pacific area

"Great Battles for Boys takes young readers to the front lines of history's most important fights. In this episode of the best-selling series, the story opens with the Flying Tigers and the bombing of Pearl Harbor into the battles that stormed across the Pacific in the lethal "island hopping" military strategy that brought Victory Over Japan.".

Tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger-warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and, later, protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances, is one of the great recently uncovered stories of World War II.