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Guadalcanal's Longest Fight

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Harvest of the Grim Reapers
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Pacific War History, Campaigns and Battles

The First Team Pearl Harbor to Midway Lundstrom	The First Team And The Guadalcanal Campaign Lundstrom	Doomed At The Start William H. Bartsch Texas A&M University
The Forgotten Fifth Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Black Sunday Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Guadalcanal Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Forty of the Fifth Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Decision at Sea Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	Carrier Strike Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Carrier Clash Invasion of Guadalcanal Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	Handbook on Japanese Forces US War Department Louisiana State University	The Siege of Rabaul Henry Sakaida Phalanx Publishing
Eagle Against The Sun Ronald Spector Random House	Tales By Japanese Soldiers Nunneley and Tamayama Casell & Co	Japan Against Russia In The Sky of Nomonhan Dimitar Nedialkov
In The Service of The Emperor Edward J. Drea Bison Books Corp	MacArthur's Pearl Harbor December 8th, 1941 William H. Bartsch	Midway: The Japanese Story Fuchida & Okumiya Cassell & Co.
War Without Mercy Robert Dower Pantheon	Embracing Defeat Robert Dower W.W. Norton & Company	On Shaggy Ridge Philip Bradley Oxford University Press
Battle of the Bismarck Sea Lex McAulay St. Martins Press	By Sword And Fire The Destruction of Manila in WWII Alfonso J. Aluit	The Burma Road Donovan Webster Farr, Straus & Giroux
Hostages To Freedom The Fall of Rabaul Peter Stone	A Glorious Way To Die Battleship Yamato Russell Spurr	U-Boat Far From Home David Stevens Allen & Unwin
The Sacred Warriors Denis & Peggy Warner Nostrand Reinhold	MacArthur's Eagles Lex McAulay Naval Institue Press	Air To Air Chris Ridge Adventure Air
A Bastard Of A Place Peter Brune Allen & Unwin	US Marine Corps Pacific Theater Operations 1944-45 Osprey	Munda Trail Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Hidden Horrors Yukiko Tanaka Westview Press	Bloody Tarawa Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	3DCG The Aircraft Carrier Masaru Tochibayashi Futabasha (Book + DVD)
Strike And Return Cory Graff Specialty Press	The Ghost Mountain Boys James Campbell Crown	The Battle For Wau Phil Bradley Cambridge University Press
Most Dangerous Sea Arnold S. Lott Naval Institute Press	Every Day a Nightmare American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java William Bartsch	The War From Coconut Square The Defense of the Island Bases of the South Pacific H. E. L Priday
Historical Heriteges [sic] of Khalkhin Gol Monuments and Memorials in Khalkhin Gol (Khalkh River) Ulaanbaatar	Nomonhan Alvin D. Coox Stanford University Press	Nomonhan Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939 Edward Drea University Press of the Pacific
Fire In The Sky The Air War in the South Pacific Eric Bergerud	Touched With Fire The Land War in the South Pacific Eric Bergerud	Air War Over Khalkhin Gol Vladimir Kotelnikov SAM Publications
Darwin's Air War 1942 – 1945 An Illustrated History Bob Alford	Darwin's Air War 1942 – 1945 An Illustrated History (Revised) Bob Alford	Philippine Expeditionary Force GASEI Watari Group Information Dept
Exploding Fuel Tanks Saga of Technology That Changed the Course of the Pacific Air War Richard L. Dunn	Guadalcanal Diary Richard Tregaskis 1943 (reprinted 1955)	Rabaul – 1942 Douglas Arthur Aplin Lark Force Association
Operation KE The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal From Guadalcanal Roger & Dennis Letourneau	Needed – But Not Wanted Chinese in Rabaul 1884-1960 Dr. Peter Cahill	Zero's Chronicle in the Solomons Campaign IJN Zero Battle Diary #1 Hiroshi Umemoto
The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938 Alvin D. Coox	History of the Marine Corps Aviation in World War II Robert Sherrod	Nomonhan John Colvin Quartet Books
Darkest Hour Bruce Gamble Zenith Press	Fortress Rabaul Bruce Gamble Zenith Press	Target Rabaul Bruce Gamble Zenith Press
Into the Dragon's Jaws The Fifth Air Force over Rabaul, 1943 Lex McAulay	The Pacific War in Papua New Guinea Memories and Realities Editors: Yukio Toyoda and Hank Nelson	Victory Fever on Guadalcanal Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II William Bartsch
Wau 1942–1943 Army HIstory Unit Phil Bradley	Hell's Battlefield The Australians in New Guinea in World War IIPhil Bradley	Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944 Edward Drea
The Hard Slog Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944–45 Karl James	Heaven High, Ocean Deep Naval Fighter Wing At War Tim Hillier-Graves	Leaving Mac Behind The Lost Marines of Guadalcanal Geoffrey W. Roecker
No One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 Wenger, Cressman, Di Virgilio	This is No Drill: The History of NAS Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Attacks of 7 December 1941 Wenger, Cressman, Di Virgilio	They're Killing My Boys: The History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941 Wenger, Cressman, Di Virgilio
Harvest of the Grim Reapers The Illustrated History of the 3rd and 27th Bomb Groups During World War II Volume I: Prewar to December 1942 Hickey, Rogers, Tagaya, Jonas	Red Wings over the Yalu China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea Xiaoming Zhang	South Pacific Air War Richard L. Dunn Schiffer Publishing
Bloody Shambles The Drift to War to the fall of Singapore Shores	Bloody Shambles: From the Defence of Sumatra to the fall of Burma Shores	Air War For Burma: The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945 Shores
Guadalcanal's Longest Fight The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front by Dave R. Holland

