Merriam Press Military Monograph 124. Fourth Edition (February
2012). First published as Chapters IX and X of The Campaigns of the
Pacific War as part of the USSBS series in 1946. Primarily
concerned with naval operations, including naval and land-based air
operations, it covers both American and Japanese plans and
operations in this theater of the war. The bulk of this work is
composed of more than a dozen appendices, many of which are, or
contain, extensive charts and tables of information, including
orders of battle, strengths, casualties, losses, rosters, postwar
question and answer historical interrogations, and translations of
Japanese directives, operations orders, dispatches, reports, war
diary excerpts, etc. Very important and useful source of highly
detailed information. Contents: Chapter 1: Central Pacific
Operations: From 1 June 1943 to 1 March 1944 Including the
Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign; Appendix 68: Strength of
Opposing Ground Forces, Casualties and Japanese Garrison Strength
in the Central Pacific; Appendix 69: Extracts from Official Reports
of the Imperial Japanese Government Concerning the
Gilbert-Marshalls Campaign; Chapter 2: The Central Pacific
Campaign, 1 March to 1 September 1944, Including the Occupation of
the Marianas; Appendix 71: Combined Fleet Ultrasecret Operation
Order 73; Appendix 72: Imperial Headquarters Directive 373;
Appendix 73: Combined Fleet Ultrasecret Dispatch 041213; Appendix
74: United States Forces Involved; Appendix 75: Chain of Command,
Japanese Forces in Marianas-Carolines, 1 June 1944; Appendix 76:
Order of Battle, Defense Forces in Ogasawara-Marianas-Carolines, 1
June; Appendix 77: 1 June 1944-Assigned Strength, Base Air Forces,
Marianas and Carolines (No Army Air in Central Pacific); Appendix
78: Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944 Task
Organization-First Mobile Fleet; Appendix 79: First Mobile Fleet
Classified No. 1048 (5 September 1944): Detailed Battle Report of
AGO Operations; Appendix 80: From the Files of the Navy Board of
Merit; Appendix 81: Translation of Japanese Documents; 4 maps; 14
appendices.
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