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Although most people affiliate the word D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military services code for the start of any offensive procedure. In the Pacific movie theater during World Battle II there were more than one hundred D-days. The largest - and previous - was the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, which brought together the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled, far bigger than that employed in the Normandy invasion. D-Days in the Pacific instructs the epic report of the advertising campaign waged by American forces to regain the Pacific islands from Japan. Predicated on eyewitness accounts by the combatants, it addresses the complete Pacific struggle from the invasion on Pearl Harbor to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Pacific battle was typically a seaborne offensive fought over huge distances. Many of the amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands were among the most savagely fought battles in American background: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, New Guinea, Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. D-Days in the Pacific is the finest one-volume account of this titanic struggle. Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Teacher of Background at Lafayette University. He is author of City of the Hundred years and has been associated with HBO and PBS productions.