Pacific Aces

P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI John Stanaway	P-47 & P-51 Aces of Pacific and CBI John Stanaway	Wildcat Aces of WWII Barrett Tillman Osprey
Aces of the Rising Sun Henry Sakaida Osprey	Japanese Naval Aces Henry Sakaida Osprey	Japanese Army Aces Henry Sakaida Osprey
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945 Hata, Izawa, Shores Grub Street the Basement	Japanese Naval Aces & Fighter Units of WWII Hata, Izawa, Gorham Naval Institute Press	Japanese Naval Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1932-1945 Hata, Izawa, Shores Grub Street Publishing
P-36 Hawk Aces of World War 2 Persyn, Stenman, Thomas Ospret Publishing	Ki-43 Oscar Aces of World War 2 Hiroshi Ichimura Osprey Publishing	Six Aces Australian fighter pilots, 1939-45 Lex McAulay Banner Books
P-39 Airacobra Aces of World War 2 by John Stanaway & George Mellinger Osprey Publishing	Aces of the Republic of China Air Force by Raymond Cheung Osprey Publishing	Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams
'Twelve to One' V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific Tony Holmes (editor)	Race of Aces: WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky by John R. Bruning	Stars & Bars A Tribute To The American Fighter Ace 1920–1973 by Frank Olynyk
USAAF (Pacific Theater) Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft in Air-To-Air Combat World War 2 by Frank Olynyk

Pacific Artwork, Nose Art, Markings

Japanese Army Air Force Camouflage and Markings World War II Donald W. Thorpe	Japanese Naval Air Force Camouflage and Markings World War II Donald W. Thorpe	WWII Pacific War Eagles Ethell & Bodie Widewing Publications
Emblems of the Rising Sun Peter Scott Hikiki / Motorbooks	The Samurai Masao Satake & Masahiro Mino

Pacific Arms, Uniforms, Gear & Equipment

Japanese Naval Aviation Uniforms & Equipment Gary Nila	Special Naval Landing Force Uniforms & Equipment Nila, Rolfe	Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment Tadao Nakata
Japanese Military Sake Cups Dan King Schiffer	Japanese Infantry Arms in WWII Ritta Nakanishi Dai Nippon Kaiga Co / Artbox	Japanese Military Uniforms 1939~1945 Ritta Nakanishi Dai Nippon Kaiga Co / Artbox
Red Army Uniforms 1918-1945 In Color Photographs Anton Shalito	USMC Uniforms, Insignia & Personal Items of WWII Harlan Glenn	782 Gear United States Marine Corps Field Gear and Equipment of World War II Harlan Glenn
USMC Aviators Marine Corps Airmen in the Pacific 1941-1945 Gregory Pons	Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II Gordon Rottman and Akira Takizawa

