A convoy consisting of ten transports, five destroyers, a battleship and two aircraft carriers, entered Melbourne Bay that morning in March 1942. Above the forward masts flew the starry, red-striped flag of the United States.
New forces were arriving in Australia from Los Angeles and San Francisco from California. New contingent of troops destined to counteract the furious onslaught of the Japanese towards the South Pacific Ocean.
It was made up of the Tenth and Ninth Marine Corps Divisions and the Seventh Air Divisions. The landing of the troops was done quickly. There was no danger from the enemy, but it could be possible that some Japanese reconnaissance aircraft discovered the maneuvers that were being prepared against them ...

War in the Pacific is a story belonging to the World War II collection, a series of war novels developed in World War II.