Mark Scott Smith

Mark Scott Smith, an academic pediatrician born in 1942, became intrigued by WWII in the Pacific when he looked down from a Seattle hillside and saw thousands of Toyota trucks being unloaded onto piers that had served as American troop embarkation points during the war. After extensive research regarding Japanese attacks on the Oregon coast and the U.S.Army Rainbow Division's New Guinea campaign, he wrote this fictional account of events that reflects both American and Japanese viewpoints of...See more

Mark Scott Smith, an academic pediatrician born in 1942, became intrigued by WWII in the Pacific when he looked down from a Seattle hillside and saw thousands of Toyota trucks being unloaded onto piers that had served as American troop embarkation points during the war. After extensive research regarding Japanese attacks on the Oregon coast and the U.S.Army Rainbow Division's New Guinea campaign, he wrote this fictional account of events that reflects both American and Japanese viewpoints of the Pacific War. See less