Pacific Aircraft Types, Ships

P-61 Black Widow Units of WWII Warren Thmpson Osprey Publishing	Queen of the Midnight Skies Pape, Harrison Schiffer	Pride of Seattle: First 300 B-17F Steve Birdsall Squadron / Signals
Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu Richard Buechel Schiffer Publishing	Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien Richard Buechel Schiffer Publishing	Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah by Martin Ferkl REVI Publications
Mitsubishi G4M Betty by Martin Ferkl REVI Publications	Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko Units of World War 2 Osamu Tagaya, Osprey	Japanese Naval Air Force In Action Yohji Watanabe 2005
I-400 Japan's Secret Aircraft Carring Strike Submarine Sakaida, Nila, Takaki	Battlegrond Atlantic Richard N. Billings NAL Hardcover	Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America Robert C. Mikesh
Boeing B-17 1935-1985 Peter M. Bowers Museum of Flight Publications	Night Fighter Gekko Yoji Watanabe (Japanese text)	Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War Rene J. Francillon Naval Institute
Zero Robert C. Mikesh Motorbooks Int'l	Mitsubishi Zero-Sen Richard M. Bueschel Schiffer Publishing	Zero-sen yo yomigaere Nobuo Harada (Japanese Language)
3D CGI Zero Fighter Masaru Tochibayashi Futabasha (Book + DVD)	Moonlight Interceptor Robert C. Mikesh Osamu Tagaya	Vega Ventura John Stanaway Schiffer Publishing
Japanese Aircraft Code Names & Designations Robert C. Mikesh	Zero Fighter Maru	Japanese Aircraft Interiors 1940-45 Robert C. Mikesh Monogram Aviation Publications
French Aircraft 1939-1945 Volume 1 Amiot to Curtiss Histoire & Collections	French Aircraft 1939-1945 Volume 2 Dewoitine to Potez Histoire & Collections	A History of IJN's Night Fighters Yoji Watanabe
P-40 Warhawk VS Ki-43 Oscar China 1944-45 Carl Molesworth	Wings of Gold James Sinclair Pacific Publicaitons	Dominator: The Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber Harding & Long
US Destroyers 1934-45 Pre-war classes Osprey Publishing	B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War by Martin Bowman Osprey Publishing	Douglas B-18 Bolo William Wolf Schiffer Publishing
Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces by Mikhail Maslov Osprey Publishing	Corsair Barrett Tillman Naval Institute Press	Japanese Experimental Transport Aircraft of the Pacific War Giuseppe Picarella
Pigboat 39 An American Sub Goes to War Bobette Gugliotta	Savage Wilderness - The Epic Outback Search For The Crew Of Little Eva Barry Ralph	The Crash of Little Eva - The Ultimate World War II Survivor Story Barry Ralph
Lost Subs From the Hunley to the Kursk the greatest submarines ever lost and found	Under The Southern Cross The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific Bob Livingstone	Strike Back Modelling the B-24 Liberator in RAAF Service Bob Livingstone
Aircraft Record Cards of the United States Air Force - How to Read the Codes Robert A. Mann	The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific Robert Ballard	Cruel Conflict The Triumph and Tragedy of HMAS Perth Kathryn Spurling
Forgotten Fleet 2 Bill & Ruth Lunney Forfleet Publishing	The Rag Tag Fleet Ian W. Shaw Hachette Australia	The Little Giants U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan by William T. Y'Blood
At Close Quarters PT Boats in the United States Navy Robert Bulkley	Boeing B-17 Fortress In RAF Coastal Command Service by Robert Stitt

