Here is the most complete study of the actions of the US Navy in World War II. Its author, Samuel Eliot Morison, is a well-known American historian and professor at Harvard University. Having received the support of US President F.D. Roosevelt, S.E. Morrison had access to any information, collected unique material and based on it created a fundamental fifteen-volume work. This volume is devoted to hostilities in the Pacific Ocean - in Southeast Asia and the Hawaiian Islands, from the attack of the Japanese fleet on the American naval base Pearl Harbor to the air strikes of American strategic aviation in Tokyo (December 1941 - April 1942).