Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor (113 page)

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

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