Pertempuran Saipan

Pertempuran Saipan adalah sebuah pertempuran di teater Pasifik selama Perang Dunia II yang terjadi di pulau Saipan yang merupakan bagian dari kepulauan Mariana. Pertempuran ini terjadi antara Amerika Serikat dan Jepang dari tanggal 15 Juni 1944 sampai tanggal 9 Juli 1944. Tentara Amerika Serikat dapat menaklukan tentara Jepang yang dikomando oleh Yoshitsugu Saito.

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Daftar pustaka

• Denfeld, D. Colt (1997). Hold the Marianas: The Japanese Defense of the Mariana Islands. White Mane Pub. ISBN 1-57249-014-4. 
• Goldberg, Harold J. (2007). D-day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34869-2. 
• Jones, Don (1986). Oba, The Last Samurai. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-245-X. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001 (reissue)). New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944, vol. 8 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07038-0. 
• O'Brien, Francis A. (2003). Battling for Saipan. Presdio Press. ISBN 0-89141-804-0. 
• Petty, Bruce M. (2001). Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War. McFarland and Company. ISBN 0-7864-0991-6. 
• Rottman, Gordon (2004). Saipan & Tinian 1944: Piercing the Japanese Empire. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-804-9. 
• Sauer, Howard (1999). "Torpedoed at Saipan". The Last Big-Gun Naval Battle: The Battle of Surigao Strait. Palo Alto, California: The Glencannon Press. ISBN 1-889901-08-3. - Firsthand account of naval gunfire support by a crewmember of USS Maryland.

Pranala luar

• Chen, C. Peter. ""The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot"". World War II Database. Diakses tanggal 2005-05-31. 
• Saipan -- a 2nd Marine Division pamphlet describing certain expected features of the invasion and combat, including the presence of a large civilian population.
• Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan (Marines in World War II Commemorative Series)
• Banzai charge in Saipan: Gyokusai (Jepang) Suicide for the Emperor?
• Hoffman, Major Carl W., USMC (1950). "Saipan: The Beginning of the End". USMC Historical Monograph. Historical Branch, United States Marine Corps. Diakses tanggal 2005-12-19. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
• "U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Western Pacific". CMH Pub 72-29, U.S. Army Center of Military History. 2003. Diakses tanggal 2004-11-03. 
• Woo, John (Director). (2002) Windtalkers [Feature-length film]. (Filmed in Hawaii and southern California): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).