The Struggles is a collection of stories about difficult relationships. Those can be relationships within one's own memories, or about struggling to survive, or learning about things beyond one's self. Each story is based on a personal experience, ei...
America begins frantic, last-minute preparations to defend the Philippines from the Japanese. The Philippines garrison is untrained and poorly-equipped with weapons better suited to the Great War of 1914-1918. The Army Air Forces sends the best they ...
The Japanese attacked the Philippines and Malaysia without a declaration of war. America and Great Britain are now at war with Japan. The Japanese think of the American and British colonies and, further south, the Dutch possessions in the Netherlands...
Jack and Charlie Davis, pilots in the USAAF, along with a new companion, Jimmy Ardana, are part of the Allied effort to stop the Japanese at Port Moresby in May 1942. But the Allies have received little in the way of reinforcements, and the only figh...
The Flight So Far By July 1, 1942, the United States has been fighting in the Pacific for nearly seven months. The Japanese advance halted west of Australia at the island of Timor, and from Timor the Japanese stage bombing raids on Darwin. In the nor...
By the end of 1942, the Japanese base at Rabaul on the island of New Britain is still the major strategic factor in two theaters, the South Pacific, which includes Guadalcanal at the southern end of the Solomons chain, and the Southwest Pacific, whic...
Losses in the 8th Air Force day bombing campaign have been high, and with uncertain results. Prime Minister Winston Churchill persuades President Franklin D. Roosevelt to curtail the day bombing campaign in favor of RAF Bomber Command's strategy of b...