During the spring of 1942, the Japanese war machine was bulldozing its way through the South Pacific at breakneck speed. The disastrous attack on Pearl Harbor combined with the surrender of Guam and ...

TORPEDO 8—Ira Wolfert—Houghton Mifflin ($2). Torpedo 8, fruit of NANA Correspondent Ira Wolfert’s three-month stay in the South Pacific, is a report of U.S. air fighting in the Solomons. Terse and ...

June 4 marked the 70th anniversary of the pivotal engagement in the three-day Battle of Midway. In just over five minutes, U.S. Navy dive bombers attacked and sank four Japanese aircraft carriers.

PENSACOLA -- Navy seaplane pilot S.O. "Pappy" Cole took a vote of his eight fellow crew members before trying to rescue a downed aviator floating alone in the Pacific Ocean after the Battle of Midway.