Pacific Victory

A look at how the "island-hopping" campaign in the Pacific was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan in 1945 Employing archive color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and first-hand accounts, this history relates the pivotal battles that were part of the American "island-hopping campaign" to the wider struggle against the Japanese in the Pacific. In November 1943, Tarawa tested the doctrine of seaborne assault to the limit in a 76-hour battle. Peleliu in September 1944 was the "u