World War II - Pacific

Pvt. Joseph McDonald receives the radar message from Opana Point but cannot get anyone to believe him about the incoming Japanese planes until it is t...

Japan surrenders on August 14, 1945, just eight days after the US drops an atom bomb on Hiroshima.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle believes that land-based planes, B-25 Mitchells, can reach Japan and drop bombs from navy ships not accustomed to carrying an...

On December 8, 1941, following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt declares war.

African-American Dorie Miller works in the West Virgina's galley, but when the bombs fall, he assists the ship's captain, fires a machine gun and earn...