Pacific Survivors

摘要

For America, WW Ⅱ began and ended in the Pacific. From Pearl Harbor, the war moved quickly from island to island, many of these obscure volcanic atolls no one ever heard of: Guadalcanal, Rabaul, Emirau, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and so many more. These idyllic islands, with their beautiful coral shores, palms, and tropical breezes, were a sharp contrast to the savage and sinister enemy that occupied them. They were also home to some of the most brutal land, sea, and air battles of the war. America called on a young generation of warriors to take on this enemy and so many answered. One of them was Captain John Morgan, and he wanted to fly. Our feature "Sole Survivors" chronicles the wartime adventures of John, who may be one of the only surviving PBJ Marine pilots still with us at 96 years of age. Doug DeCaster recently had the opportunity to sit down with John and get the story directly from him!