All Hell Let Loose (132 page)

United States Army Air Force (USAAF): strategy in Pacific, 433; bomber offensive against Germany, 471–2, 480–2, 484, 486–7, 493; losses, 475, 484, 487, 492; strength, 481; bases in England, 491; bombs Japanese mainland, 637–9

United States Marine Corps: at Guadalcanal, 254–60, 263; strength increased, 260; casualties, 263, 644, 670; landing craft, 361; in Pacific, 363, 433, 436–7, 440, 565, 567–8, 570; qualities, 438; at Iwo Jima, 635–6; on Okinawa, 640–1, 644; achievements, 664

United States Navy: in Pacific, 236, 268; power, 240; torpedo inaccuracies, 240–1; quality of crews, 241–2; officer corps, 242; defeat at Savo, 255–7; Pacific strategy, 433, 436; growth, 435; number of planes, 481; dominance in Pacific, 558, 564; submarine successes and losses, 558–9; Japanese kamikaze attacks on, 636–7, 641–2, 644; and damage control, 637; achievements, 664; casualties, 670

 

 

VESSELS:
Astoria
(cruiser), 251, 255;
Bagley
(destroyer), 255;
Bunker Hill
(carrier), 644;
Chicago
(cruiser), 255;
Enterprise
(carrier), 196, 241, 244, 249, 253, 261, 644;
Essex
(carrier), 642;
Franklin
(carrier), 637;
Hornet
(carrier), 237, 242, 244, 247, 249, 251–3, 261;
Intrepid
(carrier), 644;
Juneau
(cruiser), 243, 262;
Lexington
(carrier), 237–40;
Manila Bay
(carrier), 573;
Missouri
(battleship), 652;
North Carolina
(battleship), 261;
Paterson
(destroyer), 255;
Princeton
(carrier), 658;
Quincy
(cruiser), 256;
Saratoga
(carrier), 261, 564;
South Dakota
(battleship), 262;
Spearfish
(submarine), 234;
Vincennes
(cruiser), 255;
Wainwright
(destroyer), 291;
Washington
(battleship), 262;
Wasp
(carrier), 261;
Yorktown
(carrier), 237–8, 240, 244–5, 249, 251–3

Uprichard, Sgt. Bill, 475

Uranus
, Operation (Russia), 314–16

Urbanowicz, Witold, 5, 22

U Saw, 220

Ushijima, Gen. Mitsuru, 640

Ustaše (Croatia), 405, 465, 467, 469

Utah
beach, Normandy, 534

 

 

V-weapons (Germany), 343, 486

Vallicella, Vittorio, 134–5, 137–8, 370–2, 374, 377

Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr, 320, 383, 617, 668

Vass, Dénes, 600

Vatutin, Nikolai, 383, 405

Vavin, Nikolai, 169

VE-Day (8 May 1945), 630

Vendetta
, HMAS (destroyer), 203

Veritable
, Operation, 610

Vértessy, Col. János, 603

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 448

Vienna, 618

Vierkom, Karl-Gottfried, 175

Vietminh movement (Indochina), 407

Vietnam, 407–8

Vistula, river, 613–14

Vlasov, Lt.Gen. Andrey, 300

Volga Germans: deported in Russia, 151

Volga river: freezes, 316

Völkischer Beobachter
(Nazi newspaper), 14

Voronezh, 302–3, 315

Voroshilov, Gen. Kliment, 168–9

Vorster, John, 412

 

 

Wacht
(German army newspaper), 585

Wade, Robert, 466

Wagner, Gen. Eduard, 70, 163, 504

Wainwright, Gen. Jonathan, 233–5

Walcheren, 584

Waldheim, Kurt, 671

Waldron, Lt.Cdr. John, 247–8

Wallenberg, Raoul, 602

Wallis, Barnes, 481

Walters, Anne-Marie, 406

Walther, SS Panzergrenadier Herbert, 556

Wannsee conference (1942), 519

war crimes: punishments for, 671–2

Warlimont, Gen. Walter, 98

Warsaw: destroyed and occupied by Germans, 17–20; Hitler visits, 22; ghetto, 509, 515, 522; uprising (1944), 549, 588

Washington summit (May 1943), 443

Waskow, Capt. Henry, 458

Watson, Lt. Robert, 639

Waugh, Evelyn, 8, 102, 343, 441

Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald (
later
1st Earl): Middle East command, 105; in Egypt, 107, 109; mounts offensive against Italians, 110–11; troops sent to Greece, 111; orders to Neame, 114; and evacuation of Greece, 122; and expedition to Iraq, 124; sends force to Syria, 125; failed offensive against Rommel, 128; loses Middle East command, 128; numbers of troops, 135; and defence and fall of Singapore, 212; and proposed shooting of Australian deserters, 213; dismisses army commanders in Burma, 222; unable to send reinforcements to Burma, 221; command in South-East Asia, 222; leaves Singapore, 236; on Bengal famine, 351; organises relief for Bengal famine, 424; offensive in Burma, 433

