| Chapter 1 |
| 1.1 |
USS Saratoga - One of Commodore Perry's Black Ships that opened Japan to the West |
| 1.2 |
The Young Emperor Meiji 1872, four years after the Meiji Restoration |
| 1.3 |
The last Shogun - Tokugawa Yoshinobu |
| 1.4 |
The Head of the Satsuma Clan and retainers, 1866 |
| 1.5 |
Japanese soldiers during the Boshin War that overthrew the shogunate |
| 1.6 |
Japanese Soldiers during first Sino-Japanese War |
| 1.7 |
Japanese soldiers being waved off to fight in the Russo-Japanese War |
| 1.8 |
Japanese siege gun at Port Arthur |
| 1.9 |
Russian troops awaiting Japanese advance in Russo-Japanese War, 1904 |
| 1.10 |
The Russian battleship Oslyabya, sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905 |
| 1.11 |
Russian ships sunk or scuttled outside Vladivostok |
| 1.12 |
Russian soldiers entrenched at the Battle of Mukden |
| 1.13 |
Bedraggled Russian Army after the Battle of Mukden |
| 1.14 |
President Wilson, Prime Minister Clemenceau and Prime Minister Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference |
| 1.15 |
A League of Nations Assembly |
| 1.16 |
Crown Prince Hirohito with British Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1921 |
| 1.17 |
Documents being signed at the Washington Naval Conference, 1922 |
| 1.18 |
Briand, Merrick and Kellogg at the signing of the Kellog-Briand Pact for renunciation of war |
| 1.19 |
Last Emperor Puyi in the Forbidden City, 1912 |
| 1.20 |
Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling (younger sister of Meiling, Mde Chiang Kai-shek) |
| 1.21 |
The Young Chiang Kai-shek |
| Chapter 2 |
| 2.1 |
Delegates at the London Naval Conference including US Secretary of State Lewis Stimson, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Reijiro Wakatsuki and Prime Mininster Andre Tardieu |
| 2.2 |
Prime Minister Jeijiro Wakatsuki: London Naval Conference |
| 2.3 |
Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi |
| 2.4 |
Mukden Incident: Japanese troops celebrating |
| 2.5 |
Japan's South Manchuria Railway Company |
| 2.6 |
Civilians accused of helping the 15th May Incident |
| 2.7 |
Rebel troops engaged in the coup d'etat of the 26 February Incident |
| 2.8 |
Navy Marines brought to quash the rebels troops of the 26 February 1936 incident |
| 2.9 |
A youngish Emperor Hirohito |
| 2.10 |
Prince Saionji Kinmochi, the last Genre who survived an assassination attempt during the 26th February Incident, 1936 |
| Chapter 3 |
| 3.1 |
Japanese troops marching across the Marco Polo Bridge |
| 3.2 |
Japanese troops deploying at the Battle of Taiyuan |
| 3.3 |
Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (Kaigun Tokubetsu Rikusentai) at the Battle of Shanghai 1937 |
| 3.4 |
Japanese light tank in Shanghai |
| 3.5 |
Japanese troops celebrate the capture of a railway station in Shanghai |
| 3.6 |
Japanese officer about to behead a Chinese man in Shanghai |
| 3.7 |
Chinese planes bomb Shanghai |
| 3.8 |
Chinese baby after a Japanese bombing attack on Shanghai |
| 3.9 |
Chinese man beheaded during the Rape of Nanking |
| 3.10 |
The Rape of Nanking - slaughtered children |
| 3.11 |
Images from the massacre of women and children at Nanking |
| 3.12 |
The Rape of Nanking - Decapitated Heads |
| 3.13 |
FDR - Quarantine Speech, 5 October 1937 |
| 3.14 |
Cordell Hull |
| 3.15 |
Japanese troops march to the Battle of Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol) 1939 |
| 3.16 |
Nakajima Ki-27 at the Battle of Nomonhan |
| 3.17 |
Soviet troops advance behind tank at the Battle of Nomonhan |
| 3.18 |
Japanese troops occupying Vietnam |
| 3.19 |
Operation Barbarossa - Germany invades the Soviet Union |
| 3.20 |
Emperor Hirohito the God |
| 3.21 |
Hirohito in military uniform during the Pacific War |
| 3.22 |
Emperor Hirohito as Commander-in-chief |
| 3.23 |
Cartoon of US oil embargo of Japan |
| 3.24 |
Churchill and Roosevelt meet aboard HMS Prince of Wales, Newfoundland August 1941 |
| 3.25 |
Atlantic Charter: Roosevelt and Churchill meet aboard USS Augusta, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland 14 August 1941 |
| 3.26 |
Atlantic Charter 14 August 1941 |
| Chapter 4 |
| 4.1 |
Construction of Tennessee Valley Authority Dam - 1930s |
| 4.2 |
Ford's Highland Park Plant and one day's production of the Model T |
| 4.3 |
Ford's St. Paul plant assembly line 1935 |
| 4.4 |
Demonstration during tThe Great Depression |
| 4.5 |
Soup Kitchen in the Great Depression |
| 4.6 |
Yokosuka shipyard building a Japanee warship |
| 4.7 |
Admiral Harold Stark, author of Plan Dog |
| 4.8 |
General Claire Chennault, founder of the 'Flying Tigers' |
| 4.9 |
Soong Meiling with General Claire Chennault and Chiang Kai-shek |
| 4.10 |
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Ambassador Nomura |
| 4.11 |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Harry Dexter White - supposedly a Soviet spy at the heart of the US government |
| 4.12 |
Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoe - second term ended 14 October 1944 |
