, Chester B., 324

Harding, Warren G.: administra-tion, 52; death, 66, 136

Hardison, Osborne B., 134, 279Harness, Forest A., 348Hart, Thomas C.: 86, 111; took

Yarnell’s place in Asiatic, 112;thoughts about Stark andRichardson, 114, 204, 225,235-36, 243, 265; accepted allRainbow Three assumptions,268, 288, 293, 321, 345, 405,414

Hart Pearl Harbor Attack Inquiry,251, 284

Harter, Dow W., 242Hashimoto, Kingoro, 369Hata, Shunroku, 369Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 162Hawaiian Air Force, 240Hawaiian Army Division, 214Hawaiian defenses, 157Hawaiian Detachment: 127; offi-

cially formed, 130, 167, 183,209

Hawaiian Islands: 16, 147; tem-peratures, 203

Hawdet Variety Show, 167Hawkins, George L., 422Hay, John, 41Hayworth, Roy W., 63hazing investigation (at West

Point), 33Healey-Shaw motor, 78Heffernan, John, 415Heim, S. F., 90Hein, Herbert R., 431“hellships,” 399Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland,

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Index 517

Hemingway, Ernest, 308Hepburn, Arthur J., 51, 86, 125,

140, 248Herrmann, Ernest E., 135Herron, Charles D., 162, 192,

204, 214, 276, 284, 294, 300Heston, Charlton, 382Hewett, Hobert, 308Hewitt, H. Kent: 211, 337; chosen

to replace Stark, 347Hewitt, Mrs. H. Kent, 245Hickam Field, 280, 308Hickey, T. J., 432Hicks, Robert E., 140Hill, Harry W., 142, 248Hilo, Hawaii, 90Hiranuma, Kiichiro, 369Hirohito, Emperor, 367, 389Hiroshima, Japan, 384Hirota, Koki, 97, 369Hitler, Adolph, 133, 458Hitokappu Bay, 383Holcomb, Thomas, 255Holland, 252Hollywood, California, 94, 145Holmes, R. S., 315Holyhead (in Wales), 428Homestead, The (in Hot Springs,

Virginia), 480Honda Point (in California), 68Hong Kong, 38, 65, 191Hongkew, Shanghai, 95Honolulu, Hawaii: housing prob-

lem, 145, 152; ready for bigparty, 156; Hotel Street, 201,307, 329

Honolulu Advertiser, 159Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 286Hood, John, 54

Hoover, Gilbert C., 324Hoover, Herbert: administration,

76, 136Hoover, J. Edgar, 296Hop Committee, 35Hopkins, Harry, 300, 347Hornbeck, Stanley Kuyl: 181,

197, 219, 224, 231, 255;released information to newsmedia: reported ship move-ments, 290, 322

Horne, Frederick J., 84, 90, 315Hoshino, Naoki, 370Hosho, 390, 395, 400Hotel Breslin, 425Hotel Fuysa (or Fujia), 481Hotel Majestic, 356House Committee on Naval

Affairs, 76, 107, 122, 186House Military Affairs

Committee, 242Houston, 241Howe, Louis McHenry, 56, 159Howeth, L. S., 432Howland Island, 93Hudson River, 48, 222Hughes, Charles F., 74, 83Hughes, William N., 134Hull, Cordell: 15, 185, 191; want-

ed to take strong stand inresponse to each Japanesemove, 196, 224, 296, 320;insisted he was at White Housewith Richardson, 321; testimo-ny, 352, 357, 371, 379; office,384

Hunt County, Texas, 24Hunt, LeRoy P., 134Hunt, Mrs. LeRoy, 240



Hunter, Donald T., 352Hussey, Ruth, 307Hustvedt, Olaf, 93, 99, 126, 131Hyde Park, New York, 107, 170hydraulic ram, 78

II

ice cream makers (on ships), 54Imperial Diet (Japanese), 294Imperial Hotel, 66, 368Imperial Palace, 389Independence Day celebrations,

43Indochina (Viet Nam), 186, 260,

269. (See also French Indo-China)

Ingersoll, Royal E.: 36; would goto work with Stark, 183, 225,255, 288; cancelled McCollum’sorders, 292, 351

Inglis, Thomas Browning, 349Interior Department, United

States, 339. (See alsoDepartment of Interior)

International Military Tribunal forthe Far East (IMTFE): 261,297, 366; proceedings, 388; Palnot present at, 388

International Prosecution Section(IPS), 367

interservice reluctance to cooper-ate, 325

Ireland, 72Irish, James M., 255Itagaki, Seishiro, 369Italian Fleet, 276Italy: 165; situation extremely

delicate, 171; may joinGermany, 174, 179

Ito, Selichi (Seiichi ), 382, 398Iwo Jima, 403

JJ

Jackson, J. P., 74Jacksonville Naval Air Station,

208Jacksonville, Florida, 217Jamaica, 261James Bay, 48Japan/Japanese: attack on Pearl

Harbor, 18; invasion ofManchuria in 1931, 76, 371;invaded China, 90; gave noticeof termination in theWashington Naval Treaty, 95;occupied Manchuria, 95; paidreparations for USS Panayattack, 97; Mandates, 104; tobe U.S. sea enemy, 124; effortsto view training, 146; espi-onage, 157, 233; Fourth Fleet,178; consul at Honolulu, 191;Japanese-Russian history, 193;iron and steel products, 205,244; earthquake, 206, 226;press association, 227; fishingfleets, 234; spies, 239; sub-marines, 244; Fifth Infantry,269; feeling effect of lack ofcertain commodities, 270; car-riers, 279, 393; carrier attackhighly feasible, 284; secretdiplomatic code, 288; intelli-gence gathering, 289, 296;


Index 519

Third Fleet, 294; naval intelli-gence, 295; United JapaneseSociety in Hawaii, 295; negoti-ations, 344; War Ministrybuilding, 370; spying, 377,380; Foreign Office, 378, 382;burning various documents,379; Naval Code, 382; scuttledplan for a third strike on PearlHarbor, 384; proof of plan toattack Pearl Harbor, 396; suc-cess of attack dependent uponsurprise, 397; War CrimesTrial, 420; received GermanIslands, 482

Java, 414Jeep: assembly plant in Texas,

343Johnson, Chris R., 135, 168, 303Johnson, Felix L., 208Johnson, Van, 389Johnson’s Island, 18Johnston Island, 104, 155, 169,

210Johnston, R. K., 166Joint Army and Navy Board, 101,

104, 253Joint Army-Navy Exercise, 142Joint Chiefs-of-Staff (JCS), 323Joint Congressional Hearings on

Pearl Harbor, 247, 348, 366,408, 414

Joint Planning Board, 123Joint Planning Committee, 101Jones, Walter R., 108Judge Advocate General, 83Jumper, John P., 423June 17 Army alert (Hawaii), 187

Jurika, Stephen, 99, 444

KK

Kahoolawe (in Hawaiian Islands),176

Kahuku Point, Oahu, 475Kalama house, 381Kalbfus, Edward C., 343Kaneohe Naval Air Station, 214Kanto region (in Japan), 66Kato, Matsu, 356Kauffman, James L., 431Kaya, Okinori, 370Keefe, Frank B., 348Keenan, Joseph Barry, 367Kellogg, Frank Billings, 72Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, 72Kepper, Charles F., 121, 130Kerensky, Alexander, 59Kewalo Basin, Oahu, 162Keystone, The, 145, 204Key West, Florida, 48KGU. (See radio station KGU)Kiaochow, China, 64Kido, Marquis Koichi: 367; diary,

