Books
Appleman, Roy E., James Burns, Russell Gugeler, and John Stevens. Okinawa: The Last Battle. Center for Military History, 1948.
Astor, Gerald. Operation Iceberg. Dell, 1998.
Axell, Albert, and Hideaki Kase. Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods. Longman, 2002.
Becton, Julian F. The Ship That Would Not Die. Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1980.
Blackburn, Tom. The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17. Zenith Press, 2006.
Buckner, Simon B., and Joseph Stilwell. Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Joseph Stilwell. Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Buell, Thomas B. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Little, Brown, 1974.
———. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Little, Brown, 1980.
Burrell, Robert S. The Ghosts of Iwo Jima. Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
Dyer, George C. The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.
Erickson, Roy D. Tail End Charlies! Turner Publishing Company, 1995.
Feifer, George. The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb. Lyons Press, 2001.
Hallas, James H. Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
Hara, Tameichi. Japanese Destroyer Captain. Naval Institute Press, 2007.
Hastings, Max. Retribution. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Hornfischer, James D. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Bantam, 2004.
Huber, T. M. Okinawa 1945. Military Press, 2001.
———. Japan’s Battle of Okinawa April–June 1945. University Press of the Pacific, 2005.
Inoguchi, Rikihei, and Tadashi Nakajima. The Divine Wind: Japan’s Kamikaze Force in World War II. Naval Institute Press, 1958.
Jablonski, Edward. Airwar. Doubleday, 1971.
Kingseed, Cole C. Old Glory Stories. Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Leckie, Robert. Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War Two. Penguin Books, 1996.
Manchester, William. American Caesar. Little, Brown, 1978.
Miller, Lee G. The Story of Ernie Pyle. Viking Press, 1950.
Millot, Bernard. Divine Thunder. Pinnacle Books, 1971.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Leyte, June 1944–January 1945. Castle, 2001.
———. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Little, Brown, 1963.
———. Victory in the Pacific: 1945. Little, Brown, 1960.
Naito, Hatsuho. Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story. Dell, 1989.
Nichols, David. Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches. Random House, 1986.
Parrish, Thomas. The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II, 1978.
Potter, E. B. Nimitz. Naval Institute Press, 1976.
Pyle, Ernie. Last Chapter. Henry Holt, 1946.
Reynolds, Clark G. The Carrier War. Time-Life Books, 1983.
Rielly, Robin L. Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships. Casemate, 2008.
Roberts, John. The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid. Naval Institute Press, 1982.
Roscoe, Theodore. U.S. Destroyer Operations in World War II. Naval Institute Press, 1953.
Rottman, Gordon. Okinawa, 1945. Osprey Publishing, 2002.
Sakaida, Henry, and Koji Takaki. Genda’s Blade: Japan’s Squadron of Aces: 343 Kokutai. Classic Publications, 2003.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations. Texas A&M University Press, 2001.
Sears, David. At War with the Wind. Citadel Press, 2008.
Sherrod, Robert. History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. Combat Forces Press, 1952.
Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun. Vintage Books, 1985.
Spurr, Russell. A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945. Newmarket Press, 1981.
Stone, Raymond T. My Ship! G. P. Books, 2003.
Styling, Mark. Corsair Aces of World War 2. Osprey Publishing, 1995.
Taylor, Theodore. The Magnificent Mitscher. Naval Institute Press, 1951.
Thomas, Evan. Sea of Thunder. Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Tillman, Barrett. Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea. Naval Institute Press, 1979.
Toland, John. Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Bantam, 1970.
Toliver, Raymond, and Trevor Constable. Fighter Aces of the U.S.A. Schiffer Press, 1997.
Tuohy, William. America’s Fighting Admirals. Zenith Press, 2007.
Ugaki, Matome. Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki 1941–945. Trans. Masataka Chithaya. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
Wheeler, Keith. The Road to Tokyo. Time-Life Books, 1979.
Yahara, Hiromichi. The Battle for Okinawa. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
Yoshida, Mitsuru. Requiem for Battleship Yamato. University of Washington Press, 1985.
Zollo, Anthony F. USS Intrepid CV-11 CVA-11 CVS-11. Turner, 1993.
Interviews and Correspondence
Anderson, Dave (VBF-10), October 31, 2008.
Clifford, James (VBF-10), February 25, 1945.
Davis, William (VBF-10), February 28, 2009.
Deutschman, Edward (VF-10), May 18, 2009.
Dubinsky, Maurice (VBF-10), March 22, 2009.
Gray, Les (VF-10), October 9, 2009.
Hays, Wesley B. (VBF-10), July 15, 2009.
Hollister, James O. (VBF-10), March 3, 2009.
James, Ray (VF-10), May 14, 2009.
Novelli, Felix (USS Intrepid), March 3, 2008.
Oglevee, Don (VF-10), October 9, 2009.
Phoutrides, Ari (USS Laffey), August 17, 2009.
Quiel, Norwald R. (VF-10), June 16, 2009.
Schlag, Charles (VF-10), September 1, 2009.
South, James (VF-10), October 31, 2008.
Stolfa, Frank (VF-10 night fighters), June 2, 2009.
Verdolini, V. J. (USS Randolph), June 10, 2009.
Wilmeth, Orlo (VF-10), May 26, 2009.