The Battle of Midway (79 page)

Halsey, William F., and J. Bryan III.
Admiral Halsey’s Story
. New York: Whittlesey House, 1947.

Holmes, W. J.
Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979.

Ickes, Harold L.
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
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Ito, Masanori, and Roger Pineau.
The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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King, Ernest J., and Walter Muir Whitehill.
Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record
. New York: Norton, 1952.

Layton, Edwin T., with Roger Pineau and John Costello.
“And I was there”: Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets
. New York: Morrow, 1985.

Ludlum, Stuart D.
They Turned the War Around at Coral Sea and Midway: Going to War with Yorktown’s Air Group Five
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Mears, Frederick.
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Robert R. Rea.
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Rowland, Buford, and William B. Boyd.
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II
. Washington, DC: Bureau of Ordnance, Department of the Navy, 1953.

Russell, Ronald W.
No Right to Win: A Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway
. New York: iUniverse, 2006.

Sherman, Frederick C.
Combat Command: The American Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War
. New York: Dutton, 1950.

Sherwood, Robert E.
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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Stimson, Henry L., and McGeorge Bundy.
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Stover, E. T., and Clark G. Reynolds.
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Ugaki, Matome.
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Agawa, Hiroyuki.
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Asada, Sadao.
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Astor, Gerald.
Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
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Barde, Robert E. “The Battle of Midway: A Study in Command.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1971.

Belote, James H., and William M. Belote.
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Brown, Louis.
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Buell, Thomas B.
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. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

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The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
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Buford, Rowland, and William B. Boyd.
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Catton, Bruce.
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Coletta, Paolo E.
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. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997.

Cressman, Robert J., Steve Ewing, Barrett Tillman, Mark Horan, Clark Reynolds, and Stan Cohen.
“A Glorious Page in Our History”: The Battle of Midway, 4–6 June 1942
. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories, 1990.

Dull, Paul S.
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1978.

Ewing, Steve, and John B. Lundstrom.
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. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Gannon, Robert.
Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II
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Glines, Carroll V.
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Haufler, Hervie.
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Heinl, R. D., Jr.
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Hoehling, A. A.
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. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Hoppes, Jonna Doolittle.
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Horn, Steve.
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. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005.

Isom, Dallas Woodbury.
Midway Inquest: Why the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Kahn, David.
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. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.

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The Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Kernan, Alvin.
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Larrabee, Eric.
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. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Lewin, Ronald.
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Lord, Walter.
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. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Love, Robert William, Jr.
The Chiefs of Naval Operations
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980.

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History of the U.S
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Lundstrom, John B.
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. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.

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The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941–June 1942
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.

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The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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MacIntyre, Donald.
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. London: Evans Brothers, 1961.

Middlebrook, Martin, and Patrick Mahoney.
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Morison, Samuel Eliot.
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. 15 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947–63.

See esp. vol. 3:
The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931–April 1942
(1948); and vol. 4:
Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942–August 1942
(1949).

Mrazek, Robert J.
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
. New York: Little, Brown, 2008.

Nesmith, Jeff.
No Higher Honor: The U.S.S. Yorktown at the Battle of Midway
. Atlanta: Longstreet, 1999.

Parker, Frederick D.
A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians
. Ft. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 1993.

Parshall, Jonathan B., and Anthony P. Tully.
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005.

Peattie, Mark R.
Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909–1941
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Potter, E. B.
Bull Halsey
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985.

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Nimitz
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.

Potter, John Deane.
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Prados, John.
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Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon.
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. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Regan, Stephen D.
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. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

Reynolds, Quentin.
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. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953.

Schultz, Duane.
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. New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.

Simpson, B. Mitchell, III.
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.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Smith, Peter C.
Midway: Dauntless Victory; Fresh Perspectives on America’s Seminal Naval Victory of World War II
. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2007.

Stafford, Edward P.
The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. First published 1962 by Random House.

Stephan, John J.
Hawaii under the Rising Sun: Japan’s Plans for Conquest after Pearl Harbor
. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Symonds, Craig L.
Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Taylor, Theodore.
The Magnificent Mitscher
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. First published 1954 by Norton.

Thomas, Lowell, and Edward Jablonski.
Doolittle: A Biography
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.

Tillman, Barrett.
The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.

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Wildcat: The F4F in WWII
. 2nd ed. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.

Weisheit, Bowen P.
The Last Flight of Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Junior, USNA, Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942
. Baltimore: Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial Foundation, 1993.

Wildenberg, Thomas, and Norman Polmar.
Ship Killer: A History of the American Torpedo
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.

Willmott, H. P.
The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983.

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Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.

Winton, John.
Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Cyphers Affected Naval Operations against Japan 1941–45
. London: Cooper, 1993.

Wolf, William.
Victory Roll! The American Fighter Pilot and Aircraft in World War II
. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Books, 2001.

Earnest, Albert K., and Harry Ferrier. “Avengers at Midway.”
Foundation
17, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 48–53.

Hudson, Alec [Wilfred J. Holmes]. “Rendezvous.”
Saturday Evening Post
, August 2, 1941, 9–11, 70–72, and August 9, 1941, 30–32, 71–75.

Knott, Dick. “Night Torpedo Attack.”
Naval Aviation News
, June 1982, 10–13.

Linder, Bruce R., “Lost Letter of Midway.”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
125, no. 8 (August 1999): 29–35.

Lundstrom, John B. “A Failure of Radio Intelligence: An Episode in the Battle of the Coral Sea.”
Cryptologia
7, no. 2 (1983): 97–118.

Parshall, Jonathan. “Reflecting on Fuchida, or ‘A Tale of Three Whoppers.’”
Naval War College Review
63, no. 2 (Spring 2010):127–38.

Pineau, Roger. “The Death of Admiral Yamamoto.”
Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly
10, no. 4 (October 1994): 1–5.

Schorreck, Henry F. “The Role of COMINT in the Battle of Midway.”
Cryptologic Spectrum
5, no. 3 (Summer 1975), 3–11.

Schultz, Robert, and James Shell. “Strange Fortune.”
World War II
, May/June 2010, 58–65.

Vote, Robert. “The Death of Admiral Yamamoto.”
Retired Officer
, November 1979, 27–30.

Wildenberg, Thomas. “Midway: Sheer Luck or Better Doctrine?”
Naval War College Review
58 (Winter 2005): 121–35.

Worthington, Joseph M. “A Destroyer at Midway.”
Shipmate
, January 1965, 4–8.

ABC-1 (allied plan), 21, 118

ABDA (American, British, Dutch, Australian command), 84–85, 118

Addu Atoll, 93–95 (map, 94) Abe Hiroki, 311

Abe Toshio, 338

Adams, Don, 352

Adams, Samuel, 330, 330n

killed, 346–47

photo, 331

Ady, Howard P., 225, 228, 250

Aichi airplanes.
See
Jake; Val

aircraft, American, 38, 38n, 52–60.
See also specific aircraft types;
Appendix B

aircraft, Japanese, 37–40, 38n

available for Midway attack 219–20.
See also specific aircraft types;
Appendix B