378Kiichi, Gunji, 173, 289Kilpatrick, W. K., 290Kimmel Husband E.: 15, 35, 84,

92, 113, 137, 155, 216, 232-33, 242; new CinCUS, 266;267; war plans staff, 272, 278;security orders, 283, 287; trav-eled to Washington, 289, 295;letters to Stark, 298; to takeover fleet, 301; first press con-ference, 304; thought presence



of Navy wives offered excuses,305; told press the less pub-lished about the fleet the bet-ter, 305; paid a last visit toHerron, 307; paid a visit on theShorts, 310; released fromduty, 316; detached, 333; infe-rior transcripts of testimony,335; naval inquiry, 335; staffimmediately put to sea, 336;1955 book, 336; learned ofShort’s resignation, 342; hadchance to finally be part of ahearing, 343; learned of forty-three decoded messages, 344;broke his long silence, 345;naval court and relationshipwith Short, 346; staff assuredhim there was no danger of anair raid on Oahu, 359; defensestaff, 363; died in 1968, 364;said to be not as bright nor aspersistent as Richardson, 365,406

Kimmel, Dorothy, 338Kimmel, Edward R. “Ned,” 408kimonos, 67Kimura, Heitaro, 369Kincaid, Thomas Wright, 305King, Ernest J.: 99, 113, 148, 158,

232, 239, 253, 301, 316; highregard for and loyalty to Stark,318, 337, 345, 358, 414

king and queen of England:leather-framed photos, 115,310

King George V, 46King, John E., 139Kiplinger Agency, 238

Kirk, Alan G., 113, 288, 325Kita, Nagao, 297, 377, 380Klieg lights, 371Knighton, Joseph W., 470Knox, Frank J.: 21, 185, 196; trip

to visit every naval base, 205-6, 212; found a lack of fightingspirit in the Navy, 217; didsend a note to Bloch after visit,219; penned a long letter toRichardson, 219; detachmentbeing sent to the Far East, 225,236-37, 255, 257; incensedwith Richardson, 258; lefttown, 258, 305, 318; mediareports that Richardson wouldreplace him, 323, 333; back inWashington, 341

Kobe, Japan, 39, 68Kodiak and Sitka (in Alaska),

127Koiso, Kuniaki, 369Konoye, Fumimaro, 294Konoye, Prince, 367Koshi, 297Kra Peninsula, 228, 478Krick, Hal, 113, 357Krock, Arthur, 347Kuehn, Bernard Julius Otto, 380Kuehn, Freidel, 483Kumano Maru, 39Kure, Japan, 384Kuriles, Japan, 383Kuroshima, Kameto, 398Kurtz, Thomas Richardson, 74Kurusu, Saburo, 15Kwajalein (in Marshall Islands),

376, 481Kwantung Army, 368


Index 521

LL

L’Orange, Hans, 307Ladonia, Texas, 24, 404Lahaina Roads (in Hawaii): 73,

151, 160, 172, 191, 214; wasperilous, 217, 243, 285

Lamar County (Texas) court-house, 27

Lanai, Maui, 176Land, Emory “Jerry,” 36, 58, 119,

314Lane, Franklin K., 52Lang Son (in Indochina), 269Lanikai Beach house, 381Lannon, James P., 70Larson, E. E., 432Latvia, 133Launcelots, 109laundries (on board ships), 54Lawson, Ted W., 389Layton, Edwin T., 85; much of

intercept information hiddenfrom Congress, 289, 291; atti-tude toward Anderson, 293,411-12

League Island, 43League of Nations, 96Leahy, William D.: 58, 71, 83, 85,

92; on leave, 94; returned toWashington, 97; 103, 106, 109-10, 114, 118, 124; governor ofPuerto Rico, 133, 138, 159,195, 225; assured Rooseveltthat all ships sent to Far Eastwould be lost, 226, 228, 235,253, 270, 320, 329, 354

Leahy, Mrs. W. D., 356Leary, Herbert Fairfax, 249, 253

Lebon, André, 68Lee, W. A., 329Leigh, Richard Henry, 73Leighton, Frank T., 431lend-lease agreement, 260, 300,

391Lenin, V. I. (or Nikolai), 59. (See

also Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)Lenten Season, 145Leyte (in Philippine Islands), 328Libby, Ruthven E., 318, 340, 361,

365liberty pass, 209Life (magazine), 119, 222, 230,

241Lincoln Club, 316Lindbergh, Charles: 314; kidnap-

ping law, 368Lindsay, Richard C., 324line (of ships), 257Linn, George W., 407Lion Drugstore, 30liquor, 27Lithuania, 133Lockard, Joseph, 475Lockhart, W. M., 432Lockheed Electra 10E, 93Loew’s (parent company of

MGM), 354Logan, William, 380, 400London ambassadorship, 310London Naval Conference of

1935-36, 373London Treaty of 1930, 374Lone Ranger, The (episodes), 477Long Beach, California: 48, 79, 84,

115; windows, 120, 131, 140,142, 177, 222, 238, 265, 311

Long, A. T., 58



Los Angeles, California, 47, 121,233, 265, 371

Los Angeles Harbor, 116, 140Louisiana, 60Loutt, J. M., 152Lowell, James Russell, 404John Lowrey: 119; explained how

dangerous firing could be, 121,148, 437

Lucas, Scott W., 348, 441Lucky Bag (yearbook), 35Luxembourg, 324Luzon (in Philippines), 267Lynnhaven Roads, 48Lyon, Frederick B., 379

MM

MacArthur, Douglas: 265, 296; setup headquarters in TaclobanCity, 328, 366; asked that aNavy representative appear asa witness in Tokyo War CrimesTrial, 369; requested Hull toprovide a Navy witness fortrial, 384

Madeira, Portugal, 33“MAGIC”: 288, 292; analog

machines, 293, 344, 409, 416Magruder, (Cary) W., 432Magruder, John H., Jr., 241Mahaffey, Birch, 32Mahan, Dennis H., 41Mahoney, J. J., 315mail: 152; on SS Lurline, 200Main, Navy Department, 332Mala Wharf, 151Malaya, 412Maloney, Francis T., 414

Malta, 347man overboard drill, 78Manchukuoan border, 383Mandated Islands, 104, 178, 226,

249, 291, 293, 375Mandates Fleet, 376Mandates Treaty, 375Mandley, George, 194Manila, Philippines, 38, 65, 69,

116, 192, 236, 293Manila Bay, 102, 376Mare Island Naval Yard, 158, 208,

295Mariana Islands, 155, 375Marine band, 307Marine Reserves, 256Marines: Fifteenth Infantry, 64; to

China, 95, 170, 204, 214, 258,261; landed at Midway Island,270, 325; would remain withthe Navy, 330, 428

Maritime Commission, 314Marks, Laurence H., 135Marolda, Dr. Edward J., 415Marquart, Edward J., 137, 214,

311Marshall, George C.: 75, 185, 192,

196, 257, 327, 333-34; did notuse phone to send PearlHarbor alert, 340; chosen asofficial dispatcher to Kimmel,341, 343, 360; called liar attestimony, 361; part in event ofprotecting Pearl Harbor, 365;sailed right through all thecontroversy, 409

Marshall Islands, 101, 155, 258,303, 397, 413

Marshall, Jim, 174


Index 523

Martin, Frederick L., 240, 360Mason, John T., Jr., 419Massachusetts Avenue Heights,

71, 115Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, 44Masterson, Kleber S., 207Matson Line/liner, 245, 290Matsonia. (See SS Matsonia)Matsui, Iwane, 369Matsuoka, Yosuke, 289, 295, 297,

