米国空爆作戦 – U.S. Bombing Strategy

David Fedman and Cary Karacas, A cartographic fade to black: mapping the destruction of urban Japan during World War II, Journal of Historical Geography (2012) 38: 306-328.

Thomas R. Searle. “‘It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers’: The Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945.” The Journal of Military History 66.1 (2002): 103-33.

William Ralph. “Improvised Destruction: Arnold, Lemay, and the Firebombing of Japan.” War in History 13 (2006): 495-522.

Gordon Daniels. “The Great Tokyo Air Raid, 9-10 March 1945.” Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature and Society. Ed. W. G. Beasley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. pp. 113-31 and 278-9.

Conrad Crane. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Press, 1993.

E. Bartlett Kerr. Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Force’s incendiary campaign against Japan, 1944-45. New York: D.I. Fine, 1991.

Michael Sherry. The Rise of American Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987.

Ronald Schaffer. Wings of Judgement: American Bombing in World War II. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Charles Maier. “Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II.” International Review of the Red Cross 87.859 (2005): 429-444.

Mark Wilson. “Making ‘Goop’ out of Lemons: The Permanente Metals Corporation, Magnesium Incendiary Bombs, and the Struggle for Profits During World War II.” Enterprise & Society 12.1 (2011): 10-45.

Mark Selden. Remembering ‘The Good War’: The Atomic Bombing and the Internment of Japanese-Americans in U.S. History Textbooks.

Mark Selden. A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities and the American Way of War from World War II to Iraq.

Wesley Craven and James Lea Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Five, the Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki June 1944 to August 1945. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. An official history of the U.S. strategic bombing campaign against Japan. 

Haywood Hansell. The Strategic Air War against Germany and Japan: A Memoir. USAF Warrior Studies. Eds. Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan. Washington D.C.: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1986.

Alvin Coox. “Air War Against Japan,” in Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority, 1994, edited by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Air Force History and Museums Program: Washington D.C., 383-452.

John Chilstrom. 1993. Mines Away! The Significance of US Army Air Forces Minelaying in World War II, Maxwell Air Force Base, Air University. Part of this thesis discusses “Operation Starvation” – the aerial mining campaign against the Shimonoseki Strait and Japanese ports.

Kreis, J.F. Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War II. Washington D.C.: Bolling AFB, Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996.