December 8, 1941

William H. Bartsch is the author of two other books published by Texas A&M University Press: Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (1992), and Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 (2010). Bartsch, a former United Nations development economist and independent consultant now exclusively researching and writing on the Pacific War, lives in Reston, Virginia.