Introduction -- Chronology -- Enlistment -- Training -- Appearance and equipment -- Belief and belonging -- The early Pacific campaigns: Daily life in the Southwest Pacific ; Hastily into battle -- the Solomons and Tarawa -- The Central Pacific campaigns: Daily life in a rest camp -- Life on campaign -- Japanese attempts to break the Code -- European combat -- The Comanche -- Final cataclysms: Daily life -- reorganization ; The final battles -- Aftermath -- Museums and collections.