Great Battles of WW II - Fury in the Pacific - DVD

Great Battles of WW II

Fury in the Pacific

Contains Combat Veteran Interviews!

Experience firsthand the Great battles of World War II fought across the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean. Follow along from the stunning surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, to the initial American counterattack at Guadalcanal, to ultimate victory in the island hopping campaign. This was total war - tremendous in scope, costly in life and forever imprinted on the hearts and minds of those who were there. Never before, or since, has the world witnessed such heroism and self-sacrifice as was exhibited by those who engaged in the pivotal battles of the Pacific war.

Relive it with this tribute to those who fought and died for freedom captured through the lenses of combat cameramen and told by those who were there and experienced.... fury in the Pacific.

List of Episodes.

DISC 1

Militaristic Japan has been at war with China for over eight years and her increasingly aggressive policies have finally stirred isolationist America to action. An embargo of vital raw materials has been imposed which sets Japan on a collision course with the United States.

On December 7, 141, the fragile peace is shattered by a devastating Japanese surprise attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese carrier aircraft complete their assualt on the American installations in Hawaii, the United States Pacific fleet is a shambles and over 2,00 American will be dead.

What followed the attack at Pearl Harbor was six months of humiliating defeats for the Allies as the Japanese rampage across the Pacific in a seemingly unstoppable wave of conquest. Before the war had started, Admiral Yamamoto had predicted that Japan would run wild in the Pacific for six months. Almost six months to the day following Pearl Harbor, the outnumbered American defenders of Midway Island, defeated the Japanese fleet. Whith hard work, planning and good luck, America had devastated the Japanese carrier force that began the war and put Japan on the defensive.

Japan Strikes

Prologue

Choice for War

last Days of Peace

Eleven Minutes of Terror

Battleship Row

Hell in the Harbor

Second Wave

Rescue and Escape

Aftermath

What Went Wrong?

The Rising Sun

Midway

DISC 2

The tide of Japanese conquest had been miraculously checked at Midway, it was time for America to counterattack in the Pacific. The first landing of American forces on a Japanese held island would occur on Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942. It was the opening of a grueling six month air, sea and land campaign to wrest control of the lower Solomon Islands from Japan.

Following the success on Guadalcanal, America must fight its way back across the vast Pacific Ocean and take the fight to the Japanese Empire. Bougainville, Tarawa and Saipan - exotic names seldom heard in America before the war. Yet these names would become forever teched in the minds of those who grimly fought for these islands.

Go with the sailors and Marines in the island hoping campaign that unhinged Japan's dreams of conquest and led to ultimate victory in the Pacific. Witness their avts of valor and heroism that will forever be remembered in the annals of American history.

Island Hopping

Guadalcanal

Bougainville

Tarawa

Saipan

DISC 3

America's island hopping counterattack in the Pacific has driven the Japanese back to the edge of their pre-war borders. The pivotal battles for Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima dn Okinawa would draw the Japanese Navy and Air Forces into open battle with the Americans. In these bloody battles of attrition, such as Leyte Gulf, Japanese power in the Pacifc would be irretrievably broken.

With her merchant fleet devastated by American submarine warfare, her cities under the guns of American fighters and bombers, Japan lay humbled at the feet of those she sought to conquer. Follow the story of mistakes, heroism and sacrifice that were America's final offensive against Japan in the Pacific. Look into the cauldron of battle from which images were drawn that will forever represent the war in the Pacific and the heroism of America's fighting men. These are the final battles, which sounded the death knell of the Empire of the Rising Sun.

Coral, Sand & Blood

Guam

Leyte Gulf

Pelelui

Hunters & The Hunted

Iwo Jima

Okinawa

3 DVD Set - Running Time: Approx 6 Hours - Color and B & W

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