Dr. Bartsch is the author of December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor (2003) and Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942 (1992) both published by Texas A&M University Press. He earned the Naval Historical Center's Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval History for a longer, academic version of this article, published in the April 2002 issue of The Journal of Military History.
