The Burning Shore (47 page)

USS Hambleton
,
149–152

USS Hornet
,
169
,
172

USS Idaho
,
100

USS Kearny
,
43

USS Massachusetts
,
97

USS McCormick
,
239

USS Mississippi
,
100

USS New Mexico
,
100

USS Quincy
,
108

USS Reuben James
,
44

USS San Diego
,
183

USS Scorpion
,
249

USS Spencer
,
245

USS St. Augustine
,
207

USS Texas
,
40
,
98
,
108

USS Trippe
,
146

USS Tuscaloosa
,
108

USS Wasp
,
108

USS Wichita
,
108

USS Yorktown
,
100
,
173

USS YP-389
,
202
,
255

attack on,
203–204

UZO.
See
Uboot-Zieloptik

Vaupel, Maschinenmaat (Machinists Mate 3rd Class) Ludwig,
222
,
229

Verrazano Narrows,
112

Virginia Beach,
175

mines erupting at,
184–186

offshore action viewed at,
188–189

Virginian-Pilot
,
185
,
190

Vizeadmiral
,
1

von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther,
139

firing of,
50

von Enderndorf, Kapitän zur See (Captain) Baron Harsdorf,
19

von Forstner, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Siegfried,
238–239

von Schroeter, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Horst,
113

von Tippelskirch, Kurt Wilhelm Viktor,
20–21

von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Georg,
164

Vorhaltrechner
,
94

Wallaschek, Matrosengefreiter (Seaman 2nd Class) Alfred,
74

war diary

of Degen, Kapitänleutnant Horst,
72
,
75
,
120

of Dönitz,
70
,
159
,
240

Washington, DC,
114

Washington Times-Herald
,
47

Watts, Gordon P., Jr.,
253

Wehrmacht,
13
,
50
,
88

Weinitschke, Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant j.g.) Bernfried,
65

death of,
68

Wellborn, Charles, Jr., Commander, USN,
152

West Coast

army reinforcements for,
131

blackout regulation of,
134–135

Japanese attack on,
131

mass panic in,
134
,
135

paranoia of,
130–131

patrols at,
241

Western Approaches Command,
79
,
83
,
88

William Rockefeller
,
208–210

destruction of,
211–212

Williams, Lieutenant R. C., USN,
146

Wimble Shoals,
150
,
183

Winn, Commander Rodger, RNVR,
88
,
89–90
,
128

wolf pack,
244–245

Wolf’s Lair headquarters,
139
,
165

Wolfsschanze,
45

WPL-46,
99

Wright, Orville,
144

Wright R-1820–53,
66

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku,
134

Zapp, Korvettenkapitän (Commander) Richard,
95
,
118

Zeiss binoculars,
218

Zentrale
,
7

Ziethen,
90

zigzag maneuver,
180–181
,
187–188