Pacific Theater in World War II in "Shall Not Perish" (Location)

The story is organized around two casualty reports from the Pacific theater in World War II, both involving the deaths of young men from Yoknapatawpha. Pete Grier is killed in action when the troopship he's on was sunk somewhere in the Pacific, and Major de Spain's son dies when, as Father puts it, "he run his airplane into a Japanese battleship and blowed it up" (103).