Note: Unless otherwise noted, all Japanese-language titles were printed in Tokyo.
Agawa Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Translated by John Bester. Kōdansha International, 1979.
Akimoto Minoru. Nihon gunyōki kōkūsen zenshi [A complete history of the air combat of Japan’s military aircraft]. Guriin Arō Shuppansha, 1994–95.
Baldwin, Ralph B. The Deadly Fuze: The Secret Weapon of World War II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947.
Bekker, Cajus. The Luftwaffe Diaries. Translated and edited by Frank Ziegler. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999.
Boyd, Gary. “The Vought V-143: 1930s Technology Transfer.” Air Power History 43 (Winter 1996): 28–37.
Brackley, Frida H. Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer in Civil Aviation. London: W. and J. Mackay, 1952.
Brown, David. Aircraft Carriers. New York: Arco, 1977.
Brown, Eric. Duels in the Sky: World War II Naval Aircraft in Combat. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1988.
Bueschel, Richard M. Mitsubishi A6M1/2 Zero-sen in Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service. Arco-Aircam Aviation Series no. 18. New York: Arco, 1970.
———. Mitsubishi/Nakajima G3M1/2/3 and Kusho L3Y1 in Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service. Arco-Aircam Aviation Series no. 35. Berkshire, England: Osprey, 1972.
Burdick, Charles B. The Japanese Siege of Tsingtau: World War I in Asia. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1976.
Caidin, Martin. The Ragged Rugged Warriors. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966.
———. Zero Fighter. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.
Campbell, John. Naval Weapons of World War Two. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985.
Campbell, Mark. “The Influence of Air Power upon the Evolution of Battle Doctrine in the U.S. Navy.” Master’s thesis, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1992.
Chapman, John. “Tricycle Recycled: Collaboration among the Secret Intelligence Services of the Axis States.” Intelligence and National Security 7 (July 1992): 268–99.
Chesneau, Roger. Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Cook, Theodore, and Haruko Cook, eds. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: Free Press, 1992.
Cornelius, Wanda, and Thayne Short. Ding hao: America’s Air War in China, 1937–1945. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1980.
Daitō Bunka Daigaku Tōyō Kenkyūjō, ed., Shōwa shakai-keizai-shi shiryō shūsei [Compilation of materials relating to the social and economic history of the Shōwa era]. Vol. 1, Kaigunshō shiryō [Navy ministry materials]. Ochanomizu Shobō, 1978.
Dean, Francis H., ed. America’s One Hundred Thousand: Report of the Joint Fighter Conference, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, October 16–23, 1944. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer, 1998.
De Virgilio, John F. “Japanese Thunderfish.” Naval History 5 (Winter 1991): 61–68.
Dickson, W. David. Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944. Surrey, U.K.: Ian Allen, 1974.
———. “Fighting Flat-tops: The Shōkakus.” Warship International, no. 1 (1977): 15–44.
Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1978.
Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. New York: Viking Press, 1990.
Evans, David C. The Japanese Navy in World War II in the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, 2d ed. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
Evans, David C., and Mark R. Peattie. “Ill Winds Blow.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 123 (October 1997): 70–73.
———. Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Favorite, Martin, with Kawamoto Minoru. Japanese Air Power at the Outbreak of the Pacific War (website; URL: http://www.star-games.com/).
Ferris, John. “A British Unofficial Aviation Mission and Japanese Naval Developments, 1919–1929.” Journal of Strategic Studies (September 1982), 5:416–39.
Fioravanzo, Vice Adm. Giuseppe. “The Japanese Military Mission to Italy in 1941.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 8 (January 1956): 24–31.
Francillon, René J. Imperial Japanese Navy Bombers of World War II. Windsor, Berkshire, England: Hilton Lacy, 1969.
———. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1987.
Frank, Richard. Guadalcanal. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.
Friedman, Norman. Carrier Air Power. Greenwich, England: Conway Maritime Press, 1981.
———. U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1983.
———. U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine, and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present Day. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya. Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1955.
