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Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw
The Enemy Within, Michael Gilbert (set in a PoW Camp in Italy; one of the British prisoners is a ring-in.)
Run Silent Run Deep (submarine warfare in the Pacific)
(Just off the top of my head.) I've read them all, some a long time ago. The Gilbert book is rare now, but very good-- it's also a sort of whodunit.
One I remember vividly even now, not having read it for many years, is called Always Tomorrow, by John Leeming. He starts off with an opening para which reads more or less, from memory:
"When my son asks his Daddy what he did in the War, I tell him I threw 5 million pounds in gold into the Mediterranean..."
Not fiction though, but a true story, and quite funny as I remember it. I haven't seen a copy for years, worse luck.
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