Preserving much rare and disintegrating information, this comprehensive chronology and fact book provides day-to-day records covering a third of the Pacific war for the first time. Recounts events in the North Pacific between August 1943 and September 1945, revealing the activities of the Allies ...
Preserving much rare and disintegrating information, this comprehensive chronology and fact book provides day-to-day records covering a third of the Pacific war for the first time. Recounts events in the North Pacific between August 1943 and September 1945, revealing the activities of the Allies including the Soviet Union and the Japanese. It identifies the location and activities of units and makes participants "come alive" through short biographies. Appendices with key data, bibliography, maps, charts, and photographs, along with an index, further enrich this little-known history. For all interested in this now forgotten conflict.