Fukaya, Hajime, with M. E. Holbrook. “The Shokakus—Pearl Harbor to Leyte Gulf.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 78 (June 1952): 638–44.
Fukui, Shizuo. Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of the War. Old Greenwich, Conn.: We, 1970.
———. Nihon no gunkan: waga zōkan gijutsu no hattatsu to kantei no hensen [Japanese warships: our development of ship construction technology and changes in warships over time]. Shuppan Kyōdōsha, 1959.
———. Shashin Nihon kaigun zen kantei shi [A photographic history of all the ships in the Japanese navy]. 3 vols. Best Sellers, 1994.
Furer, Julius. Administration of the Navy Department in World War II. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1959.
Gardiner, Robert. Warship, 1991. London: Conway Maritime Ltd., 1991.
Garzke, William H., Jr., and Robert O. Dulin Jr. Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Genda Minoru. “Evolution of Aircraft Carrier Tactics of the Imperial Japanese Navy.” In Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! Edited by Paul Stillwell. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1981, 23–27.
———. Kaigun kōkūtai shimatsuki [A record of the particulars of the Japanese naval air service]. 2 vols. Bungei Shunjū, 1961–62.
———. Shinjuwan sakusen kaikoroku [Recollections of the Pearl Harbor operation]. Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1972.
———. “Tactical Planning in the Imperial Japanese Navy.” Naval War College Review 22 (October 1969): 45–50.
General Motors Corporation. Engine Design as Related to Airplane Power. Detroit, Mich.: General Motors, 1943.
Goldstein, Donald, and Katherine V. Dillon, eds. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside Japanese Plans. New York: Brassey’s, U.S., 1993.
Guerlac, Henry. Radar in World War II. Los Angeles, Calif.: Tomash, 1987.
Harvey, A. D. “Army Air Force and Navy Air Force: Japanese Aviation and the Opening Phase of the War in the Far East.” War in History 6, no. 2 (1999): 174–204.
Hasegawa Tōichi. Nihon no kōkūbōkan [Japanese aircraft carriers]. Grand Prix Shuppan, 1997.
Hata, Ikuhiko. “The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937.” In The China Quagmire: Japan’s Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941. Edited by James William Morley. Translations from Taiheiyō sensō e no michi [Road to the Pacific war] Series (1962–63). New York: Columbia University Press, 1983, 243–86.
———, ed. Nihon riku-kaigun sōgō jiten [Comprehensive encyclopedia of the Japanese army and navy]. Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1991.
Hata, Ikuhiko, and Yasuho Izawa. Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II. Translated by Don Gorham. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
Hattori Shōgō and Sugiuchi Yukihiko. “Kūkyoku no hissatsugi: ‘hineri-komi’ sempō to wa?” [The ultimate killing tactic: what was the ‘turning-in’ maneuver?]. Rekishi Gunzō, no. 23 (February 1996): 68–74.
Hayashi Katsunari. Nihon gunji gijutsu shi [A history of Japanese military technology]. Haruki Shobō, 1972.
Hone, Thomas C. “Destruction of the Battle Line at Pearl Harbor.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 103 (December 1977): 49–59.
Hone, Thomas C., Norman Friedman, and Mark D. Mandeles. American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Hone, Thomas C., and Mark D. Mandeles. “Interwar Innovation in Three Navies: U.S. Navy, Royal Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy.” Naval War College Review 40 (Spring 1987): 63–83.
Horikoshi, Jirō. Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter. Translated by Shojiro Shindo and Harold N. Wantiez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.
Horikoshi Jirō and Okumiya Masatake. Reisen [Zero fighter]. Marason Asahi, 1975.
Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai. History of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung and revised by Kao Ching-chen et al. Taipei: Chung Wu, 1971.
Hughes, Wayne P., Jr. “Naval Tactics and Their Influence on Strategy.” Naval War College Review 39 (January–February 1986).
Ikari Yoshirō. Ikite iru reisen [The Zero lives]. Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1970.
———. Kaigun kūgishō: zunō shudan no eikō to shuppatsu [The Naval Air Technical Arsenal: the origins and the glory of a praiseworthy group of experts]. 2 vols. Kōjinsha, 1985.