369Maui Country Club (at

Sprecklesville), 151, 164Maui Military District, 164McCain, John Sidney, 329McCarthy, Charlie, 234McCleary, John, 194McCollum, Arthur H.: 85; memo-

randum, 292, 297, 376, 379,407, 444

McConnell, Riley F., 98McCormick, L. D., 272McCoy, Frank Ross, 333, 343McCrea, John L.: 205; left Manila,

262, 264; went on into thePacific, 265-66, 269

McCuistion, Ed, 30McDermott, Edward P., 370, 399McDonnell, J. M., 326McIntyre, Marvin, 106, 108, 114McKittrick, Harold V., 433McLaughlin, Peter J., 456McMorris, Charles H. “Soc,” 267,

272, 303, 411McNair, Frederick V., 30McNarney, Joseph T., 326, 333McWilliams, John, 316Mediterranean (Sea), 63

Meian, 97Meiping, 97Meishia, 97Melhorn, Dr. Kent, 136, 242, 245,

303, 415Mers-el-Kebir (near Oran), 286Methodist Church, 25-26Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Corporation: 140; filming lot,147, 354

Meyers, G. J., 137Miami, Florida, 329Midway Island, 104, 127, 210,

381, 412Milliken, Robert A., 316Minami, Jiro, 369Mindinao (in the Philippines), 38,

231mine nets, 378Ming River (in China), 64missionaries, 64Mitchell, William D., 197, 355Mitscher, Marc “Pete,” 327Molten, Robert P., 180Monroe Doctrine, 185, 254Monte Cristi, 43Monterey Bay (in California),

142, 250Moore, C. J., 252Moore, Lawrence C., 456Moorer, Thomas H., 282mooring board, 88Moreell, Ben, 255, 276Morgan, Roy L., 367Morimura, Tadashi, 297, 377Moro Group (of the Sulu Islands),

38Mount Belmonte, 325Mount Vernon, 404



Mowrer, Paul Scott, 334Munitions Building, 323, 334Munro, Dr. William B., 331Munroe, W. R., 166Murfin, Orin G.: 165, 343; threw

his pencil down during TokyoWar Crimes Trial, 344

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 24Murphy, John W., 348, 362Murphy, Vincent R.: 136, 194; left

Los Angeles airport withRichardson, 225, 247; met withthe War Plans Division, 255,264, 271-72, 282; remained toserve with Kimmel, 303, 332,411

Murray, Maxwell, 214Mustin, Lloyd M., 78Muto, Akira, 369Myanoshita, Japan, 42Mydans, Carl, 222Myers, Henry, 324myths, 365

NN

Nachi, 376Nagano, Osami: 369; worked

hand in hand with Yamamoto,374; in the dock at Tokyo WarCrimes Trial, 386; studied lawat Harvard, 386

Nagasaki, Japan, 39Nagato, 375, 383, 397naked women (of the South Sea

Islands), 53Nanking, China: 41; residents

brutalized and raped byJapanese, 97

Naples, Italy, 325National Security Act of 1947,

331Naval Academy: Class of 1896,

33; Class of 1902, 32, 41, 488;Class of 1904, 35; code ofhonor, 40, 45, 53; midshipmanserving aboard battleships, 49;Class of 1907, 167; in 1917,247; graduates, 306

Naval Affairs Committee, 235Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor,

214Naval Attaché in Tokyo, 146Naval Awards Board, 414Naval Court of Inquiry, 262, 264,

337, 343, 414Naval Districts: Fifth, 160;

Eleventh, 233; Twelfth, 315;Fourteenth, 142, 174, 178,214, 256, 279, 284, 290, 304,412; Fifteenth, 190; Sixteenth,267

Naval Expansion Act, 114Naval Gun Factory, 470Naval History Division, 22Naval Hospital at Yokohama, 39Naval Intelligence, 251Naval Line Promotion Bill, 107Naval Observatory Circle, 71, 318naval officers: divided on Japan,

238Naval Parity Act of March 27,

1934, 393Naval Petroleum Reserve: 51;

Number 3, 52, 70Naval Register, 111Naval Reserves, 270Naval Retiring Board, 320


Index 525

Naval War College, 58, 70, 79, 87,128, 137, 157, 234

Naval War Plans, 247. (See alsoNavy: War Plans Division andWar plans)

Navy: funds to be spent inHawaii, 176; War PlansDivision, 211, 262; senior offi-cers, 251; had attacked PearlHarbor many times in drills,334; limitations, 360;stonewalling, 409

Navy Day, 238Navy Department: “assist in

ensuring that the Fleet isready,” 212; secrecy, 339

Navy exam, 192Navy families: arriving on Maui,

175; joining loved ones in FarEast, 235

Navy General Board, 17, 56, 146Navy Golf Tourney, Honolulu

1940, 165Navy Hostess House, 222Navy Relief Society, 320, 354, 420Navy “Second to None” act, 114Nazi subversive movements, 214NBC Blue Network, 246Neilson, Susan Ann, 25. (See also

Susan “Sue” NeilsonRichardson)

Nelson River, 48Netherlands, The, 253Netherlands East Indies, 268.

(See also East Indies andDutch East Indies)

Neutrality Act, 96Neville, A. W. “Sandy,” 25, 139,

141

New Deal, 121, 160, 362New Guinea, 368New Mexico. (See USS New

Mexico)New Orleans. (See USS New

Orleans)New York, 43New York Daily News, 349New York Times, 172, 194, 342,

347, 352Newfoundland, 261, 327Newport, Rhode Island, 36, 49,

157Newquay, England, 324news services, 290Newsweek, 411Newton, John H., 303Nicaragua, 73Nimitz, Chester W.: 36, 78, 112,

128, 194, 202, 225, 239, 248,255, 305; sent to Hawaii, 316

Nimitz, Mrs. Chester W., Jr., 240Nimrod Sound, 40Ninth Tactical Air Command, 324Nixon, Elliot B., 431Nolan, Henry Grattan, 401Nomura, Kichisaburo: 15; knew

Richardson, 294; lost sight,294, 370

Norfolk Navy Yard, 72, 75Norfolk, Virginia, 247North River (in California), 61North Sea Mine Barrage, 58Norway, 47Nuremberg trials, 372

OO

O’Brien, Leslie J.: 135, 165, 168,



303; pulled some files forKimmel, 336, 360, 446

O’Connor, Gary, 479O’Donnell, John, 323O’Keefe, John, 212Oahu: simulated attack on, 76,

89, 102, 155; attacked by car-rier in fleet exercises, 157; saidto be “impregnable,” 165, 384

Oahu Sugar Plantation, 307Obear, Hugh, 351Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI):

Far East desk, 292, 375Office of Strategic Services (OSS),

212Ogawa, Kanji, 289, 297Ogilvie, William: 26, 47; died, 48,

423Ohio men, 33oil: 175; storage facility, 205, 263;

oil tanks, 286Oka, Takasumi, 369, 383Okamoto, S., 372Okawa, Shumei, 369, 388Oklahoma City, 343Okuda, Otojiro, 289, 294, 297Okuma, Yuzuru, 200Okumiya, Masatake, 95Old City Graveyard, Paris, Texas,

44Old Main Navy Building, 263Oldendorf, Jesse B., 236Olongapo (in the Philippines),

266Op-12, 247, 251Op-20-G, 294Oran, 326Orange tankers, 241Orange War Plan: plan always

there for budget purposes, 103,149; was useless, 196, 247,249, 253, 258, 261-62, 264,271-72, 278, 394

