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Crusade in the Pacific [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DGP9 50005 | Madacy Entertainment GroupPublication details: St. Laurent, Quebec : Distributed by Madacy Entertainment Group, c2000.Description: 5 videodiscs (ca. 120 min. each) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0778605957
  • 9780778605959
  • 0778621200
  • 9780778621201
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.54/1 22
LOC classification:
  • D767 .C68
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.
Production credits:
  • Film editing and compilation, Jack Bush ... [et al.] ; narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis ; research, Jane Bartels, Allen Dibble, Isabella Kohn.
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DOCU DVD CRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000451644

Videodisc release of the compilation.

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.

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.

Film editing and compilation, Jack Bush ... [et al.] ; narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis ; research, Jane Bartels, Allen Dibble, Isabella Kohn.

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.

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