Pacific Wrecks is a well-known organization that explores the living legacy of World War II in the Asia-Pacific region. This includes the battlefields, airfields and war wreckage, the aircraft, and, ...

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from “Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific,” by Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press, $29.95). THE FETCH OF the Pacific ...