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Appendix I: Documentation and Bibliography
All statements contained in this monograph have been thoroughly
documented, although, in the interests of textual smoothness and
appearance, no citations have been made. A documented master copy of
the entire monograph is on file in the Marine Corps archives and may be
consulted at any time subject to security regulations. Specific
information as to documentation or source material will be furnished
upon request.
As may readily be imagined, source material of first instance
relative to the defense of Wake is scanty, fragmentary, and in large
extent dependent on recollections more than four years old. No
opportunity was of course accorded the Wake survivors of preparing
anything like special action reports after the fall of Wake. The few
officers who persevered in setting down some kind of journals or
informal reports found these confiscated by the Japanese prison camp
authorities. In one instance, that of Major Putnam, his report and
record of events, much edited and garbled, found its way into print in
the Osaka Mainichi, an English-language newspaper published in
Japan.
The nearest approach to unit-action reports on Wake are a group of
informal individual narratives submitted by the surviving Wake officers
at the direction of Marine Corps Headquarters after their release from
captivity. These are subject to all the faults of memory, hindsight,
and the results of endless "rehashing" during the monotonous years of
prison.
Altogether, some 77 sources have been consulted in preparation of
this monograph. They are as follows:
- "The War Reports of General Marshall, General Arnold, and
Admiral
King," Lippincott, 1947.
- "Last Man off Wake Island," Lt. Col. Walter L.J. Bayler, USMC,
Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.
- Table VIII, "Naval Losses of All Nations," Office of Naval
Intelligence Statistical Section, 5 February 1946.
- Bayler, Walter L.J., Maj., USMC, official report to C.O., Marine
Air Group 21, 18 February 1942.
- C.O., Marine Air Group 21, serial 0130, official report to the
Major General Commandant, 23 December 1941.
- Putnam, Paul A., Maj., USMC, private letter to C.O., Marine Air
Group 21, 3 December 1941.
- C.O., VMF-211, official report to C.O., Marine Air Group 21, 20
December 1941.
- Fourteenth Naval District Intelligence Officer's memorandum
report of interview with P.A.A. Capt. J.H. Hamilton, pilot of
"Philippine Clipper," 8 December 1941.
- C.O., N.A.S. Wake, official report to Commandant, Fourteenth
Naval District, 20 December 1941.
- Resident-Officer-in-Charge, Navy Contract Noy 4173, official
report to Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, 20 December 1941.
- C.O., Marine Forces, Fourteenth Naval District, official report
to the Major General Commandant, 6 January 1942.
- "The Campaigns of the Pacific War," U.S.S.B.S., 1946.
- File of all despatches received from Wake 7-23 December 1941.
- Mace, Frank Russell, chronological narrative of civilian
personnel on Wake, 25 November 1945.
- CinCPac letter to CNO, regarding defense and development of
Wake,
18 April 1941.
- C.O., First Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, official report
to Commandant of the Marine Corps, 18 March 1946.
- "The Story of Wake Island," Col. James P.S. Devereux, USMC,
Lippincott, 1947.
- USSBS Interrogaton Nav. No. 85, Captain
Koyama, Tadashi, IJN, 11
November 1946, in "Interrogations of Japanese
Officials, Naval
Analysis Division, U.S.S.B.S., 1946"
- Putnam, Paul A., Col., USMC, official report to Commandant of
the
Marine Corps, with endorsement by Capt. W.S. Cunningham, USN, 18
October 1945.
- "Full translations of answers to questions concerning attack on
Wake Island," ATIS Doc. No. 17895A (WDI-44).
- Notes compiled from enemy interviews, date unknown.
- Transcript of Historical Section interview with First Lt. John
F.
Kinney, USMC, 23 July 1945.
- "Wake, 1568-1946," Capt. E.A. Junghans, USN, 7 June 1946.
- Barninger, Clarence A., Lt. Col. USMC, informal report to C.O.,
First Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 8 October 1945.
- Tharin, Frank C., Maj., USMC, informal report to C.O., First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 16 October 1945.
- Hanna, Robert M., First Lt., USMCR, informal report to C.O.
First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 11 October 1945.
- Kinney, John F., First Lt., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 12 October 1945.
- Kliewer, David D., First Lt., USMC, informal report to C.O.
First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 23 October 1945.
- McAlister, John A., First Lt., USMC, informal report to C.O.
First Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 12 October 1945.
- Hamas, John, Second Lt., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 12 October 1945.
- Borth, Harold C., W.O., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 23 October 1945.
- McKinstry, Clarence B., MGun, USMC, informal report to C.O.
First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, (undated) 1945.
- Greeley, Robert W., First Lt. USMC, informal report to C.O.
First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 9 October 1945.
- Putnam, Paul A., Lt. Col., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 9 October 1945.
- Freuler, Herbert C., Maj, USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 9 October 1945.
- Lewis, William W., Maj., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 9 October 1945.
- Potter, George H., Col., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 13 October 1945.
