Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. & Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II

From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japans surrender, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theater of World War II. Filling a glaring gap in the historical record of the war, Gene Eric Salecker recounts all twelve drops, highlighting the courage of paratroopers on both sides.