The Defeat of Japan
- The return to the Philippines
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Leyte, Luzon, Manila
- Iwo Jima: Death in a small place
- The last Pacific island: Okinawa
- Defeating Japan
- Japanese shipping and American submarines
- The bombing of Japan
- The future of the emperor
- The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Japan surrenders
- The decision to drop the atomic bomb
- The end of the war
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