PACIFIC WAR
ARTICLES
The Guadalcanal Campaign
Animated map series covering the 1942
Guadalcanal battles that turned the tide of the war in the South Pacific
against the Japanese.
Invasion
of Peleliu
Flash animated combat map series about the September 1944
amphibious attack in the Western Pacific.
Marine Scout on
Saipan
An interview with Guy Gabaldon, the "Pied Piper of Saipan"
who captured 1,500 confirmed Japanese prisoners in countless lone patrols
behind Japanese lines.
Pearl
Harbor Attack
Flash animated combat maps showing Pearl Harbor,
positions of the ships and the order in which Japanese aircraft made their
attack runs. Also includes an overview of the approach routes taken by the
Japanese flights as they passed over Oahu.
Thunder Gods and Kamikazes
About
the Japanese suicide air offensives of World War Two through which the Imperial
Navy attempted to secure victory.
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WWII Summary
The War in
the Pacific 1941-1945.
WWII
Summary
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
The Sinking of the Hyuga and Tone
An
interview with H. Paul Brehm, who served as a U.S. Navy dive bomber pilot in
the Pacific War during 1943 and 1945. He was awarded the Navy Cross for helping
to sink the Japanese battleship IJN Hyuga.
PACIFIC WAR ARCHIVES
The Bombing of Hiroshima,
By Father Johannes Siemes. Copy of a manuscript typed by this German Jesuit
priest in September, 1945, shortly after his personal observation of the August
bombing and its aftermath.
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