Derek Law Bibliography

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BERTKE, Donald A., KINDELL, Don & SMITH, Gordon. World War II Sea War, Volume 13: New Guinea, Normandy, and Saipan. 478p. Dayton, OH: Bertke Publications, 2018. ISBN: 9781937470258.

Covers the second quarter of 1944, In April, May and June 1944, there were three major areas of naval conflict: in New Guinea: US and Australian forces landed at Aitape and Hollandia, then at Arare, Wakde and Biak Island. The German navy attacked what they thought was an Allied convoy along the English southwestern coast. They had actually stumbled upon Operation TIGER, the Allied training exercise for the upcoming Normandy landing. This culminated in the Allied landing in Normandy in Operation OVERLORD. In the Pacific: The US landed on Saipan, considered Japanese territory, in Operation FORAGER, which caused the Battle of the Philippine Sea.