The Flag Waves On - (Crusade in the Pacific - 24 Episodes) Review

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(More customer reviews)CRUSADE IN THE PACIFIC is an early TV documentary series quite similar to VICTORY AT SEA stylistically-- most notably because of heavy soundtrack music, a booming narration and well-worn film clips of fighting between the United States and Japan during World War II. Each 30 minute episode examines a crucial stage in that bitterly contested war. Also covered are events that occurred immediately after hostilities ended.
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Program list for CRUSADE IN THE PACIFIC:
THE PACIFIC IN ERUPTION - Pearl Harbor and the offensive immediately after
AWAKENING IN THE PACIFIC - The years preceding the Pearl Harbor attack
THE RISE OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE - Japan's military build-up and China offensiveAMERICA GOES TO WAR IN THE PACIFIC:
THE U.S AND THE PHILIPPINES - The loss to Japan of a valued ally and a general's vow
THE NAVY HOLDS (1942) - The battles of Coral Sea and Midway show US determination
GUADALCANAL (America's First Offensive) - First hand-to-hand island fight is brutal
WAR IN THE NORTH (The Aleutians) - The only WWII battle fought on American soil (Alaska)
THE ROAD BACK (New Guinea) - Thwarting Japanese offensive plans against Australia
UP THE SOLOMONS LADDER (Bougainville) - Second major offensive of US 1st Marines
ATTACK IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC (Makin and Tarawa) - Huge struggles on tiny islands
THE WAR AT SEA - Examines all aspects of Pacific naval warfare
SPEEDING UP THE ATTACK (The Marshalls) - The capture of Japan's most vital warbase
STEPPING STONES TO THE PHILIPPINES - Battles that precede MacArthur's return
BATTLE FOR THE MARIANAS - Captured airfields like Saipan aid US strategic bombing plans
THE WAR IN THE CHINA/BURMA/INDIA THEATER - War on a second front strains Japan's resources
PALAU (The Fight for Bloody Nose Ridge) - 1st Marines fight for the island chain
MACARTHUR RETURNS TO THE PHILIPPINES - Covers fighting that left Manila in ruins
BLOODY IWO (The Capture of Iwo Jima) - This battle practically crushed Japanese resolve
AT JAPAN'S DOORSTEP (Okinawa) - Marines take first island that was Japanese property
THE AIR WAR ON JAPAN - Strategic bombing ends with devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki PACIFIC WAR'S AFTERMATH:
THE SURRENDER AND OCCUPATION OF JAPAN - Japan is a new ally in US struggle against Communism
SHIFTING TIDE IN THE ORIENT - The rise of Asian Communism endangers US interests
WAR IN KOREA (Part 1) - First shooting, and US Marines landing at Inchon is covered
WAR IN KOREA (Part 2) - As war continues, MacArthur is dismissed by Truman for insubordination

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