World War II in the Pacific

Stanley Sandler is one of America's best-known military historians. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London Department of War Studies, where he studied under the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard. He was a Command historian for the US Army Special Operations Command for fourteen years and was a Visiting Professor in the History of Sea Power at the US Naval Academy. He will hold the Edwin Conquest '14 Chair in history at Virginia Military Institute, 1999-2000. Dr. Sandler has received numerous academic and professional awards, including a New York State Regents' Teaching Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Secretary of the Army Research and Writing Fellowship. His publications include The Emergence of The ModernCapital Ship (1979), Segregated Skies: The All-blackUSAAF Squadrons of World War II(1992), The Korean War: AnEncyclopedia (Garland, 1995), and numerous articles in military history.

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(1892–1973); Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. (1886–1945); Bulkeley, John Duncan (1911–1996); Buna, Operations at; Burma; British Reconquest; Burma Road; Bushido; C; Cabanatuan Raid; Canada; Carrier Raids; Carriers; Cavite; Ceylon; Chaplains, U.S. Army; Chennault, Claire Lee (1893–1958); Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975); China-Burma-India Theater of Operations; Chindits; Chinese Communists versus Nationalists; Clark and Iba Airfields, Japanese Bombing of; Coastwatchers; Comfort Women; Communists; Coral Sea, Battle of the; Corregidor; D; Darwin, Japanese Bombing of; Detachment 101; Dive-Bombers; Doolittle (Tokyo) Raid; Downfall, Operation; Driniumor River Operation; Drought, James M.; Dutch East Indies; E; Eastern Solomons, Battle of; Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence (1886–1961); Engineers, Allied Services; Eniwetok; “Europe First” Decision; F; Fertig, Wendell W.; Fiji; Film Treatment of the Pacific War, U.S.; Forrestal, James (1892–1949); Franco-Thai War; Fraser, Bruce A. (1888–1981); French Indochina; G; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869–1948); Gilbert Islands; Goodenough Island; Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; Grenades and Land Mines, Japanese; Grenades and Land Mines, U.S.; Guadalcanal, Battle for; Gurkhas; H; Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882–1959); Hart, Thomas C.; Hata Shunroku (1876–1962); Hirohito (1901–1989); Hiroshima; Historiography of the Pacific War; History Program, Japanese Air Force; History Program, Japanese Military; History Program, U.S. Army Military; Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969); Holcomb, Thomas (1879–1965); Hollandia; Home Front, Japanese; Home Front, U.S.; Homma Masaharu (1887–1946); Hong Kong; Hurley, Patrick J. (1883–1963); I; Iba Airfield; Ichigo, Operation; Imperial Japanese Army; Imphal and Kohima, Battles of; India; Indian National Army; Indianapolis; Intelligence in the Pacific Theater; Intelligence Operations, Japanese; Internment and Relocation of Italian Americans; Internment of U.S. Citizens of Japanese Ancestry; Island-Hopping and Leapf frogging, U.S. Strategies; Italian Americans; Iwabuchi Sanji (d. 1945); Iwakuro Hideo; Iwo Jima, Battle of; J; Japan, Occupation of; Jet and Rocket Aircraft, Japanese; Journalistic Coverage of the Pacific War, U.S.; K; Kamikazes; Kelly, Colin (1915–1941); Kempeitai; Kenney, George C. (1889–1977); Kimmel, Husband Edward (1882–1968); King, Edward P. (1884–1958); King, Ernest J. (1878–1956); Knox, Frank (1874–1944); Kobayashi lchizo; Konoe Fumimaro (1891–1945); Korea and Koreans; Krueger, Walter (1881–1967); Kurile Islands; Kurusu Saburo; Kwantung Army; L; Laurel, José Paciano (1891–1959); Leahy, William D. (1875–1959); LeMay, Curtis (1906–1990); Lexington; Leyte Gulf, Battle of; Lim, Vicente (1888–1944/45); Logistics, Japanese; Logistics, U.S.; Los Baños Raid; M; MacArthur , Douglas (1880–1964); Madagascar, Allied Invasion of; Magic, Operation; Makin Atoll; Malaria; Malaya, Japanese Conquest of; Manchuria; Manila, Fall of; Marine Corps, U.S.; Marshall, George Catlett 1943–1945; Matsuoka Yosuke (1880–1946); Matterhorn, Operation; Merrill's Marauders (Galahad); Midway, Battle of; Mikawa Gunichi; Miles, Milton E. (1900–1961); Mitscher, Marc Andrew (1887–1947); Mountbatten, Louis (1900–1979); Mukden Incident; N; Nagasaki; Nagumo Chuichi (1887–1944); Nanking, “Rape” of; National Guard of the United States; Nationalist Army, Chinese; Natives, Pacific Islands; Nauru; Navajo Code Talkers; Navy, Japanese; Navy, Royal; Navy, U.S.; Netherlands East Indies; New Britain; New Caledonia; New Georgia; New Guinea; New Zealand; Nimitz, Chester William (1885–1966); Noemf foor Island; Nomura Kichisaburo (1877–1964); Nurses; O; Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101; Of fice of Strategic Services in the Pacific; Oil, Role of in the Pacific War; Okinawa, Battle for; Osmeña, Sergio (1878–1961); Ozawa Jisaburo (1886–1966); P; Pacific War Medicine; Palau; Panay; Pearl Harbor, Japanese Attack on; Pearl Harbor Conference; People's Liberation Army; Philippines, Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in; Philippines, Fall of the; Pick, Lewis A. (1890–1956); Prince of Wales and Repulse, Sinking of; Prisoners of War; Prophets of the Pacific War; Psychological Warfare, Japan; Psychological Warfare, U.S.; Q; Quezon, Manuel (1878–1944); R; Rangers; Romulo, Carlos P. (1899–1985); Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945); Roxas, Manuel (1892-); Russell Islands; S; Saipan, Battle of; Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of; Sato Naotake (b. 1882); Savo Island, Battle of; Scouts, Philippine; Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr. (1896–1990); Shipbuilding, U.S.; Sh?-Go Plan; Short, Walter Campbell(1880–1949); Singapore, Fall of; Slim, William Joseph (1891–1970); Small Arms, Japanese; Small Arms, U.S.; Smith, Holland McTyeire (1882–1967); Sorge, Richard (1895–1944); Soviet Operations against Japan; Spruance, Raymond Ames (1886–1969); Stereotypes, Japanese and American; Stilwell, Joseph Warren (1883–1946); Stimson, Henry Lewis (1867–1950); Submarines, Japanese; Submarines, U.S.; Sutherland, Richard K.; T; Taiwan (Formosa); Tarawa, Capture of; Terauchi Hisaichi (d. 1946); Thailand; Tinian, Battle for; Tokyo Fire Raid; Tokyo Rose; Tongan Army Self Def fense Forces; Torpedo, Long Lance (Japanese); Tripartite Pact of 1940; Truk; Truman, Harry S. (1884–1972); U; U-Boats in the Pacific; United Nations; V; Vandegrift, Alexander A. (1887–1973); W; Wakde-Sarmi; Wake Island, Battle of; War Artist; Washington Naval Treaty (1922) and Japan; Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (1897–1989); Wingate, Orde C. (1909–1944); Women's Army Corps; Y; Yalta Conference; Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943); Yamashita Tomoyuki (1885–1946); Yank; Z; Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich (1896–1974)