Ikeda Kiyoshi. Nihon no kaigun [The Japanese navy]. 2 vols. Isseido, 1967.
Isom, Dallas W. “The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost.” Naval War College Review (Summer 2000), 60–100.
Itani Jirō, Hans Lengerer, and Tomoko Rehm-Takara. “Anti-aircraft Gunnery in the Imperial Japanese Navy.” In Warship, 1991. Edited by Robert Gardiner. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1991, 81–101.
Iwaya Fumio. Chūkō: kaigun rikujō kōgekiki taishi [The medium bomber: a unit history of the navy’s land-based attack aircraft]. 2 vols. Shuppan Kyōdōsha, 1956–58.
Izawa Yasuho. Rikkō to Ginga [The rikkō and Ginga navy bombers]. Asahi Sonorama, 1995.
Japan, Bōeichō Bōeikenshūjō Senshibu [originally, Bōeichō Boeikenshūjō Senshishitsu]. Senshi sōsho [War history] series. Chūgoku hōmen kaigun sakusen [Naval operations in the China theater]. 2 vols. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1974–75.
———. Hirippin-Marai hōmen: kaigun shinko sakusen [The Philippine-Malaya theater: the naval offensive]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1969.
———. Hitō-Marē hōmen kaigun shinkō sakusen [The navy’s offensive operations in the Philippines-Malaya theater]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1969.
———. Kaigun gunsembi [Naval armaments and war preparations]. 2 vols. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1969–75.
———. Kaigun kōkū gaishi [A historical overview of Japanese naval aviation]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1976.
———. Mariana-oki kaisen [Naval battle off the Marianas]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1968.
———. Midowei kaisen [Battle of Midway]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1971.
———. Nantō hōmen kaigun sakusen [Naval operations in the southeast theater]. 2 vols. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1971–75.
———. Rikugun kōkū no gumbi to unyō: Shōwa jūsannen shōki made [Army air weapons and their use: up to early 1938]. Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1971.
Jentschura, Hansgeorg, Dieter Jung, and Peter Mickel. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1977.
Kaigun Henshū Iinkai, ed. Kaigun [The navy]. Vol. 13, Kaigun kōkū, kōkūtai, kōkūki. Seibun Yosho, 1981.
Kaigun Rekishi Hōzonkai, ed. Nihon kaigun shi [A history of the Japanese navy]. 11 vols. Daiichi Hōki Shuppan, 1995.
Kaigun 705 Kūkai, ed. Dai 705 Kaigun Kōkūtai shi: Rabauru kōkūtai chūkō shitō no kiroku [History of the 705th air group: a record of the desperate struggle of the medium bombers of the Rabaul air group]. Kaigun 705 Kūkai, 1975.
Kaigun Suiraishi Kankōkai. Kaigun suiraishi [History of mines and torpedoes of the navy]. Shinkōsha, 1979.
Katō Sadatoshi, ed. Nihon kaigun kantei zumen. Shū 3: kōkū bōkan, suijōki bōkan, sensuikan [Drawings of Japanese naval vessels. No. 3: aircraft carriers, seaplane carriers, and submarines]. Model Art, 1999.
Ko Ōnishi Takijirō Kaigun Chūjō Den Kankōkai, ed. Ōnishi Takijirō [Ōnishi Takijirō]. Ko Ōnishi Takijirō Chūjō Den Kankōkai, 1963.
Kōkūshō Kankōkai, ed. Kaigun no tsubasa [Wings of the navy]. 3 vols. Kōkūshō Kankōkai, 1989.
Krebs, Gerhard. “The Japanese Air Forces.” In The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison. Edited by Horst Boog. New York: Berg, 1992, 228–34.
Kusaka Ryūnosuke. Ichi kaigun shikan no hanseiki [A naval officer’s record of half a lifetime of service]. Kōwadō, 1973.
———. Rengō kantai: moto sambō-chō no kaiso [The Combined Fleet: recollections of a former staff officer]. Mainichi Shimbun Sha, 1952.