| 4.13 |
Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo who took over from Prince Konoe in October 1941 |
| Chapter 5 |
| 5.1 |
USS Maryland and a capsized USS Oklahoma, 7th December 1941 |
| 5.2 |
Wrecked US ships at Pearl |
| 5.3 |
Boeing B-17 bomber destroyed at Hickham Field, Haiwaii, 7th December 1941 |
| 5.4 |
Japanese Zero fighters preparing for take-off for attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 5.5 |
Japanese Zero fighters headed for Pearl Harbor |
| 5.6 |
Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor |
| 5.7 |
Japanese flagship Akagi at Pearl Harbor |
| 5.8 |
US battleships at anchor in Pearl Harbor |
| 5.9 |
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 5.10 |
Admiral Chuichi Nagumo |
| Chapter 6 |
| 6.1 |
General Homma's Army deploys in the Philippines |
| 6.2 |
Manila before the Japanese Invasion |
| 6.3 |
Wrecked US Seversky P-35 at Nichols Field, Luzon 10 December 1941 |
| 6.4 |
Generals MacArthur [right] and Wainwright [left] |
| 6.5 |
General Masaharu Homma |
| 6.6 |
Bataan Death March |
| 6.7 |
Homma's victorious army celebrates beside one of Corregidor Island's guns |
| 6.8 |
Entrance to Malinta Hill, Corregidor after the US surrender |
| Chapter 7 |
| 7.1 |
General Tomoyuki Yamashita - 'The Tiger of Malaya' |
| 7.2 |
Colonel Masanobu Tsuji - Yamashita's strategic planner |
| 7.3 |
Japan's Bicycle Blitzkreig |
| 7.4 |
Japanse troops in street fighting in Kuala Lumpur |
| 7.5 |
Gloucester Gladiators were no match for Mitsubishi Zeros |
| 7.6 |
Mitsubishi Zero Fighters armed with bombs |
| 7.7 |
Outdated RAF Brewster Buffalo fighters |
| 7.8 |
HMS Prince of Wales |
| 7.9 |
Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales |
| 7.10 |
Mitsubishi G4M 'Betty' Bombers in attack formation |
| 7.11 |
Australian anti-tank gun at the Battle of Muar |
| 7.12 |
Royal Engineers preparing to blow up bridge near Kuala Lumpur |
| 7.13 |
Lieutenant-General Percival, commander of British forces in Malaya |
| Chapter 8 |
| 8.1 |
British surrender in Singapore |
| 8.2 |
Victorious Japanese celebrate II |
| 8.3 |
General Hitoshi Immamura at the Fall of Singapore |
| 8.4 |
Chinese victims of Japanese bombing at the Fall of Singapore |
| 8.5 |
Allied POWs after Singapore |
| 8.6 |
Japanese shooting blindfold Sikh prisoners |
| 8.7 |
Victorious Japanese troops marching through Fullerton Square, Singapore |
| Chapter 9 |
| 9.1 |
Victorious Japanese troops in front of the Governor's House, Rangoon, March 1942 |
| 9.2 |
POWs laying track on the Thai-Burma Railway |
| 9.3 |
'Flying Tiger' Pilot Tex Hill with Curtis P-40 Warhawk fighter at Toungoo, Burma, Autumn 1941 |
| 9.4 |
'Flying Tigers' |
| 9.5 |
Maintenance Work on 'Flying Tiger' Curtis P-40 Warhawk at base in Kunming |
| 9.6 |
Curtis P-40 Warhawk Flying Tiger close up |
| 9.7 |
Stilwell leading his small band out of Burma by foot |
| 9.8 |
Final Stages of the retreat from Burma |
| Chapter 10 |
| 10.1 |
Japanese women prepare silkworm cocoons |
| 10.2 |
Japanese troops storm a beach in the Dutch East Indies |
| 10.3 |
Dutch POWs on Java |
| 10.4 |
Allied prisoners taken by the Japanese in Dutch East Indies |
| 10.5 |
Japanese Invasion of Java |
| 10.6 |
Royal Netherlands East Indies Troops on Java |
| 10.7 |
Japanese biking in the Dutch East Indies |
| 10.8 |
Heavy cruiser RNL De Ruyter, Admiral Doorman's flagship, which was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea |
| 10.9 |
HMS Exeter off Sumatra in 1942 |
| 10.10 |
Surviving crew from HMS Exeter, mortally damaged at the Battle of the Java Sea, were picked up Japanese destroyers and incarcerated on the Celebes for three and half years |
| 10.11 |
Admiral Karel Doorman killed at the Battle of the Java Sea |
| Chapter 11 |
| 11.1 |
Mitchell B-25s lined up on the deck of USS Hornet April 1942 |
| 11.2 |
Mitchell B-25 bomber takes off from USS Hornet to bomb Japan, 18 April 1942 |
| 11.3 |
Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his raiders on board USS Hornet |
| 11.4 |
Admiral Chester Nimitz [left] and Admiral 'Bull' Halsey [right] |
| 11.5 |
Anglophobe Admiral King standing behind FDR and Churchill |
| 11.6 |
Churchill and Roosevelt at the Arcadia Conference 1 January 1942 |
| Chapter 12 |
| 12.1 |
USS Lexington burning at the Battle of the Coral Sea: May 1942 |
| 12.2 |
USS Neosho burning at the Battle of the Coral Sea |
| 12.3 |
USS Lexington seen from USS Yorktown during the Battle of the Coral Sea |
| 12.4 |
USS Lexington under Attack at the Battle of the Coral Sea |
| 12.5 |
Admiral Jack Fletcher |
| 12.6 |
Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue |
| Chapter 13 |
| 13.1 |
TBD's (torpedo bombers) on USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Midway |
| 13.2 |
The Battle of Midway - shell fire |
| 13.3 |
The Battle of Midway - aerial view |
| 13.4 |
The Yorktown before it has to be abandoned |
| 13.5 |
Admiral Raymond Spruance |
