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Beach, Edward L.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.
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Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
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Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal.
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Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words
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Brinkley, David.
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Bryan, J.
Aircraft Carrier
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Buell, Harold L.
Dauntless Helldivers: A Dive-Bomber Pilot's Epic Story of the Carrier Battles
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Buell, Thomas B.
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The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.
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Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II.
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Childs, Marquis W.
I Write from Washington
. New York: Harper, 1942.
Churchill, Winston, and Martin Gilbert.
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Coffey, Thomas M.
Hap: The Story of the U.S. Air Force and the Man Who Built It, General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold
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Coletta, Paolo E.
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher and U.S. Naval Aviation: Bald Eagle.
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Cooper, Page.
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Costello, John.
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Dower, John W.
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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Dull, Paul S.
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941â1945
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1978.
Dye, Bob, ed.
Hawaii Chronicles II: Contemporary Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine
. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.
Evans, David C., ed.
The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers.
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Fahey, James J.
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Forrestal, James.
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Fussell, Paul.
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Gibny, Frank, ed.
Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War.
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Goldstein, Donald M., and Kathryn V. Dillon, eds.
The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II.
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Grider, George, and Lydel Sims.
War Fish
. New York: Little, Brown, 1958.
Halsey, William F., and J. Bryan.
Admiral Halsey's Story
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Hammel, Eric, ed.
Aces Against Japan: The American Aces Speak.
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Hara, Tameichi, with Fred Saito and Roger Pineau.
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, MidwayâThe Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011.
Harper, John A.
Paddles! The Foibles and Finesse of One World War II Landing Signal Officer
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Hopkins, Harold.
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Horikoshi, Jiro, Shojiro Shindo, and Harold N. Wanteiz.
Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter
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Hornfischer, James D.
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Hoyt, Edwin.
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Huie, William Bradford.
Can Do! The Story of the Seabees
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Hynes, Samuel.
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Ickes, Harold.
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Irokawa, Daikichi.
The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
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Kase, Toshikazu.
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Kennedy, David M.
The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two
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Kenney, George C.
General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War
. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1949.
Keresey, Dick.
PT 105
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Kernan, Alvin B.
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
Kido, Koichi.
The Diary of Marquis Kido, 1931â45: Selected Translations into English
. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.
King, Ernest J., and Walter Muir Whitehill.
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Kiyosawa, Kiyoshi.
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U.S. Navy Dive and Torpedo Bombers of World War II.
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Layton, Edwin T., with Roger Pineau and John Costello.
“And I Was There”: Pearl Harbor and MidwayâBreaking the Secrets
. New York: William Morrow, 1985.
Leach, Douglas Edward.
Now Hear This: The Memoir of a Junior Naval Officer in the Great Pacific War
. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987.
Leahy, William D.
I Was There
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Leckie, Robert.
Helmet for My Pillow
. New York: Bantam, 2010.
Lee, Clark.
They Call It the Pacific: An Eye-Witness Story of Our War Against Japan from Bataan to the Solomons
. New York: Viking Press, 1943.
Lee, Robert Edson.
To the War
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.
Lindsay, Patrick.
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
. North Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Heinemann, 2010.
Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David C. Smith, eds.
American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II.
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________, eds.
Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Loewenheim, Francis L., Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds.
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence.
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Lord, Walter.
Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons
. New York: Viking Press, 1977.
Lotchin, Roger W.
The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Diego
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Lucas, Jim Griffing.
Combat Correspondent
. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
Lundstrom, John B.
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral.
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The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
MacArthur, Douglas.
Reminiscences
. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Madsen, Daniel.
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Manchester, William Raymond.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880â1964.
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Mason, Theodore C.
Battleship Sailor
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
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Rendezvous with Destiny: A Sailor's War
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
McIntire, Vice-Admiral Ross T.
White House Physician
. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946.
Mears, Frederick.
Carrier Combat
:
A Young Pilot's Story of Action Aboard the Hornet in World War II.
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Merillat, Herbert Christian Laing.
Guadalcanal Remembered
. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982.
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The Island: A History of the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal
. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2010.
Michener, James A.
Tales of the South Pacific
. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1947.
Miller, Thomas Guy.
The Cactus Air Force
. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
Morison, Samuel Eliot.
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1947â1962.
Vol. 5:
The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942âFebruary 1943
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Vol. 6:
Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: July 22, 1942âMay 1, 1944
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Vol. 7:
Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942âApril 1944
.
Vol. 8:
New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944âAugust 1944
.
Morris, Ivan.
The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1982.
Newcomb, Richard F.
The Battle of Savo Island
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
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O'Kane, Richard H.
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977.
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Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine
. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1987.
Okumiya, Masatake, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin Caidin.
Zero!
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Olson, Michael Keith.
Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2007.
Parshall, Jonathan, 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: 1909â1941
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
Perry, Glen C. H.
“Dear Bart”: Washington Views of World War II.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Perry, Mark.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur
. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
Potter, E. B.
Bull Halsey
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
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Nimitz.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.