Crisis in the Pacific
Subtitle: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them
Publisher: Dell
Published: January 2, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780440236955
First sentence: ON SUNDAY NIGHT, December 7, 1941, in the Philippine Islands-because of the international date line, five thousand miles away it was Saturday, December 6, 1941, in Hawaii and Washington, D.C.-the 27th Bombardment Group tossed a bash at the Manila Hotel in honor of their Army Air Force commander, Gen. Lewis Brereton.