| Chapter 14 |
| 14.1 |
Australian soldiers along the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.2 |
'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' Angels, native Papuans carrying Australian wounded on Kokoda Trail |
| 14.3 |
Australians climbing the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.4 |
Artillery pieces for 25-pounders being hauled up the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.5 |
Australian patrol on the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.6 |
A rest break on the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.7 |
Eora Village during the Battle of Isurava on 27 Aug 1942: Kokoda Trail |
| 14.8 |
US supply drops on the Kokoda Trail |
| 14.9 |
Japanese soldiers with captured Austalians on Kokoda Trail |
| 14.10 |
Australian troops at the Battle of Milne Bay |
| Chapter 15 |
| 15.1 |
Marines land on Tulagi Beach 7 August 1942 |
| 15.2 |
USS Quincy in Japanese spotlights before being sunk at the Battle of Savo Island |
| 15.3 |
US Marines landing on Guadalcanal |
| 15.4 |
Japanese troops killed on the beaches as they tried to flank the US troops at the Battle of Tenaru |
| 15.5 |
Marines at prepare makeshift defences on Guadalcanal |
| 15.6 |
US Marine Corps tanks after the Battle of Tenaru |
| 15.7 |
A US Marine looks at a Japanese 70mm howitzer after the Battle of Tenaru |
| 15.8 |
Stuart M3A1 used at the Battle of Tenaru |
| 15.9 |
Martin Clemens with his Solomon Island native troops who acted as intelligence spotters |
| 15.10 |
Wildcat fighters and pilots of the Cactus Airforce on Guadalcanal |
| 15.11 |
Admiral Richmond Kelly 'Terrible' Turner |
| 15.12 |
Rear Admiral Sir Victor Crutchley, commander of Allied fleet at the Battle of Savo Island |
| 15.13 |
Seabees constructing an airfield on Guadalcanal |
| 15.14 |
A rare group of Japanese POWs on Guadalcanal |
| 15.15 |
Saburo Sakai |
| 15.16 |
Japanese ace pilot Saburo Sakai |
| 15.17 |
Thompson Machine Gun |
| 15.18 |
Air Cooled Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine gun as used at Guadalcanal |
| 15.19 |
Japanese Type 99 Light Machine gun, also known as the Nambu Model 11 |
| 15.20 |
Type 92 air cooled Japanese heavy machine gun |
| 15.21 |
US M3 Canon could be used as an anti-tank weapon or against attacking infantry |
| 15.22 |
Pack howitzer 75mm |
| 15.23 |
USS Enterprise under attack and on fire at the Naval Battle of the East Solomons |
| 15.24 |
TBF Dive bomber above the USS Enterprise at the Battle of the East Solomons |
| 15.25 |
Lunga point, the location of the Battle of Henderson Field |
| 15.26 |
Marine with a Thompson Machine gun takes a break at the Battle of Henderson Field |
| Chapter 16 |
| 16.1 |
US Marine at the Battle of Edson's Ridge |
| 16.2 |
US Marine stands on Hill 123 after the Battle of Edson's Ridge |
| 16.3 |
Dead Japanese troops near Hill 123 after the Battle of Edson's Ridge |
| 16.4 |
Wire defences at the jungles edge in front of Edson's Ridge |
| 16.5 |
Douglas Dauntless bomber destroyed by Japanese attack on Henderson Field |
| 16.6 |
Henderson Airfield, Lunga Point |
| 16.7 |
US airacobra at Henderson Field in October 1942 |
| 16.8 |
USS Wasp torpedoed and sunk on 15 September 1942 |
| 16.9 |
Torpedo damage to North Carolina in same attack by I-19 that sunk USS Wasp |
| Chapter 17 |
| 17.1 |
USS Duncan in the South Pacific before being sunk at the Battle of Cape Esperance |
| 17.2 |
Heavy Cruiser Furutaka sunk at the Battle of Cape Esperance |
| 17.3 |
Curtis P-39 Airacobra at Henderson Field |
| 17.4 |
Damaged Japanese plane dives toward USS Hornet at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands |
| 17.5 |
Mitsubishi A6M taking off at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands |
| 17.6 |
USS Boise at the Battle of Cape Esperance |
| 17.7 |
Battleship USS South Dakota took 26 hits at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal |
| 17.8 |
USS South Dakota fires at Japanese torpedo plane at the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal |
| Chapter 18 |
| 18.1 |
US 32nd Division at work building a roadway at Buna Airfield |
| 18.2 |
32nd Division troops wading a creek on their way to Buna |
| 18.3 |
Japanese positions at Gona being bombed by RAAF |
| 18.4 |
Australian machine gun post at the Battle of Buna |
| 18.5 |
US 32nd Division mortar at the Battle of Buna |
| 18.6 |
Japanese corpses on the beach at Guna |
| 18.7 |
Australian wounded at the Battle of Sanananda |
| 18.8 |
Japanese dead beside a pill-box at the Battle of Buna |
| 18.9 |
Australian soldiers take a break on the Sanananda Track |
| 18.10 |
US soldiers of 32nd Division take a nap a few hundred yards from Japanese lines at Buna-Gona |
| 18.11 |
Weary US soldier after the Battle of Buna |
| 18.12 |
General Eicrhelberger and staff at the Battle of Buna-Gona-Sanananda |
| Chapter 19 |
| 19.1 |
USS Minneapolis with torpedo damage after the Battle of Tassafaronga |
| 19.2 |
