In the spring of 1945, the U.S. launched its largest Pacific campaign, sending 1,500 ships and half a million men to seize Okinawa. Marines like Ted Estridge braced for catastrophic losses after ...

Perhaps appropriately, he got them all during the war's last major campaign: Okinawa. Born in Adams, Nebraska on May 25, 1922, Donald Melvin McPherson grew up working on his family's farm during the ...

Preparation For War. Populations and Powers -- Military Strengths of the Allies -- Military Strengths of the Axis -- Fleets of Major World Powers -- Soviet Forces in Europe -- Japan and the Second ...

Donald McPherson, a World War II Navy aviator and believed to be the last surviving American fighter ace, passed away at age 103. He served in the Pacific Theater, flying combat missions in the ...