Tokyo kyuko: Tokyo Express, by Lt. Senzo Kabashima: His diary of bringing supplies to Guadalcanal aboard destroyer Yudachi.
Ue to shi no kiroku: Record of Hunger and Death, by Maj. Yasuhei Oneda: A personal account of Oneda’s ordeal with the 230th Battalion of the 38th Regiment.
Ningen no genkai: Limit of Human Invulnerability, by Lt. Yasuo Obi, bearer of the colors of the 125th Infantry Regiment with the Kawaguchi Brigade.
Gadarukanaru-to sakusen keikaku: Military Strategy for the Guadalcanal Campaign, by Col. Takushiro Hattori, Chief of the Operations Section of the Imperial Headquarters of the Japanese Army.
Jigoku no mogura yuso: Mole Transportation in the Hell, by Cmdr. Teiji Yamaki, navigation officer of Submarine I-41: Description of attempts to supply the island by submarine.
First Marine Division Final Report. Research & Records (R&R) Historical Branch, U.S. Marine Corps.
Japanese Eighth Fleet War Diary. Office of Naval Records and Library (ONRL). Document No. 161259.
Seventeenth Army Operations. OCMH. File 8-51, AC 34.
The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. OCMH. File 8-5.1, AC 127.
Southeast Area Naval Operations. OCMH. File 8-5, AC 48.
Outline of Southeast Area Naval Air Operations, Parts II & III. OCMH. File 8-5.1, AC 121, 122.
Order of Battle of the Japanese Armed Forces. Unclassified document, R&R, File 045930.
PERIODICALS
Infantry Journal
Field Artillery Journal
Marine Corps Gazette
Leatherneck Magazine
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBERT LECKIE was the author of more than thirty works of military history as well as Marines, a collection of short stories, and Lord, What a Family!, a memoir. Raised in Rutherford, New Jersey, he started writing professionally at age sixteen, covering sports for The Bergen Evening Record of Hackensack. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor, going on to serve as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout and participating in all First Marine Division campaigns except Okinawa. Leckie was awarded five battle stars, the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V, and the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow (Random House, 1957) was his first book; it received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association award upon publication.
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