Interactive Maps

The Briefing Room

Follow Hack Tarman's real wartime route, hop by hop — hand-drawn maps built from the same research that grounds the novels. Hover or tap any stop for sensory detail, weather, and what the American bases actually looked like at the time.

Live 01 The Training Pipeline Idalou → Dallas → Chapel Hill → Corpus Christi → San Diego · Feb 1942–Jan 1943 Live 02 San Diego to Pearl Harbor PB2Y-3R Coronado · Jan 1943 Live 03 Ewa to Guadalcanal USS Nassau · equator crossing · Feb–Apr 1943 Live 04 The Espiritu Santo – Banika Shuttle Turtle Bay ↔ Guadalcanal ↔ Banika · Apr–Jun 1943 Live 05 Banika to the Bougainville Line New Georgia · Munda · Barakoma · Kahili · Jun–Nov 1943 Live 06 The Kitty Hawk Passage Banika → Pearl Harbor · Dec 1943 Live 07 VMF-114 Workup Ewa → Midway → Ewa → Espiritu Santo/Green Island · Dec 1943–Mar 1944 Live 08 The Ferry Flight to Peleliu Emirau → Peleliu · Sept 1944 Live 09 Peleliu to Pearl Harbor Guam · Eniwetok · Kwajalein · Johnston Island · Nov 1944 Live 10 Ewa to the Essex Ewa → Ulithi · Dec 1944 Live 11 Carrier War USS Essex · Formosa · Tokyo · Iwo Jima · Jan–Apr 1945 Live 12 The Move to Okinawa Hawaii → USS White Plains → Kadena · Apr 1945 Live 13 Homecoming Operation Magic Carpet → rail to Texas · Oct 1945