Biography
John McManus is the Curator's Distinguished professor of U.S. military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. McManus completed his doctorate in military history at the University of Tennessee and is the author of more than a dozen books. His latest, Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944, is the second installment of a trilogy detailing the U.S. Army's role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
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01:12 - Introduction

03:38 - Misperceptions of the Army and Marines in Guadalcanal

08:44 - The Army's role in the Pacific

12:46 - Geography of the Pacific and dividing the theater between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz

18:30 - Island hopping and the turning point in the Pacific theater

22:26 - The infantry's experience in combat

23:52 - The Pearl Harbor Conference and the endgame of war in the Pacific

31:55 - General Joseph Stilwell and China

38:39 - Prisoners of War in Japan

41:32 - The legacy of the War in the Pacific