It's 1968, the Vietnam war is raging, and Captain Bruce Fisher departs the West Coast in his ship, the SS Maury, on a Trans-Pacific voyage bound for Saigon and Da Nang. En route there is a stop at Kwajalein, one of the world's largest atolls. Twenty-four years earlier Kwaj is the site of a battle devastating to the Japanese war effort, Nine-thousand Japanese soldiers wage a battle against overwhelming numbers of US marines. Fisher becomes embroiled...