The Patrol Zone

A new Pacific War book review of We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War, by Robert Schultz and James Shell, has been posted at:
http://www.subsowespac.org/books/we-were-pirates.shtml

American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, by William Manchester.
As a youth in a 1950s working class family, when the Cold War was approaching its highpoint, I recollect occasions when my father would opine that our nation would have been more secure if “Truman had allowed MacArthur to use the atomic bomb against the Chinese and Russians.”1  [...]

The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won The War, by William B. Hopkins.
This new book on the Pacific War takes a fresh look at the operations leading to the Allied defeat of Japan in World War II.  The author employs a regional rather than chronological approach to campaign events. The [...]

It was to be Nautilus’ closest brush with death. The submarine force’s giant had completed a “SpyRon” mission further north, embarking evacuees for transport to Australia.  The second leg of her mission had brought her to the Sulu Archipelago to deliver vital supplies to Lieutenant Frank Young, an Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB) coast watcher.
Young had [...]

On April 18, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur formally assumed command over all the surviving army, navy, and air forces of the Americans, the Australians, British, Dutch, and other Allied forces routed by the Japanese since their offensive on December 7, 1941. His new command covered the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) and was headquartered at [...]

Guerrilla Submarines, by Edward Dissette and Hans Christian Adamson

During his stay at the American fortress on Corregidor as the futile defense of the Philippine Islands began to collapse, General Douglas MacArthur began to develop two ideas that would ultimately pave the way for the return of Allied forces to the occupied islands three years later.
The [...]

Book review of A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives, by Louis Brown.
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“The second volume of Mr. Atkinson’s trilogy on the liberation of Europe hits bookstores Tuesday (as it happens, in the middle of Ken Burns’s World War II series, ‘The War,’ on PBS).
“A longtime correspondent and editor for The Washington Post, the 54-year-old Mr. Atkinson won his second Pulitzer for the trilogy’s opening volume, describing the [...]