Notes 1. Japanese Advances and Retreats 1. The monumental work dealing with Pearl Harbor is Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1982). 2. The most detailed account of the Philippine campaign is Louis Morton , The FaIl of the Philippines (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1953). 3. Paul S. Dull, The Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945) (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1978), 106. 4. Ibid. 5. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 4: Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions (Boston: Little, Brown, 1949), 11-18. 6. Ronald H. Spector, Eagle against the Sun (New York: Free Press, 1985), 214-17. 7. John Miller, Jr., United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul (Washington, D.C.: Office of Chief of Military History, 1959), 2-3. 8. Robert Sherrod, History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (Washington, D.C.: Combat Forces Press, 1952), 72-73. 9. The battle of Midway is covered in detail in Gordon W. Prange, Miracle at Midway (New York: Penguin, 1983). 10. Morison, Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, 258-63. 11. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 193-95. 12. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 5: The Struggle for Guadalcanal (Boston: Little, Brown, 1949),87-95,104-7. 13. Samuel Griffith II, The Battle for GuadaIcanal (Annapolis: Nautical & Aviation, 1963), 112-22. 14. Morison, The Struggle for GuadaIcanal, pp. 191-93; Burke Davis, Marine! The Life of Chesty PuIler (New York: Bantam Books, 1962), 136-48. Notes to Pages 17-36 215 15. Morison, The Struggle for Guada1canal, 147-71, 199-224. 16. Ibid., 244-53. 17. Ibid., 270-85. 18. Griffith, Battle for Guadalcanal, 244. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid., 245. 21. Henry I. Shaw, Jr., and Douglas T. Kane, History of u.s. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, vol. 2: Isolation of Rabaul (Washington, D.C.: Historical Branch, u.S. Marine Corps, 1963),27. 22. Ibid., 169. 23. Ibid., 172; Gavin Long, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, vol. 7: The Final Campaigns (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1963), 102. 24. J.M.S. Ross, The Assault on Rabaul (Wellington, N.Z.: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, War Histories Branch, 1949), 4. 25. John N. Rentz, Marines in the Central Solomons (Washington, D.C.: Historical Branch, U.S. Marine Corps, 1952),20. 2. Allied Planning 1. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 185-86. 2. Miller, Cartwheel, 5. 3. Ibid., 12-14. 4. E.B. Potter, Bull Halsey (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985), 238-39. 5. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 226. 6. Frank 0. Hough and John Crown, The Campaign on New Britain (Washington, D.C.: Historical Branch, u.S. Marine Corps, 1952). 7. Sherrod, History of Marine Corps Aviation, 145. 8. Miller, Cartwheel, 69. 9. Details of the New Georgia campaign are taken from Rentz, Marines in the Central Solomons, 17-126; Shaw and Kane, Isolation ofRabaul, 41-163; Miller, Cartwheel, 67-188; and Eric Hammel, Munda Trail (New York: Orion, 1989). 10. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 6: Breaking the Bismarck's Barrier (Boston: Little, Brown, 1950), 180-197. 11. Miller, Cartwheel, 124-26. 12. Ibid., 164. 13. Ibid., 187. 14. Potter, Bull Halsey, 252-53. 15. Miller, Cartwheel, 186. 16. "The Target," Enclosure with Report, Commander, 3d Amphibious Force, to Commander in Chief, u.S. Pacific Fleet, 3 Dec. 1943, Marine Corps Historical Archives, Washington, D.C., File AI-I. 17. Ibid., p. 4. 18. Miller, Cartwheel, 228. 19. "The Target," 7-9. 20. The list of maps is in Annex A to Admiral Halsey, Operations Order #1,12 Oct. 1943, Marine Corps Historical Archives, File A3-1. [44.211.58.249] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 06:38 GMT) 216 Notes to Pages 36-54 21. lMAC Reconnaissance Report of Empress Augusta Bay area. 10 Oct. 1943. Bougainville Area Operations File. Marine Corps Historical Archives. File A3-3. 22. Enclosure J with Admiral Halsey. Operatioas Order #1. 23. Ibid. 24. Admiral Halsey. Operations Plan #16. 12 Oct. 1943. Marine Corps Historical Archives. File Bl-l.5. 25. "Planning." Enclosure with Report. Commander. 3d Amphibious Force. 5. 3. The Treasuries and Choiseul 1. Unless noted. materials in this section are developed from 8th New Zealand Brigade. Operations Report. 30 Nov. 1943. Marine Corps Historical Archives. File A7.5-1; 34th...