Authors: Bruce Gamble
Murphy, James, with A. B. Feuer.
Skip Bombing: The True Story of Stealth Bombing Techniques used in 1942
. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
Naval Air Group 204 Association.
The Record of Rabaul Air Battles
. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1987.
Okumiya, Masatake.
Rabaul Naval Air Group
. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1976.
Prados, John.
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. New York: Random House, 1995.
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God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor
. Washington: Brassey’s, 1991.
Riddell, Jack.
Catalina Squadrons: First and Furthest—Recounting the Operations of RAAF Catalinas, May 1941 to March 1943
. Murwillumbah, NSW: Print Spot, 1992.
Rottman, Gordon.
Japanese Army in World War II: Conquest of the Pacific, 1941–42
. Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2005.
———. Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–43
. Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2005.
———. World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
. Westport: Greenwood, 2002.
Sakai, Saburo.
Samurai!
Garden City: Doubleday, 1957.
Sakaida, Henry.
Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937–45
. Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 1998.
———. The Siege of Rabaul
. St. Paul: Phalanx, 1996.
Salaker, Gene.
Fortress Against the Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific
. Conshohocken: Combined Publishing, 2001.
Selby, David.
Hell and High Fever
. Sydney: Currawong, 1956.
Sherman, Frederick.
Combat Command: The American Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War
. New York: Dutton, 1950.
Stanaway, John, and Lawrence Hickey.
Attack and Conquer: The 8th Fighter Group in World War II
. Atglen: Schiffer, 1995.
Stone, Peter.
Hostages to Freedom: The Fall of Rabaul
. Maryborough, VIC: Australian Print Group, 1995.
Swanborough, Gordon, and Peter Bowers.
United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911
. London: Putnam, 1990.
Tagaya, Osamu.
Mitsubishi Type 1 “Betty” Units of World War 2
. Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2001.
Tibbs, O. E.
Production Flight Test Procedure for the Martin B-26
. Baltimore: Glenn L. Martin Company, 1941.
Tillman, Barrett.
Above and Beyond: The Aviation Medals of Honor
. Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
———. Wildcat: The F4F in WWII
. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Tsunoda, Kazuo.
The Wing of Shura
. Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadai-sha, 1989.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
The Allied Campaign Against Rabaul
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.
Wall, Don.
Kill the Prisoners!
Smithfield, NSW: Alken Press, 1996.
Werneth, Ron.
Beyond Pearl Harbor: The Untold Stories of Japan’s Naval Airmen
. Atglen: Schiffer, 2008.
Wigmore, Lionel.
The Japanese Thrust (Series 1, Vol. IV, Australia in the War of 1939–1945)
. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957.
Wilson, David.
Seek and Strike: 75 Squadron RAAF 1942–2002
. Maryborough, QLD: Banner Books, 2002.
Woods, Wiley.
Legacy of the 90th Bombardment Group: “The Jolly Rogers.”
Paducah: Turner Publishing, 1994.
Yoshimura, Akira.
Zero Fighter
. Westport: Praeger, 1996.
Articles
Claringbould, Michael. “Rabaul’s Ultimate Mystery: The Loss of Brigadier-General Kenneth N. Walker.”
Flightpath
, Volume 14, Number 1.
Field, John. “How O’Hare Downed 5 Jap Planes in One Day.”
Life
, April 13, 1942.
Gann, Timothy. “Fifth Air Force Light and Medium Bomber Operations During 1942 and 1943.” School of Advanced Airpower Studies, 1992.
Guttman, John. “Defending Port Moresby.”
Aviation History
, September 2001.
Thach, John. “The Red Rain of Battle.”
Collier’s
, December 5, 1942.
Thomas, Gordon. “In Rabaul, Under the Japs.”
Pacific Islands Yearbook
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Thomson, J. P. “The Islands of the Pacific.”
National Geographic
, December 1921.
Military Documents—Australian
AWM A705 (166/1/319 Part 3): Presumption of Death—Casualties in Royal Australian Air Force Units—Minutes (Casualty file regarding Sgt. Thomas Marsh).
AWM 52 (1/5/51): New Guinea Force Headquarters and General (Air) War Diary, March-April 1942 (Australian Military Forces, Army headquarters, formation and unit diaries, 1939–1945).
AWM 54 (629/1/11): “The Stubborn Coastwatcher” unattributed document giving an account of Sub-Lt. Cornelius L. Page, RANVR.
AWM 54 (81/4/194): RAAF Operations From Rabaul, compiled by Sqn. Ldr. W. D. Brookes, February 24, 1942.
