The Three-dimensional Battlefield * Defining the Battlefield: Air-Base Networks * The Land and Air Machines and Men in the South Pacific * Japanese Warplanes * Allied Aircraft * Airmen in the South Pacific Blood in the Sky: Air Battle in the South Pacific * Deadly Geometry: Fighter Warfare in the South Pacific * Making History: Bombers in the South Pacific * Conclusion

Eric M. Bergerud is professor of military and American history at Lincoln University in San Francisco and the author of Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific, Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning and The Dynamics of Defeat.