Pacific Units, Group Histories & Locations

Flying Buccaneers Steve Birdsall Doubleday	Warpath Across The Pacific Lawrence J. Hickey International Historical Research Associates	Revenge of the Red Raiders Gaylor, Evans, Nelson, Hickey International Historical Research Associates
The Eight Ballers 8th Photo Recon Sqaudron John Stanaway, Bob Rocker Schiffer Publishing	The Roarin' 20's History of 312th BG Russ Sturzebecker	Always Ready Tom Mcleod Museum of the Pacific
Dauntless Units of WWII Barrett Tillman Osprey	B-29 Hunters of the JAAF Sakaida & Takaki Osprey	Seek and Strike David J. Wilson Banner Books
P-39 Airacobra Units of WWII John Stanaway Osprey	Genda's Blade 343 Kokutai Japan's Squadron of Aces Henry Sakaida, Koji Takaki Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers	49th Fighter Group Ernest R. McDowell Squadron / Signals Pub.
Cobra In The Clouds John Stanaway	Kamikaze Raymond Lamont-Brown Cassell & Co	Black Cats and Dumbos WWII's Fighting PBYs Mel Crocker
Beau's Butchers & Boomerangs Mareeba Damian Waters	Island Encounters Lindstrom & White Smithsonian Institute	Protect & Avenge 49th FG in WWII Ferguson & Pascalis
On Wings We Conquer John H. Mitchell G. E. M.	Bravery Above Blunder John Coates Oxford University Press	On The Canal Ore J. Marion with Thomas Cuddihy & Edward Cuddiry
The Forgotten Heroes VH-3 Donald Sweet DoGo Publishing	Legacy of the 90th BG Wiley O. Woods, Jr Turner Publishing	The Grim Reapers John P. Henebry Pictorial Histories Publishing
Cameras Over The Pacific Marine Photo Squadron 254 John G Bishop	The Big Death Geofrey White U of South Pacific	The Black Sheep Bruce Gamble Presido Press
Beaufighters In The Pacific Neville Parnell	We Flew Alone Alan C. Carey Schiffer Military History	Horn Island Vanessa Seekee
13th Fighter Command in WWII William Wolf Schiffer	Allied Air Transport Operations SWPA WWII Volume 1 Robert Kelly	Allied Air Transport Operations SWPA WWII Volume 2 Robert Kelly
Volcano Town The 1937-43 Rabaul Eruptions R. Johnson & N. Threlfall	Battleground Atlantic Richard Billings NAL	Combat Recon Robert Stava Schiffer Publishing
Les Alles Francaises 1939-1945 L'aviation de Vichy (1e Partie) Volume 5	Les Alles Francaises 1939-1945 L'aviation de Vichy (2e Partie) Volume 6	History of the 127th Infantry Regiment Lauer 32nd Division Veteran Association
Vampire Squadron William H. Starke Robinson Typographics	Attack & Conquer The 8th Fighter Group in WWII John Stanaway and Lawrence J. Hickey	Strike The Story of the Fighting 17th Richard M Vail
The Crusaders: A History of the 42nd Bombardment Group (M) Army & Navy Pictorial	Hell's Islands The Untold Story of Guadalcanal Stan Jersery	Down Under South-West Pacific Area 43rd BG History Angus and Robertson Limited
Ghost Fleet of the Truk Lagoon William H. Stewart	49th Fighter Group Aces of the Pacific William Hess	Rampage of the Roarin' 20's: The Illustrated History of the 312th Bombardment Group Hickey, Claringbould and Levy
Wings Over The Philippines Tony Dedal New Day Publishers	Rolling Thunder Against The Rising Sun Gene Eric Salecker	Grey Geese Calling - A History of the 11th Bombardment Group Heavy (H) in the Pacific, 1940-1945
A Dawn Like Thunder The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Robert J. Mrazek	The Best in the Southwest The 380th Bombardment Group (H) in World War II Glenn R. Horton	USN 87th Construction Battalion The Earthmovers 1943-1945 USN
Battle of the Steppes: Aviation Weapons in the Soviet-Japanese Conflict at Khalkin Gol	The Empire Express Charles L. Scrivner Historical Aviation Album	The Americal Division Bill Mclaughlin Cape Elizabeth Press
The Long Rangers: A Diary of the 307th Bombardment Group Sam S. Britt Jr.	Spitfires Over Darwin 1943 No. 1 Fighter Wing by Jim Grant	Great Air Escapes The heroes who beat the odds Robert Piper
The Hidden Chapters: Untold stories of Australians at war in the Pacific Robert Piper	The Sky Lancer 417th Bomb Group Eugene L. Green et all	Alae Supra Canalem Wings over the Canal: The Sixth Air Force and the Antilles Air Command Dan Hagedom
No Glamour... No Glory! The Story of the 58th Fighter Group of World War II Anthony J. Kupferer	Sun Setters of the Southwest Pacific Area From Australia to Japan 38th Bomb Group Association	The Last Flight of Bomber 31 Ralph Wetterhahn Carroll & Graf
