Resource Guides: World War II: Pacific Theater

Flying in the South Pacific

Fred Linden's father was a PBY naval aviator during World War II and left behind two reels of film documenting his service in the South Pacific.

Book descriptions from catalog records.

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific by Deborah Hopkinson
Call Number: 940.54 HOP
ISBN: 0545425581
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Following the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II in December 1941 weakened and outnumbered. With the Pacific battleship fleet decimated by the Pearl Harbor attack, it was up to the feisty and heroic sailors of the US Submarine Force to halt the sweeping Japanese invasion across the Pacific.
Ghosts in the Fog by Samantha Seiple
Call Number: 940.54 SEI
ISBN: 9780545296540
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Exactly six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands. The United States was "dealt a deadly and devastating blow." The details of this invasion were kept classified for decades after the war, ensuring that one of the deadliest battles between the U.S. and Japan was virtually forgotten.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Call Number: 921 ZAM
ISBN: 9781400064168
Publication Date: 2010-11-16
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot

Ted and Me by Dan Gutman
Call Number: MS F GUT
ISBN: 9780061234873
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career.

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Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows by Barry Denenberg
Call Number: MS F DEN
ISBN: 0439328748
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by Adeline Yen Mah
Call Number: MS F MAH
ISBN: 9780060567361
Publication Date: 2006-11-21
After her father and stepmother throw her out of their house in Shanghai, China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is taken in by a martial arts group, the Dragon Society of Wandering Knights, and joins them and her aunt in a mission to help the Americans fight the Japanese. Includes historical notes.
House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury
Call Number: MS F SAL
ISBN: 0385731213
Publication Date: 2006-07-25
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
Call Number: MS F PAR
ISBN: 0440419441
Publication Date: 2004-01-13
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

Major Pacific Battles
U.S. Army Campaigns: WWII Asiatic Pacific Theater
World War II in the Pacific
World War II: The Pacific Islands
Brief overview and outstanding photo gallery.
The Pacific Air War
Victory at Sea
In depth article from The Atlantic magazine, 1999. "Recent movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line have vividly depicted the face of land battle in the Second World War, but the story of the American war is incomplete without the sweep and strategic stakes of the war at sea, in which 104,985 American sailors and Marines were wounded, 56,683 were killed, and more than 500 U.S. naval vessels were sunk. Lest we forget "
Memories of World War II From Men Who Fought in the Pacific