Into the rising sun : in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat

• RC 55697
  Patrick K. O'Donnell
  Veterans' firsthand accounts of action in the Pacific theater during World War II.

War stories II : heroism in the Pacific

• RC 61098
  Oliver L. North with Joe Musser
  Former marine Oliver North presents first-person accounts of heroism during World War II in the Pacific theater.

We shall return! : MacArthur's commanders and the defeat of Japan, 1942-1945

• RC 30444
  William M. Leary,  editor
  Covers the contributions of  commanders to Douglas MacArthur's World War II Pacific campaign. Included are "the forgotten men" of World War II.

Return to Midway

• RC 50181
  Robert D. Ballard
  Fifty-six years after the fateful World War II sea and air conflict, underwater explorer Ballard returns in search of the lost ships.
  

Fire in the sky : the air war in the South Pacific

• RC 51168
  Eric M. Bergerud
  In this companion to Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (RC 43849) the author analyzes the air war between Japan and the Allies during the pivotal years of 1942 to 1944.
  

Touched with fire : the land war in the South Pacific

• RC 43849
  Eric M. Bergerud
  Recounts the experiences of Allied soldiers in South Pacific battles against the Japanese from 1942 to 1944.

Return from the River Kwai

• RC 14530
  Joan Blair
  The previously untold story of what happened after the British and Australian POWs built the famed bridge on the River Kwai.
  

Baa baa black sheep

• RC 15187
  Gregory Boyington
  True story of "Pappy" Boyington an unconventional legendary American war hero. This boozing, brawling, hell-for-leather Marine flying ace took a bunch of screwballs and molded them into the terror of the Pacific--the Black Sheep Squadron of World War II. 
  

The Pacific War

• RC 56949
  John Costello
  Comprehensive account of political, economic, and military actions in the Pacific during World War II.
  

Journey among warriors : the memoirs of a marine

• RC 49997
  Victor J. Croizat
  Memoir of a Marine Corps officer who served his country in war and diplomacy for twenty-six years
  

Honor by fire: Japanese Americans at war in Europe and the Pacific

• RC 41457
  Lyn Crost
  A former war correspondent’s account of the Japanese-American men, or nisei, who volunteered for military service during World War II.

Silent wings : the saga of the U.S. Army and Marine combat glider pilots during World War II

• RC 24214
  Gerard M. Devlin
  Comprehensive history of U.S. World War II glider warfare in the Mediterranean, Europe, Burma, and the Pacific.

War without mercy : race and power in the Pacific war

• RC 25306
  John W. Dower
  A history of the war of words that turned the Pacific theater in World War II into a racial contest, pitting the "evil American beasts" against the "yellow Jap monkeys."                         

Tokyo Rose, orphan of the Pacific

• RC 16581
  Masayo Duus
  Story of Iva Toguri, who was tried by the U.S. government as Tokyo Rose, the temptress with the sultry voice who lured GIs to desert their posts on the Pacific battlefront.
  

Unlikely liberators : the men of the100th and 442nd

• RC 31131
  Masayo Umezawa Duus
  Heroic story of the Japanese-Americans who fought valiantly in Europe and more than proved their patriotism.

The Black Sheep : the definitive account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II

• RC 48259
  Bruce Gamble
  Recounts actual events behind the legends of World War II fighters in marine squadron 214.

Class of '42 : marines in WWII 

• RC 56369
  Tucker Giblin
  Author reminisces about his 1942 enlistment in the marines at age seventeen and his subsequent service during World War II.

Guadalcanal : starvation island

• RC 26510
  Eric Hammel
  Fresh material drawn from archival sources and the recollections of one hundred surviving participants on both the U.S. and Japanese sides.

Roar of the tiger

• RC 35102
  James H. Howard.
  The personal account of a Navy pilot who became an ace with the Flying Tigers in the Pacific during World War II.

The Kamikazes

• RC 49713
  Edwin P. Hoyt
  An account of Japan's kamikaze special attack forces that were formed to defend their homeland against the approaching Allies in October 1944.

Storm over the Gilberts : war in the Central Pacific, 1943                   

• RC 53694
  Edwin P. Hoyt
  History of the World War II American naval campaign for the Gilbert Islands to prevent their use by the Japanese.

To the Marianas : war in the central Pacific, 1944

• RC 51499
  Edwin P. Hoyt
  Examines the first successful U.S. amphibious operations in World War II, as American forces moved through the Pacific arena towards Japan, capturing the Mariana and Marshall Islands.
  

Flights of passage : reflections of a World War II aviator

• RC 27938
  Samuel Hynes
  Memoir of a marine dive-bomber pilot in the closing stages of World War II.

Left to die : the tragedy of the USS Juneau

• RC 40089
  Dan Kurzman
  The little-known story of the tragedy of the sinking of the USS Juneau in which ten of seven hundred men survived.

The American magic : codes, ciphers, and the defeat of Japan

• RC 17625
  Ronald Lewin
  A military historian recounts the decisive role of American codebreakers in shortening the war in the Pacific

Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific

• RC 15804
  William Manchester
  Personal story of World War II in which the author returns to the jungle islands where he fought as a Marine Corps sergeant.

The two-ocean war : a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War

• RC 52841
  Samuel Eliot Morison
  Describes the major sea battles and campaigns of World War II, beginning with the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent struggle in the Pacific.

Abandon ship! : the saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's greatest sea disaster

• RC 51773
  Richard F. Newcomb
  Author describes the ordeal faced by survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, which was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1945. He also recounts the court-martial of the ship’s captain, Charles McVay.                        

Zero!

• RC 08766
  Masatake Okumiya
  A history of Japanese military air operations in the Pacific during World War II.

Always faithful : a memoir of the Marine dogs of WWII

• RC 52468
  William W. Putney
  The 1943 commander, also a veterinarian, of the Marines’ Third War Dog Platoon describes the training and duties of the animals he led during World War II.
                          

Sea of sharks : a sailor's World War II survival story

• RC 60551
  Elmer Renner
  Veteran Elmer Renner recounts the sinking of his U.S. Navy minesweeper YMS-472 during a Pacific typhoon in September 1945.
                          
  

Seven came through: Rickenbacker’s full story

• RC 19468
  Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
  Courageous story of war and of men against the sea as Captain Rickenbacker relates his ordeal of twenty-one days adrift on the Pacific Ocean during World War II.                        

The Eagle and the Rising Sun : the Japanese-American war, 1941-1943, Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal

• RC 58057
  lan Schom
  Narrative of the first year and a half of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan.                         

Given up for dead : America's heroic stand at Wake Island

• RC 59200
  Bill Sloan
  Freelance journalist chronicles the battle for the remote U.S. Pacific outpost of Wake Island in December 1941 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

The Big E : the story of the USS Enterprise

• RC 52020
  Edward P. Stafford, U.S.N.
  History of the battles fought in the Pacific by this naval aircraft carrier and its crew during World War II. Reports on participation at Santa Cruz, Kwajalein, Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, among other sites.                         
  

In harm's way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors

• RC 52097
  Doug Stanton
  Recounts the events of July 30, 1945, when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the USS Indianapolis, and the subsequent failure of the navy to begin a timely rescue of its crew.      

But not in shame ; the six months after Pearl Harbor

• RC 11905
  John Toland
  Suspenseful account of the tragic defeats that the United States endured at Wake Island, the Philippines, and in Java Sea during World War II.
  

Long day's journey into war : December 7, 1941

• RC 35443
  Stanley Weintraub
  The author details events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, beginning with a kaleidoscopic view of a world suddenly plunged into global conflict.