"90-day" assignment -- Douglas MacArthur -- Doubt and belief -- Gem in the tiara -- Singapore to Tokyo -- The "final" stages -- "Hitler didn't read his history" -- Shattered city -- The Burma road -- "It's impossible" -- No doubt of Japan's intentions -- Bittersweet -- Left alone -- Invaded -- Flight -- Trans-Australia -- Melbourne reunion -- A general in search of a command -- War correspondents in search of a war -- Japan threatens from New Guinea -- The Owen Stanleys -- Home -- No young veterans? -- The admiralties and the south Pacific -- Flight to nowhere -- Hollandia -- Back on Philippine soil -- Won by the second team -- Anniversaries and Ormoc -- Return to Luzon -- Pushing southward -- Prisoners of war -- "Lightning column" -- A city burns -- Farewell to a president -- Oil of the Indies -- VE Day -- At last VJ Day -- Into the Rising Sun -- Surrender -- Stars and stripes over Tokyo -- Epilogue.