John Costello, The Pacific War: 1941-1945
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-War-1941-1945-John-Costello/dp/0688016200/ref=sr_1_1?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-1&keywords=Pacific
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William Hopkins, The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-War-Strategy-Politics-Players/dp/0760339759/ref=sr_1_4?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-4&keywords=Pacific
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Eric Bergerud, Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sky-Air-South-Pacific/dp/0813338697/ref=sr_1_5?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-5&keywords=Pacific
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Roger Dingman, Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War
https://www.amazon.com/Deciphering-Rising-Sun-Codebreakers-Interpreters/dp/1591142113/ref=sr_1_6?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-6&keywords=Pacific
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Francis Catanzaro, With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific: A Foot Soldier's Story
https://www.amazon.com/41st-Division-Southwest-Pacific-Soldiers/dp/0253341426/ref=sr_1_9?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-9&keywords=Pacific
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Stanley C. Jersey, Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal
https://www.amazon.com/Hell%C2%92s-Islands-Guadalcanal-Williams-Ford-University/dp/1585446165/ref=sr_1_13?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-13&keywords=Pacific
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Richard Frank, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
https://www.amazon.com/Guadalcanal-Definitive-Account-Landmark-Battle/dp/0140165614/ref=sr_1_15?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-15&keywords=Pacific
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Larry Smith, Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Iwo-Jima-Veterans-Remember-Greatest/dp/0393334910/ref=sr_1_7?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-7&keywords=Pacific
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Bill Sloan, Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
https://www.amazon.com/Brotherhood-Heroes-Marines-1944---Bloodiest/dp/0743260104/ref=sr_1_2?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-2&keywords=Pacific
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Ken Estes, US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1941-45: Pacific
https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Corps-Tank-Crewman-1941/dp/1841767174/ref=sr_1_3?m=A374VS59X5ED68&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1475441880&sr=1-3&keywords=Pacific
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'The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II' by Bill Sloan is worth a read as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Land-South-Pacific/dp/0140246967/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475445116&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=erick+bergerund
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https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Crucible-War-Sea-1941-1942/dp/0393343413/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1475445165&sr=8-3&keywords=ian+toll
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https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Tide-Pacific-Islands-1942-1944/dp/0393353206/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475445165&sr=8-1&keywords=ian+toll
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Nice thread! John Toland's Rising Sun.
Beans, bullets, and black oil : the story of fleet logistics afloat in the Pacific during World War II
https://archive.org/details/beansbulletsbla00cart
...not only beans, bullets and oil - the book has some on ice cream, butter and 8000 cases of 'missing' beer, too!
reads like one of these spreadsheet aar's of witp-ae = really enlightening stuff!
Love Touched by Fire; it's one of my yearly must read books and it makes me thankful for my time in the desert rather than a festering jungle.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Inferno-U-S-Navy-Guadalcanal/dp/0553385127
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Midway/dp/1574889249
Japanese Destroyer Captain. I've had a copy in my library since 1970. An outstanding book
https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Destroyer-Captain-Guadalcanal-Battles/dp/1591143845