Through These Portals is the account of one of America's sons whose life was forged in the twin crucibles of the Great Depression and World War II. Mac Gregor writes candidly about struggles and conditions during the Great Depression and of war in the Pacific. With an amazing sense of immediacy, MacGregor describes savage, face-to-face, small-unit infantry actions in 1944-45 in the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, and Okinawa. This gripping memoir depicts war at its worst, and individual soldiers at their best.