Silent Voices of World War II

by Rogers, Everett M.

• ISBN13: 9780865344235
• ISBN10: 086534423X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(8)
Jumping into the Fray	19	(17)
Aiming at Aioi Bridge	22	(3)
New Mexico	25	(2)
World War II	27	(9)
European Fascism	27	(3)
Spreading Japanese Aggression	30	(2)
The Tide Turns	32	(1)
Culture Clash	33	(3)
The Bataan Death March	36	(47)
Old Two Hundred	37	(3)
The Japanese Attack	40	(4)
Bombing Clark Field	40	(3)
A Cat in a Bag	43	(1)
Fighting on Bataan	44	(3)
The Death March	47	(7)
Violating the Geneva Convention	50	(1)
Japanese Atrocities	51	(3)
Imprisonment	54	(8)
Camp O'Death	55	(3)
Cabanatuan Prison Camp	58	(3)
News from the Philippines	61	(1)
The Death Ships	62	(3)
Horror Ships to Japan	62	(2)
Sabotage	64	(1)
Coming Home	65	(15)
Coming Alive	66	(6)
A Bataan Veteran's Love Story	72	(3)
Manuel Armijo	75	(5)
Honoring the Bataan Survivors	80	(1)
The 1999 Conflict Over the Internment Camp Marker	81	(2)
Navajo Code Talkers	83	(56)
Secret Codes in World War II	84	(1)
Deciding to Use Navajo Code Talkers	85	(7)
The Code Talker Demonstration	86	(1)
Recruiting the First 29 Code Talkers	87	(3)
Navajo Distrust of the U.S. Government	90	(1)
Enlistment	90	(2)
Boot Camp	92	(3)
Development of the Code	95	(15)
Military Equivalents in Dine	97	(1)
Wollachee-Shush-Moasi	98	(2)
A Code-within-a-Code	100	(1)
Recruiting Bill Toledo	101	(4)
Reasons for Enlisting	105	(2)
Torturing Joe Kieyoomia	107	(2)
The Army's Code Talkers	109	(1)
The Code Talkers in Action in the Pacific	110	(17)
Guadalcanal	110	(2)
Bougainville	112	(3)
Saipan	115	(3)
Guam	118	(1)
Peleliu	119	(1)
Iwo Jima	119	(1)
Mount Sunovabitchi	119	(2)
Rooting Out the Japanese	121	(1)
Proving the Value of the Code Talkers	122	(1)
Having Coffee with Uncle Frank	123	(2)
Okinawa	125	(2)
Going Home	127	(5)
Nightmares	128	(2)
Impacts	130	(2)
Achievements and Recognition	132	(7)
Lack of Public Understanding	134	(3)
Attitudes toward the Japanese	137	(2)
The Japanese American Relocation/Internment Camps	139	(55)
The Government Decision on Relocation	140	(3)
The Loyalty of Japanese Americans	143	(8)
The Munson Report	143	(3)
Issei, Nisei, and Sansei	146	(4)
The Media as Guard Dogs	150	(1)
The Ruth Hashimoto Story	151	(4)
The Relocation Process	155	(9)
Internment Camps	155	(2)
Where Were the Relocation Camps?	157	(3)
Camp Facilities	160	(2)
Racialization	162	(2)
Effects of the Relocation Camps	164	(3)
Research on the Relocation Camps	164	(1)
The Agony of the Two Questions	165	(1)
The Purple Heart Regiment	166	(1)
The Internment Camps	167	(25)
The Santa Fe Internment Camp	171	(4)
The Internment Process	175	(5)
Mutual Accommodation	180	(3)
Minor Revolts	183	(6)
The Lordsburg Army Camp	189	(3)
Restitution	192	(2)
Los Alamos	194	(72)
Background of the Atomic Bomb	195	(13)
The Discovery of Fission	196	(5)
The Race to the Atomic Bomb Begins	201	(1)
Einstein's Letter	202	(1)
The Italian Navigator	203	(2)
The Manhattan Project	205	(3)
J. Robert Oppenheimer	208	(6)
Perro Caliente	208	(2)
Oppenheimer's Academic Career	210	(1)
A Pull to the Left	211	(1)
Oppenheimer's Selection as Director	212	(2)
Selection of Los Alamos	214	(1)
Inside Box 1663	215	(15)
Recruiting Scientists	221	(1)
Richard Feynman	222	(2)
Military/Scientist Relationships at Los Alamos	224	(1)
Censorship	225	(1)
Oppenheimer's Crisis	226	(1)
Compartmentalization Versus Cross-Fertilization	227	(3)
Fat Man and Little Boy	230	(10)
Designing the Bombs	230	(2)
The Race with Time	232	(1)
Uranium and Plutonium	233	(2)
The Unsung Role of the SEDs	235	(4)
The Cowpunchers	239	(1)
Selecting Trinity	240	(3)
Constructing the Base Camp	241	(2)
The Test	243	(6)
The Countdown	245	(1)
The Explosion	246	(2)
Effects of the Bomb	248	(1)
The Potsdam Conference	249	(2)
Japan as a Punch-Drunk Fighter	251	(3)
B-29s Over Japan	251	(2)
The Cost of Invading Japan	253	(1)
Hiroshima	254	(8)
Engineering the Bomb	256	(2)
Tinian	258	(1)
Dropping Little Boy	259	(2)
Hiroshima as a Military Target	261	(1)
Pumpkins from the Sky	261	(1)
Nagasaki and Surrender	262	(3)
Japan Surrenders	264	(1)
Winning the Race	265	(1)
Conclusions	266	(23)
Afterwards	267	(9)
In the Matter of Robert Oppenheimer	267	(2)
The Future of Los Alamos National Laboratory	269	(1)
The Soviet Union Gets the Bomb	270	(4)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Today	274	(2)
Heroes	276	(2)
The Quality of Policy Decisions	278	(2)
Networks	280	(1)
Paradox	281	(1)
The Role of Religion	282	(1)
The Role of Women	283	(1)
Trampling Individual Liberties	284	(1)
Conscience	284	(1)
Intersections	285	(4)
Addendum A: Further Resources and Points of Interest	289	(2)
Addendum B: Comparison of Main Events 1941--1945	291	(1)
Addendum C: World War II Time-Line	292	(1)
List of Illustrations and Tables	293	(4)
Notes	297	(12)
References	309	(15)
Names Index	324	(6)
Subject Index	330