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Crusade in the Pacific / [presented by] Madacy Entertainment Group ; producer, Arthur B. Tourtellot.
LIBRA DVD 015 265 discs 1-5
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 5 videodiscs (approximately 120 min. each) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- St. Laurent, Quebec : Distributed by Madacy Entertainment Group, [2000]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This documentary covers the entire saga of World War II in the Pacific theatre, utilizing film footage shot by cameramen on both sides of the War.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The rise of the Japanese empire
- America goes to war in the Pacific
- The U.S. and the Philippines
- The Navy holds- 1942
- pt. 2. Guadalcanal: America's first offensive
- War in the north: the Aleutians
- The road back: New Guinea
- Up the Solomons Ladder: Bougainville
- pt 3. Attack in the Central Pacific: Makin and Tarawa
- The war at sea
- Speeding up the attack: the Marshalls
- Stepping stones to the Philippines
- pt. 4. Battle for the Marianas
- The war in the China-Burma-India theater
- Palau: the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge
- MacArthur returns to the Philippines
- pt. 5. Bloody Iwo
- At Japan's doorstep: Okinawa
- The air war on Japan
- The surrender and occupation of Japan.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis.
- Credits:
- Film editing and compilation, Jack Bush ... [et al.] ; research, Jane Bartels, Allen Dibble, Isabella Kohn.
- Notes:
- Film sources: U.S. Department of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Australian Government Information Service, British Information Service, New Zealand Army, Netherlands Information Service, March of Time, Newsreel Pool, captured Japanese film from U.S. National Archives and Office of Alien Property.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Contains:
- Rise of the Japanese empire.
- America goes to war in the Pacific.
- U.S. and the Philippines.
- Navy holds - 1942.
- Guadalcanal: America's first offensive.
- War in the north: the Aleutians.
- Road back: New Guinea.
- Up the Solomons' Ladder: Bougainville.
- Attack in the Central Pacific.
- War at sea.
- Speeding up the attack: the Marshalls.
- Stepping stones to the Philippines.
- Battle for the Marianas.
- War in the China-Burma-India theater.
- Palau: the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge.
- MacArthur returns to the Philippines.
- Bloody Iwo.
- At Japan's doorstep: Okinawa.
- Air war on Japan.
- Surrender and occupation of Japan.
- ISBN:
- 0778605957
- OCLC:
- 45495698
- Publisher Number:
- 9780778605959
- 056775059590
- DVD9 9225 Madacy Entertainment Group
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