SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Ancell, R. Manning, with Christine Miller. The Biographical Dictionary of World War II Generals and Flag Officers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Astor, Gerald. Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign. New York: Random House, 2004.

Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Bowditch, Nathaniel. The American Practical Navigator. Arcato, CA: Paradise Cay Publications, 2002.

Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. New York: Back Bay Books, 2003.

———, with Ron Powers. Flags of Our Fathers. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.

Brinkley, Douglas, and Michael E. Haskew. The World War II Desk Reference. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998.

Calhoun, Capt. C. Raymond (USN Ret.). Typhoon: The Other Enemy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981.

Clark, Adm. J. J. “Jocko” (USN Ret.), with Clark G. Reynolds. Carrier Admiral. New York: Van Rees Press, 1967.

Clavin, Tom. Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1981.

Donovan, Arthur J. Jr., with Bob Drury. Fatso: Football When Men Were Really Men. New York: William Morrow, 1987.

Drury, Bob. The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers at the Edge of the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1978.

Ellis, Richard. Encylopedia of the Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Fahey, James J. Pacific War Diary. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1963.

Halsey, William F., and Joseph Bryan III. Admiral Halsey’s Story. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947.

Hornfischer, James D. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004.

Hoyt, Edwin P. How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2002.

———. The Typhoon That Stopped a War. New York: David McKay Co., 1968.

Hyams, Joe. Flight of the Avenger: George Bush at War. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.

Jones, Ken. Destroyer Squadron 23: Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke’s Gallant Force. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Knight, Roger. The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Kosco, Capt. George F. (USN Ret.), and Col. Hans Christian Adamson (USAF Ret.). Halsey’s Typhoons. New York: Crown, 1967.

Leary, William M., ed. We Shall Return!: MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Longshore, David. Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.

Manchester, William. American Caesar. New York: Little, Brown, 1978.

———. Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. New York: Little, Brown, 1979.

McCain, John S., and Mark Salter. Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir. New York: Random House, 1999.

Merrill, James M. A Sailor’s Admiral: A Biography of William F. Halsey. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976.

Mooney, James, ed. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Navy, 1991.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II: Vol. 12, Leyte. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1958.

———. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Vol. 13, The Liberation of the Philippines. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1959.

Newcomb, Richard. F. Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the USS Indianapolis, the Navy’s Greatest Sea Disaster. New York: HarperCollins, 1958.

Nicolson, Adam. Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Parkin, Robert Sinclair. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II. New York: Sarpedon, 1996.

Potter, E. B. Bull Halsey: A Biography. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985.

Reynolds, Clark. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992.

Roberge, Walter Jr. Dog Easy One Eight Six. Self-published, 1995.

Schlener, Paul. Port of Two Brothers. Harrisburg, PA: ABWE Publishing, 2000.

Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Smith, Myron. World War II at Sea: A Bibliography of Sources in English, 1974–1989. Latham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1990.

Solberg, Carl. Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Stanton, Doug. In Harm’s Way. New York: Henry Holt, 2001.

Stewart, Adrian. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. New York: Scribners, 1980.

van der Vat, Dan. The Pacific Campaign: The U.S.-Japanese Naval War, 1941–1945. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Wooldridge, E. T. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

“Andrew Toti, 89, Dies; Savior of Many Pilots.” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, March 29, 2005.

“History Is Written in Bold Sea Rescue by Gallant Sailors.” Ray Coll Jr., Honolulu Advertiser, January 22, 1945.

“John Wayne McCain.” Bill Muller, Arizona Republic, October 3, 1999.

“The Law of Storms.” Hanson Baldwin, Crowsnest Magazine, October 1953.

“Revisiting Typhoon Central.” Sheldon Levin, Naval History, December 2004.

“Ship Sunk, Two Hold Up Sailor in Sea 31 Hours.” New York Times, February 12, 1945.

“The ‘Tabby’ and Typhoon Cobra.” Owen Gault, Sea Classics, January 1989.

“3 U.S. Destroyers Lost in a Typhoon.” New York Times, January 10, 1945.

“Trapped in a Typhoon.” Erwin Jackson, Naval History, December 2004.

“Triumph at Trafalgar.” Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly, October 2005.

“Typhoon!” Charles Calhoun, Reader’s Digest, January 1951.

“A Typhoon Added to War’s Horrors.” Ernest McKay, VFW, April 1983.

“Typhoon Forecasting, 1944, or, The Making of a Cynic.” Reid Bryson, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2000.

“Typhoon—1944.” Robert Welch, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 1987.

“Typhoon’s Ravages Described.” Keith Wheeler, Hawaii Star-Bulletin, January 1945.

“Typhoon Sinks Three Yankee Destroyers.” New York Times, January 11, 1945.

“Vice President Bush Calls WW II Experience ‘Sobering.’” Timothy Christmann, Naval Aviation, March–April 1985.

“We Got More Breaks Than Halsey.” Ray Robichaud, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, October 1997.

“When the Third Fleet Met the Great Typhoon.” Hanson Baldwin, New York Times Magazine, December 16, 1951.

“Writer Tells How Navy Lost 500 in Typhoon.” Al Binder, New York Daily News, January 14, 1945.

Video & Electronic Sources

“Fighting Destroyer Escorts of World War II.” “War Stories with Oliver North.” Fox Network.

“Megacentric Height.” Stuart Slade, www.navyweaps.com, December 19, 1998.

“Support for Mindoro Operation.” Leonard Watson, www.airgroup4.com.

“Typhoon Cobra.” The Weather Channel.

“Victory Is Certain.” USS San Jacinto Web site, January 1, 2005.

Miscellaneous

Tin Can Sailor newsletter. April–May–June 2005.

The Jerseyman newsletter (online). December 2003 and January 2004.

Ernest McKay. “The Survivors: A Typhoon Added Awesome Fury to War’s Horror,” Pearl Harbor–Guam, July 1983.

World War II Histories and Historical Reports in the U.S. Naval History Division (partial checklist). Operational Archives, Naval History Division, May 1973.

Court of Inquiry into the Typhoon of 18 December 1944 by Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, Microfilm NRS 1978-43.

Richard Strand, Naval History of the USS Spence DD-512.

E. Andrew Wilde, ed. The USS Spence (DD-512) in World War II: Documents, Recollections, and Photographs. 2001.

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National Archives and Records Administration
Naval Historical Center
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Personal Papers of Henry Plage
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