Pacific in eruption -- Awakening in the Pacific -- Rise of the Japanese empire -- America goes to war in the Pacific -- U.S. and the Philippines -- Navy holds, 1942 -- Guadalcanal: America's first offensive -- War in the north: the Aleutians -- Attack in the Central Pacific: Makin and Tarawa -- War at sea -- Road back: New Guinea -- Up the Solomon's ladder: Bouganville.

Speeding up the attack: The Marshalls -- Stepping stones to the Philippines -- Palau: the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge -- MacArthur returns to the Philippines -- Battle for the Marianas -- War in the China-Burma-India theater -- Bloody Iwo -- At Japan's doorstep: Okinawa -- Air war on Japan -- Surrender and occupation of Japan -- Shifting tides in the Orient -- War in Korea.