Peak of Limuria The Story of Diego Garcia Richard Edis	The Private War of the Spotters Alex Perrin NGAWW Publication	The Jolly Rogers John Alcorn
Field Guide to the Kokoda Track An Historical Guide to the Lost Battlefields Bill James Kokoda Press	Commando - Double Black: The 2/5th Australian Independent Company by Andy Pirie	Kokoda Air Strikes Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942 Anthony Cooper
Ken's Men Against The Empire Hickey, Janko, Tagaya International Historical Research Associates	Saga of the Sun Setters Volume I Hickey, Janko, Tagaya International Historical Research Associates	Sogeri During The War A Brief History and Guide Lance Taylor A Sogeri Publication
Snake Road A Guide To The History, People and Places of the Sogeri District Lance Taylor	Highest Traditions The History of No. 2 Squadron, RAAF John Bennett	Blood and Iron Lex McAuley Arrow Books
Return to Midway Robert Ballard Madison Press Books	Queensland Airfields WW2 - 50 Years On Roger R Marks R & J Marks	Eagles of the Southern Sky The Tainan Air Group in WWII Luca Ruffato and Michael Claringbould
44 Days 75 Squadron and the fight for Australia Michael Veitch	Pictorial History of the 7th Bombardment Group/Wing 1918-1995 7th BG Historical Foundation	US Naval Air Station Melbourne, Florida Fighter Pilot Training Base Word War II William Barnett
Guadalcanal Cactus Air Force contre Marine Impériale Vol. 1 Bernard Baeza	Guadalcanal Cactus Air Force contre Marine Impériale Vol. 2 Bernard Baeza	Relentless Pursuit - The Untold Story of the U.S. 5th Air Force's 39th Fighter Squadron Ken Dooley
Pacific Sweep The 5th and 13th Fighter Commands in World War II William N. Ness	The Thousand-Mile War World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians Brian Garfield	The Aluminum Trail China-Burma-India World War II 1942-1945 How & Where They Died Chick Marrs Quinn
Bomber Barons 5th Bomb Group Heavy Turner Publishing	5th Bomber Barons The History of the 5th Bomb Group in the Pacific during World War II Frederick A. Johnsen	Bombs Away A History of the 70th Bombardment Squadron (M) in Early World War II Harold V. Larson
Pineapple Air Force Pearl Harbor To Tokyo John W. Lambert	Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War Carl Molesworth	Dumbo Diary Royal New Zealand Air Force No.6 (Flying Boat) Squadron 1943-1945 Jenny Scott
Hurricane at Biak MacArthur Against the Japanese May-August 1944 by Marc D. Bernstein	End of The Line A History of Railways in Papua New Guinea Bob McKillop & Michael Pearson	The Long Campaign The History of the 15th Fighter Group in World War II John W. Lambert
The Wewak Mission Coastwatchers at War in New Guinea Lionel Veale (1996)	Then There Were Two. A New Guinea Saga of Life Before and During the War Against the Japanese Lionel Veale (2000)	Long Island Coastwatchers at War in New Guinea... the 2nd Mission Lionel Veale (2002)
The Coastwatchers... The Final Missions Lionel Veale (2005)	Imperial Japan’s Allied Prisoners in the South Pacific C. Kenneth Quinones	South Africaʼs Flying Cheetahs in Korea by Dermot Moore & Peter Bagshawe Ashanti Publications (1991)
Milne Bay 1942 The Story of 'Milne-Force' and Japan's First Military Defeat on Land Clive Baker and Greg Knight	A Source of Pride: A History of No 22 (City of Sydney) Squadron 1936-1946 Richard Hutchinson	Fortress Against The Sun Gene Eric Salecker Da Capo Press
Kearby's Thunderbolt The 348th Fighter Group in World War II (1992) John Stanaway	Kearby's Thunderbolt The 348th Fighter Group in World War II (1997) John Stanaway	King of the Heavies 380th Bomb Group 1942-1945 Glenn R. Horton
Possum, Clovers & Hades 475th FG in WWII John Stanaway, Bob Rocker Schiffer Publishing	Lightning Strikes: The 475th Fighter Group in the Pacific War, 1943-1945 Ronald W. Yoshino	374th Troop Carrier Group 1942 - 1945 Col Edward T. Imparato Turner Publishing
13,000 Hours Combat History of the 32d Inf Division - World War II 32nd Infantry Division	32d Infantry Division In World War II Harold W. Blakeley 32nd Inf. Div. History Commission	Red Arrow Across the Pacific The Thirty-Second Infantry Division during World War II Mark D. Van Ells

Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs

Dauntless Marine Joseph Sailer Jr. Alexander S. White Pacifica Military History	The Jolly Rogers Tom Blackburn and VF-17 Tom Blackburn Pacifica Military History	Ace! A Marine Night-Fighter Pilot in WWII Bruce Porter & Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Preludes to Victory The Battle of Ormoc Bay William L. Griggs Atlantic Press	We Who Are About To Die Lex McAulay Banner Books	We Band of Brothers R.E. Peppy Blount Eakin Publications
Saipan - Oral Histories of the Pacific War Bruce Petty	DUTY Bob Green Paul Tibbets & Enola Gay	Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides Doubleday
Seeds of Hope William Sabel Purdue University Press	Behind Enemy Lines Roy C. Hunt University Press of Kentucky	Lapham's Raiders Robert Lapham University Press of Kentucky
Pacific Island Odyssey Carl R. Thien Wanpela Books	No Place For A Picnic Justin R. Taylan Wanpela Books	One Angle Left... by Jack Morris Canyon Creek Books
Memoir of A Bomber Pilot Robert Morgan New American Library	The Young Ones Erik Dyreborg iUniverse	John Glen: A Memoir John Glen, Nick Taylor Bantam Books
Blood On Borneo Jack Wong Sue Self-Published	Voices From The Pacific War Bruce Petty Naval Institute Press	Flyboys James Bradley Little Brown & Company
Kenneth N. Walker Martha Byrd Air University Press	Death is Lighter Than A Feather David Westheimer U of N Texas	The Luck Of The Draw Edward 'Ted' Sly Publishing Services
Flags of Our Fathers Bradley & Powers Bantam	Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941-45 Henry Sakaida	Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941-45 Henry Sakaida
Greatest Generation Speaks Tom Brokaw Random House	Bolomen Lucky Guillermo AVMedia	The School That Fell From The Sky Fred Hargesheimer
Behind Enemy Lines Michael J. Freeman	Escape From Corregidor Edgar D. Whitcomb H Regnery Co	Shobun Michael Goodwin Stackpole Books
Damien Parer's War Neil McDonald Lothian Books	The Flying Circus James Wright The Lyons Press	The Last Great Ace Charles Martin Fruit Cove Publishing
I Was Lucky Wesley Dickinson Lighting Source	Jungle Fighters Jules Archer Jullian Messner	The Fight For New Guinea Patrick Robinson Random House, 1943
Dauntless Helldivers Harold Buell	Bumitalag AVMedia	The Thin Red Line James Jones
Pacific Air Combat WWII Voices From The Past Henry Sakaida	New Guinea Engineer Gillian H. Shadbolt & Les Bell	From Up Over To Down Under And Back Jack Heyn
70,000 to One Quentin James Reynolds	The Raft Robert Turmbull Naval Institute Press	The Guns of Muschu Don Dennis Allen & Unwin
Bats Outa Hell Over Biak Max Ferguson Self Published	War Diary 1942 George Henry Johnston William Collins Pty Ltd	Ruff Stuff Tina Susedik with Norbert C. Ruff Documation, LLC
New Guinea Skies Wayne P. Rothgeb Iowa State University Press	Leyte Calling Joseph St, John The Vanguard Press	Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener
Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Ibooks	Nanette Edwards Park Smithsonian Press	Angels Twenty Edwards Park McGraw-Hill Professional
Letter From New Guinea Vern Haugland Farrar & Rinehart	Lonely Vigil Walter Lord Viking Press / Naval Inst Press	Beyond Pearl Harbor The Untold Stories of Japan's Navy Airmen Ron Werneth
The Heavenly Body Robert E. Shanks Infinity Publishing	What Price Bushido? Alf Baker Schiffer	Love, War and the 96th Engineers Hyman Samuelson University of Illinois Press
Come What Will Richard W. Titus Self Published	Wiley's Island or, Island belong Wiley Delmar D. Wiley	The Last True Explorer Into Darkest New Guinea Philip Temple
Almost A Family: A Memoir John Darnton Knopf	General Kenney Reports by George C. Kenney University of Michigan Library	Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard Simon & Schuster
The War Diaries of Eddie Allan Stanton Eddie Allan Stanton Allen & Unwin	Pilots Also Pray Thomas D. Harmon	Eighty Three Years of Memories 1905-1988 Allan Champion Unpublished
Letters from the Papuan Bush 1942-1946 by S. R. M. Gill Eaton Press	Baseball Battle and a Bride An Okie in World War II James Bement	World War Two Memoirs of A Fighter Pilot Clarence E. Wolgemuth
Into Darkness A Pilot's Journey Through Headhunter Territory Edward T. Imparato	Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice Adam Makos	Echoes From an Eagle Ken Elder Bledsoe Colcon Press
Wreaking Havoc A Year in an A-20 Joseph W. Rutter Texas A&M University Press	Fighter Pilot Ralph H. Wandrey	Jungle Ace: Col. Gerald R. Johnson, the USAAF's Top Fighter Leader of the Pacific War John R. Bruning, Jr.
Our Jungle Road To Tokyo Robert L. Eichelberger	A PT Skipper in the South Pacific: A Naval Officer's Memoir of Service on PTs ans a PT Boat Tender Kenneth W. Prescott	Wings of Destiny Wing Commander Charles Learmonth Charles Page
Baa Baa Black Sheep Gregory "Pappy" Boyington	The Edge of Nowhere: Reaching The Remote Kobon People of Papua New Guinea Schendel	Fast Boasts and Fast Times Memories Of A PT Boat Sipper In The South Pacific David M. Levy and Gerald A. Meehl
Missionary Turns Spy A. P. H. Freund Lutheran Homes Inc.	A MiG-15 To Freedom No Kum-Sok McFarland & Company	The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown Theodore Taylor William Morrow
Rocky Boyer's War An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz That Won the War in the Southwest Pacific by Allen D. Boyer	Two Steps From Glory A World War II Liaison Pilot Confronts Jim Crow and the Enemy in the South Pacific by Maj. Welton I. Taylor	Shots Fired in Anger A Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945 by John B. George
Japanese Camps in the Dutch East Indies 1942–1945 F. J. Erik Kramer	We Pray: Remarks at Press Conference of Secretary of War Edward V. Rickenbacker

