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HMS Resolution -> Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 4:43:39 PM)

Hi there! I'm hoping to weasel my way into graduate school for military history in Fall of 2010, and for my sample essay, I'm going to be writing on the Indian Ocean Raid against Ceylon in April of 1942. I have The Most Dangerous Moment, The Somerville Papers, Bloody Shambles, Carrier Observer, the relevant volumes of the British Official Histories, Midway: the Battle that Doomed Japan (which has a little bit on Ceylon), and some more general secondary sources. I've also ordered a number of documents from the PRO: the relevant battle summary (15), the reports on the loss of Hermes, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, and Vampire, the RAF summary of the action, and some other similar stuff.

Does anyone have any further recommendations for source material?



Knavey -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 4:53:54 PM)

Looks like you have a LOT of good reading to do!



Terminus -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 5:14:26 PM)

I'd say you're covered.



Brady -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 5:15:18 PM)

This guy was actualy their and his book recounts some of his experances during this operation.

The Emperor's Sea Eagle: A Memoir of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Abe Zenji

http://www.arizonamemorialbookstore.org/browse.cfm/4,276.html



Barb -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 6:00:32 PM)

You could try to look also for some FAA books. There were 803rd and 806th FAA squadrons and 273rd RAF squadron has some FAA pilots too. (But i think their actions are also covered in Bloody Shambles 2)



m10bob -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 6:34:09 PM)

For me, one of the "bibles" of WW2 carrier ops in the Pacific (and Indian Oceans) is still an oldie called TITANS OF THE SEAS by the Belotes..



anarchyintheuk -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 7:58:14 PM)

Battle History of the IJN (something like that) by Paul S. Dull.



String -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 8:00:03 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Battle History of the IJN (something like that) by Paul S. Dull.


Now that's a name to write history books with.



HMS Resolution -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 8:06:28 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Battle History of the IJN (something like that) by Paul S. Dull.


Yup, got that one.

I wish I spoke---or more usefully, read---Japanese. I bet there's a lot in that language that hasn't percolated over here.



Hornblower -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 9:46:06 PM)

Good luck with the Studies!! 



anarchyintheuk -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/27/2009 9:50:45 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: String


quote:

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Battle History of the IJN (something like that) by Paul S. Dull.


Now that's a name to write history books with.


Unfortunately, he lives up to it sometimes. [;)]



timtom -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/28/2009 1:14:22 AM)

H.P.Willmott has a chapter or two on the raid in "Empires in the Balance". Might be useful to check out what Churchill, Brooke etc has to say about it also. Looking at the official US histories might give an idea how the event was perceived there (if at all) - what's left out is as important as what's not.



HMS Resolution -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/28/2009 1:41:25 AM)

I do have Wilmott, Churchill, and Brooke's unexpurgated diaries, too. Don't have Morison.



Hornblower -> RE: Good sources on the Indian Ocean Raid in April 1942? (5/29/2009 3:59:20 AM)

Toland's books might be of intrest.."But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor."  I've had this since i was 10.  Good read for the first 6 months of the war.  Biased on the US side, but still good background info.  And "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" ..  Also, i think the folks on this forum are quotable too.  Hell, if we put our heads together, we could put together the best darn multi-volume set on the Pac war out there...  However some people would need to be edited more then others..  [:-]



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