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    reinforcements for, 102–3, 135
    see also Marine Aircraft Group 23
    Cairo Allied conference (November 1943), 437, 438
    Calhoun, C. Raymond, 162
    Calhoun, William L., 198, 333, 440
    California , USS, 291, 292
    Callaghan, Daniel J., 22, 160, 161
    in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 162, 164
    Camp Cable, 209
    Canberra , HMAS, 45–46, 51, 53
    cannibalism, xviii, 191
    Canton Island, 124, 144, 342, 389
    Cape Esperance, 164, 178, 184
    Cape Esperance, Battle of, 135
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 240
    Cape Moira, Bougainville, 206
    Cape St. George, New Ireland, 41
    Cape Torokina, Bougainville, 235, 236
    Carney, Robert B., 146, 201, 222, 232, 440
    Carney Field, 190, 242
    Caroline Islands, 116, 312, 449
    Carpender, Arthur S., 218
    carrier bombers, Japanese, 470
    Carrier Division 1, Japanese, 419, 448, 473, 482
    aircraft of, 420
    Carrier Division 2, Japanese, 486
    aircraft losses of, 420–21
    aircraft of, 419
    Carrier Division 3, Japanese, 473
    CARTWHEEL , Operation, 224, 241 , 313
    air campaign in, 231, 236–39
    Bougainville landings in, 236, 340
    Emirau Island landings in, 242
    Green Islands landings in, 240, 242
    leapfrogging strategy in, 232, 240, 242
    morale and discipline problems in, 231–32
    naval battles in, 233–35, 236–37
    New Britain campaign in, 239–40
    New Georgia campaign in, 222, 231–32
    Rabaul bypassed in, 232, 235, 240
    Casablanca conference (1943), 10, 307–11
    CATCHPOLE , Operation, see Eniwetok, Battle of
    Cavalla (submarine), 471, 473, 475, 485
    Cavite Naval Base, Manila Bay, 254–55
    Cawley, David, 404
    Central Pacific Fleet, see Fifth Fleet, U.S.
    central Pacific offensive, 237, 314 , 320
    Brooke’s opposition to, 307–12
    conservative deployment of carriers in, 373
    interservice sensitivities in, 321
    King’s advocacy of, 235, 306–7, 308, 313
    Kwajalein landing in, see Kwajalein, Battle of
    leapfrogging strategy in, 384, 401, 403
    MacArthur’s opposition to, 306, 313
    Marianas in, see Marianas campaign
    Nimitz and, 312–13, 317
    Spruance placed in command of, 315–16
    submarine warfare in, 368–69, 402, 413
    central Pacific offensive, air war in, 368–83
    airfield attacks in, 388
    Bat Team tactics in, 374–76
    dogfights in, 371, 388
    Japanese losses in, 456
    Japanese night attacks in, 369–70, 381–82
    U.S. night attacks in, 412
    Chambers, Justice, 21, 36
    Chambers , USS, 50
    Chambliss, William C., 110, 111
    Chamorros, 511, 517, 521
    Charan Kanoa, 465, 468
    Cheetah Shoals, 23
    CHERRY BLOSSOM , Operation, 236
    Chevalier , USS, 234–35
    Chiang Kai-Shek, xxii, 437
    Chicago , USS, 36, 43, 45–46, 53, 57, 60, 183
    Chichi Jima, 440, 449, 463, 464
    Chikuma , 69, 78, 150
    Childs, Marquis, 87
    China:
    basing of B-29s in, 437–38
    in war with Japan, 437
    China Air Fleet, 447
    China Incident (1937), 429
    Chinese air force, Japanese superiority over, xxii
    Chitose , 69, 453
    chivalry, modern warfare and, 204
    Chiyoda , 257–58, 491
    Choiseul Island, 42
    Chokai , 41, 42, 45, 46, 48
    Christie, Ralph, 278
    as Southwest Pacific Area submarine commander, 280
    torpedo performance defended by, 280–81
    Chuo Koran , 528–29
    Churchill, Winston, 9, 94, 128 n , 308, 311, 390
    map room of, 93
    TORCH proposed by, 97
    and U.S. pressure for invasion of France, 95, 96
    CINCPAC, 297–98, 477
    CINCPAC Hill, 519–20
    Civilian Conservation Corps, 88
    Clark, Joseph J. “Jocko,” 327, 368, 370, 371, 382, 388, 463, 472–73, 474, 477
    Cherokee ancestry of, 326
    competitiveness of, 329
    conservative deployment of carrier criticized by, 373
    and Japanese Kwajalein counterattack, 379–80
    in Kwajalein raid, 377
    in Operation TORCH , 327–28
    personality and appearance of, 326–27
    Pownall and, 341
    and Pownall’s refusal to order second strike in Kwajalein, 379, 381, 382–83
    in race to beat Essex to Pearl Harbor, 328–29
    SB2Cs rejected by, 331–32
    as stern taskmaster, 326–27,