Orient, 176, 190, 246, 292Osanbashi Pier (at Yokohama), 67Oshima, Hiroshi, 369Ottawa, Canada, 43, 47Overesch, Harvey E., 216Oxford, Mississippi, 29

PP

Pacific Fleet, 301Pacific island base construction,

276Pact of Paris, 72Pact of Steel (between Germany

and Italy), 115Pagoda Anchorage, 64Pal, Radhabinod, 372Palau, 101, 178, 191Palmyra Island, 127, 210Pan American Airways, 260Pan American Clipper, 195, 265Panama Canal Zone, 43, 48, 76,

187, 190-91Paris Advocate, 44-45, 47Paris Centenary Methodist

Church, 27Paris Female Institute, 25Paris High School, 28Paris Morning News, 47, 302Paris News, 30, 94, 96, 139, 141Paris Peace Conference, 60Paris, France, 324Paris, Texas: 15; saloons, 28, 42-43,

46, 48, 53, 119, 139, 208, 300,311-12, 362, 379, 389, 410, 420


Index 527

Pasadena, California, 316Pat Wing Two Patrols: from Pearl

Harbor, 169, 187, 267, 274-75,277; consisted of six planes,281; operated on a shoestring,278, 285

patrol: planes, 2, 154, 214, 278-81, 344; planes not funded,127; new bases in Pensacolaand Jacksonville in lieu ofpatrol planes, 127; planeschedule, 161; bombers, 183;security, 240, 304; headaches,275; took a tremendous toll,279; covering out to 30 milesradius, 280; stretched to 180miles radius, 280; called off,280; readiness, 335; problems,360; force, 414

patrol line, 236, 256Patterson, Robert E., 233Patty, John C., Jr., 134Peace and War, 322Peacock, William T., 349Pearl Harbor: 16; attack, 22, 38,

76, 119, 130, 132, 139, 152;“bombed” at least four times,157; simulated air attackagainst, 157; Officers Club,162; dock projects, 168;above-ground fuel tanks, 168;Submarine Base, 169; three-hundred-mile offshore patrol,169, 179; Pearl HarborHearings in 1945, 180; sabo-tage, 192, 208, 216, 278, 281;spies, 219, 235, 260, 265,268, 272, 287, 289, 294, 315,359, 374; Roosevelt invited

attack against, 410Pearson, Drew, 160, 206Pearson, John A., 352Peiping (Peking), China, 94Pensacola, Florida, 44, 290, 327Pershing, John J., 19, 60Peterson Hotel (in Paris, Texas),

30Petrie, Lester, 240Petrograd, Russia, 59Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 352Philadelphia Navy Yard, 61Philippines: Independence Act,

101-2; not mentioned in rein-forcement or relief issues, 104;would be attacked next afterChina, 194, 228, 242; armyand air forces, 243, 267, 412,478

photography: rules at Honolulu:photographing ships and move-ments, 142; photographing orsketching fleet, 167, 221

photostat (of a document), 350Pidgeon, Walter, 307Pier 27, 221Piney Point, Maryland, 43Pius XII, Pope, 326Plymouth Harbor, 33Poindexter, Joseph Boyd, 162,

214, 294Point Fermin (in California), 76poker, 138Poland, 125Pons, Lily, 203Pootung, China, 97Portland, England, 59Portland, Maine, 36Portland, Oregon, 164



Portsmouth, England, 46Portsmouth, Virginia, 75postmaster general, 265Pownall, Charles A., 67, 130, 206,

277Prange, Gordon, 408Pratt, William V.: 36, 73, 77;

CNO, 75; did not allow targetpractice within thirty miles offshore, 120

Presidio, California, 143Price, Ernest B., 70Price, Joseph, 328Provincetown, Massachusetts,

48PT (patrol torpedo) boats, 152Puerto Rico, 235, 355Puget Sound Naval Yard, 164,

168, 181, 204, 209, 243Purnell, W. R., 265Purple, 288, 292, 339, 416. (See

also “MAGIC”)Purser, Clareda, 27, 311, 406Puunene Airport, Maui, 175Pye, Anne Briscoe, 69Pye, William S.: 69, 137, 149-50,

217, 221; stayed on as com-mander of Task Force One,303; took Snyder’s place, 303;acted as CinCPAC, 316, 413

Pyro, 178

QQ

Queen Mary, 347Queensland, Australia, 480Quesada, Elwood R., 324Quincy, Massachusetts, 51Quiros. (See USS Quiros)

RR

radar, 155, 339Radford, Arthur W., 323Radio Corporation of America

(RCA), 378, 382radio station KGU, 246Raftery, Thomas J., 135Rainbow Plans, 394Rainbow One, 251, 253-54, 262-

63Rainbow Two: 250; Joint Plan,

254; never issued, 260Rainbow Three, 262-67, 269,

271, 273Rainbow Four, 251, 263, 459Rainbow Five, 228, 263-64, 271,

342, 394, 478Ramage, James D., 205, 222Rampley, John, 145Rapidan Camp, Virginia, 110,

118Reader’s Digest, 405Reed, Allan L., 135Reese, William L., 326Reeves Air Field, 121Reeves, Joseph Mason “Bull”: 84;

had a mind Richardsonenjoyed, 85, 134, 192, 259,333

refueling: of a carrier at sea, 124;operations, 156; at sea, 393

repeaters (in U.S. Navy), 108Reserve Fleet: 127; destroyers,

128; should never be part of awar plan, 129; reservists calledto active duty, 235

Rice, R. H., 148Richardson, Fannie, 24


Index 529

Richardson, Frances, 422Richardson, James Otto: 15, 19,

24, 27, 32-33; rank of cadetensign, 36; called Jo, 36;became ill, 39; on number oneturret, 41, 43; in gunnery prac-tice, 41; using brown-powderammunition, 41; fell sick, 43;received notice that his fatherhad died, 44; expected to benaval attaché in Italy, 46; mar-ried May Fenet, 47; experi-enced early-day stop-loss ver-sion, 49; appointed as lieu-tenant commander, 50;expressed views on contracep-tives, 54; expressed views onconstruction of subchasers, 56;knew well most officers belowflag rank who dealt withRoosevelt, 56; left duty on theNevada, 61; ship won the engi-neer award, 63; played crib-bage, 64, 123, 327; earth-quakes, 66; salary, 71; pur-chase of a home, 71; gaveinterpreter his speech, 73;ranked 125th in grade among243 captains, 74; viewed as ano-nonsense leader, 77; taughtthe “10 turn minus 100 rule,”78-79; officer personnel during1928-30, 83; chief of staff to“Bull” Reeves, 85; CommanderDestroyers Scouting Force, 86;assistant chief of NavalOperations, 92; coordinatedUSS Panay action, 93; gave upsmoking, 100; knew Orange

War Plan was always there forbudget purposes, 103; fed upwith fitness reports, 109; metwith Roosevelt, 109; consid-ered as CNO, 112; CommanderBattle Force, 112; told presi-dent his choices did not holdthe confidence and respect ofthe mature officers, 112, 114;left Hyde Park after the kingand queen of England haddeparted, 115; receivedleather-framed photos of theking and queen, 115, 118;stood on board the California,122; disliked newspaper peo-ple, 124; Commander BattleForce, 124; had tremendousgalaxy of friends, 124; tookpart in change-of-commandceremonies, 127; newPensacola and Jacksonvillebases in Florida, 127; wentfishing in Tacoma, 129; com-mander of the White Fleet,129; told story of camel put-ting his nose under the tent,132; experimented with carrierformations, 132; stressedimportance of staff appointees,134; played bridge, 138;described as a bookworm, 140;praised Bloch’s leadership,141; told three old ladies storyto press, 141; restricted visi-tors on board ships, 142; secu-rity measures called “cries ofwolf,” 142; confirmation of aforeign submarine near Pearl



