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Most of the books in my possession cover the Pacific War although some give general information about all of World War II.

World War II

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General

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  • Atkinson, Rick (2007). Volume II: The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. The Liberation Trilogy. New York: Henry Holt. pp. 816 pages. ISBN 978-0-80506-289-2.
  • Boatner, Mark M. (1996). The Biographical Dictionary of World War II. Novato, California: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-548-3.
  • Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X.
  • Clark, George B. (2008). United States Marine Corps Generals of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3203-5.
  • Dear, I. C. B. (General Editor) (1995). The Oxford Companion to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866225-4. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Murray, Williamson (2001). A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. United States of America: Belknap Press. ISBN 0-674-00680-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • O'Hara, Vincent P. (2007). The US Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-650-6.
  • O'Hara, Vincent P. (2009). Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-648-3.
  • Parkin, Robert Sinclair (1995). Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81069-7.
  • Roscoe, Theodore (1953 (Ninth printing, 1986)). United States Destroyer Operations in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-726-7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Schaffer, Ronald (1985). Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503629-8.

Pacific War

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General

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  • Bergerud, Eric M. (1997). Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-024696-7.
  • Bergerud, Eric M. (2000). Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3869-7.
  • Bruning, John R., Jr. (2005). Ship Strike Pacific. St. Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Press. ISBN 0-7603-2095-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Clark, George B. (2006). The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2769-7.
  • Cook, Haruko Taya (1993). Japan at War: An Oral History. New Press. ISBN 1-56584-039-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Crawford, Steve (2007). The US Marine Corps in World War II: The Stories Behind the Photos. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-59797-131-7.
  • Davison, John (2011). The Pacific War: Day by Day. New York: Chartwell Books. ISBN 978-0-7858-2752-8.
  • Dunnigan, James F. (1998). The Pacific War Encyclopedia. New York: Checkmark Books. ISBN 0-8160-4393-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Fuller, Richard (1992). Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1854091514.
  • Gilbert, Oscar E. (2001). Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific. Da Capo. ISBN 1580970508.
  • Goldstein, Donald M. (2004). The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books. ISBN 1-57488-632-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hammel, Eric (2005). Pacific Warriors: The US Marines in World War II, A Pictorial Tribute. St. Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Press. ISBN 0-7603-2097-7.
  • Holmes, W. J. (1979). Double-edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Blue Jacket Books/Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-324-9.
  • Horn, Steve (2005). The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor: Operation K and Other Japanese Attempts to Bomb America in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-388-8.
  • Hornfischer, James D. (2006). Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80390-5.
  • Madej, W. Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945, Volume I. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Game Marketing Company.
  • Madej, W. Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945, Volume II. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Game Marketing Company.
  • McGee, William L. (2009). Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, (Volume 3, Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII). BMC Publications. ISBN 978-0-9701678-8-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Miller, Donald L. (2005). D-Days in the Pacific. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6929-2.
  • Miller, Edward S. (2007). War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1591145004.
  • Mikesh, Robert C. (1993). Broken Wings of the Samurai: The Destruction of the Japanese Air Force. Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-083-5.
  • Peatross, Oscar F. (1995). Bless 'em All: The Raider Marines of World War II. Review. ISBN 0965232506. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Potter, E. B. (2005). Admiral Arleigh Burke. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-692-5.
  • Prados, John (1995). Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-43701-0.
  • Radike, Floyd W. (2003). Across the Dark Islands: The War in the Pacific. New York: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-774-5.
  • Sakaida, Henry (2002). Aces of the Rising Sun, 1937–1945. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-618-6.
  • Spector, Ronald H. (1985). Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-930360-5.
  • Stille, Mark (2007). USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific 1942. New York: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-248-6.
  • Toland, John (2003 (1970)). The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. New York: The Modern Library. ISBN 0-8129-6858-1. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  • United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific), Naval Analysis Division (1946 (1969 Reprinting)). The Campaigns of the Pacific War. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 8371-2313-5. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • United States War Department (1944 (1991 Reprinting)). Handbook on Japanese Military Forces. Baton Rouge: Louisiana States University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2013-8. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Walker, Charles H. (2004). Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the South Pacific. New York: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-345-46385-4.

