Edward J. Drea Explained

Edward John Drea
Birth Date:	1944 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Buffalo, New York
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Subject:	Imperial Japanese Army, Pacific War
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Awards:	Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

Edward John Drea (born 24 February 1944) is an American military historian. He deals especially with the Imperial Japanese Army and the Pacific War.

Early life and education

Edward John Drea was born in Buffalo, New York, on 24 February 1944. He attended local grammar and high schools, and then entered Canisius College in Buffalo.

Career

On graduation, in 1965, he joined the United States Air Force. He was sent for officer training at the Air Force Officer Training School at the Medina Training Annex at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and then to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, where he was trained as an intelligence officer. He was posted to the headquarters of the Fifth Air Force at Fuchū in Japan, arriving on 20 January 1968, where he monitored communications from communist countries. ThePueblo Incident four days after he arrived resulted in a heavy workload.

Drea served a combat tour in Vietnam. In 1971, he entered the Sophia University in Tokyo on the G.I. Bill,^[1] earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree. Classes were taught in English and Japanese, and he became fluent in Japanese.^[1] He was awarded a Japanese ministry of education dissertation fellowship,^[1] which allowed him to gain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in modern Japanese history from the University of Kansas in 1978,^[2] writing his thesis on "The Japanese General Election of 1942: a Study of Political Institutions in Wartime".^[3] He joined the Combat Studies Institute of the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1975, and became the head of the Research and Analysis Department at the US Army Center for Military History in Washington, D.C. He also taught at United States Army War College.

Awards

In 2003, he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for Military History.^[4]

Bibliography

• Book: Drea, Edward J. . Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945 . University of Kansas Press . Lawrence, Kansas . 2009 . Modern War Studies . 9780700622344 . 967353659 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942–1945 . University of Kansas Press . Lawrence, Kansas . 1992 . 9780700605040 . 464001591 . registration .
• Book: Drea . Edward J. . Ronald H. . Cole . Walter S. . Poole . James F. . Schnabel . Robert J. . Watson . Willard J. . Webb . History of the Unified Command Plan 1946–2012 . Washington D. C. . 2013 . 836557655 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . McNamara, Clifford, and the Burdens of Vietnam, 1965–1969 . Washington D. C. . 2011 . 9780160881350 . 764691714 .
• Book: Drea . Edward J. . Lawrence S. . Kaplan . Ronald D. . Landa . The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961–1965 . Washington D. C. . 2006 . Office of Secretary of Defense . 226264386 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, Nebraska . 1998 . 9780803266384 . 470201299 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944 . Washington, DC . 1984 . 260179570 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939 . Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . Combat Studies Institute . 1981 . 9781105650147 . 936029327 .
• Book: Drea, Edward J. . The 1942 Japanese General Election: political mobilization in wartime Japan . Center of East Asian Studies, University of Kansas . Lawrence, Kansas . 1979 . 5219120 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Edward Drea oral history interview . 17 September 2005 . The National Museum of the Pacific War . 30 April 2017 .
2. Book: Maddox . Robert James . Hiroshima in History: the Myths of Revisionism . University of Missouri Press . Columbia, Missouri . 2007 . 978-0-8262-1962-6 . 720831424 . 199.
3. The Japanese General Election of 1942: a Study of Political Institutions in Wartime . University of Kansas . 30 April 2017 . 1978 . Drea . Edward J. .
4. Web site: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . 30 April 2017 . Society for Military History .