Attack--The Battle for New Britain - DVD

Attack--The Battle for New Britain

In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had to build a new fleet - a mobile striking force that could finally loosen Japan's iron grip on the Pacific, with its island empire of seventeen million square miles.

Sea Power in the Pacific celebrates the Navy's role in transporting, protecting, and landing the foot soldiers who reversed Japan's island-hopping strategy, stopping its advance and throwing it from offense to defense.

Narrated by Lloyd Nolan and others, Attack-The Battle for New Britain documents the landings on an island with a powerful naval base at Rabaul, more than 100,000 Japanese troops, and dangerous jungle terrain. Follow the soldiers and marines from their staging areas on the coast of New Guinea, through their rigorous preparations, to their diversionary thrust at Arawe and the main landing at Cape Gloucester a few days later.