Strategic Victory in the Marianas
Liberation of Guam; Capture of Saipan and Tinian

Related: Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Doctrine for amphibious operations.

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Contents

Marianas: General

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 28-- Bases in the Marianas and Iwo Jima
• US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II -- WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Campaign in the Marianas
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
  Western Pacific: 15 June 1944--2 September 1945 (Marianas [Guam, Saipan, Tinian] and Palaus [Angaur, Peleliu])

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. III: Central Pacific Drive
• Coral and Brass, by Gen. Holland M. Smith
  Chapters 8-10: The Marianas

• HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, by Samuel Eliot Morison
  Vol. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas, 1944
• The Amphibians Came to Conquer, Chapters XXI-XXII

THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II

Vol. IV: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944
Chapter 20: The Marianas

UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY

Campaigns of the Pacific War
Chapter X: The Central Pacific Campaigns, 1 March to 1 September

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Conquest of Saipan

• Saipan -- a 2nd Marine Division pamphlet describing certain expected features of the invasion and combat, including the presence of a large civilian population.
• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. III: Central Pacific Drive
  Part IV--Saipan: The Decisive Battle
• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  Saipan: The Beginning of the End
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan

• US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II -- WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Campaign in the Marianas
• AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION
  Small Unit Actions: The Fight on Tanapag Plain--27th Division, 6 July 1944
• Army Amphibian Tractor and Tank Battalions in the Battle of Saipan 15 June-9 July 1944 [CMH]

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Tinian: The Perfect Operation

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. III: Central Pacific Drive
  Part V--Assault on Tinian
• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  The Seizure of Tinian
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian

• US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II -- WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Campaign in the Marianas

  

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Liberation of Guam

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. III: Central Pacific Drive
  Part VI--The Return to Guam
• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  The Recapture of Guam
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam

• US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II -- WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Campaign in the Marianas
• AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION
  Guam: Operations of the 77th Division (21 July-10 August 1944)

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Battle of the Philippine Sea ("The Marianas Turkey Shoot")

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Additional Resources
Marianas Operations (US & Japanese documents and reports)

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