Wayman, Corp. George, 636

Weichs, Gen. Maximilian, Baron von, 303, 315, 551

Weinburg, Gerhard:
A World at Arms
, xix

Weinstein, Dr Alfred, 233

Welchman, Gordon, 368

Welles, Sumner, 665

Wells, Corp. Ira, 471

Wells, Rod, 413

Wellum, Geoffrey, 82, 470

Wenck, Gen. Walther, 623

West, Frazer, 565

West, Sgt. Horace, 445

West Africa: recruits from, 410;
see also
Dakar Weygand, Gen. Maxime, 35, 55, 61, 63, 70

White, Lt. Peter, 327, 332, 607

Whitehead, Don, 534

Wick, Helmut, 83

Widdicombe, Wilbert, 277

Wiedling, Lt.Gen. Karl, 626

Wigram, Lt.Col. Lionel, 450

Wildcat fighters (US), 241, 248–9, 251

Wilhelm Gustloff
(liner), 622

Willkie, Wendell, 181, 187

Wingate, Maj.Gen. Orde, 434, 634

Winn, Godfrey, 292

Winstanley, John, 561

Wissler, Denis, 86

Wolff, Gen. Karl, 630

Wolff-Monckeburg, Mathilde, 346, 450, 482, 489, 553, 576, 653

women: in Soviet Russia, 309, 311, 354–8; mobilised, 352–4; sexually exploited, 355, 357, 360; as agents in SOE, 358; in combat, 358; as nurses, 358; romances and sexual freedom, 359–60; violated by Japanese, 429–31; violated in Italy, 461; violated by Russians in Germany, 619–20, 627–8

Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF; Britain), 358–9

Wood, Edwin, 577

Wood, Jean, 345

Wood, Gen. Robert, 186

Woolrych, Col. Stanley, 406

Wurzburg scanner (German): stolen in raid at Bruneval, 325–6

Wylde, Maj., 213–4

 

 

Yalta conference (February 1945), 595–6, 611

Yamaguchi, Adm. Tamon, 252

Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku, 193–4, 237, 243–5, 252–3, 262–3, 669

Yamashita, Gen. Tomoyuki, 209–10, 211, 213, 215–16, 235, 260, 574, 645, 669

Yanovichl, Belorussia, 394

Yokoyama, Lt.Col. Yosuke, 208

Young, Catherine Renee, 348

Yugoslavia: casualties, xvi, 465, 670; factions and ethnic conflicts, xix, 405, 465–9; Italy prepares to attack, 109; Germany occupies, 118–19, 465; women fighters, 358; conditions and people, 464; operations in, 464; partisan activities, 466–9; Axis atrocities in, 468–9; Tito gains control, 469; Russians occupy, 550; and retreat of German army, 608; Red Army excesses in, 629–30

Yukina, Vera, 147

Yushkevich, Lt., 168

 

 

Zagari, Bianca, 340–1

Zagari, Raffaele, 341

Zero (Japanese fighter plane): in Battle of Midway, 243, 248–50, 253; qualities, 474

Zhijia Shen, 428

Zhukov, Marshal Georgy: and German invasion of Russia, 143; command, 159, 162; and defence of Moscow, 160, 162; doctrine of non-retreat, 166; reinforced, 166; advises Stalin against extending offensive operations, 167; replaces Voroshilov at Leningrad, 168–9; recalled from Leningrad, 173; favours narrow front, 177; defeats Japanese in Nomonhan Incident (1939), 192; appointed Deputy Supreme Commander, 307; takes command at Stalingrad, 307–8; revisits Leningrad, 313;
Uranus
offensive (November 1942), 315–16; promoted marshal, 320; offensive towards Dnieper, 383; counter-attacks at Kursk, 390–1; encircles Germans on Dnieper west bank, 525; Operation
Bagration
offensive, 527, 546; advance into Germany, 608; assault on Berlin, 615, 621–2, 623–5; qualities, 668

Ziegelmeyer, Ernst, 169, 171

Zimmer, SS Panzergrenadier Fritz, 544

Zimmerman, Walter, 521

Zipper
, Operation, 645

Zoya, Zarubina, 147

ukowski, Tadeusz, 21

Zweig, Stefan, 9, 69

Zyklon B (gas), 513