WW2 Pacific Theater reading list

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AltDess

John Costello, The Pacific War: 1941-1945
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-War-1941-1945-John-Costello/dp/0688016200/ref=sr_1_1?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-1&keywords=Pacific


William Hopkins, The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-War-Strategy-Politics-Players/dp/0760339759/ref=sr_1_4?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-4&keywords=Pacific


Eric Bergerud, Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sky-Air-South-Pacific/dp/0813338697/ref=sr_1_5?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-5&keywords=Pacific


Roger Dingman, Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War
https://www.amazon.com/Deciphering-Rising-Sun-Codebreakers-Interpreters/dp/1591142113/ref=sr_1_6?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-6&keywords=Pacific


Francis Catanzaro, With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific: A Foot Soldier's Story
https://www.amazon.com/41st-Division-Southwest-Pacific-Soldiers/dp/0253341426/ref=sr_1_9?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-9&keywords=Pacific


Stanley C. Jersey, Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal
https://www.amazon.com/Hell%C2%92s-Islands-Guadalcanal-Williams-Ford-University/dp/1585446165/ref=sr_1_13?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-13&keywords=Pacific


Richard Frank, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
https://www.amazon.com/Guadalcanal-Definitive-Account-Landmark-Battle/dp/0140165614/ref=sr_1_15?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-15&keywords=Pacific


Larry Smith, Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Iwo-Jima-Veterans-Remember-Greatest/dp/0393334910/ref=sr_1_7?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-7&keywords=Pacific


Bill Sloan, Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
https://www.amazon.com/Brotherhood-Heroes-Marines-1944---Bloodiest/dp/0743260104/ref=sr_1_2?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-2&keywords=Pacific


Ken Estes, US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1941-45: Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Corps-Tank-Crewman-1941/dp/1841767174/ref=sr_1_3?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-3&keywords=Pacific








bob48

'The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II' by Bill Sloan is worth a read as well.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!


bbmike

Nice thread! John Toland's Rising Sun.
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

chemkid

Beans, bullets, and black oil : the story of fleet logistics afloat in the Pacific during World War II
https://archive.org/details/beansbulletsbla00cart

...not only beans, bullets and oil - the book has some on ice cream, butter and 8000 cases of 'missing' beer, too!
reads like one of these spreadsheet aar's of witp-ae = really enlightening stuff!

Dammit Carl!

Love Touched by Fire; it's one of my yearly must read books and it makes me thankful for my time in the desert rather than a festering jungle.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Tripoli

Japanese Destroyer Captain.  I've had a copy in my library since 1970.  An outstanding book
https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Destroyer-Captain-Guadalcanal-Battles/dp/1591143845
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" -Abraham Lincoln