Robert Leckie - Strong Men Armed

Tarawa; defenses of preparation for; capture of

Tassafaronga, Battle of

Tatsumi, Maj. Asachichi

Tauali

Taul, Maj. James

Tennessee, battleship

Terunuma, Capt. Kyamatsu

Terzi, Capt. Joseph

Thailand

Thomas, Sgt. Ernest

Thomas, Col. Gerald

Thomas, Sgt. Herbert

Thomas, Lt. Norman

Throneson, Maj. Harold

Timmerman, Sgt. Grant

Tinian; conquest of

Tiscornia, Capt. Edward

Togo, Adm.

Tojo, Premier Hideki

Tokyo

Tokyo Express, The

Tompkins, Lt. Col. Rathvon

Torgerson, Capt. Harry

Torokina Airfield

Torpedo Junction

Totman, Pfc.

Toyoda, Adm. Soemu

Treasury Islands

Trout, submarine

Truk Island

Tucker, Sgt. Frank

Tulagi; fight for

Turnage, Maj. Gen. Allen

Turner, Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly

Turtora, Lt. Anthony

Twining, Lt. Col. Merrill

Udo, Col. Takehito

Ugaki, Vice Adm. Matome

Ulithi

Umikaze, destroyer-transport

Underwater Demolition Teams

Ushijima, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru

Uzuki, destroyer-transport

Vandegrift, Col. Alexander, Jr.

Vandegrift, Maj. Gen. Alexander, Sr.

Van Orden, Col. George

Vincennes, cruiser

Vouza, Sgt. Maj.

Wada, Maj. Gen. Kosuke

Wadsworth, destroyer

Wahlen, Corpsman George

Wakatsuki, destroyer

Wake Island

Walke, destroyer

Walker, Col. John

Wallace, Col. Clarence

Walsh, Lt. Kenneth

Walsh, Gy. Sgt. William

Walt, Maj. Lewis

Warfield, Pfc. Horace

Warner, Capt. Gordon

Washing-Machine Charley

Washington, battleship

Wasp, carrier

Watson, Lt.

Watson, Sgt. Sherman

Watson, Brig. Gen. Thomas

Watson, Pvt. Wilson

Weeks, Lt. Harvey

Wellington

Wellington Dominion, newspaper

Wells, Lt. George

Whaling, Col. William

White, Pfc. Theodore

Whitehead, Corpsman James

Widdecke, Capt. Charles

Wilheit, Capt. Phillip

Williams, Corp. Hershel

Williams, Corpsman Jack

Williams, Maj. Robert

Williamson, Lt. Col. Herbert

Willis, Corpsman John

Willis, Lt. William

Wilson, Corp. Dean

Wilson, Capt. Louis

Wilson, Pfc. Robert

Wilson, Sgt. William

Witek, Pfc. Frank

Woodlark Islands

Yahagi, cruiser

Yahara, Col. Hiromichi

Yamada, Vice Adm. Michiyuki

Yamaguchi, W. O. Kiyoshi

Yamamoto, Fleet Adm. Isoroku; death of

Yamamoto, Cmdr. Tadashi

Yamato, battleship

Yano, Col. Toshio

Yap

Yasakuni Shrine

Yawn, Capt. James

Yorktown, carrier

Yoshida, Ens. Mitsuru

Yudachi, destroyer

Yugiri, destroyer-transport

Yukioka, Maj. Setsuo

Zuikaku, carrier

Copyright © 1962, 1990 by Robert Leckie

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Poem on page 131 used by permission of The Atlantic Monthly.

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