In November 1941 much of the world is at war. America remains neutral, and Americans overwhelmingly don't support entering the war.Across the Atlantic in Europe, England is blockaded by U-boats at sea, and barely holds its own against the Luftwaffe's aerial bombardment. France surrendered to the Nazis the year before. The Red Army of Soviet Russia is in full retreat as the Nazi Wehrmacht advances to the gates of Moscow. In the Pacific, the Japanese prosecute their years-old war in China with exceptional cruelty and atrocity, leading to economic sanctions by the US and England. Those sanctions cut Japan off from the supplies of petroleum and scrap metal upon which it is totally dependent to continue fighting. With only one year of fuel remaining for their warships and airplanes, Japan eyes the rich oil fields and refineries in the Dutch East Indies. Take those, and the Japanese will have all the fuel they need to keep fighting. However, American forces in the Philippines are on the flank of the sea route between Japan and that oil supply. To ensure their access to the oil of the Indies, Japan must take the Philippines.The only thing standing in their way are the meager US forces in the Philippines. The Army is equipped with weapons built for World War One. The Far Eastern Air Force is equipped with obsolescent fighters and bombers. All supplies must come by sea or over a tenuous air route across the Pacific. If war comes, the Imperial Japanese Navy will cut the supply route between the Philippines and America. The Philippines garrison will then have to fight with what they have on hand.A desperate America, with a population not yet awakened to the possibility of war, begins to rearm. It has little to send to defend the Philippines. Two pilots, brothers Jack and Charlie Davis, are part of the trickle of reinforcement available in the late fall of 1941. Their job, along with the rest of the Americans in the Philippines, is to defend the islands against the forces of Imperial Japan at all costs.The only remaining questions Jack and Charlie are, when will the Japanese come?And when they do...how well will I meet the test?

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