A WORLD WITHOUT WAR A World Without War - (March 1945 - December
1945) - In spring 1945, although the numbers of dead and wounded
have more than doubled since D-Day, the people of Mobile,
Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne understand all too well that
there will be more bad news from the battlefield before the war
can end. That March, when Americans go to the movies, President
Franklin Roosevelt warns them in a newsreel that although the
Nazis are on the verge of collapse, the final battle with Japan
could stretch on for years. In the Pacific, Eugene Sledge of
Mobile is once again forced to enter what he calls "the abyss"
in the battle for the island of Okinawa - the gateway to
Japan.Glenn Frazier of Alabama, one of 168,000 Allied prisoners
of war still in Japanese hands, celebrates the arrival of
carrier planes overhead, but despairs of ever getting out of
Japan alive. In mid-April, Americans are shocked by news
bulletins announcing that President Roosevelt is dead; many do
not even know the name of their new