Links to additional resources

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General Accounts
UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II:       Strategy and Command: The First Two Years [WAR IN THE PACIFIC]       Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [THE WAR DEPARTMENT]       Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 [THE WAR DEPARTMENT]
Reports of General MacArthur
HISTORY OF UNITED STATES NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II,       by Samuel Eliot Morison (Vols. III-VIII, XII-XIV)
At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy
Beans, Bullets and Black Oil: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific in World War II
UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II       History of Convoy and Routing       (Headquarters of the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Commander, Tenth Fleet)       Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service       History of the Naval Armed Guard Afloat, World War II
United States Fleet Anti-Submarine and Escort of Convoy Instructions (Fleet Training Publication 223A, 1945) -- including British-United States Escort of Convoy Instructions (BUSCI)
THE COAST GUARD AT WAR: Vol. VI: The Pacific Landings
The Campaigns of the Pacific War, United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific), Naval Analysis Division
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War), United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific), Naval Analysis Division
HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II (5 volumes)
The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and Its Practice in the Pacific,       by Jeter A. Isely and Philip A. Crowl
History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II,       by Robert Sherrod
The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner,       by George C. Dyer, V. Adm. USN (Ret)
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines vs. Japan,       by Robert Leckie
To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II,       by John A. Lorelli
Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific,       by Joseph H. Alexander

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Campaigns
Diplomatic/Political Documents	Pre-war diplomatic exchanges, declarations of war, policy statements, surrender documents
"East Wind Rain"	Pre-Pearl Harbor Events; Pearl Harbor attack; initial attacks on Pacific outposts
"Rising Sun in the Pacific"	Japanese Conquests: post-Pearl Harbor thru surrender of Corregidor
"The Tide Turns"	Doolittle, Coral Sea, Midway, Aleutians
Davy Jones' War	Naval operations (independent of amphibious operations): Convoys, carrier raids, submarine operations, etc.
"I've Done My Time in Hell"	The Struggle for Guadalcanal
Siege of Rabaul:	Solomons & Bismarks
MacArthur's Jungle	Campaign in Papua, New Guinea
Approach to the Philippines	Admiralties, Peleliu
"I Have Returned"	Return to the Philippines (Leyte, Luzon, etc.)
"Their Only Armor"	Central Pacific Drive: Gilberts (Tarawa, Makin, etc.)
Central Pacific Stepping Stones	The Marshalls (Kwajalein, Roi-Namur)
Strategic Victory	Seizing the Marianas (Guam, Saipan, Tinian)
"Uncommon Valor"	The Seizure of Iwo Jima
"The Final Battle"	The Battle for Okinawa
"The Fat Lady Sings"	Air attacks, A-Bombs, Surrender
"Nothing Up My Sleeve"	MAGIC -- The Intelligence War

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Additional Resources
Valor at Sea -- The U.S. Submarine War in the Pacific

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