When producer Tom Lennon interviewed Bulge veterans for this documentary in the mid-1990s, he found many people who carried vivid memories of their wartime experiences.
President Harry Truman and his war advisers hotly discussed casualty estimates for a projected invasion. Congress and the public were solidly behind the war.
Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the formal Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
