November 1941: War is coming to the Pacific.

 In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen to the Wehrmacht, which then turned on Soviet Russia, sending the Red Army in full retreat to the gates of Moscow itself.

 In the Pacific, American possessions in the Philippines are all but surrounded by the forces of Imperial Japan. The US Army is making a desperate last-minute attempt to reinforce the Philippines garrison to withstand an attack, but that might come at any moment.

 For the Japanese, too, time is running out. The US embargo of oil and steel exports to Japan will cause them to run out of oil in less than a year.

 Two brothers, Jack and Charlie Davis, are pilots in the US Army Air Forces. They are part of the reinforcements sent to the Far Eastern Air Force, charged with air defense of the Philippines.

 For Jack and Charlie, in a time when the US is on the brink of world war, a simple question must soon be answered: what will I do when the Japanese come?