Volume VIII: On To Tokyo—The Things Our Fathers Saw [2022]

  In VOLUME 8 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, you will return to the Pacific with our veterans as they recall the chaos in the aftermath at Pearl Harbor, the first challenges on land at Guadalcanal, island hopping with the Marines, Navy, and Army at the Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. You will witness the most horrific banzai charges of the war, accompany airmen on their B-29 missions over Japan, and lean over navy corpsmen as they work to save the wounded.  374 PAGES. TABLE OF CONTENTSAUTHOR’S NOTE 15PART ONE/THE HARD ROAD BACK 21THE PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR 31HAWAII 34‘WE WERE GOING TO GO TO WAR WITH JAPAN’ 35‘SMOKE, FLAMES, EXPLOSIONS, SIRENS’ 36GUADALCANAL 39THE GRENADE 40‘IT DIDN’T TAKE US LONG’ 41DOG TAGS 42‘JUST KEEP GOING’ 43HOME 44‘I HAVE NEVER TALKED MUCH ABOUT IT’ 46THE MARINE RIFLEMAN 49‘I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING’ 50‘A GUY WHO WANTED TO KILL SOMEBODY’ 52JIM CROW 53SHIPPING OUT 55‘ISLAND PARADISE’ 55‘HE GOT KILLED LAST NIGHT’ 56THE PATROLS 58‘DON’T WO