Bates, R.W. War College Analysis (Four volumes): The Battle of Leyte Gulf - The Battle of Surigao Strait . (Note, this is accessible at the Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.)

Boeichio. Boei Kenshugjo. [Japan National Institute for Defense Studies]. Senshi sosho [Official History]. Vol. 56: Kaigun shogo sakusen [Sho naval operations]. Tokyo: Asagumo shimbunsha, 1972.

Bulkeley, Capt. Robert J. Jr. At Close Quarters. Washington, Naval History Division, 1962.

Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Naval Institute Press, 1978.

Field., James A. The Japanese at Leyte Gulf. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.

Ito, Masanori and Pineau, Roger. The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1956.

Maru Magazine. Japanese Battleships in Action WW II. No. 116. Tokyo: Maruzen, 1978.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. XII, Leyte. Vol XIII, Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1949-1962. 1988 edition.

Naval Technical Mission to Japan, (NavTech) Summaries. Index S-06-3. Prados, John. Combined Fleet Decoded. New York: Random House, 1995.

Skulsko-i, Janusz. The Battleship Fuso. Conway's Maritime Press, 1999.

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Toland, John. The Rising Sun. New York: Random House, 1971.

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific). The Campaigns of the Pacific War. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.

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Woodward, C. Vann. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. New York, McMillan, 1947.

Microfilm reels of Japanese records used:

JD 2, 3, 4 Sho I (Battles off Leyte) October 1944, First Striking Force, Third Section & Second Striking Force participants.

JD 9 WD CA Mogami, October - 1944