A camouflaged USS New Orleans a few days after she was torpedoed at the Battle of Tassafaronga |
| 19.3 |
USS Pensacola damaged at the Battle of Tassafaronga |
| 19.4 |
US Navy's Newport Rhode Island Torpedo Station |
| 19.5 |
Naval Station Rhode Island 1944 |
| Chapter 20 |
| 20.1 |
Low level attack on Japanese transport at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea |
| 20.2 |
Mitchell B-25 gunship at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea |
| 20.3 |
General Kenney [right] with General MacArthur [left] |
| 20.4 |
Captain Paul 'Pappy' Gunn [second from right] with B-25 crew |
| Chapter 21 |
| 21.1 |
Admiral Yamamoto's crashed Mitsubishi 'Betty' bomber |
| 21.2 |
A flight of 18 Lockheed Lightning P-39s intercept Yamamoto's plane |
| 21.3 |
US GIs on patrol on New Georgia |
| 21.4 |
US troops of 172nd Infantry wade through swamps at the Battle of Munda Airfield, 1943 |
| 21.5 |
US troops haul 155mm gun on Rendova to bombard Munda Airfield |
| 21.6 |
An LSD [Landing Ship, Dock] approaches Rendova Harbor through the Renard Channel |
| Chapter 22 |
| 22.1 |
Australian troops exiting the Ramu Valley on their way from Lae to Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.2 |
Australian 2/27th Battalion at Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.3 |
Australian dug in at Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.4 |
Lt. E.V. Stephenson and Signalman JJ O'Connor establishing a signal post at the Battle for Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.5 |
Mortar ammunition being carried up to the front line at Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.6 |
Corporal Mervyn Hall lying wounded and in pain after singlehandedly wiping out a Japanese pill-box at Shaggy Hill |
| 22.7 |
Sergeant Stone leads a Papuan Infantry Patrol after the Battle of Shaggy Ridge |
| 22.8 |
Lt. John Featherstone RAAF [left] studies aerial photographs of the Ramu Valley |
| 22.9 |
First wave of 5th Cavalry land at Los Negros |
| 22.10 |
Vice-Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and General MacArthur on the bridge of USS Phoenix at Los Negros |
| 22.11 |
MacArthur decorates Lieutenant Marvin Henshaw of 5th Cavalry, first man ashore on Los Negros |
| 22.12 |
MacArthur on Los Negros |
| 22.13 |
112th Cavalry moving through a coconut plantation at Arawe near Cape Gloucester on the western tip of New Britain |
| 22.14 |
A US tank in a swamp at Cape Gloucester |
| Chapter 23 |
| 23.1 |
Admiral Halsey and General Geiger watch soldiers go ashore on Bougainville |
| 23.2 |
GI takes a drink on Bougainville |
| 23.3 |
Marine 3rd Division troops slog through a quagmire on Bougainville |
| 23.4 |
American troops follow a Sherman tank on Bougainville |
| 23.5 |
Marines of the 3rd Division landing under fire at Cape Torokina |
| 23.6 |
Artillery firing at Hill 260 |
| 23.7 |
Black GIs of the 93rd Infantry Division on Bougainville |
| 23.8 |
USS Columbia and USS Montpelier firing at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay |
| Chapter 24 |
| 24.1 |
The Battle of Kohima |
| 24.2 |
Indian soldiers at the Battle of Imphal |
| 24.3 |
British mortars at the Battle of Imphal |
| 24.4 |
British Hurricane fighter based at Manipur attacks Japanese target during Battle of Imphal-Kohima |
| 24.5 |
British Gurkha forces advance with Lee M3 tanks at the Battle of Imphal |
| Chapter 25 |
| 25.1 |
Vinegar Jo cleans his Thompson machine-gun during the 'walk out' of Burma |
| 25.2 |
Japanese troops with heavy machine gun during Operation Ichigo 1944 |
| 25.3 |
Chinese Soldiers outside a defensive bunker |
| 25.4 |
Type 97 Chi-Ha tank during Operation Ichigo |
| 25.5 |
Colonel Frank Merrill and General Stilwell at the Battle of Myitkyina |
| 25.6 |
US Mule train heading toward Myikyina |
| 25.7 |
Merrill's Marauders before the Myitkyina campaign |
| 25.8 |
General Sun, Chinese commander of X-Force |
| 25.9 |
Mao Zedong with FDR's emissary Patrick Hurley |
| 25.10 |
The Ledo Road |
| 25.11 |
The Ledo road meet the Burma Road |
| 25.12 |
American and Chinese soldiers planting flags on the Ledo Road |
| Chapter 26 |
| 26.1 |
FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek at the Cairo Conference 22 November 1943 |
| 26.2 |
From Left - Meiling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) Ailing (wife of China richest businessman, HH Kung) and Chingling (wife of Sun Yat-sen) |
| 26.3 |
The Dixie Mission photographed with Mao Zedong |
| 26.4 |
Madame Chiang Kai-shek about to make an address at the Hollywood Bowl |
| 26.5 |
Madame Chiang Kai-shek meets Marlene Dietrich in Hollywood |
| Chapter 27 |
| 27.1 |
US troops of 42st and 24th Divisions led by Lieutenant-General Eichelbergerlanding at Hollandia |
| 27.2 |
Waterfront facilities established by US Army at Hollandia |
| 27.3 |
US patrol over Hollandia |
| 27.4 |
Wrecked Japanese airfield at Hollandia after a US bombing raid |
| 27.5 |
Unloading US troops and equipment on Biak Island |
| 27.6 |
