Keith Wheeler has covered every major engagement in the Pacific since December 8th, 1941, when his managing editor at the Chicago Daily Times assigned him to cover the Pacific Theatre of War. His coverage in the Aleutians won him the 1943 National Headlines Club Award for Exclusive Foreign Correspondence and the 1942 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Service to the American people in foreign correspondence. Here is a dramatic, action-filled report of what he saw, heard, and felt. -- from the book jacket.

Map on lining papers.

Convoy; Landlubber at sea; FS #3; Haircut for battle; Pandora's band box; Recessional; Home from the sea; Wake at Wake; Marcus; The flying trapeze; Not in communiques; Rode to Tokyo - or Seattle; Carriers off Dutch Harbor; The zoomies; Into the soup; Battling Spitkit; Williwaw ; Crash; Umnak mud is deep; One-way ticket; Meatbox; Over the hump; Subs in soup; Four hundred tons of TNT; Rescue; Sit down in Sitka; Snafu Maru; The monks of Torpedo Junction; All ashore that's going ashore; Aleutian subdivision; Pontoon Joe from Tokyo; Epilogue; Attu postscript.