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This two edits have also been noted in the Bks 1 and 2 edit docs. Bibliography The following references have been particularly helpful to me in creating the Wilber's War Trilogy.. They do not by any means comprise a comprehensive list of World War II Pacific Theater sources. Many of these volumes and documents are now available on the Internet. Official military journals, histories, and operations reports of the following units during World War II, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): 172nd, 103rd, and 169th Infantry Regiments of the 43rd Infantry Division. 152nd, 169th, 103rd, and 192nd Field Artillery Battalions of the 43rd Infantry Division. 27th, 145th, 148th, and 161st Infantry Regiments; see also Karolevitz reference below. 43rd Infantry Division Historical Report, Luzon Campaign, 1945. History of the 103rd Infantry Regiment, 43rd Division, January 1, 1945 – May 31, 1945. [Detailed narrative history of the entire Luzon campaign for the regimental combat team that included Wilber’s artillery battalion] Logs of naval units: LCI-65 LCI (L) Group 14 delete comma U.S. Government Histories sponsored by the U.S. military: United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific Series. Sponsored by the U.S. Army Chief of Military History, U.S., Government Printing Office, 1949–1962: Morton, Louis. Strategy and Command: The First Two Years. Morton, Louis. The Fall of the Philippines. [1941–42] Miller, John, Jr. Guadalcanal, The First Offensive. [Guadalcanal campaign, 1942–43] Miller, John, Jr. Cartwheel, the Reduction of Rabaul. [New Georgia campaign, 1943] Miller, Samuel. Victory in Papua. [Eastern New Guinea campaign, 1942] Smith, Robert Ross. Approach to the Philippines. [Northern New Guinea campaign, 1944] Cannon, M. Hamlin. Leyte: The Return to the Philippines. [Leyte campaign, 1944] 307 v ic tory an d hom ec om ing Smith, Robert Ross. Triumph in the Philippines. [Luzon campaign, 1945] Williams, Mary. Chronology 1941–1945. [World War II events] MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific, Reports of General MacArthur, Volume 1, U.S. Army Center for Military History, CMH Pub 13-3, 1994. Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of the U.S. Naval Operations in World War II. New York: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1948–60: Vol. III, The Rising Sun in the Pacific. Vol. V, The Struggle for Guadalcanal. Vol. VI, Breaking the Bismarck Barrier. Vol. VIII, New Guinea and the Marianas. Vol. XII, Leyte. Vol. XIII, The Liberation of the Philippines. Memoirs and histories by participants: Barker, Harold R. History of the 43rd Division Artillery. Providence RI: John F. Greene Printer, 1961. Eichelberger, Robert L. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Rockville MD: Zenger Publishing Company, 1949. Halsey, William F. and J. Bryan III. Admiral Halsey’s Story. Rockville MD: Zenger, Publishing Company, 1947. Krueger, Walter. From Down Under to Nippon. Rockville MD: Zenger Publishing Company, 1953. Ockenden, Edward. The Ghosts of Company G. Infinity, 2011. [The TED Force in New Guinea] Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. Zimmer, Joseph E. History of the 43rd Infantry Division 1941–1945. Baton Rouge, LA: The Army and Navy Publishing Company, undated, probably late 1940s. vs. Other histories and memoirs: Bauer, K. Jack and Alan C. Coox. “Olympic vs Ketsu-go,” Marine Corps Gazette, August 1965, v. 49, No. 8. Bourjaily, Vance. “My Father’s Life,” Esquire Magazine, March 1984, p. 98. Donovan, Robert. PT 10. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961. Drea, Edward J. “Previews of Hell.” Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 74. Aston, PA: Weider History, 1995. [Planned invasion of Kyushu] Drea, Edward J. Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944, Leavenworth Papers No. 9, Combat Studies Institute, 1984. Estes, Kenneth W. Marines Under Armor. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. 308 Bibliography Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time. New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1994. Hammel, Eric. Munda Trail. London: Orion Press, 1989. Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi (Ed.) The End of the Pacific War, Reappraisals. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking Press, 1989. Knox, Donald. Death March. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981, pp. 181–184, 227. [The Lumban bridge story] Karolevitz, R. F. (Ed.) History of the 25th Infantry Division in World War II. Nashville, TN: Battery Press, 1946, 1995. [Actions of the 27th and 161st Infantry Regiments] Larrabee, Eric. Commander in Chief. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Paull, Raymond. Retreat from Kokoda. Australia: Wm. Heinemann Press, 1958. Potter, E. B. Nimitz. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976. Skates, John R. The Invasion of Japan. University of California Press, 1994. The Official History of the Washington National Guard, Vol. 6, Washington National Guard in World War II. State of Washington: Office of the Adjutant General. [Also contains WW I and the 1935 strike duty] Unpublished or self-published documents: Antill, Peter, Operation Downfall: The Planned Assault on Japan, Parts 1–4, http://www. historyofwar.org/articles/wars_downfall1.html (1996). Bourjaily, Monte F., “Re: Monte Ferris Bourjaily,” 1936. [Résumé with references] Bradt, Hale V. Story of the Bradt Fund, the F. Hale Bradt Family, and their Versailles, Indiana Farm (1906–2001). Self-published, 2004. [Early years of Wilber Bradt’s life] Bradt, Hale V. The World War II Letters of Wilber E. Bradt. Self-published 1986. [The nearly complete letters, transcribed and privately bound and distributed] Bradt, Norma S. Memoir, 1981. [Eight page self-typed document] Bradt, Wilber E. Personal Journal (1941–45). [Five handwritten notebook pages of dates, places, incidents] Fushak, K. Graham. The 43rd Infantry Division, Unit Cohesion and Neuropsychiatric Casualties. Thesis, U.S. Command and General Staff College, 1999. Higgins, John J. A History of the First Connecticut Regiment, 169th Infantry 1672–1963. Unpublished, 1963. Patenge, Robert. Memories of Wilber E. Bradt, 1997. [Patenge was a survey officer in the 169th Field Artillery Battalion under Wilber Bradt in the Munda campaign, World War II, and later served with the 103rd Field Artillery Battalion.] Saillant, Richard. Journal of Richard L. Saillant. Transcribed by Joseph Carey. [Saillant was an officer in the 118th Engineers of the 43rd Division until April 1944. The Munda campaign is vividly described.] 309 v ic tory an d hom ec om ing Zimmer, Joseph E. Letters from Col. Joseph E. Zimmer to his wife, Maude Files Zimmer 1942–1945. Transcribed by Maude Zimmer. [Zimmer was an infantry officer in the 43rd Division who served in the 169th Infantry, 103rd Infantry, and other elements of the 43rd Division from 1941 until May 1945.] Newspaper archives, 1941–45: Bangor (Maine) Daily News New York Times Wellington (New Zealand) Evening Post Washington (D.C.) Post Washington (D.C.) Star Notable conversations with 43rd Division participants and one Japanese officer: Howard Brown (1981 through 2012) Warren Covill (1981) Seishu Kinoshita, Kyushu, Japan (1983) Albert Merck (1984, 2009) William Naylor (1984) Robert Patenge (1997) 310