Port facilities created at Biak after the battle |
| 27.7 |
US Soldier covering fox hole with pistol at the Battle of Driniumor River |
| 27.8 |
US medics moving to the front at Aitape |
| 27.9 |
US troops wading across the Driniumor River |
| 27.10 |
Pulling a truck from a mud-hole on Morotai Beach |
| 27.11 |
US dump of crashed aircraft on Morotai Island |
| 27.12 |
General Adachii, commander of Japanese Army in the South Pacific |
| 27.13 |
General Adachii before signing the instrument of surrender |
| Chapter 28 |
| 28.1 |
Marines taking cover at Battle of Tarawa |
| 28.2 |
LVT [Landing Vehicle Tractor] destroyed at the Battle of Tarawa |
| 28.3 |
US troops and supply landing on Tarawa Atoll |
| 28.4 |
Tarawa beach after the Battle |
| 28.5 |
Marines wading ashore at Tarawa Atoll |
| 28.6 |
Admiral Richmond 'Terrible' Turner |
| 28.7 |
24th Marines at Battle of Roi-Namur |
| 28.8 |
A rare event: Japanese soldier surrenders at Battle of Roi-Namur |
| 28.9 |
Marines display captured Japanese flag at the Battle of Eniwetok |
| 28.10 |
Marine checks that a Japanese soldier is not faking death |
| 28.11 |
US Marines at Eniwetok |
| Chapter 29 |
| 29.1 |
Curtiss Helldiver above USS Yorktown |
| 29.2 |
US crew watches fighter plane contrails during the Battle of the Philippine Sea [the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot] |
| 29.3 |
Lieutenant Alexander Vraciu holds up fingers to show the number of Japanese planes downed on 19 June 1944 |
| 29.4 |
Japanese ships being attacked at the Battle of the Philippine Sea [the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot] |
| 29.5 |
Grumman torpedo bomber in crash landing |
| 29.6 |
Admiral Mitscher greeting fighter ace Vraciu in public relations shot |
| 29.7 |
Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, commander of the Japanese fleet at the Battle of the Philippine Sea |
| 29.8 |
Anti-aircraft gunners watch a carrier landing during the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot |
| 29.9 |
Anti-aircraft gunners in action on USS Hornet during the Battle of the Philippine Sea |
| 29.10 |
Nakajima B6N torpedo bomber preparing to take off from carrier Zuikaku during the Battle of the Philippine Sea |
| Chapter 30 |
| 30.1 |
Marines landing on Saipan |
| 30.2 |
American Marine on hands and knees landing on Saipan |
| 30.3 |
Landing craft heading toward Saipan |
| 30.4 |
LSTs landing US troops at Saipan |
| 30.5 |
Paying respects to the dead on Saipan |
| 30.6 |
A captured Japanese flag being displayed on Saipan |
| 30.7 |
First US Flag raised on Guam |
| 30.8 |
Montford Point marines on Saipan |
| 30.9 |
US landing craft streaming toward Titian |
| 30.10 |
American troops under attack on Saipan |
| 30.11 |
An American priest uses a burnt out Japanese tank as an alter during the Battle of Saipan |
| 30.12 |
US soldiers watch Boeing B-29 Superfortress take off from Saipan |
| 30.13 |
All crew members survived this Consolidated B-24 Liberator crash on Saipan after it was damaged over Iwo Jima |
| 30.14 |
2nd Marines push forward in a line in the flat sugarcane fields of Tinian |
| 30.15 |
B-29s prepare for take-off on the West Field on Tinian |
| 30.16 |
Brigadier General Merritt Edson surveying the front line on Titian |
| 30.17 |
A marine with an M1 Carbine at the Battle of Guam |
| 30.18 |
Captured Japanese POWs from the Battle of Guam |
| 30.19 |
Machine gun unit of three Marines on Guam: (Browning M1919 Air cooled 0.30 caliber) |
| Chapter 31 |
| 31.1 |
USS Birmingham giving assistance to the stricken USS Princeton at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.2 |
Light Carrier USS Princeton billowing smoke becomes last US carrier sunk in the Pacific War |
| 31.3 |
USS Intrepid (now preserved as a tourist attraction on the west side of Manhattan) at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.4 |
Battleship Musashi before her sinking at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.5 |
Battleship Nagato (built in 1910) at the Battle of Sibuyan Sea |
| 31.6 |
USS Tennessee, after repair from damage at Pearl Harbor, fought at the Battle of Surigao Straits |
| 31.7 |
Heavy cruiser Mogami, which had fought at Midway and the Battle of the Philippines Sea is finally sunk at the Battle of Surigao Straits |
| 31.8 |
US transports approaching Leyte Gulf October 1941 |
| 31.9 |
USS Gambier Bay (Escort Carrier) commanded by Admiral Sprague making smoke with destroyers at the Battle of Samar Island |
| 31.10 |
Admiral 'Bull' Halsey, commander of 3rd Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.11 |
Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, commander of the 7th Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.12 |
Admiral Kurita, commander of the centre force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| 31.13 |
Admiral Ozawa, commander of the northern decoy force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| Chapter 32 |
| 32.1 |
