The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll

190, 200
    New Deal, 85–86, 87, 88
    New Georgia, 182, 221, 238
    New Georgia campaign, 222, 231–32
    New Guinea, 13 , 16, 157, 182, 188, 222, 267, 418, 419, 440
    â€œBird’s Head” peninsula of, 454
    Japanese troops in, 224
    New Guinea campaign, 239, 346, 420, 441, 453–54
    New Hebrides, 11, 13 , 14, 75, 190
    New Ireland, 13
    New Jersey , 405, 410–11
    New London, Conn., 250
    New Orleans , 177, 178, 381, 410–11
    New York Times , 97, 98, 142, 367, 535
    New Zealand, 197
    New Zealand Herald , 197
    Nggela (Florida) island group, xix, 13 , 24, 27 , 38, 161
    NHK (Japanese radio network), 206–7
    Nimitz, Chester W., 12, 15, 16, 60, 70, 91, 103, 107, 109, 111, 122–23, 178, 196, 198, 200, 362, 364, 373, 438, 459, 461, 472, 477, 497–98, 500, 502, 511, 513, 516, 519, 520, 521
    Aleutian strategy of, 225–26
    Argonne conference of, 125–26
    athletic prowess of, 298–99
    bureaucratic bloat as anathema to, 432–33
    central Pacific offensive and, 312–13, 317
    chain of command and, 220
    CINCPAC headquarters of, 297–98
    command style of, 384, 433
    and death of Yamamoto, 203–4
    FDR and, 297
    GALVANIC and, 325
    Ghormley relieved of command by, 143–44
    Guadalcanal campaign and, 123–24
    Guadalcanal visit of, 129–31
    interservice rivalries and, 433–34
    on Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, 185–86
    Kwajalein battle and, 397
    Kwajalein landings ordered by, 384
    leapfrogging strategy of, 401
    MacArthur’s meeting with, 442–43
    Makalapa Hill residence of, 296–97
    Marianas campaign and, 440
    personality of, 123, 297, 298
    Pownall relieved of command by, 383
    and raid on Truk, 403
    social role of, 299
    Solomons inspection tour of, 124–31, 143
    Spruance and, 315
    submarine warfare and, 255, 257
    Tarawa battle and, 366
    Towers and, 435
    Vandegrift’s meeting with, 129–31
    Nishizawa, Hiroyoshi, 31–32
    Nisshin Maru , 453
    Nogi, Maresuki, 417
    Nomura, Kichisaburo, 114, 515
    Nomura, Minoru, 448
    Normandy invasion, 530
    North Africa, Allied invasion of, 97, 158, 308, 328
    North American Newspaper Alliance, 98
    Northampton , USS, 110, 152, 178
    North Carolina , USS, 21, 108, 109
    Northern Amphibious Group, 333
    Noshiro , 455
    Noumea, New Caledonia, 13 , 14, 15, 20, 56, 60, 61, 108, 125, 132, 143, 144, 160, 197
    Noyes, Leigh, 111
    Nukufetau Island, 342
    Oahu, 287
    Ewa Field on, 70
    see also Hawaii; Pearl Harbor
    Oakland , USS, 381, 496
    O’Bannon , USS, 162, 163, 234–35
    Obata, Hideyoshi, 513
    O’Brien , USS, 110
    O’Hare, Butch, 373–74, 375
    Bat Team tactics devised by, 374–75
    death of, 376
    Ohmae, Toshikazu, 46
    Oi, Atsushi, 283, 425
    Oite , 413
    O’Kane, Richard H., 251, 260, 261, 264, 265
    in attack on Wewak harbor, 268–71
    Morton and, 262, 265, 267
    in Wahoo ’s third patrol, 267–76
    Oklahoma , USS, 289, 291–92
    Okumiya, Masatake, 238–39, 420–21, 429–30, 471
    Omori, Sentaro, 236
    106th Infantry Regiment, U.S., 399
    164th Infantry Regiment, U.S., 134
    165th Infantry Regiment, U.S., 320–21, 361
    Orange, War Plan, 306, 436
    see also central Pacific offensive
    Orote Airfield, 478, 486–87, 511, 512, 513
    Orote Peninsula, 462, 487, 513, 518
    OVERLORD , Operation, 457
    Owen, Ed, 378
    Owen Stanley mountains, 68
    oyaku-shinju (parent-child death pact), 506–7
    Oyodo , 447, 488
    Ozawa, Jisaburo, 419, 423, 427–28, 429, 447, 449, 454, 461, 469–70, 472, 474, 475, 476, 478–79, 484–85, 486, 488–89, 490, 497, 511, 514, 530, 531
    promoted to First Mobile Fleet commander, 447
    training exercises discontinued by, 449–50
    Pacific American Expeditionary Forces Station, 520
    Pacific Crucible (Toll), xiv
    Pacific Fleet submarines, 460
    Pacific War:
    bulldozers as weapons in, 190
    central Pacific offensive in, see central Pacific offensive
    as gold rush for Hawaii, 293–94
    Guadalcanal as decisive campaign in, 120
    initial Japanese air