CHAPTER XVIII

THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS

1st January - 31st May, 1943

 


FOOTNOTES

1. See Map 2.
2. The American fleets in the Pacific were given odd numbers, namely the 3rd (South), 5th (Central) and 7th (South-West) Pacific Fleets. Those in the Atlantic and in European waters were given even numbers.
3. See p. 222.
4. See Map 42.
5. See Volume 1, pp. 355 and 438-439.
6. See Appendix J for details.
7. See Volume 1, p. 9 for definition of 'battle force'.
8. The Essex, the first of her class of new fleet carriers, commissioned on the 31st of December 1942. Sixteen more were completed before the end of the war. The early ships displaced 27,100 tons and carried about go aircraft. Later models displaced 30,800 tons and carried 100 aircraft.
9. See pp. 230-231.
10. See pp. 35-36, 38-41, 226 and 228-229, respectively.
11. See Map 5.
12. See Map 22.
13. See Map 22.
14. See p. 7.
15. See Map 22.
16. See Map 28.
17. See pp. 93-102.
18. See C. B. A. Behrens Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War, Chapters XII and XX (H.M.S.O. and Longmans, Green & Co., 1955).
19. See for example Air Campaigns in the Pacific War (United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Military Analysis Division, July 1947) p. 62 para. 2.
20. As an example of the U.S. Navy's efficiency and generosity in this respect it may be mentioned that, when the author's ship berthed for a short time in Pearl Harbor in May 1943, Admiral Nimitz at once boarded her, welcomed her officers and men, and placed the whole facilities of that great base at their disposal. By working night and day in continuous shifts for a week the Navy Yard put right virtually all her defects and deficiencies; and she sailed again for the Solomons theatre well equipped for action, and excellently supplied with stores.
21. See Churchill, Vol. IV, Chapter XXV.
22. See Map 5.
23. See pp. 258-260 and pp. 390-391.
24. See Map 22.
25. See p. 42 and Map 1.
26. See Morison Vol. VII, p. 23, et seq. regarding the Battle of the Komandorski Islands.


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