MacArthur comes ashore on Leyte Island [the Philippines] |
| 32.2 |
GIs land on Leyte Island |
| 32.3 |
US soldiers after a firefight with Japanese snipers |
| 32.4 |
Coastguards unloading equipment from LST-18 [Landing Ship, Tank] on the beaches of Leyte |
| 32.5 |
US coastguards unloading equipment from LSTs [Landing Ship, Tank] on Leyte Island |
| 32.6 |
General Walter Krueger [left], General MacArthur [middle] and General George Marshall [right] |
| Chapter 33 |
| 33.1 |
Men of the Dorset Regiment crossing the Irrawaddy River at Ngazun, 28th February 1945 |
| 33.2 |
Gurkhas with their mules crossing the Irrawaddy River |
| 33.3 |
British Troops crossing the Irrawaddy River |
| 33.4 |
Bivouac area of adjacent to the Irrawaddy River 1945 |
| 33.5 |
British troops with Sherman tanks speeding on to Meiktila |
| 33.6 |
British Troops attacking from Bridgeheads on the Irrawaddy River |
| 33.7 |
Truck convoy for the Ledo-Burma Road |
| 33.8 |
Indian troops coaxing a mule into the Irrawaddy River |
| 33.9 |
General Slim leads the cheering as British Troops take Mandalay from the Japanese |
| 33.10 |
General Slim at Mandalay |
| 33.11 |
Lieutenant General Slim chatting with a Gurkha Rifleman |
| Chapter 34 |
| 34.1 |
5th Marines atop Mount Surabachi |
| 34.2 |
Marines beach landing at Iwo Jima |
| 34.3 |
A US Marine on Mount Surabachi overlooking the landing beaches |
| 34.4 |
Marines burying themselves into the sands of Iwo Jima with Mount Surabachi in the background |
| 34.5 |
The carnage of a Japanese banzai attack on Iwo Jima |
| 34.6 |
An aerial view of Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima |
| Chapter 35 |
| 35.1 |
US troops coming ashore on Okinawa |
| 35.2 |
US Marines land on northern Okinawa |
| 35.3 |
Aerial view of US Marines landing on Okinawa |
| 35.4 |
Naval barrage at the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.5 |
Supplies being landed at the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.6 |
Mud clogged American tanks at Okinawa |
| 35.7 |
US Marines driving inland Day-1 on Okinawa |
| 35.8 |
US troops firing 105mm howitzer in Naha during the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.9 |
A flamethrower tank provides cover for US troops as they attack the escarpment on Okinawa |
| 35.10 |
Kamikaze pilot aims his aircraft at US ship |
| 35.11 |
US soldiers with Thompson machine guns advance warily |
| 35.12 |
Colonel Francis Fenton buries his son 'Mike' Fenton who was killed at 'Sugar loaf' during the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.13 |
US Marine raising confederate flag at the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.14 |
Dead Japanese soldiers found in the ruins of Shuri Castle |
| 35.15 |
US Marines take a rest during the fighting on Okinawa |
| 35.16 |
General Simon Bolivar Buckner - Killed by schrapnel at the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.17 |
Last picture of Lieutenant General Buckner before he was killed by shrapnel from an artillery shell |
| 35.18 |
General Mitsuru Ushijima - the commander of the 32nd Army at Okinawa committed sepuku at the end of the battle |
| 35.19 |
General Isamu Cho, Chief of Staff of the 32nd Army at the Battle of Okinawa |
| 35.20 |
President Roosevelt dies during the Battle of Okinawa |
| Chapter 36 |
| 36.1 |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.2 |
'Pacusan Dreamboat' Boeing B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.3 |
Boeing B-29s coming off the production line at Renton Plant, Washington State |
| 36.4 |
Cockpit of Boeing B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.5 |
Control Deck behind pilots on B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.6 |
View of pressured tunnel leading to rear gunner cabins on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.7 |
First Boeing B-29 rolled out at their Wichita, Kansas plant |
| 36.8 |
Boeing B-29 dropping incendiary bombs over Osaka |
| 36.9 |
Boeing B-29s stacked up outside Wichita, Kansas Plant |
| 36.10 |
B-29 Superfortresses parked on Saipan |
| 36.11 |
Female worker fitting parts to a gun turret |
| 36.12 |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Belly gun turret |
| 36.13 |
Engineers checking firing mechanism of Boeing B-29 Superfortress top turret |
| 36.14 |
Tail-gun on a B-29 Superfortress |
| 36.15 |
Jet stream scattering 500lb bombs dropped over Japan |
| 36.16 |
Japan before and after the Great Tokyo Air Raid |
| 36.17 |
Firebombs being dropped over Tokyo |
| 36.18 |
Major-General Curtis LeMay [left], Brigadier-General Hansell [centre] and Brigader General Ramey |
| 36.19 |
Major-General Curtis LeMay |
| 36.20 |
Emperor Hirohito inspects Great Tokyo Air Raid |
| 36.21 |
Osaka hit by bombing raids |
| 36.22 |
Tokyo firebombed along the Sumida River |
| 36.23 |
B-29 firebombing raid on Toyama |
| Chapter 37 |
| 37.1 |
Hiroshima Nuclear Plume |
| 37.2 |
Hiroshima Devastated by Atom Bomb |
