PROGRAM

Pearl Harbor, Bataan, and Singapore

stunned the Allies.

Then Doolittle, the Coral Sea, and Midway stunned the Japanese.

In the dogfight 

in New Guinea & the Solomons

the Aussies, Kiwis & Yanks

clawed forward in the jungles.

Way north,

Canadians & Yanks

took foggy Attu & Kiska.

Then, MacArthur & Nimitz

lept forward to Leyte & Saipan

where Halsey & Spruance

captured the seas.

The Allies soon gained

Luzon, Iwo Jima & Okinawa,

invaded Borneo, cleared Burma &            fire bombed Japan.

Surrender followed the atomic attacks

on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

World War II ended on the Missouri

and peace returned to the world

for awhile.