Kuwabara Torao. Kaigun kōkū kaisoroku, sōsō hen [Recollections of naval aviation, early years]. Kōkū Shimbun Sha, 1964.
Larkins, William T. U.S. Navy Aircraft, 1911–1941. New York: Orion, 1961.
Layman, R. D. Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels, 1849–1922. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1989.
———. Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Leary, William M. “Assessing the Japanese Threat: Air Intelligence Prior to Pearl Harbor.” Aerospace Historian (December 1987), 34:272–77.
Lengerer, Hans. “Akagi and Kaga.” Parts 1–3. Warship: A Quarterly Journal of Warship History, no. 22 (April 1982): 127–39; no. 23 (July 1982): 170–77; no. 24 (October 1982): 305–10.
Lengerer, Hans, and Tomoko Rehm-Takahara. “The Japanese Aircraft Carriers Junyo and Hiyo.” Parts 1–3. Warship International, no. 33 (January 1985): 9–19; no. 34 (April 1985): 105–14; no. 35 (July 1985): 188–93.
Lundstrom, John. The First South Pacific Campaign. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1976.
———. The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
———. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
Mainichi Shimbun, ed. Nihon no senshi [Japanese military history]. Vols. 3–5, comprising a three-volume set, Nitchū sensō [The Sino-Japanese war of 1937–1945], numbered parts 1–3. Mainichi Shimbun Sha, 1979.
Marder, Arthur. Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981–90.
Maru Magazine, ed. Nihon kaigun kantei shashinshū [Photographic collection of Japanese warships]. Kōjinsha, 1996. No. 5, Akagi, Kaga, Hōshō, and Ryūjō. No. 6, Shōkaku, Zuikaku, Sōryū, Unryū, and Taihō.
Matsui Muneaki. “Nihon kaigun no dempa tanshingi” [Japanese navy radar]. In Kaisō no Nihon kaigun [The Japanese navy recollected]. Edited by the Suikōkai. Hara Shobō, 1985.
McKearney, T. J. “The Solomons Naval Campaign: A Paradigm for Surface Warships in Maritime Strategy.” Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., 1985.
Melhorn, Charles. Two-Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911–1929. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1974.
Middlebrook, Martin. Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. London: Allen Lane, 1977.
Mikesh, Robert. Broken Wings of the Samurai: The Destruction of the Japanese Air Force. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993.
———. Zero: Combat and Development History of Japan’s Legendary Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter. Osceola, Wisc.: Motorbooks International, 1994.
Mikesh, Robert C., and Shorzoe [sic] Abe. Japanese Aircraft, 1910–1941. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
———. “The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power.” In Warship 1991. Edited by Robert Gardiner. Greenwich, England: Conway Maritime Press, 1994.
Milford, Frederick J. “A Note on Japanese Naval Aircraft Engines.” Unpublished monograph, 1994.
Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
Moore, Lynne Lucius. “Shinano: The Jinx Carrier.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 79 (February 1953): 142–49.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 23 July 1942–1 May 1944. Vol. 6 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
———. New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944–August 1944. Vol. 8 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953.
Mōro Masanori. Ijin Nakajima Chikuhei hiroku [Confidential record concerning the illustrious Nakajima Chikuhei]. Jōmō Ijin Denki Kankōkai, 1960.
Munson, Kenneth. Fighters between the Wars, 1919–1939. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Nagaishi Masataka. Kaigun kōkūtai nenshi [Chronological record of Japanese naval air groups]. Shuppan Kyōdōsha, 1961.
Nagamura Kiyoshi. Zōkan kaisō [Recollections of naval construction]. Shuppan Kyōdōsha, 1957.
Nakamura Masao, ed. Taiheiyō sensō shi shirizu [Pacific war history series]. Cakushū Kenkyūkai, 1999. No. 13, Shōkaku gata kūbō [Shōkaku-class carriers]. No. 14, Kūbō kidō butai [Carrier strike force].
