330â31
as Yorktown (CV-10) commander, 328â29
as âYoung Turk,â 326
Clarke, Charles P., 44
Clemens, Martin, 141, 156
as Guadalcanal district officer, xxivâxxviii
in Guadalcanal campaign, 66â67, 71, 72, 73, 107, 140
in move to Palapao, xxviii
in move to Vungana, xxixâxxx
native constabulary of, xxviii, xxix, 72, 74
coastwatching service, xxivâxxv, xxvi, xxvii, 37â38, 66, 99â100, 157
Cogswell , USS, 253
Colorado , USS, 301, 343
Columbia University, xv
Combat Information Centers (CICs), 233, 369, 371, 387, 480â82
Combat Intelligence Unit (âStation Hypoâ), 203
Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCOS), 232, 235, 307, 309, 312, 437, 438
Combined Fleet, Japanese, 9, 68, 82, 105, 118, 122, 147, 201, 202, 224, 368, 403, 404, 416, 418, 446, 454, 531
restructuring of, 447
COMSOPAC staff:
esprit de corps of, 198â99
in move to Noumea quarters, 199â200
Conger, Jack, 101
Congress, U.S., partisanship in, 87â88
Conolly, Richard L., 390, 391â92, 458, 511
Cooke, Charles M., Jr. âSavvy,â 325
Cooperman, Al, 380
Coral Sea, xvii, xxix, 13 , 23
Coral Sea, Battle of, xxviâxxvii, 7, 59, 79, 83, 102, 124, 154, 186, 220, 301
Corlett, Charles H., 396
Corregidor Island, Philippines, xxi
MacArthurâs escape from, 216â17
Cowpens , USS, 368, 405, 411, 495
Creehan, E. P., 153
Creswell, L. B., 73
Crevalle , USS, 453
Crommelin, Charlie, 370
Crossing the Line (Kernan), 374
Crowe, Henry P., 355, 358
Cruiser Division 6, Japanese, 41
Cruiser Division 8, Japanese, 154
Crutchley, Victor A. C., 20, 42, 455
Cruz Point, Guadalcanal, 190
CUB-1 (navy construction team), 71â72, 103
Curtin, John, 216
Curtiss, Glenn, 323
Curtiss , USS, 148
Cushing , USS, 163
Daijo Zen , 538
Daimler-Benz, 427
Dale , USS, 14, 110
Daly, Joseph R., 32
Dashiell , USS, 344
Davis, Arthur C., 79, 107â8
Davis, Bill, 296, 303â4
Dealey, Samuel D., 453
defense industry:
African Americans in, 247â48
in Hawaii, 295â96
in San Francisco, 246â49
unions in, 249
women in, 248
de Gaulle, Charles, 200
Democrats, 88
Depression, Great, 85â86
Destroyer Division 45, 236
Dewey , 22
DeWitt, John L., 444
Dickson, Donald, 26, 35
Diller, LeGrande âPick,â 219
Dirty Tricks Department, 232, 235
Doak, Ralph, 354
Dodson, Ken, 396â97
Dolphin , 92
Domei News Service, 536â37
Doolittle, James H., 7
Doolittle Raid, 7
Dower, John, 507
Duncan, Donald, 300â301, 302, 329
Duncan , USS, 135
Dutch East Indies, xxiii, 441
oil fields of, 449
dysentary, 64
East Brother Island Station, 252
Eastern Solomons, Battle of the, 77â82, 80
East Indies, 255, 418
Edson, Merritt, 104, 106, 156, 359
Efate, 11, 13 , 14, 15, 60, 70, 132
Eichelberger, Robert L., 220
Eighteenth Army, Japanese, 224
Eighth Area Army, Japanese, 179, 224
Eighth Base Force, Japanese, 40
Eighth Fleet, Japanese, 29, 40â41, 67, 105, 189
in Battle of Savo Island, 43â51
8th Infantry Brigade Group (New Zealand), 236
8th Marine Regiment, 352, 354
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10
elections, U.S., of 1942, 86â87, 97, 146
Eleventh Air Fleet, Japanese, 105, 122, 189
ELKTON offensive, see New Georgia campaign
Ellice Islands, 333, 389
U.S. invasion of, 315
Elliott , USS, 51
Emirau Island, U.S. landings on, 242
Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, 235, 340
Engebi Island, 399, 400
English, Robert Henry, 255, 257, 260, 278, 280
Eniwetok, Battle of, 389â90, 400, 441
captured Japanese documents in planning of, 399â400
Eniwetok Atoll, 398â99, 418, 460
Japanese forces on, 399
Eniwetok Expeditionary Group (Task Group 51.11), 399
Enterprise , USS, 7, 17, 20, 21, 33, 59, 76, 77â80, 83, 107, 127, 146, 149â50, 151, 154, 166, 167, 168, 186, 193, 194, 340, 373, 374, 376, 404, 405, 407, 484, 493, 495
in Battle of Eastern Solomons, 79â83
in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 149â52, 160
casualties