Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific
by Rex Alan Smith and Gerald A. Meehl
No other book on World War II so vividly surveys, in fascinating narrative and evocative illustration, all aspects of the Pacific War - bringing alive the terrors of charging pointblank into Japanese gunfire on invasion beaches, flying with Doolittle on a one-way trip to bomb Tokyo, living with the tedium of everyday life on support bases miles from the fighting, recklessly attacking Japanese destroyers in plywood PT boats, bearing up under the drudgery of building coral runways on forward bases for the B-29's that relentlessly bombed Japan, and living through swarms of kamikaze attacks on American ships. This book also includes an unprecedented color record, spanning nearly 30 years, of dramatic wartime relics that survived for decades on most of the Pacific island battlefields. Hard cover. 316 pages. B/W archive photos and color photos.
