translations (documents)

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Handwritten translation by Layton regarding the Battle of Rabuel.

Scope and Contents Series III is comprised of translations of captured German documents made by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Naval History Division, and the translating office in London. The translations were reprodued and distributed in limited numbers."The War Diary of the German Naval Staff, Operations Division," contains a day-by-day summary of information available to the German General Sttaff and the decisions reached on the basis of ...

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Handwritten translation by Layton of a volume from the "Senshi Sōsho" (War History Publications), the official military history of Imperial Japan's involvement in World War II.

This is the first part of Layton's translation of Senshi Sōsho volume 83: Nanto Homen Kaigun Sakusen (Naval operations in the South east area, Volume I, up to the beginning of operations to recapture of Guadalcanal).

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Handwritten translation by Layton of a volume from the "Senshi Sōsho" (War History Publications), the official military history of Imperial Japan's involvement in World War II.

This is the second part of Layton's translation of Senshi Sōsho volume 83: Nanto Homen Kaigun Sakusen (Naval operations in the South east area, Volume I, up to the beginning of operations to recapture of Guadalcanal).

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Translation of "War History Publications #49" from the original Japanese by Layton.

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This notebook includes translations produced by Layton from the original Japanese souces on the following: Air reconnaissance of Petropavlovsk (pg. 1), The air attack on Tokyo April 18, 1942 - the Dolittle Attack (pg. 3), CARDIV 2 - Wake Invasion Reinforcement Force (pg. 31), British PBY shot down (pg. 39), andThe American Float-Plane adrift off Japan (BOISE) (pg. 41).

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Translations prepared by Layton from various Japanese sources.