In Volume 5, the United States officially enters the war. Highlights of this action-filled volume include: Minute-by-minute detail of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese attacks on Wake Island, Luzon, Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma, etc., early attacks by US Navy subs in the Pacific, Russian Black Sea Fleet landing troops in the Crimea, continuing naval struggle in the Mediterranean, German U-boat attacks along the US Atlantic coast, Japanese attacks on US Pacific coast, American-British-Dutch-Australian Command battles the superior forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the Battle of the Java Sea and the Battle of Sunda Strait.