<p><span class="deck">Revisiting the seas where American carriers turned the course of history, a Navy man re-creates a time of frightful odds and brilliant gambles.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.</span></p>
<p>Too often overlooked today, the New Guinea campaign was the longest of the Pacific War, with 340,000 Americans fighting more than half a million Japanese.</p>
