but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...
In the Pacific Theater, P-38s downed over 1,800 Japanese aircraft, and more than 100 P-38 pilots became “aces.” Before the ...
But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month ... on that lonely island flung in the Pacific Ocean. He was a technical sergeant attached to the U.S. Marine ...