Harbor, 146; his steward haddouble pneumonia, 147;appeared in front-page Hawaiiphoto with Bloch, 162; cri-tiqued Fleet Problem XXI, 169;instituted three-hundred-mileoffshore patrol, 169; receivedfalse press release about stay-ing at Pearl Harbor, 170; couldnot bring himself to announcea false message, 171; sent Mayhome as an example for theofficers, 174; given authorityfor returning ships to the WestCoast, 180; favored compulso-ry military service, 181; toldstory of the small man versusthe big man, 182; made effortto thwart Navy wives from liv-ing in Honolulu, 184; packedand planned with Murphy fortrip east, 185; experimentedwith camouflage colors on car-rier planes, 185; was used asbait by Washington, 186; flewover to Pearl Harbor to conferwith Bloch and Herron, 188;viewed Washington actions as“poor way to run a railroad,”189; spoke of radio silenceafter 1940 alert, 190; read ofconfirmation of Knox as secre-tary of the Navy, 192;explained that his visit wasgood timing, 195; met thepress with the president, 195;met with Hull and Welles, 196;attended second July 1940Roosevelt meeting, 197; called

his sister Jessie after Julymeeting, 197; felt the presidentwas fully determined to put theUnited States into the war,199; assembled his officers atthe base theater, 201; spokeabout discipline, 202; warnedof hardships, 208; dreadedcongressional “inquiry,” 210;was almost to the point of res-ignation, 211; prepared a six-page memo, 217; accused ofplacing undue stress on thepersonnel issue, 217; enter-tained Knox at Black Pointhome in Hawaii, 219; fighting alosing battle on fleet place-ment, 220; asked toWashington in early October,221; ordered dances for sailors,222; moved flag to the USSNew Mexico, 222; becamemore stern, 226; quoted ascalling Pearl Harbor a “mouse-trap,” 227; blurted out wordsto Roosevelt, 229; expressedmistrust of civilian leadership,229; fell for the old Rooseveltpersonality, 230; presentedStark a partial summary, 230;thought it was time to risk hisneck with Roosevelt, 230;knew fleet placement was sup-posed to be deterrent toJapanese aggressive action,234; summarized the differ-ence in the two Washingtontrips, 234; received news ofdraft for men, 236; issued


Index 531

orders for dress blue andwhites, 236; wrote on the his-tory of the Bureau ofNavigation, 238; realized some-one was “packing his bags forhim,” 239; made decision to bequieter, 239; departed fromBremerton, 241; felt that adetachment was coming, 242;ordered depth chargesdropped, 245; called a bit toosocial by Knox, 255; arrivedwith Murphy to meet withKnox, 256; learned of memoon nets and booms, 256; wroteStark from Bremerton, 260;word of Richardson’s dismissalreceived by Hart, 266; wroteStark on January 25, 1941,271; he and Stark hardlyexchanged ideas on movingthe fleet back, 275; insistedthat Pat Wing Two searchseven days a week, 278;received great resistance fromthe crews, 278; discontinuedthe long-range patrols, 283;moved the ships into PearlHarbor, 285; did not trustFranklin D. Roosevelt, 301;shocked at detachment orders,301; reported to Knox afterdetachment, 312; underwentphysical exam, 315; wroteorders that gave King“supreme command,” 317;part of promotion of all navalofficers, 318; discussed NavalWar College thesis, 322;

remembered “fool” story toldby his mother, 323; namedchairman of the Special JointChiefs of Staff Committee forRe-organization of NationalDefense, 323, 367; part of uni-fication committee that trav-eled to England, 324; promisedMay he would not have morethan one drink a day, 328;congressional investigation,334-35; mistrust of the press,339; thought Short had notapplied for retirement, 342;hung around the Pearl Harborhearings, 354; seen with hispipe, 355; laughing during thehearings, 362; told parable,363; fishing, 370, 420; ques-tioned about carrier tonnage,390; detached for the lasttime, 401; card tricks, 403;roses story, 403; visited Mossin Canyon, 404; voodoo involv-ing shoe heels, 404; cherries,405; story of sailors waiting fora cab, 406; gave instructionshis book not to be publisheduntil Stark died, 409; carrierssent to reinforce Wake Island,412; remark about bitter oldmen, 417; diary borrowed byDyer, 418; called Richie byChilds, 424; left the hospital,425; appointed ensign, 425;appointed lieutenant (j.g.)1907, 425; duty at Annapolis1919, 428; called a wrench inthe works, 435; Will and



Testament, 456; placed intoretirement, 471

Richardson, Jessie: 24, 44;returned to New Boston, 47;long blessings at mealtime, 406

Richardson, Joe Fenet: 47; atPrinceton, 76; was welcome tovisit Blochs, 94, 108, 140, 147,203, 286; had arrived on theSS Lurline, 299, 352, 354

Richardson, John James “J. J.,”24, 140

Richardson, John P., 24Richardson, Lula, 44Richardson, Mary Moss: 24, 44;

went to the University ofTexas, 47; an “old-maid”school teacher, 302

Richardson, May Fenet: pregnant,47; sick with aftermath of milkleg, 48; traveled to brother’sfuneral, 103, 138; entertainedofficials on short notice, 147;in Hawaii when fleet arrived,161-62, 170; set to leaveHawaii, 171, 203, 206, 216; satin congressional hearings audi-ence, 228, 236, 245, 260;uneasy about living in Hawaii,300; wearing a black gown atgoing away party, 307, 309; byher husband’s side in herfamiliar headwear, 349, 354;filmed in hat at hearing, 355,358; would send lilacs toneighbors, 403; used coloredtoilet paper, 404, 415, 420;went to Ottawa to have baby,426

Richardson, Opie (Sarah or O.P):25-26, 42, 44, 47; with stepsonPaul, 48; retired and still livingin Ottawa, 140

Richardson, Sarah, 25. (See alsoOpie Richardson)

Richardson, Susan “Sue” Neilson:26-27; death, 45; 423, 471.(See also Susan Ann Neilson)

Richardson, Virginia, 352Richardson, Wilds Preston: 18,

44; promotion to the rank oflieutenant colonel, 45; Armycolonel, 52; arrived at Frenchport, 60

Richelieu (French battleship atDakar in Senegal), 286

Richmond, David W.: 345; feltthat Safford was a “loner,” 409

Rivero, Horatio, 432Riyoji (Japanese agent in

Honolulu), 378Roberts Commission: 316, 333;

flew toward Hawaii, 334; testi-mony in Washington, 336;muddied the waters, 338, 360,411

Roberts, Owen D.: 333; testifyingin Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 365

Robertson, Ashley H., 43Robinson, Hamilton, 326Robinson, James J., 372Robinson, Samuel M. “Mike,” 34,

43, 255Robinson, Theodore Douglas, 70Robison, Samuel S., 51Rochefort, Joseph J.: 85;

Hawaiian unit, 293, 381, 432Rockport, Massachusetts, 48


Index 533

Rodgers, Thomas S., 58Rodman, Hugh, 56, 62, 64Röling, B. V. A.: 369, 388; called

Webb arrogant and dictatorial,480

Roman candle, 27Rome, Italy, 60, 325Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: 15,

