Get Yamamoto by Burke Davis

[Jukka Juutinen]

Is the book any good?

[Larry deZeng]

I dunno................does the author speak, read and write Japanese? How much time did he spend in the Japanese archives researching the Japanese side of the story? How much time in RG 38/NARA College Park and/or the "Orange Library" at the Naval Support Activity Center in Crane/Indiana? These and other questions are the ones I would want answers to.

L.

P.S.: the author is a U.S. Civil War specialist, has written scores of books on that and very few other subjects, and the Get Yamamoto title was first published on 1 January 1969 (53 years ago). I think that's all I would need to know!

[Jukka Juutinen]

Larry, the book was translated into Finnish and is available at a local library. By a quick look there are no footnotes, but at the end there is a few pages with some comments on the sources used. For example, he mentions "Admiral Layton" as provider of information.

[Jukka Juutinen]

The book has a bibliography and Davis acknowledges "translators of Japanese material" Dr. Chongham Kim, Dr. Lee Choi, Dr. Teruki Tomita, Michihiro Miyagi and Mrs. Toland. He adds that assistance was received from Yasuji Watanabe, Eiichi Sorimachi and Colonel Susumu Nishiura.

[Larry deZeng]

Layton wrote a couple of books, too, but a long, long time ago. I just wanted to alert you to how old the book is and the fact that there have been several others published since then based on fresh, previously classified records, e.g., the Crane Annex and Nebraska Avenue JN 20 intercepts.

L.

[Jukka Juutinen]

Yes, I did note the book us very old, but I first noted the book because it is available in Finnish. The Finnish edition was published in 1980.

I have Edwin T. Layton's "And I Was There" in my shelves, waiting to be read.

[Jukka Juutinen]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

Layton wrote a couple of books, too, but a long, long time ago. I just wanted to alert you to how old the book is and the fact that there have been several others published since then based on fresh, previously classified records, e.g., the Crane Annex and Nebraska Avenue JN 20 intercepts.

L.

Could you provide a list of the titles/authors of those books based on those recently declassified records?

[Larry deZeng]

Jukka -

Go to this link that lists 200+ books. You should be able to pick out those covering the 1943 shoot-down. Also, any book written in 2000 or later almost certainly will have made use of the intercepts.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=w...o+&fq=dt%3Abks

L. deZ.

[Larry deZeng]

Jukka -

At the above link, see:

003 Dick Lehr, 2021
005 Roberto de Haro, 2009
007 Don Davis, 2006
045 John T. Wible, 1988
058 Daniel Haulman, 2015
106 Dan Hampton, 2020
159 Burke Davis, 1969
161 Bob Alford, 2015
167 Carroll Glines, 1990
180 Si Sheppard et al, 2020

10 books about Operation Vengeance.

L.