Gerald Meehl is the co-author (with Rex Alan Smith) of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific (Abbeville Press, 2002); Pacific War Stories: In the Words of Those Who Survived (Abbeville Press, 2004); and (with Dave Levy) Fast Boats and Fast Times: Memories of a PT Boat Skipper in the South Pacific (Authorhouse, 2008). He has traveled extensively in the South Pacific, and has visited and photographed every major Pacific island battlefield of World War II. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.