One conflict ends and another begins . . . 1945 Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Commander Jacob Miller is now on his second combat tour in the Western Pacific. He's survived the Battle of Midway and been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. But now the war is grinding away at him. And another bloody battle is always just around the corner . . . Commander Warren Troost is determined to prove himself worthy of his family's outstanding naval legacy. He's already earned a Navy Cross for his bravery at Pearl Harbor, but now he has to do all he can just to stay alive . . . Submarine commander Tony Trapasso has been liberated from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. He's been given leave, but he knows it won't be long before the need to serve his country calls him back into the action . . .