50-51, 55; argued for a 65-footsubchaser, 56; made a visit tothe Western Front, 60, 77; tookoffice as president in March1933, 79; changed mind aboutsending bombers to China, 94,96, 102; commented on“white-haired” boys in theNavy, 106; man said to havegotten shingles waiting forRoosevelt to make up his mind,107; continually tinkering withassignments of senior officerpersonnel, 108; presented 1939slate of naval officers, 112;planned to use merchantmarine as naval auxiliaries,118; management of the PacificFleet, 132; did not knowSnyder, 137; Roosevelt andTaussig, 159; mystique, 159,165; suddenly returned toWashington, 170, 175; issuedembargo on exports of machinetools, 183; gave University ofVirginia commencementspeech, 184; called an“extremely dangerous man,”by Richardson, 197; enjoyedstamp collecting, 219; views onthe retention of the fleet at

Hawaii, 226; study of maps,227; not in his normal, jovialmood, 227; took questionsfrom the press in the WhiteHouse, 227, 235; asked Starkto relieve Richardson, 230;planned to sacrifice old shipsin a Japanese attack, 231; car-ried thirty-nine states inreelection, 240, 244, 277, 296,299; gave annual message toCongress, 301; celebrated hisbirthday, 307; took pains toavoid personal meetings, 312;wanted one officer to servejointly as CinCUS and CNO,317; mentioned, “Why, I couldhave stalled the Japs,” 322,336; called poor judge of menby Knox, 337; “lost his head,”337; poor condition in January1945, 347; headlines predictedhis name might be injectedinto the Pearl Harbor investiga-tion, 349; said of Richardson,“I want him fired,” 357;ordered Pearl Harbor to lethappen, 361; administration,411; Memorial Foundation,416; Economy Act, 431

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 230Roosevelt, Henry Latrobe, 83Roosevelt, Theodore, 43, 58, 185,

341Roper, Walter Gordon, 352Ropes Gray (Boston firm), 363Rossiter, Percy S., 136Rowcliffe, G. J., 246, 303, 310,

315



Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 214, 307,335

Roysth, Scotland, 59Russia, 18-19, 60Russo-Japanese War, 39

SS

Sabalot, Abel C. J., 433Sacred Cow (presidential air-

craft), 327, 331Sadler, F. H., 137Safford, Laurance Frye: 88, 289,

344, 358, 379, 406; wrotemany letters to Kramer, 407;called henpecked, 408; award-ed $100,000, 408

Saigon, Viet Nam (Indochina),296

Saipan, 191Saito, Hirosi, 96Salt Creek, Wyoming, 52Salt Lake City, Utah, 295Saltonstall, Leverett, 408Samoa, 154, 231, 256San Antonio, Texas, 342San Clemente, California, 283San Diego, California, 243San Francisco, California, 38, 73,

150, 158, 265, 327San Juan, Puerto Rico, 127San Pedro, California: 76; Harbor,

91; Outer Harbor, 121, 131,210, 222, 265

Sand Island, Oahu, 483Santiago Harbor (Cuba), 31Santo Domingo, Dominican

Republic, 43Sarnoff, David, 378

Saskatchewan, Canada, 48Sato, Kenryo, 369Sayre, Francis B., 266Scapa Flow, 59Schoeffel, Malcolm F.: 323; cap

pistol remark, 324Schofield Barracks, 183Schofield, Frank, 157Schreiber, Ricardo Rivera, 466Schumann, Jacob Gould, 68Schwab, E. L., 156Scotland, 58Scott, Hugh D., 348Scouting Force: told to remain on

the West Coast throughout1932, 76

Sea Dragon, 216seaplane tenders, 128, 395Seattle, Washington, 129Sebald, William Joseph, 294security patrol, 173Seki, Kohichi, 377Selection Board, 88Sellers, David F., 100, 322Sells, Cato, 52Semans, Edwin W., 351Senate, United States: Committee

on Naval Affairs, 159;Appropriations Committee,244

Seventh Fleet: intelligence officer,376

Sexton, William R.: 22, 253, 255;chairman of the GeneralBoard, 315

Shanghai, China: 40, 64, 95, 182,204; security unit, 267

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, 477Shenandoah Valley, 110


Index 535

Sheppard, John, 30Sherman, Forrest, 251Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 368-69Shimada, Shigetaro, 369, 383,

399shingles, 107ship rules: “10 turn minus 100

rule,” 78ships. (For all U.S. Navy ships

mentioned, see under USS)Shiratori, Toshio, 369Shoemaker, James M., 181Shoho, 392Shokaku, 397Short, Isabel Dean: 222; seasick

all the way to Hawaii, 300,308, 338-39, 403; would fre-quently call her husband onbusy days, 469

Short, Mary Elizabeth, 300Short, Walter C.: 268, 300; seemed

more than indifferent aboutassignment to Hawaii, 309; paidvisit to Kimmel’s domain, 310;begged for radar equipment andappropriate sites, 339; toldrelieved of duty, 341; was inOklahoma City, 342; notifiedfrom Washington that he wasbeing retired, 342; went to relaxat Hot Springs, 343; deniedmany requests to increase secu-rity at Pearl Harbor, 348; helpedto the table to testify in PearlHarbor Hearings, 358; publiclysaid he held no resentmenttoward president, 361; died atired man, 406; official separa-tion from the Army, 486

Short, Walter Dean, 343Short, Walter Dean, Mrs. (Emily):

403; upset with quote, 467,486

shorts authorized for U.S. Navy,236

Shriners, 174Shunchoro Teahouse, 295Sims, William S., 58Singapore: 63, 224, 257, 263; as a

base, 292Sir Galahads, 109Sky King, 477Slany, Dr. William Z., 429sleep patterns, 153Smeallie, John M., 268Smedberg, W. R., 113, 194, 299Smith, Dr. George Otis, 52Smith, Elmer F., 324Smith, Mary Taylor Alger, 286Smith, Roy C., Jr., 286Smith, Walter Bedell, 325, 335,

411Smith, Walton Wiley, 431Smith, Willie, 352Smith, W. W., 267Smith-Hutton, Henri, 65, 182Smithsonian (Institution), 404Snyder, Charles Peck, 86, 111-12,

125, 137, 150, 154, 193, 216,222, 276, 303, 310, 315

Solberg, Thorvald A., 134Somerville, Lee, 198, 459Sonoma, California, 457Soryu, 390South American trade, 256South China, 66South China Patrol (ComSoPat),

61, 70



South China Sea, 296South Seas Japanese Force, 376Southwest Pacific Command, 366Soviet Union: shift to the side of

Hitler, 125; invasion of Poland,133

Spain, 31, 94Spanish-American War, 32Spartanburg, South Carolina, 24Special Naval Observer, 211speed restrictions, 154Sphinx, 63Spratly Islands, 116SS Lurline, 168, 174, 179, 189,

200, 203, 239, 242, 245, 275,292, 311

SS Mariposa, 239SS Matsonia, 152, 171, 200, 240,

300, 307SS Monterey, 193, 242SS President Pierce, 68, 239St. Lucia, 261St. Michaels, Alaska Territory, 26Standley, William Harrison: 76,