Imperial Japanese Navy

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  • Agawa, Hiroyuki (1969). The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. New York: Kodansha America. ISBN 0-87011-512-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Chihaya, Masataka (translation) (1991). Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–1945. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-3665-8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
  • Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
  • Evans, David C. (1986 (2nd Edition)). The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-316-4. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Evans, David C. (1997). Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Felton, Mark (2007). Slaughter at Sea: The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-263-8.
  • Hara, Tameichi (1961). Japanese Destroyer Captain. New York & Toronto: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-27894-1.
  • Hata, Ikuhiko (1975 (original) 1989 (translation)). Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-315-6. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hata, Ikuhiko (2011). Japanese Naval Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces 1932-1945. London: Grub Street. ISBN 978-906502-84-3. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1895-1945. Fairfield, Pennsylvania: Fairfield Graphics. ISBN 0689-11402-8.
  • Hoyt, Edwin P. (1990). Yamamoto: The Man who Planned Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-030626-5.
  • Ito, Masanori (1956 (original) 1962 (translation)). The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Jove Books. ISBN 0-515-08682-7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Jentschura, Hansgeorg (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Lacroix, Eric (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Nila, Gary (2006). Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces: Uniforms and Equipment 1932–45. New York: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-100-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Peattie, Mark R. (1999). Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-664-X.
  • Skulski, Janusz (1989). The Battleship Yamato. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-019-X.
  • Skulski, Janusz (2004). The Heavy Cruiser Takao. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-974-3.
  • Skwiot, Mirostaw (2010). Japanese Battleships: Volume 1. Lublin, Poland: Kagero. ISBN 978-83-61220-32-9.
  • Stille, Mark (2005). Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921–45. New York: Osprey Publishing. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Stille, Mark (2008). Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships, 1941–45. New York: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-280-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Tagaya, Osamu (2001). Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko 'Betty' Units of World War 2. New Yok: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-082-7.
  • Watts, Anthony J. (1971). The Imperial Japanese Navy. Doubleday. ISBN 0385012683.
  • Werneth, Ron (2008). Beyond Pearl Harbor: The Untold Stories of Japan's Naval Airmen. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Military History. ISBN 978-0-7643-2932-6.
  • Yoshida, Mitsuru (1999). Requiem for Battleship Yamato. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-544-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Yoshimura, Akira (1999 (1st ed. 1991)). Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World's Biggest Battleship. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. ISBN 4-7700-2400-2. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

Imperial Japanese Army

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  • Drea, Edward J. (1998). In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1708-0.
  • Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1843-1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1663-3.
  • Harries, Meirion (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-75303-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hata, Ikuhiko (2012). Japanese Army Fighter Aces 1931-45. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-1076-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hayashi, Saburo (1959). Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Marine Corps Association. ASIN B000ID3YRK.
  • Rottman, Gordon L. (2005). Japanese Army in World War II: Conquest of the Pacific, 1941-42. Oxford and New York: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-789-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Rottman, Gordon L. (2005). Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43. Oxford and New York: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-870-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Takaki, Koji (2001). B-29 Hunters of the JAAF. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-161-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