Nakayama Masahiro. Chūgoku-teki tenkū: chimmoku no kōkū senshi [China skies: an untold account of aerial combat]. Sankei Shuppan, 1981.
Nihon Kaigun Kōkūishi Hensan Iinkai, ed. Nihon kaigun kōkūshi [The history of Japanese naval aviation]. 4 vols. Jiji Tsushinsha, 1969.
Nihon Zōsen Gakkai, ed. Shōwa zōsenshi [A history of ship construction in the Shōwa era]. 2 vols. Hara Shobō, 1977.
Nohara, Shigeru. A6M Zero in Action. Carrolton, Tex.: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1983.
Nozawa Tadashi, ed. Nihon kōkū sōshū [Encyclopedia of Japanese aircraft, 1900–1945]. 8 vols. Shuppan Kyōdōsha, 1958–83. [Vol. 1, Mitsubishi. Vol. 2, Aichi and Kugishō. Vol. 3, Kawanishi and Hirō. Vol. 5, Nakajima.]
O’Connell, Robert. Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991.
Ōhama Tetsuya and Ozawa Ikurō, eds. Teikoku rikukaigun jiten [Dictionary of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy]. Dōseisha, 1995.
Okada Heiichirō. “Kaga/Akagi no hikō kampan dai kaizō no keii” [Particulars concerning the general reconstruction of the flight decks of the Kaga and Akagi]. In Kaisō no Nihon kaigun [The navy recollected]. Edited by the Suikōkai. Hara Shobō, 1985.
Okamura Jun and Iwaya Eichi. Kōkū gijutsu no zembo [Complete outline of aviation technology]. Shuppan Kyōdō Sha, 1954.
———. Nihon no kōkūki [Japanese aircraft]. Kaigun hen [Navy volume]. Shuppan Kyōdō Sha, 1960.
Okumiya Masatake. Saraba kaigun kōkūtai [Farewell, the naval air groups]. Asahi Sonorama, 1979.
———. Tsubasa-naki sōjūshi [Pilot without wings]. Shuppan Kyōdō Sha, 1956.
Okumiya, Masatake, and Jiro Horikoshi, with Martin Caidin. Zero! The Air War in the Pacific from the Japanese Viewpoint. Washington, D.C.: Zenger, 1956.
Ōmae Toshikazu. “Nihon kaigun no heijutsu shisō no hensen to gumbi oyobi sakusen” [Changes in tactical thought in the Japanese navy in relation to armaments and operations]. Parts 1–4. Kaigun Bunko geppō, no. 6 (April 1981); no. 7 (July 1981); no. 8 (September 1981); and no. 9 (December 1981).
Ōmae Toshikazu and Roger Pineau. “Japanese Naval Aviation.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 98 (December 1972): 70–77.
Overy, Richard. “Air Power in the Second World War: Historical Themes and Theories.” In The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison. Edited by Horst Boog. New York: Berg, 1992, 7–28.
Ozawa Teitoku Den Kankōkai, ed. Kaisō no Teitoku Ozawa Jisaburō [Recollections concerning Adm. Ozawa Jisaburō]. Hara Shobō, 1971.
Polmar, Norman. Aircraft Carriers: A Graphic History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events. London: MacDonald, 1969.
Popham, Hugh. Into Wind: A History of British Naval Flying. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969.
Prados, John. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. New York: Random House, 1995.
Prange, Gordon W., with Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw Hill, 1981.
———. God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor. New York: Brassey’s, U.S., 1990.
———. Miracle at Midway. New York: McGraw Hill, 1982.
Pugh, Philip. The Cost of Seapower: The Influence of Money on Naval Affairs from 1815 to the Present Day. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986.
Rearden, Jim. Cracking the Zero Mystery: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan’s Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1990.
Reisen Tōjō Iinkai, ed. Kaigun sentōkitaishi [History of the navy’s fighter units]. Hara Shobō, 1987.
Reynolds, Clark. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy. Huntingdon, N.Y.: R. E. Krieger, 1968.
———. “Remembering Genda.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 116 (April 1990): 52–56.
