Book recomendations on WW2 in the pacific

Stafford's "The Big E" is a good history of Enterprise's (CV-6) operations based on interviews and memories of those on her.  For some short stories of several submarines, "The Silent Service" by Chambliss.  Couple of books out there on Wahoo (SS238), and Richard O'Kane wrote a good one as well.....Morton's XO on Wahoo, later skipper of Tang and POW guest of the Japanese.

Samuel Elliot Morrison's books are a pretty definative look at the Pacific.

So many, so little time.

I recently read "Stay The Rising Sun", the engagement and sinking of the USS Lexington and more broadly the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Very well written book.

I recently read "The Battle of Midway" by Craig Symonds, which is by far the best account of the events leading up to and the campaign itself that I have enjoyed. Symonds is a Distinguished Professor of American Navel History at the USNA; he combines his extensive knowledge of sea operations with the personal narratives of the officers and pilots into a fascinating and factual record.

Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-539793-2

If fiction is more your interest, "The Thin Red Line" is a good book and a pretty good movie.