Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater - Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers - Detailed maps illustrate battles From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japan's surrender, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theater of World War II. Filling a glaring gap in the historical record of the war, Gene Eric Salecker recounts all twelve drops, highlighting the courage of paratroopers on both sides. Gene Eric Salecker lives near Chicago, Illinois. Reference Book Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: US & Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) by Gene Eric Salecker Stackpole Books