One year from that infamous day, and seventy years ago, the situation in the Pacific could not seem more different. Whilst the Japanese still retained control of several key locations, their spearheads into new areas had been blunted, their carrier fleet mauled and below the bleachers of Stagg Field, history was in the making. It was the year when the war began to turn against the Axis, when Stalingrad and Guadalcanal failed to fall.