| 37.3 |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Before and After the Atom Bomb |
| 37.4 |
Enola Gay's Crew for the Hiroshima Mission |
| 37.5 |
Hiroshima Victim being Treated |
| 37.6 |
Aftermath of Hiroshima: Photographs by Sub-Lieutenant Peter Daniel [HMS Duke of York] |
| 37.7 |
Bombed out Tokyo civilians listening to Emperor Hirohito announcing Japan's surrender |
| Appendix A |
| A.1 |
Underwater Aircraft Hangar - Model of an I-400 Japanese submarine with Seiran aircraft emerging from aircraft hanger |
| A.2 |
A Japanese I-400 submarine coming into port |
| A.3 |
After the Pacific War a captured I-400 submarine tied up next to a US submarine |
| A.4 |
Hangar door of an I-400 class submarine |
| A.5 |
Aichi M6A1 Seiren aircraft had folding wings to enter the submarine hangar |
| A.6 |
An Aichi M6A1 Seiren aircraft in its folded configuration |
| A.7 |
i-14 Class aircraft carrying Japanese submarine |
| A.8 |
Japanese i-8 Cargo ship entering Brest (France) after voyage from Japan |
| A.9 |
Model of B-1 type submarine of which 20 were built |
| A.10 |
Suicide type Kaiten (heaven shaker) submarine |
| A.11 |
Comparison of World War II submarines with largest modern submarine |
| A.12 |
Mark 14 torpedo used by the US at the start of the Pacific War |
| A.13 |
Admiral Charles Lockwood (second from left) with colleagues on Hawaii |
| A.14 |
Richard O'Kane (later commander of USS Tang, a Balao Class submarine) and Commander Dudley 'Mush' Morton on board USS Wahoo (a Gato Class submarine) |
| A.15 |
Japanese Type 93 'Long Lance' torpedo displayed outside US Navy headquarters in Washington |
| A.16 |
Commander Howard Gilmore sacrificed his life for USS Growler and its crew and posthumously won the Medal of Honor |
| Appendix B |
| B.1 |
Standard Oil's rigs overlooking the beaches of California |
| B.2 |
Standard Oil refinery in the 1930s |
| B.3 |
Birch Hill Oil Fields rigs in Orange County, California |
| B.4 |
A Liberty Ship |
| B.5 |
A Liberty ship built by Kaiser |
| B.6 |
Hundreds of mothballed Liberty ships after the Pacific War |
| B.7 |
Launching of a Liberty ship in Portland, Oregon |
| B.8 |
Kit parts stacked behind Liberty ships at Kaiser's Portland, Oregon, Shipyards |
| B.9 |
Parts stacked behind Liberty ship drydocks at Permanente yard in Richmond, Virginia |
| B.10 |
USS Auriga, AK-98 attack cargo ship |
| B.11 |
LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) at sea |
| B.12 |
LSTs disgorging troops and equipment |
| B.13 |
US troops disembarking from a LCVP 'Higgins Boat' |
| B.14 |
Harry Dexter White (Deputy Director of the War Production Board) meeting Maynard Keynes at Bretton-Woods |
| B.15 |
James Byrnes, Chairman of Office of Economic Stabilisation under Roosevelt and later Secretary of State under President Truman |
| Appendix C |
| C.1 |
Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board |
| C.2 |
Henry Morganthau, Secretary of Treasury under President Franklin Roosevelt |
| C.3 |
Iona Murphy preparing her welding equipment for welding a liberty ship in Portland, Oregon |
| C.4 |
Wendy the Welder - women here in Gary Indiana trained in high schools in four weeks |
| C.5 |
Women working on aluminum shells in a munitions factory |
| C.6 |
American women working on an airframe at a Lockheed Martin plant |
| C.7 |
Dr. Vannevar Bush, National Defence Research Council |
| C.8 |
Charles Sorenson, Henry Ford's production genius |
| C.9 |
Lieutenant-General William Knudsen, head of production at General Motors, became Chairman of the Office of Production Management for an annual salary of US$1.0 |
| Appendix D |
| D.1 |
Colonel Keiji Suzuki, a Lawrence of Arabia figure, who encouraged Aung Sang and his thirty comrades to form a Burmese independence force |
| D.2 |
The young Aung San in Burmese National Army Uniform |
| D.3 |
General Kazushige Ugaki, Governor General of Manchuria 1931-1936 |
| D.4 |
Chang Two-line, Warlord leader of Manchurian until his murder by the Japanese in 1928 |
| D.5 |
General Phibum, Thailand's military ruler, celebrates capture of French Foreign Legion Flag in 1941 |
| D.6 |
Jose Laurel, puppet ruler of the Philippines during Japanese occupation 1941-1945 |
| D.7 |
Japan's puppet rulers in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Left to Right: Ba Maw, Zhang Jinghui, Wang Jingwei, Hideki Tojo, Wan Waithayakon, Jose Laurel, Subhas Chandra Bose |
| D.8 |
Bridge over the River Kwai |
| D.9 |
Unmarked as a POW ship Montevideo Maru was sunk by USS Sturgeon on 1 July 1942 killing 1,054 Australians |
| D.10 |
Comfort women provided for Japanese troops |
| D.11 |
Appendix women liberated by US troops in Yunan, China |
| D.12 |
Kempetai group photograph |
| D.13 |
Colonel Philip Toosey, commander of POWs at Bridge on the River Kwai |
| D.14 |
Changi POW camp |
| D.15 |
Live vivisection of a pregnant woman who had been infected with syphilisa to test new Japanese antibiotic terramycin |
| D.16 |
Photographs of Dr. Shiro Ishii, the 'Mengele' of Japan |
