Remembering the Asia-Pacific War

The following exhibits were researched and designed as part of a first year seminar on the Asia-Pacific War, taught in the Department of History at Wake Forest University, during the Spring Semester 2002. The choice of material and opinions expressed are those of the individual authors and do not represent the views of the Department or the University. Comments and questions on the exhibits or the site as a whole should be addressed to the individual authors or to Professor Angus Lockyer.

Beginnings

• Michael Jenkins, The Mukden Incident, 1931.
• Scott Wolfrom, The Formation of an Axis.
• Brad Garner, The Voices of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

Endings

• Guillermo Rivell, Cherry Blossoms: Humanizing the Myth.
• Brad Smith, Iwojima.
• Ed Pincar, Going Down with the Ship: The USS Indianapolis.
• Andrew Freeman, The People's Anti-Japanese Army.
• Jenni Bernet, Hiroo Onoda: Thirty Years in the Jungle.

Tools of War

• Robert Finley, The Imperial Japanese Infantry Soldier.
• David Ward, The Planes of the Imperial Japanese Air Force.
• Johnny Andris, Unit 731.
• Michael Dillon, American Racism in the Media.

Prisoners of War

• Vance Gonzales, The Bataan Death March.
• Matthew Kiernan, The Bataan Death March.
• Hill Davis, The Building of the Burma-Siam Railway.
• Alexis Murono, Peruvian Japanese Internment.