Papers and Archives
Burke Davis Papers (DA), 1920–1987, #4569, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
C. V. Glines, Jr., Papers (GA), Special Collections and Archives Division, History of Aviation Collection, University of Texas Library, Dallas.
DENSHO Digital Archives, https://www.densho.org/archives/.
Dispatches from Time magazine correspondents, first series, 1942–1955, Harvard College Library Special Collections, Houghton Library.
Mitchell Family Papers (MFP): the letters of John Mitchell, Annie Lee Mitchell, and Noah Mitchell, along with diaries, military records, and newspaper clippings.
Nimitz Education and Research Center at the National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, Texas: oral histories, 1988 Yamamoto Mission Retrospective.
Rohwer Reconstructed Archive, https://risingabove.cast.uark.edu/archive.
Rosalie Santine Gould–Mabel Jamison Vogel Collection, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock.
Books, Articles, and Other Materials
Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1969.
Arvanitakis, Adonis C. “Killing a Peacock: A Case Study of the Targeted Killing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.” Master’s thesis, School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2015.
Bradt, Hale. Wilber’s War: An American Family’s Journal Through World War II. Salem, MA: Van Dorn Books, 2015.
Brieger, James F. Hometown Mississippi. Jackson, MS: Town Square Books, 1997.
Carlson, Elliot. Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011.
Cary, Otis, ed. From a Ruined Empire: Letters—Japan, China, Korea, 1945–46. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1984.
Collie, Craig. Code Breakers: Inside the Shadow World of Signals Intelligence in Australia’s Two Bletchley Parks. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2017.
Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992.
Davis, Burke. Get Yamamoto. New York: Random House, 1969.
Davis, Donald. Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Field, James A., Jr. “Admiral Yamamoto.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 75, no. 10 (October 1949): 1105–13.
Gamble, Bruce. Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2010.
Glines, Carroll V. Attack on Yamamoto. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1993.
Goldstein, Donald M., and Katherine V. Dillon. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans. New York: Brassey’s, 1993.
Grapes, Bryan J., ed. Japanese American Internment Camps. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
Hader, Victor D. “Decapitation Operations: Criteria for Targeting Enemy Leadership: A Monograph.” School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2004.
Hall, R. Cargill, ed. Lightning over Bougainville: The Yamamoto Mission Reconsidered. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Hammel, Eric. Aces Against Japan II: The American Aces Speak, vol. 3. Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Press, 1996.
Haufler, Hervie. Codebreakers’ Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II. New York: New American Library, 2003.
Haulman, Daniel. Killing Yamamoto: The American Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2015.
Heppenheimer, T. A. “Yamamoto and the Hijackers.” Defense World 1, no. 2 (1989): 46–50.
Hersey, John. Into the Valley: A Skirmish of the Marines. New York: Schocken Books, 1942.
Hess, William. Ace Profile (American Fighter Pilot Series). Vol. 1, no. 2: Col. Rex T. Barber. Tucson, AZ: Mustang International, 1993.
Holmes, W. J. Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979.
Honan, William H. Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Horne, Alistair. Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century. New York: HarperCollins, 2015.
Hoyt, Edwin P. Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 1990.
Hull, Michael D. “Japan’s Naval War Leader,” WWII History 1, no. 7 (Fall 2012): 26–31.
Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communications from Ancient Times to the Internet. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Lanphier, Thomas G., Jr. “At All Costs Reach and Destroy.” Unpublished manuscript, US Army Military History Institute, 1984–85.
Lasswell, Alvin B. Interviewed by Benis M. Frank, historical division unit chief, Oral History Program, Historical Division, United States Marine Corps, April 1, 1968, at Lasswell’s home in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
Layton, Edwin T., Roger Pineau, and John Costello. “And I Was There”: Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets. New York: William Morrow, 1985.
McWilliams, Bill. Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute. New York: E-Rights/E-Reads, 2011.
Miller, John, Jr. Guadalcanal: The First Offensive. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1949.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 5: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942–February 1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.
——. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 6: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942–1 May 1944. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
——. “Six Minutes That Changed the World,” American Heritage 14, no. 2 (February 1963): 50–56.
Morriss, Mack. South Pacific Diary, 1942–1943. Edited by Ronnie Day. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Morton, Louis. “Japan’s Decision for War.” United States Naval Institute Proceedings 80 (December 1954): 1325–34.
Okumiya, Masatake, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin Caidin. Zero! New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956.
Potter, E. B. Bull Halsey. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Prados, John. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. New York: Random House, 1995.
——. Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun. New York: NAL Caliber, 2012.
Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. New York: Ballantine, 2010.
Smith, Michael. The Emperor’s Code: Breaking Japan’s Secret Ciphers. New York: Arcade, 2000.
Stanaway, John. P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI. Oxford, England: Osprey, 1997.
Taylor, Blaine. “Ambush in Hostile Skies.” Military History 5, no. 1 (1988): 42–49.
Taylor, Theodore. The Magnificent Mitscher. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1954.
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945, vol. 2. New York: Random House, 1970.
Toll, Ian W. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015.
——. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.
Twomey, Steve. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Ugaki, Matome. Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–1945. Translated by Masataka Chihaya. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
Wels, Susan. Pearl Harbor: America’s Darkest Day. New York: Time-Life Books, 2001.
Wey, Adam Leong Kok. Killing the Enemy: Assassination Operations During World War II. London: I. B. Taurus, 2015.
Wible, John T. “The Yamamoto Mission.” AAHS Journal no. 3 (Fall 1967): 159–68.
——. The Yamamoto Mission: Sunday, April 18, 1943. Fredericksburg, TX: Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 1988.
Wings at War Series. No. 3: Pacific Counterblow. Washington, DC: Headquarters, Army Air Forces, 1943. New imprint by the Center for Air Force History, Washington, DC, 1992.
Wolf, William. 13th Fighter Command in World War II: Air Combat over Guadalcanal and the Solomons. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2004.
Yamashita, Samuel Hideo. Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Zacharias, Ellis M. Secret Missions: The Story of an Intelligence Officer. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946.