Osprey Men-at-Arms №432. Gary Nila, Robert A. Rolfe. Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces

Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1846031007.The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size. Often wrongly termed "Imperial Marines”, they were in fact sailors led by Naval officers, and traced their origins directly to landing parties from warships.