- Godbold, Bryghte D., Lt., Col., USMC, informal report to C.O.
First Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 9 October 1945.
- Platt, Wesley McC., Lt. Col., USMC, informal report to C.O.
First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, (undated) 1945.
- Webb, Henry G., First Lt., USMCR, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 19 October 1945.
- Kessler, Woodrow M., Capt., USMC, informal report to C.O. First
Defense Battalion Detachment, Wake, 11 October 1945.
- Historical Section interview with Col. James P.S. Devereux,
USMC,
12 February 1947.
- Fourth marine Division G-2 Study of Wake, 1 August 1945.
- Commander Marshalls-Gilberts Area letter to CinCPac, report and
narrative of surrender of Wake Atoll, with enclosed narrative report by
Brig. Gen. Lawson H.H. Sanderson, USMC, 13 September 1945.
- "Hawaii-Malaya Naval Operations," ATIS, SWPA, Enemy Publications
No. 6, translations of Japanese reports regarding Wake, 22. 27-38, 27
March 1943.
- "We're Headed for Wake," Lt. Col. R.D. Heinl, Jr., USMC, Marine
Corps Gazette, June 1946.
- United States Marine Corps Tables of Organization D-133 through
D-155-D inclusinve (defense battlion T/O's), dated 27 February 1941.
- "Wake Island," Homer C. Votaw, United States Naval Institute Proceedings,
January 1941.
- "Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands, Volume I," H.O.
165,
United States Navy Hydrographic Office.
- CNO letter to CinCPac, regarding establishment of defensive
garrison on Wake, 23 June 1941 (as modified by CNO serial 089712, same
subject).
- Barninger, Clarence A., Lt. Col., USMC, orricial reply to
Historical Section questionnaire regarding defense of Wake, 18 February
1947.
- Cunningham, Winfield S., Capt., USN, private letter to Capt.
Samuel E. Morison, USNR, regarding relief of Wake, 7 February 1947.
- Cunningham, Winfield S., Capt, USN, transcript of recorded
interview, "History of Wake Island Defense," Film #468, Office of naval
Records and Library, 9 January 1946.
- Ship's log, USS Regulus,
July-August 1941.
- Transcript of notes of interview, Capt. Samuel E. Morison, USNR,
with Rear Adm C.H. McMorris, USN, regarding attempted relief of Wake,
13 January 1947.
- Devereux, James P.S., Col. USMC, private letter to Capt. Samuel
E. Morison, USNR, regarding defense of Wake, 13 February 1947.
- Ship's log, USS Tangier,
December 1941.
- Historical Section interview with Lt. Col. John F. Kinney, USMC,
12 March 1947.
- Lewis, William W., Lt. Col., USMC, official reply to Historical
Section questionnaire regarding defense of Wake, 28 February 1947.
- Platt, Wesley McC., Lt. Col., USMC, official reply to Historical
Section questionnaire regarding defense of Wake, 10 March 1947.
- June, Randolph M., M. T. Sgt., USMC, official reply to
Historical
Section questionnaire regarding communication during defense of Wake,
11 March 1947.
- Poindexter, Arthur A., Lt. Col., USMC, official reply to
Historical Section questionnaire regarding operations of mobile
reserve, Wake Island, and of Battery I, First Defense Battalion, 8
April 1947.
- CinCPac Operation Plan 39-41, dated 15 December 1941.
- Paraphrased file of CinCPac despatches reagrding relief of Wake,
December 1941.
- Ship's log, USS Saratoga,
December 1941.
- ONI 222-J, "A Statistical Summary of the Japanese Navy," 20 July
1944.
- Potter, George H., Col., USMC, official reply to Historical
Section questionnaire regarding defense of Wake, 27 March 1947.
- "Pioneer Party--Wake Island," Capt. Ross A. Dierdorff, USN,
United States Naval Insittute Proceedings, April 1943.
- Major General Commandant, United States Marine Corps, letter
regarding employment of defense battalions, 28 August 1941.
- CinCPac letter to CNO regarding marine Defense Forces at certain
pacific islands, 3 April 1941.
- USSBS Interrogation Nav. No. 43,
Captain Ohmae, Toshikazu, UJN, 30 October 1945, in "Interrogations
of Japanese Officials, Naval Analysis Division, USSBS, 1946."
- J.I.C.P.O.A. Item No. 4986, "Translation of Professional
Notebook
of an Ensign in the Japanese Navy," 25 February 1944.
- Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, orders to Col. Harold S.
Fassett, USMC, 15 December 1941.
- Major General Commandant, United States Marine Corps, letter
regarding modification of 3-inch naval ammunition for use by defense
battalion weapons against surface targets, 4 March 1940.
- Hevenor, H.P., private letter regarding status of construction
of
Wake, 20 December 1941.
- Bayler, Walter L.J., Maj. USMC, transcript of original notes
kept
during defense of Wake, 8-20 December 1941.
- "The Reduction of Wake Island," USSBS, 1 July 1946.
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