Prisoner of War (POW) Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs

Devil At My Heels Louis Zamperini William Morrow	Prisonera's Base and Home Again The Story of a Missionary P.O.W. James Benson	The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea Theo Aerts Kleinsasser
Horio You Next Die! Joseph Nason Pacific Rim Press	M.I.A. Over Rabaul South Pacific John B. Kepchia	Undaunted Valor The Men of Mukden In Their Own Words Sheldon Zimbler
Field of Spears Last Mission of the Jordan Crew Gregory Hadley	Accused American War Criminal Robert R. Martindale Eakin Press	13th Mission The Saga of a POW Camp Omori, Tokyo Robert R. Martindale
Beyond Death and Dishonour One Japanese at war in New Zealand Michiharu Shinya	Fight For Survival James A. McMurria Honoribus Press	Hog Wild–1945 Dwight Rider Bookstand Publishing
Southwest Passage The Yanks in the Pacific John Lardner	Sharing The Climb Nancy H. White	Combat Officer A Memoir of the War in the South Pacific Charles H. Walker
Dick Bong Ace of Aces George C. Kenney	Ace of Aces The Dick Bong Story by Carl Bong & Mike O'Connor	The Missions and P-38 Lightnings of Richard I. Bong: A Synopsis by by L. Johnson and T. C. Hill
Dear Mom So We Have a War Carl Bong Burgess Publishing

Fine Art, Artists & Pacific Artwork

War In Pacific Skies
Featuring the Aviation Art of Jack Fellows
Motorbooks

The Art of William S. Phillips: The Glory of Flight
Greenwich Workshop Press

165 Days A Story of the 25th Division On Luzon
William De Jarnette

Japanese Autobiographies, Biographies & Novels

Samurai! Saburo Sakai Pocket Press	Ôzora no samurai Saburo Sakai (Japanese language)	Winged Samurai Henry Sakaida Champlin Fighter Museum
No Surrender My Thirty - Year War Hiroo Onoda Naval Institute Press	Oba The Last Samurai Don Jones Presido Press	Naval Land Unit That Disappeared in the Jungle Tetsuo Watanabe National Library of Australia
Guadalcanal Shoichii Morii Self-Published	28 Years in the Guam Jungle Sankei Shimbun Fuji Terebi Tokubetsu Shuzaihan	The Niihau Incident Allan Beekman Heritage Press Pacific 1982
I-Boat Captain Zenji Orita Major Books	Japanese Destroyer Captain Tameichi Hara Ballentine Books	The Reluctant Admiral Hiroyuki Agawa Kodansha
Yamamoto Autopsy (Japanese language)	Saigo No Hikotei (The Last Flying Boat) Tsuneo Hitsuji	Papua Jin Mandol Akira Tokuno (Japanese language)
Samurai Zerosen Kisha kamera ga toraeta zerosentai hiwa Hajime Yoshida	Ballale Naval Engineering Group Kotaro Sato Purejidentosha	Admiral Jinichi Kusaka Nothing new on the Rabaul Front Jinichi Kusaka
Minami No Sora Ni Geta Haite Kaigun Suijouki-Tai Kuusenki Keiyu Takei	Haran No Sora Ni Ikite Keizo Kondo	Horonbail no arawashi Tokurou Irie Masu Shobo
Fading Victory The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945 Naval Institute Press	1,000 Days in Siberia The Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW Iwao Peter Sano	Shooting Down Koujirou Matsumura Kyougaku-sya
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita The Artist Caught Between East & West Phyllis Birnbaum	Seinen Arawashi Kani Syousa (Young Fighter Major Kani) Mich Sekine	The Path of Infinite Sorrow The Japanese on the Kokoda Track Craig & Marutani & Hajime Collie
Attack On Yamamoto Carroll V. Glines Schiffer Publishing	Tokyo Underworld Robert Whiting	Tales of a War Pilot Richard C. Kirkland Smithsonian Institution Press
Senshi Sosho 102 Volume History	Japanese Monographs 185 Volume History

Wrecks, WWII Photo Collections, Recovery/Restoration

Rust In Peace Bruce Adams Antipodean Publishers	Pacific Aircraft Wrecks And Where to Find Them Charles Darby Kookaburra	Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II Then & Now Earl Hinz
WWII Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon Dan E. Bailey North Valley Diver	WWII Wrecks of Palau Dan E. Bailey North Valley Diver	WWII Remnants Guam & Mariana Dave Lotz Arizona Memorial Museum
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal Robert Ballard Warner Books	Low Level Attack: The Pacific John W. Lambert Voyageur Press	War of our Fathers Relics of Pacific Battlefields Richard Marin
Pacific Legacy Image and Memory from WWII Rex Smith, Gerald Meehl	Sumberged Cultural Resources Assessment of Micronesia National Parks Service	The Last New Guinea Salvage Pirate Fritz Herscheid
Broken Wings of the Samurai Robert Mikesh Airlife Publishing	Meatballs and Dead Birds James P. Gallagher Stackpole Books	The Whole Nine Yards John King Reed Publishing
Setting Suns Tom Laemlein Armor Plate Press	Setting Suns II Tom Laemlein Armor Plate Press	Warbird Recovery Gordon Page iUniverse
Papua New Guinea Pacific War Images David Holdsworth Robert Brown &Assoc.	Papua New Guinea Battlefields David Holdsworth University of PNG Press

