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Re: USN TF58 raid 16/17 February 1945
Chris -
It looks like you have searched through the published material about as far as you can. However, there may be one or more postwar English language journal or magazine articles about the raid, but these are difficult to search for unless you are faculty or a student at a university. The indices to these periodicals come with a hefty fee, so usually only university libraries have them or subscribe to them. For example, I know that there was a 2-page article on this strike in the May 1945 issue of Harper's magazine.
If that fails, then the Naval Historical Center at the Navy Yard in Washington may have a number of manuscript after-action reports and studies on the raid. In fact, in Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XIV, Victory in the Pacific 1945 (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1960), there is an 8-page chapter on the 16-17 February carrier strike. In his footnotes, Morison cites at least 7 after-action reports that cover the action of 16-17 February. These reports are all at the Naval Historical Center and in U.S. National Archives Record Group 38. There are hundreds and hundreds of pages of material. The Naval Historical Center also has manuscripts written after the war by Japanese naval officers that describe the Japanese reaction to the strike.
L.
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