United States Navy

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  • Ewing, Steve (1998 (Eighth Printing, Original 1982)). USS Enterprise (CV-6): The Most Decorated Ship of World War II: A Pictorial History. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. ISBN 0-933126-24-7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Kurzman, Dan (1994). Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-74873-4.
  • Mrazek, Robert J. (2008). A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-02139-5.
  • Roscoe, Theodore (1953 (Ninth printing, 1986)). United States Destroyer Operations of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-726-7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Rose, Lisle A. (1995). The Ship that Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the Pacific War. Annapolis, Maryland: Bluejacket Books (Naval Institute Press). ISBN 1-55750-008-8.
  • Satterfield, John R. (1995). We Band of Brothers: The Sullivans and World War II. Parkersburg, Iowa: Mid-Prarie Books. ISBN 0-931209-58-7.
  • Stafford, Edwar P. (2002 (1962)). The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise. Annapolis, Maryland: Bluejacket Books (Naval Institute Press). ISBN 1-55750-998-0. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Stille, Mark (2005). US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922-45. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-890-8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

United States Army

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  • Bowman, Martin (2003). B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-481-7.
  • Henry, Mark R. (2000). The US Army in World War II (1): The Pacific. New York: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-995-9.
  • Salecker, Eric (2001). Fortress Against the Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific. United States: Da Capo Press. ISBN 1-58097-049-4.
  • Scearce, Phil (2011). Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific. Denton, TX, USA: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-316-8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Prewar to first few months

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  • Anderson, Charles R. (2005). Day of Lightning, Years of Scorn: Walter C. Short and the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-005-4.
  • Beasley, W.G. (1991). Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198221681.
  • Burton, John (2006). Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 159114096X.
  • Gillon, Steven M. (2011). Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02139-0.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958 (reissue 2001)). The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942, vol. 3 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. 0785813047. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824814800.
  • Prange, Gordon W. (1981). At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140157344. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Prange, Gordon W. (1988). December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070506825. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Willmott, H. P. (1982). Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-535-3.
  • Zimm, Alan D. (2011). Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Havertown, PA: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-010-7.

Coral Sea to Guadalcanal

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Solomon Islands campaign

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Guadalcanal
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  • Ballard, Robert (2007). Robert Ballard's Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific. Toronto, Ontario: Madison Press Books. ISBN 978-0-7858-2206-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Brown, Herbert C. (2000). Hell at Tassafaronga. Ancient Mariners Pr. ISBN 0-9700721-4-7.
  • Christ, James F. (2007). Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1591141143.
  • Clemens, Martin (2004 (reissue)). Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story. Bluejacket Books. ISBN 1-59114-124-9. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Cook, Charles O. (1992 (Reissue)). The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-126-2. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Coombe, Jack D. (1991). Derailing the Tokyo Express. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole. ISBN 0-8117-3030-1.
  • Crenshaw, Russell S., Jr. (1995). The Battle of Tassafaronga. Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America. ISBN 1-877853-37-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Frank, Richard (1990). Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-58875-4.
  • Griffith, Samuel B. (1963). The Battle for Guadalcanal. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06891-2.
  • Hammel, Eric (1999). Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 1942. St. Paul, MN, USA: Zenith Press. ISBN 0760320527.
  • Hammel, Eric (1999). Carrier Strike: The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942. Pacifica Press. ISBN 0-7603-2128-0.
  • Hammel, Eric (1988). Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea : The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov. 13–15, 1942. (CA): Pacifica Press. ISBN 0-517-56952-3.
  • Hammel, Eric (2007). Guadalcanal: The U.S. Marines in World War II. St. Paul, Minnesota, USA: Zenith Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-3148-4.
  • Jersey, Stanley Coleman (2008). Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-616-2.
  • Kilpatrick, C. W. (1987). Naval Night Battles of the Solomons. Exposition Press. ISBN 0-682-40333-4.
  • Kurzman, Dan (1994). Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-74874-2.
  • Letourneau, Roger (2012). Operation Ke: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-446-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Loxton, Bruce (1997). The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster. Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd. ISBN 1-86448-286-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Lundstrom, John B. (2005 (New edition)). First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-472-8. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • McGee, William L. (2002). The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII). BMC Publications. ISBN 0-9701678-7-3.
  • Miller, Thomas G. (1969). Cactus Air Force. Admiral Nimitz Foundation. ISBN 0-934841-17-9.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943, vol. 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-58305-7.
  • Richter, Don (1992). Where the Sun Stood Still: The Untold Story of Sir Jacob Vouza and the Guadalcanal Campaign. Toucan. ISBN 096116963X.
  • Smith, Michael T. (2000). Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal. New York: Pocket. ISBN 0-7434-6321-8.
  • Twining, Merrill B. (1996). No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal. Novato, CA, USA: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-826-1.
The rest of the Solomons and New Guinea
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Aleutian Islands and Kuriles campaigns