Missing In Action (MIA), Remains Recovery

A Missing Plane Susan Sheehan Berkley Books	The Searchers Jim Eames U of Queensland	Where They Lay Earl Swift Bantam Press
You Are Not Forgotten by Bryan Bender Doubleday

Videos & Documentaries

Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter War Department (1943)	With the Marines at Tarawa Universal Pictures (1944)	Damien Parer’s Kokoda Frontline Reel (2005)
The Swamp Ghost Pacific Ghosts	Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand Land Locked Films	The Legacy of Truk Lagoon Superior Home Video
A6M5 Zero (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds	P-47 Thunderbolt (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds	TBM Avenger (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds
P-40 Warhawk (VHS Video) Roaring Glory Warbirds	B-25 Mitchell (VHS Video) Roaring Glory Warbirds	Guadalcanal Island of Death Timeless Video (DVD)
Winged Ghosts of the Pacific Great White (VHS)	41st Fighter Squadron (VHS & DVD)	312th Bomb Group (VHS & DVD)
MIA General Walker (VHS & DVD)	Last Flight Home Powers & O'Brien	Guadalcanal: Island of Death (DVD) Timeless Video
Australians At War (DVD)	Last Flight of Bomber 31 PBS / NOVA	Gusap 1944 (DVD-R) RareAviation
Corsair Vs. Zero (DVD-R) RareAviation	Perishable RUSH (DVD-R) RareAviation	Army Air Forces Pacific (DVD-R) Rare Aviation
SeaWolf Productions (CD/DVD) Shipwrecks of Bikini	The Defender (VHS) Canadian Television	B-25 Down: Hunt For A Hero (VHS) Dennis Kane
Guadalcanal Odyssey (VHS) VCI Video	NOVA B-29 Frozen In Time (VHS) VCI Video	Lagoon of Lost Ships (VHS) Jaques Cousteau
5th Air Force In Color (DVD) Aerothentic Publications	5th Air Force Newsreels (DVD) Aerothentic Publications	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Kazuo Hara
The Bomber Reef Walt Deas (2005)	Black Jack's Last Mission Steve Birdsall (1988)	War Wrecks of the Coral Sea PBS Nature (2003)
A6M2 Zero 3647 NHK	Echoes from the Apocalypse Tinian 60 Years Later	Eleven A WWII Documentary George Retelas
3D CGI Zero Fighter Masaru Tochibayashi Futabasha (Book + DVD)	3DCG The Aircraft Carrier Masaru Tochibayashi Futabasha (Book + DVD)

Travel Guides & Georgraphic References

25 Best WWII Sites Pacific Theater Chuck Thompson	Diving & Snorkeling Papua New Guinea Bob Halstead	Lonley Planet Papua New Guinea (PNG) & Solomons Lonley Planet
World War II on the Web J. Douglas Smith Scholarly Resources	World War II on the Web J. Douglas Smith Scholarly Resources	Guide to the Guadalcanal Battlefields John Innes
Pub. 126 Sailing Direction (Enroute) Pacific Islands	Pub. 164 Sailing Direction (Enroute) New Guinea

Magazines

After The Battle British Magazine	VALOR / Ghost Wings Magazine History & Aviation Magazine	Arawasi International Japanese Aviation History
National Geographic Ghosts of War April 1988	Flightpath Australian Flight Magazine	Classic Wings NZ Warbirds Magazine
Ciel De Guerre French World War II Magazine	WWII Ordnance Illustrated Small Arms • Artillery • Armored Vehicles Armor Plate Press
Bataille Areriennes N°40 La Ruée Japonaise: DÉSASTRE EN MALAISIE & LA CHUTE DE SINGAPOUR	Bataille Areriennes N°42 La Ruée Japonaise, la conquête des Indes Néerland	Bataille Areriennes N°43 La Ruée Japonaise: Les japonais s'emparent de Java
Bataille Areriennes N°50 Red Star versus Rising Sun, Nomonham Air Fighting	Japanese Information Clearinghouse (JIC) David Aiken

Movies

Movies About WWII Pacific
Hollywood dramas and non-documenties

CD-ROMs, Multimedia & Games

Pacific Ghosts WWII Aircraft Wrecks (CD-ROM)	Combat Flight Simulator 2 WWII Pacific Theater (PC Game)	Battlefield 1942 Pacific WWII Strategy (PC Game)
Medal of Honor Rising Sun WWII Pacific Theatre (Game)	Flight Manuals on CD (CD-ROM) Aircraft Flight Manuals	Pacific Fighters Pacific Flight Simulator (PC Game)
Buffie's Best P-38 Lightning CD-ROM & DVD

Interviews & Oral Histories