Roskill, Stephen. Naval Policy between the Wars. 2 vols. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1968–76.
Sakai, Saburo, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito. Samurai! New York: Sutton, 1957. Reprint, Bantam Books, 1975.
Sakaida, Henry. Imperial Japanese Navy Aces, 1937–1945. London: Osprey, 1998.
———. The Siege of Rabaul. St. Paul, Minn.: Phalanx, 1996.
Samuels, Richard. Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Sawachi Hisae. Middowei kaisen: kiroku [The naval battle of Midway: a record]. Bungei shunjū, 1986.
Sekigawa, Eiichirō. A Pictorial History of Japanese Military Aviation. Translated by C. Uchida and edited by David Mondey. London: Ian Allen, 1974.
Shibata Takeo. Genda Minoru ron [On Genda Minoru]. Omoikane Shobō, 1971.
Shimada, Kōichi. “The Opening Air Offensive against the Philippines.” In The Japanese Navy in World War II. Edited by David Evans. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1986, 71–104.
Shores, Christopher, and Brian Cull, with Yasuho Izawa. Bloody Shambles. Vol. 1, The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore. London: Grub Street Press, 1992.
Smith, Herschel. A History of Aircraft Piston Engines. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1986.
Smith, Peter C. Into the Assault: Famous Dive Bomber Aces of the Second World War. Seattle, Wash.: University of Seattle Press, 1985.
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Spick, Mike. Fighter Pilot Tactics: The Technique of Daylight Air Combat. Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens, 1983.
Stilwell, Paul. Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
Studer, Clara. Sky Storming Yankee: The Life of Glenn Curtiss. New York: Stackpole and Sons, 1937.
Suikōkai, ed. Kaisō Nihon kaigun [Recollections about the Japanese navy]. Hara Shobō, 1985.
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Takahashi Shōsaku et al. Kaigun rikujō kōgekki-tai [The navy’s medium bomber units]. Konnichi-no-wadai Sha, 1976.
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Thorne, Christopher. The Limits of Foreign Policy. London: Hamilton, 1972.
Till, Geoffrey. Air Power and the Royal Navy, 1914–1945: A Historical Survey. London: Jane’s, 1979.
Tillman, Barrett. Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea: The Marianas Turkey Shoot, June 19–20, 1944. St. Paul, Minn.: Phalanx, 1994.
———. The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1976.
Toyama Misao, ed. Riku-kaigun shōkan jinji sōran [Brief resumés of army and navy officers]. 2 vols. Eiyō Shobō, 1981.
Tsūshō Sangyōshō, ed. Shōkō seisaku shi [A history of commercial and industrial policy]. Vol. 18, Kikai kōgyō, senzen hen [The machine industry, prewar]. Shōkō Seisaku-shi Kenkyūkai, 1976.
Tsutsui Mitsuru. “Shina jihen boppatsuji ni okeru rikukaigun kōkō heiryoku” [Japanese military and naval air strength at the outbreak of the China war]. Gunji Shigaku, no. 42 (September 1975).
Uehara Mitsuhara. Kambaku taichō Egusa Takashige [Carrier bomber leader Egusa Takashige]. Kōjinsha, 1989.
Ugaki, Matome. Fading Victory: The Diary of Matome Ugaki, 1941–1945. Translated by Masataka Chihaya and edited by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
U.S. Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History. Japan Monographs no. 120, Outline of Southeast Theater Naval Air Operations. Part 1, December 1941–August 1942. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1964.
———. Japan Monographs no. 121, Outline of Southeast Theater Naval Air Operations. Part 2, August–October 1942. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1964.
———. Japan Monographs no. 122, Outline of Southeast Theater Naval Air Operations. Part 3, November 1942–June 1943. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1964.
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U.S. Department of the Navy, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific and Pacific Ocean Areas, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area. “Aerial Tactics.” Weekly Intelligence Bulletin, no. 87–45.
———. “Know Your Enemy: Japanese Aerial Tactics against Ship Targets.” Weekly Intelligence Bulletin 1 (20 October 1944).
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