AWM 55 Item 12/32 Part 2: (ATIS Report 46 serial number 93).
AWM 113 (MH 1/121, Part 1): Official inquiry into the Japanese landings at Rabaul, with attached summary by R. W. Robson, editor of
Pacific Islands Monthly
.
MP729/6 (16/401/493): Cable 152, Chief of Naval Staff, Prime Minister’s Department to Australian Minister (Naval Attache), Washington, D.C., December 12, 1941.
War Cabinet minutes, Melbourne, October 15, 1941.
Department of External Affairs, Memorandum 13973, July 20, 1950, Extract of letter from Maj. L. F. Darling concerning the execution of Lt. David S. Hunter, USAAF.
Military Documents (Translated)—Japanese
AWM 3DRL/4005: Diary of Akiyoshi Hisaeda, March 10, 1941, to November 16, 1942.
AWM 54 (208/2/4): ATIS translations of miscellaneous captured documents.
AWM 54 (423/4/158): ATIS Enemy Publications, Detailed Battle Report No. 2 (Rabaul Occupation Operations), June 2, 1943.
AWM 54 (423/4/1162): “Military Intelligence Section, Full Translation of a Report on the Japanese Invasion of Rabaul,” May 9, 1946.
AWM 54 (608/5/4): “Japanese South East Area Operations Record (South Seas Detachment Operations) Monograph No. 143 (Army),” circa 1946.
AWM 55 (12/140): ATIS Information Request Report No. 103, Japanese statements and diary excerpts relating to prisoners of war, May 4, 1944.
Monograph No. 120 (Navy): Outline of Southeast Area Naval Air Operations, Part I. Second Demobilization Bureau, 1949.
Monograph No. 121 (Navy): Outline of Southeast Area Naval Air Operations, Part II, August 1942-October 1942. Second Demobilization Bureau, 1949.
Monograph No. 122 (Navy): Outline of Southeast Area Naval Air Operations, Part III, November 1942-June 1943. Second Demobilization Bureau, 1949.
Military Documents—United States
“Extracts From Diaries,” War Department, Military Intelligence Division, Intelligence Bulletin Vol. I, No. 6, Section II, February 1943.
“A General Review of Japanese Weapons,” War Department, Military Intelligence Division, Intelligence Bulletin Vol. III, No. 2, Section II, October 1944.
Headquarters, 19th Bombardment Group (H), 19th Bombardment Group History, Question-Answer Document, Pyote, TX, 1943.
“The Imperial Rescript,” War Department, Military Intelligence Division, Intelligence Bulletin Vol. III, No. 5, January 1945.
“Japanese A/A Guns,” War Department, Military Intelligence Division, Intelligence Bulletin Vol. I, No. 8, Section II, April 1943.
“Japanese Explanation of ‘Duty’ and ‘Spirit,’” War Department, Military Intelligence Division, Intelligence Bulletin Vol. II, No. 9, Section IX, May 1944.
U.S. Air Force Historical Study No. 113, “The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, January to October 1943,” AAF Historical Officer. Headquarters, Army Air Forces, 1946.
Unpublished Material
Dunn, Richard L. “Japanese Observations of the Timing and Other Evens in the 5 Jan 43 Attack: A Compendium,” electronically forwarded to the author on June 24, 2009.
———. “X Attack of I-Operation: The Anti-shipping Mission to the Guadalcanal-Tulagi Area on April 7, 1943,” 2007.
Fisher, Peter W. “New Britain, December 1941 to April 1942,” via Warwick Fisher.
Hutchinson-Smith, David, “Guests of the Emperor,” AWM Private Collections No. MSS 1534, Australian War Memorial.
Jacobson, Julius. “Julius, His Story,” typewritten memoir, 2003.
King, James. “Some First Hand Observations on Combat Flying Stress in a Heavy Bombardment Group,” New Guinea, 1943.
May, John L.. “Kokopo 1942,” Undated, Kingston, Tasmania.
———. “Morituri Vos Salutamus,” Undated, Kingston, Tasmania.
———. “Rabaul Story,” Undated, Kingston, Tasmania.
Teats, Edward. “Coral Sea B-17s” (as told to John McCullough), December 1942.
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Nevitt, Allyn. “Arashio.”
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———. “B-25C Algernon IV Serial Number 41–12485.”
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———. “Prisoners from B-17F San Antonio Rose 41–24458.”
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Unattributed. “Roll of Honour, Britain at War: To Honour Those United Kingdom Civilians Who Died in the Far East.”
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