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2 videodiscs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
In 24 episodes, this series chronicles the events that led up to Japan's surprise bombing of the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Depicts the numerous air, land and sea battles that unfolded from 1942 until the fall of the Japanese empire in 1945.
disc 1, side A. The Pacific in eruption ; Awakening in the Pacific ; The rise of the Japanese empire ; American goes to war in the Pacific ; The U.S. and the Philippines ; The Navy holds, 1942 -- disc 1, side B. Guadalcanal: America's first offensive ; War in the North: the Aleutians ; The road back: New Guinea ; Up the Solomon's ladder: Bougainville ; Attack in the central Pacific: Makin and Tarawa ; The war at sea.
disc 2, side A. Speeding up the attack: the Marshalls ; Stepping stones to the Philippines ; Battle for the Marianas ; The war in the China-Burma-India theatre ; Palau: the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge ; MacArthur retuns to the Philippines -- disc 2, side B. Bloody Iwo ; At Japan's doorstep: Okinawa ; The air war on Japan ; The surrender and occupation of Japan ; Shifting tides in the Orient ; War in Korea.
Script, Fred Feldkamp ; producer, Arthur B. Tourtellot.