79, 83, 92, 159, 181, 316;thought Hull should talk withRichardson, 320, 333, 364, 411

star boat, 400Stark, Harold R. “Betty”: 19, 34,

45, 110; CNO, 112-13, 145,159; played a rare round ofgolf, 161; asked by Richardsonwhy the fleet was in Hawaii,178-79; answer to Richardson:fleet is deterrent effect, 179;Army 1940 alert, 188; home atthe Naval Observatory, 195,197, 211, 224, 229, 237;Christmas message to Navy

personnel, 246, 248, 255; “PlanDog,” 269, 272, 277, 283;blamed for discontinuing long-range reconnaissance, 284;apologized to Kimmel for send-ing Anderson to fleet, 292, 295;had not written to Richardson,313, 316; not cognizant of thechange to Navy reorganizationplan, 317; a hound for detail,318; knew he was beingreplaced, 318; formallyrelieved by King, 318;Commander U.S. Navy ForcesEurope, 318; visited fromLondon, 322, 324, 334, 340;did not call Kimmel directly byscrambler phone, 341; flewfrom London to testify toCongress, 345; took the standin Pearl Harbor Hearings, 357;retired, 358; War Plan, 394; didnot fare well in retirement,406; died in the late summer of1972, 418; wife Kit and theirdaughter Kewpie, 452

Stark, Harry B., 134Starr, Floyd, 352Stassen, Harold E., 329State Department, 72, 217, 224State Department publication

(White Paper), 320Station Five (at Fort Shafter), 293Station George (at Guam), 293Station HYPO (at Hawaii), 291,

293, 381Steele, J. M., 324Stimson, Henry L., 76, 210, 333,

342, 371, 381, 410


Index 537

Stirling, Yates, 42, 224, 235Stone, Harlan F., 333Straits Settlements, 63Strauss, Joseph, 57Strean, Bernard Max, 208, 279subchasers: built at 110 feet, 56submarine base: Motion Picture

Pavilion at Pearl Harbor, 91,265, 334

submarine torpedoes, 208, 287submarines: slipped in unnoticed,

157, 217; raids, 235, 244, 248,252, 258, 272; attack, 285,292, 296; activity by theJapanese, 297, 315, 344

Suez Canal, 63Summerlin, George T., 436“sundowners,” 39Sun Yat-sen, Dr., 64Supreme Commander Allied

Powers (SCAP), 366Supreme Headquarters Allied

Expeditionary Force, 324Suzuki, Teiichi, 369Swafford, William W., 26Swanson, Claude A.: 83, 92;

wheeled into first cabinetmeeting after Panay attack,97, 106; gravely ill, 107, 109-10; succumbed to his ailments,118; died, 139, 152

Swatow, China, 65sword belt (Admiral

Richardson’s), 163

TT

Tacloban, Leyte (Kankabatok):monsoon rains, 328, 367

Taffinder, Sherwood A.: 123; chiefof staff, 135, 245, 250, 267,279, 302, 431

Taffinder, Sherwood A., Mrs., 200Taft, Robert A., 347Taft, William H., 48Taiyo, 390Taranto, Italy: 276-77, 285;

British attack on, 286Tarawa, 149Tarbuck, Raymond D., 202, 244Tarrant, W. T., 91Task Force 1, 303Task Force 2, 304Task Force 4, 277Task Force 9, 277Taussig, Joseph K., 53, 159, 161,

168, 194, 314, 413Taussig, Joe, Jr., 118Taylor, Dr. John, 408Taylor, Maxwell, 335Taylor, Myron C., 326Taylor, Robert, 307Tea Pot Dome (site and scandal),

52, 70, 420teakwood decks, 145, 226, 306Texanese, 33, 325, 385Texas sunshine, 32Texas wind, 32Thailand, 228, 412Thanksgiving, 455Theis, H. Jordan, 323Theobald, Robert “Fuzzy,” 183,

250, 336, 409Theobold, Mrs. R. A., 245Third Fleet, 329Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 389Thomas, Elmer, 244Thomas, Newell E., 134



Tompkins, George, 324Thompson, Robert R., 136Thorpe, Elliott R., 164, 175, 184Thrasher, Emily Short:

Richardson card tricks, 403Tientsin, China, 94Time (magazine), 85, 230Tocloban, Leyte. (See Tacloban,

Leyte)Todd, Forde A., 211Togo, Shigenori, 369-70, 378Tojo, Hideki: 367, 369; war cabi-

net; 388Tokyo, Japan, 42, 66, 481Tokyo War Crimes Trial. (See

International Military Tribunalfor the Far East)

Toland, John, 286Tolley, Kemp, 229, 340Tomioka, Sadatoshi, 397Tompkins, William Fraser, 323Tongue Point (in Oregon), 127Tora! Tora! Tora!, 339, 408, 411Toronto, Canada, 42Torpedo Boat Flotilla, 137torpedo nets, 268, 285, 287, 381torpedoes: aerial, 277; thought

unusable in Pearl Harborbecause of its shallow depth,285; able to operate in shallowdepths, 287

Towers, John H., 255, 277, 431Townsend, J. C., 74Toyoda, Teijiro, 377Tracy, Spencer, 389Train (for fleet movement), 226,

230, 237, 243, 258Treasure Island (in San

Francisco), 212

Treaty of Washington, 62Treaty Powers, 65Trinidad, 261Tripartite Pact, 270Trotzsky (Leon), 59. (See also

Leon Bronstein)Truk, 104, 247Truman, Harry: 331, 335; article

on unification, 345, 348, 367Truman, Louis, 335Tsingtao, China, 39, 64Tsushima, Japan, 40Tulia, Texas, 404Tully, Grace G., 415Turner, Memory H., 26Turner, Richmond Kelly: 124,

216, 250; took over War PlansDivision in fall of 1940, 253,262, 266, 288, 321, 334, 351,408

turrets, triple: description, 51Tutuila, 270two-ocean U.S. Navy idea, 175,

186, 227, 254, 393Tydings-McDuffie Bill, 101Tyler, Kermit, 475

UU

Ueno Public Park (in Hawaii), 66Ulithi Atoll, 329Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilich, 59. (See

also V. I./Nikolai Lenin)Umezu, Yoshijiro, 368-69Unalaska, Alaska, 104, 153Underhill, J. G., 222Union Station, 404United Press, 194Universal Military Training, 332


Index 539

University of Alabama, 24University of Texas, 29University of Virginia, 29unknown solder, 136USAT Hunter Liggett, 242, 244USAT Leonard Wood, 240, 250USS Alabama, 54USS Altair, 209USS Arizona, 152, 207USS Asheville, 61-63, 69USS Astoria, 216, 286USS Augusta, 74, 77, 97, 157,

241, 347, 405USS Balch, 173, 208USS Benham, 156USS Brooklyn, 269USS California, 120, 122, 161,

177, 221, 240USS Case, 210USS Chaumont, 170, 293USS Chesapeake, 34-35USS Chicago, 303USS Clark, 215USS Colorado, 120, 185USS Concord, 242USS Craven, 156USS Cummings, 129USS Delaware, 46, 123USS Detroit, 72, 167USS Dixie, 136USS Dorsey, 157USS Drayton, 242USS Enterprise, 90, 129-30, 163,

181, 190, 205, 215, 221, 277,391

USS George W. Washington, 60USS Helena, 70USS Holland, 35USS Honolulu, 113

USS Hornet, 389, 391USS Houston, 110, 130, 138, 236,

269USS Huron, 206USS Idaho, 222USS Indiana, 35USS Indianapolis, 91, 130, 152,

303USS Jupiter, 62, 400USS Lang, 208USS Langley, 62, 75, 90, 395, 400USS Lexington: 75-76, 90, 94,

158, 162, 167; scheduled toremain with the HawaiianDetachment, 168, 170, 183,190; heading back to PugetSound, 199, 209, 214, 391

USS Louisiana, 43USS Louisville, 173, 177, 431USS Maine, 35, 48, 97USS Marblehead, 95USS Maryland, 42-43, 199, 209USS Maury, 173USS Mayflower, 51, 61USS McCall, 173USS Memphis, 181USS Minnesota, 45USS Moffett, 173USS Monadnock, 40-41USS Monongahela, 33USS Mugford, 148USS Nashville, 42, 266USS Nevada, 51-52, 55, 57-59,