| Appendix E |
| E.1 |
HMAS Australia, suggested by some as the subject of first kamikaze attack on 21 October 1944 |
| E.2 |
Chiran high school girls waving off a kamikaze pilot |
| E.3 |
Group photo of prospective kamikaze pilots |
| E.4 |
Admiral Takijiro Onishi who organised the special attack units (kamikaze) |
| E.5 |
Escort Carrier USS St. Lo, the first Escort carrier to be sunk by Kamikaze. 25.10.1945 |
| E.6 |
Admiral John McCain organised US Navy defences against kamikaze |
| E.7 |
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' light bombers converted for use as Kamikaze |
| E.8 |
HMS Formidable under attack from kamikaze off Okinawa but its steel decks are impervious to penetration |
| E.9 |
Admiral Matome Ugaki posing for photographs before making the last suicide attack on the day of Hirohito's surrender, 15 August 1945 |
| Appendix F |
| F.1 |
Type 97 Japanese cypher machine (PURPLE) |
| F.2 |
HYPO Station Hawaii (Combat Intelligence Center) |
| F.3 |
Captain Joe Rochefort, head of HYPO in Hawaii |
| F.4 |
Lieutenant Commander Edwin Layton, Head of Intelligence to Admiral Nimitz in Hawaii |
| Appendix K |
| K.1 |
Japanese artillery at the Battle of Hong Kong |
| K.2 |
Canadian troops (1,900) about to set off by ship to Hong Kong |
| K.3 |
Japanese troops marching toward Hong Kong |
| K.4 |
Japanese troops at the Battle of Hong Kong |
| K.5 |
Kawasaki Ki-32 'Mary', light bombers in action at the Battle of Hong Kong |
| K.6 |
Japanese troops entering Tai-Po |
| K.7 |
Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in the Far East |
| K.8 |
Major-General Sir Robert Maltby, commander of Allied Forces in Hong Kong talking to Brigadier Lawson, commanding officer of Canadian Forces |
| K.9 |
Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai, commander of Japanese troops at the Battle of Hong who was later executed for war crimes |
| K.10 |
Canadian troops dug in at the Gin Drinker's Line |
| K.11 |
Canadian troops in the hills above Hong Kong |
| Appendix L |
| L.1 |
US troops landing at Massacre Bay |
| L.2 |
The only village on Attu before Japanese invasion with a population of 38 |
| L.3 |
US troops hauling supplies across Attu's muskeg terrain |
| L.4 |
Troops of 7th Infantry haul artillery from Holz Bay |
| L.5 |
Village of Attu near Chichagof Harbor pre-war |
| L.6 |
US troops landing in the fog at Massacre Bay |
| L.7 |
Wary US soldiers during the battles around Cold Mountain |
| L.8 |
Troops hauling supplies up a mountain on snow covered Attu |
| L.9 |
Lines of US troops manhandling supplies up the front line |
| L.10 |
Japanese dead filling a ravine at the base of Engineer Hill |
| L.11 |
Japanese soldier on skis on Attu |
| L.12 |
Three Japanese soldiers relaxing on a sunny day on Attu |
| L.13 |
Japanese soldiers being photographed on Attu |
| L.14 |
The mountains shrouded in fog beyond which lie the Japanese base at Chichagof Harbor |
| L.15 |
Map of the Battle of Attu |
| Appendix M |
| M.1 |
IJN Kaga |
| M.2 |
IJN Akagi |
| M.3 |
IJN Soryu |
| M.4 |
IJN Hiryu |
| M.5 |
Mitsubishi Zero A6M taking off from IJN Shokaku |
| M.6 |
IJN Zuikaku prepares to launch Mitsubishi Zero A6Ms in Indian Ocean |
| M.7 |
IJN Taiho |
| M.8 |
IJN Junyo |
| M.9 |
IJN Hiyo |
| M.10 |
HMS Indomitable |
| M.11 |
HMS Victorious |
| M.12 |
HMS Indefatigable in 1945 |
| M.13 |
HMS Illustrious |
| M.14 |
Grumman Wildcat F4F on flightdeck of HMS Formidable |
| M.15 |
USS Enterprise with dazzle paint scheme off Pearl Harbor in 1944 |
| M.16 |
USS Hornet CV-8 |
| M.17 |
USS Lexington going through the Panama Canal in 1934 |
| M.18 |
Aircraft landing on USS Saratoga CV-3 |
| M.19 |
USS Wasp (CV-7) was the first carrier with a deck edge elevator |
| M.20 |
USS Yorktown CV-5 abandoned and sinking after the Battle of Midway |
| M.21 |
USS Essex off Okinawa in 1945 |
| M.22 |
USS_Independence CVL-22 in harbor |
| M.23 |
USS Gambier Bay - escort carrier |
| Appendix N |
| N.1 |
Early US Oil Farm |
| N.2 |
Oil Barges 1864 |
| N.3 |
Summerland Oil Field at Santa Barbara, California - First Offshore Wells 1915 |
| N.4 |
Pre-war Gas Station |
| N.5 |
Atlas (California) Diesel Engine |
| N.6 |
The Comet - Diesel Electric Train for the New York to Hartford Connecticut Line |
| N.7 |
US Hudson 1927 Streamlined Locomotive |
| N.8 |
Model T: One of the last produced in 1926 |
| N.9 |
Model T Production Line |
| N.10 |
Jimmy Doolitte with his 1925 Schneider Cup winning Curtiss RC3-2 |
| N.11 |
Crop Dusting Cotton Crops for Boll Weevil in 1928 |
| N.12 |
Beetle Like Early American Tank |
| N.13 |
Mark IV World War I Tank |
| N.14 |
Holt Artillery Tractor in Vosges (France) 1915 |
| N.15 |
Unpaved road in Ventura California in 1913 |
| N.16 |
Cafe on Route 66 |
| N.17 |
Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Oil Plant destroyed by Allied bombing |
| N.18 |
An American Tanker Refuelling Warships in the Pacific |
| N.19 |
Oil Storage Facilities at Pear Harbor |
