Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE GEO- MILITARY ASPECTS OF THE PACIFIC THEATER -- PART TWO WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC CHRONOLOGY -- PART THREE THE ISLANDS -- 1 Central and Southern Pacific U. S. Possessions -- 2 South Pacific Area -- 3 Southwest Pacific Area -- 4 Central Pacific Area -- 5 Western Pacific -- 6 North Pacific Area -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.