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  • Cloe, John Haile (1990). The Aleutian Warriors: A History of the 11th Air Force and Fleet Air Wing 4. Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. and Anchorage Chapter – Air Force Association. ISBN 0-929521-35-8.
  • Dickrell, Jeff (2001). Center of the Storm: The Bombing of Dutch Harbor and the Experience of Patrol Wing Four in the Aleutians, Summer 1942. Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1-57510-092-4.
  • Garfield, Brian (1969). The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks, Alasaka, USA: University of Alaska Press. ISBN 0-912006-83-8.
  • Hays, Otis (2004). Alaska's Hidden Wars: Secret Campaigns on the North Pacific Rim. University of Alaska Press. ISBN 188996364X.
  • Hutchison, Kevin Don (1994). World War II in the North Pacific: Chronology and Fact Book. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29130-6.
  • Lorelli, John A. (1984). The Battle of the Komandorski Islands. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-093-9.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (1951 (Reprint 2001)). Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944, vol. 7 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-316-58305-7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Wetterhahn, Ralph (2004). The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots who Fought in World War II's Arctic Air Campaign. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1360-7.

Central Pacific, Philippines, and Japan campaigns, 1944–45

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  • Bailey, Dan E. (2000). World War II Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon. Redding, California: North Valley Diver Publications. ISBN 0-911615-06-7.
  • Friedman, Kenneth I. (2001). Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Novato, California: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-756-7.
  • Grayling, A. C. (2007). Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan. New York: Walker Publishing Company Inc. ISBN 978-0-8027-1565-4.
  • Hadley, Gregory (2007). Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew. King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom: Paulownia Press. ISBN 978-0-9555582-1-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hastings, Max (2007). Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26351-3.
  • Millot, Bernard (1971). Divine Thunder: The life and death of the Kamikazes. Macdonald. ISBN 0-356-03856-4.
  • Sauer, Howard (1999). The Last Big-Gun Naval Battle: The Battle of Surigao Strait (in Palo Alto and California). The Glencannon Press. ISBN 1-889901-08-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Stewart, William H. (2001 (1st ed. 1986)). Ghost Fleet of the Truk Lagoon. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. ISBN 0-933126-66-2. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5221-8.
  • Tully, Anthony P. (2009). Battle of Surigao Strait. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35242-2.
  • Willmott, H. P. (2005). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34528-6.
  • Y'Blood, William T. (1981). Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea. Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-994-0.

Other military history

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  • Diehl, Alan E. (2003). Silent Knights: Blowing the Whistle on Military Accidents and Their Cover-Ups. Potomac Books. ISBN 1574885448.
  • Freeman, Gregory A. (2009). Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-61361-4.
  • Luttrell, Marcus (2007). Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10. New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-06760-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • McMichael, William H. (1997). The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-293-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Sherwood, John Darrell (2007). Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam Era. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4036-1.
  • United States Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General (1993). The Tailhook Report. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-10392-8. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Vistica, Gregory L. (1995). Fall from Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81150-2.
  • Zimmerman, Jean (1995). Tailspin: Women at War in the Wake of Tailhook. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-47789-9.

Japanese culture, language, and history

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Environment

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Other

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  • Bennett, Judith A. (1987). Wealth of the Solomons: A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800–1978. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1078-3.
  • Popkin, Richard H. (1981 (2nd edition, revised 1993)). Philosophy Made Simple. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-42533-3. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)