61, 352, 428USS New Mexico, 85, 120, 168-

69, 221-22, 229, 233, 243,260, 265, 283, 301

USS New Orleans, 39USS Newport, 34



USS Oahu, 97USS Oglala, 311USS Oklahoma, 58USS Panay: 93; sunk in the

Yangtze River, 95-96, 98; inci-dent not viewed by some asextremely critical, 99-100, 420

USS Patoka, 128USS Pennsylvania: 21, 60, 85,

119, 122, 140; The Keystonenewspaper, 145, 147, 149, 204;print shop, 156; in 10-10 Dock,161, 164, 170, 192, 204, 206;malcontent causes problem,206, 243, 245, 269, 291, 295,304

USS Pensacola, 183, 210USS Philadelphia, 208, 245USS Potomac, 108USS Quiros, 38USS Ranger, 90, 391USS Relief, 179, 189, 202USS Richmond, 87, 89USS Salt Lake City, 121, 130,

234, 290USS San Francisco, 177USS Saratoga: 75-76, 90, 124,

133, 148, 158, 162, 168; “theo-retically” sunk, 169, 175, 180,209, 222, 233, 391

USS Saury, 210USS Shark, 241USS Shaw, 156, 209-10USS Solace, 38USS Stockton, 45USS Tennessee, 43, 204-5USS Tingey, 44-45, 59USS Tracy, 67USS Trenton, 242

USS Tucker, 129USS Utah, 58USS Vixen, 316USS Wasp, 391USS Whipple, 67, 72USS Wichita, 94USS William B. Preston, 243USS Wilson, 209USS Wyoming, 60USS Yorktown: 90, 162, 167-68;

lost fifteen of its planes, 169,185, 204, 391

USS Zafiro, 42

VV

V-12 candidate program, 331Valentine’s Day, 311Valetta, Malta, 63Van Deurs, George, 278, 280, 284Van Keuren, A. H., 181venereal disease, 54Venus Fly Trap, 403Veracruz, Mexico, 49Verdun battlefield, 60Vernou, Walter N., 159Versailles, France, 324, 472Vichy, France, 356Vichy Indo-China government, 269Viet Nam, 186. (See also

Indochina and French Indo-China)

Villa Riviera, 77, 84, 116, 120Villefranche, France, 49Vinson, Carl, 76, 114, 122, 229,

255; plans, 393Vinson Naval Expansion Act, 393Vinson-Trammel Naval Bill of

1934, 114


Index 541

Vinson-Trammell Act of 1938, 121Vlach, Jim, 152, 207Vlach, Jeanne, 207voodoo involving Richardsons’

shoe heels, 404. (See alsoJames Otto Richardson)

WW

Wagner, F. D., 432Wagner, Leonard, 444Waialae Golf Club, 164, 309Waikiki Beach, 162Waikiki Halekulani Hotel, 245Waikiki Lau Yee Chai, 170Waikiki Theater, 307Wailuku, Maui, 164Wainwright, Richard “Uncle

Dick,” 35Waipahu, Oahu, 307Wake Island, 104, 127, 154, 271,

277, 376, 412, 482Walsh, Arthur, 147Walsh, David I., 107War College: thesis, 15-17, 74,

248War Department, United States:

17; Adjutant General’s Office,30; war plan generalities, 261;“buck-passing,” 359, 368

War plans: using colors, 100;called Rainbow, 123, 167, 216,231; “Plan Dog,” 269, 282, 316;developed between 1923 and1938, 434. (See also War PlanOrange or Rainbow plans)

War Plan Orange, 93, 100, 102,104, 128. (See also OrangeWar Plan)

War Plans Division, 250-51“War Warning”: 273; Navy

Department (Knox) sent to theWar Department (Stimson),321, 359; to the Army, 477; tothe Navy, 478

Warm Springs, Georgia, 160, 165Warner, Jack, 203Warner, Rawleigh, 342Warren, Fletcher, 379Warsaw, Poland, 133Washington and London Treaties,

84Washington Document Center

(WDC), 366Washington Naval Conference of

1921, 294Washington Naval Yard, 316Washington Treaty, 374, 394.

(See also Treaty ofWashington)

Washington, DC: 45; weather, 93Washington, Thomas, 68Washington-Hoover Airport, 194,

225Waterhouse, George S., 295“water-wagon,” 100Watters, M. E., 479weather, 245, 270Webb, James E., 351Webb, Sir William Flood, 368, 480Webster’s unabridged dictionary,

324Wedemeyer, Albert C., 329Wellborn, Charles, 113, 461Welles, Sumner: 132, 191; felt

there was little danger ofattack at Hawaii, 196, 224,357



West Coast: 21, 75, 116, 118;landing and base defense exer-cise, 145, 163, 179, 197, 205,221, 235, 237, 412

West Maui Golf Club (at HonoluaMountain), 151

West Point Military Academy, 18,26, 29, 32, 300, 343. (See alsohazing investigation)

western base concept, 101Whangpoo River (in China), 41,

97, 239wheat, 270Wheeler Air Base, 240Wheeler, Charles Julian, 286Wheeler, Gerry, 300White Paper, 322. (See also State

Department publication)White Star (passenger line), 52.

(See also Arabic)Whiting, Charles J., 433Whiting, Francis E. M., 470Whitley, C. V., 260Whitlock, Duane L., 242Willard, Arthur L., 75Williams, D., 30, 139Willson, Russell, 233Wilson, Henry B., 62, 70Wilson, Woodrow: 19, 51;

addressed American public, 57,60, 315

Wilson, William H., 183, 214Winds (execute) message: 358,

407; was a “red herring,” 408wine mess, 53Wingo, Anderson, 25Wingo, Augusta, 25Wingo, Hester (Mrs. O. P.

Richardson), 25

Wingo, Laura Pattillo Foster, 25,422

Wingo, William Anderson, 25Wingo, William Howard family,

404Winnipeg General Hospital, 48wives: 193, 202; in Honolulu, 203,

207, 239, 245-46; assigned tothe same place, 300, 305, 338

“wolf” cry, 186, 208Wolfe City, Texas, 379women: in the service, 54women and children: out of the

Far East, 238Wood, Lester A., 243Wood, Ralph F., 431Woosung (Woosong), Japan, 40,

425Wooten, J. G., 29, 302World’s Fair, 116, 131WPL-44, 263. (See War Plans or

Rainbow III)WPL-46, 478. (See War Plans or

Rainbow V)Wright, Frank Lloyd, 66Wright, Jerald, 111Wright, Wesley A. “Ham,” 85Wurtsbaugh, Daniel Wilbert, 33Wylie, Joseph Caldwell, Jr., 77Wyoming, 52

YY

Yamamoto, Isoroku: 289, 369;conceived Pearl Harbor plan,383; Combined Fleet Staff,397

Yangtze River (in China): 41, 100;U.S. Patrol of, 242


Index 543

Yarnell, Harry: 76, 79; request formore assistance, 95; retired,132, 194, 225

Yates, Charles M., 326Yeung Kong, 66Yokohama, Japan, 39, 66, 424Yokosuka, Japan, 178Yoshikawa, Takeo, 297, 377Young Hotel, 170Young, William B., 63Yukon River, 26

Yukon Territory, 26

ZZ

Zacharias, Ellis M.: 67; participat-ed in both 1932 and 1933Fleet Problems, 157, 224, 233;arranged a meeting with theCinCUS, 234, 290, 295, 315,431

Zuikaku, 397


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