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Empire of Japan
Sources and Research Assistance
Allan Alsleben
Independence, Oregon, USA
Thanks Al, for the great IJN input.

Jeff Donahoo
Tanks for providing the names of many of the IJN commanding officers.

Tadeusz Januszewski
Poland

Hisashi Namikawa
Tokyo, Japan
A lot of research and an overwhelming input. Thank you "maisov".

Tadashi Yoda
Thanks you for your expert input and translations of the Senshi Sosho.

Steve Eckardt
"Imperial Japanese Navy Submarine Page"

Martin Favorite and Minoru Kawamoto
Skies of Red
= Imperial Japanese Air Forces at the Outbreak of the Pacific War =
   Pacific Tide Digital History No. 1
   Star Games, Inc., Cumberland, RI, 1997
     A detailed order of battle of the IJA Air Force and IJN Air Force.
     Portions used with the kind permission of Martin Favorite.
     Thank you Martin.

Martin Favorite and Minoru Kawamoto
The Swift and Deadly
= Imperial Japanese Navy Order of Battle for Ships and Ground Units on 8 December 1941 =
Pacific Tide Digital History No. 2
Star Games, Inc., Cumberland, RI, 1997
     A detailed order of battle of the IJN naval forces, including details of ships, such as guns, armor, etc.
     Portions used with the kind permission of Martin Favorite.
     Thank you again Martin.

Martin Favorite and Minoru Kawamoto
Sword of the Emperor
= Imperial Japanese Army Order of Battle on 8 December 1941 =
   Pacific Tide Digital History No. 3
   Star Games, Inc., Cumberland, RI, 1999
     A detailed order of battle of the IJA land forces.
     Portions used with the kind permission of Martin Favorite.
     Thank you once more Martin.

Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall
Japanese Merchant Auxiliaries: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
Found at the website "Tokusetsu Kansen!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN Merchant Auxiliaries.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site

Bob Hackett with Sander Kingsepp
Japanese Battleships: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
Found at the website "Senkan!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN Battleships.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site

A.P. 'Tony' Tully
Japanese Carriers: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
Found at the website "Kido Butai!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN aircraft carriers.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site

Bob Hackett with Sander Kingsepp
Japanese Cruisers: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
Found at the website "Junyokan!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN cruisers.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site

Allyn D. Nevitt's
Japanese Destroyers: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
found at the website "Long Lancers!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN destroyers.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site

Bob Hackett with Sander Kingsepp
Japanese Submarines: Tabular Movement Records (TROMs),
Found at the website "Sensuikan!"
Day-by-day status records for all IJN submarines.
Part of the Nihon Kaigun site
Office of Military History, National Defence College, Defence Agency
General Staffs and the Combined Fleet (2) until June 1942 (in Japanese)
Tokyo, Japan

Asagumo Shinbunsha,
1975 Ikuhiko Hata (ed.)
The General Encyclopedia of Japanese Army and Navy (in Japanese)
Univ. of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1991

The War Office
"Periodical Notes on the Japanese Army, No. 2"
The Infantry Division
General Staff Publications, London, 1942

Carl BOYD and Akihiko YOSHIDA
The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1995
ISBN 1-85310-764-6

Steven Bullard (Translator)
Japanese Army Operations in the South Pacific Area, New Britain and Papua Campaigns, 1942–1943
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9751904-8-7

Dorr CARPENTER and Norman POLMAN
Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1986
ISBN 0-87021-682-1

Philip A. CROWL and Edmund G. LOVE
The Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
The War in the Pacific / The United States Army In World War II
US Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985
ISBN (not indicated)

Philip A. CROWL
Campaign in the Marianas
The War in the Pacific / The United States Army In World War II
US Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985
ISBN (not indicated)

Paul S. DULL
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1989
ISBN 0-87021-097-1

Robert GARDINER (Ed.)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1945
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1984
ISBN 0-87021-913-8

Hansgeorg JENTSCHURA and Dieter JUNG and Peter MICKEL
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1986
ISBN 0-87021-893-X

Roger W. JORDAN
The World's Merchant Fleets 1939
Navy Institute Press, Anapolis, 1999
ISBN 1-59114-959-2

Reports of General MacArthur
Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area
Vol II, Parts I and II
CMH, Washington, DC, 1966 (Reprint)

W. Victor MADEJ
Japanese War Mobilization and the Pacific Campaign, 1941–1945
Game Publishing, Allentown, 1985
ISBN (not indicated)

W. Victor MADEJ
Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945
Game Publishing, Allentown, 1981
ISBN (not indicated)

Jürgen ROHWER and Gerhard HÜMMELCHEN
Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945
Greenhill, London, 1992 (Revised)
ISBN 1-85367-117-7

Homer N. WALLIN
Pearl Harbor - Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1968
ISBN (not indicated)

JAPANESE MONOGRAPHS
Indexed by number
published by the Military History Section Headquarters, Army Forces Far East:
 

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