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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
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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]
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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.
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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.]
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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)
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