World War II: The Pacific Theater
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24
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
2020-08-14
In this final episode, reflect on a new era in human civilization. Although Japan was essentially defeated, the government refused to surrender.
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Kamikazes: Japan's Special Attack Units
2020-08-14
During the bitter fighting for the Japanese island of Okinawa, American sailors confronted a horrifying new peril: Japanese suicide bombers from the sky. Explore both the Japanese justification for this new protocol and the history of this vicious battle tactic and experience the horror of being attacked by human bombs.
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Battle for Okinawa, April--June 1945
2020-08-14
By spring 1945, the United States sought to cut off Japan's supply line to the resource-rich islands of the South Pacific. An invasion of the island of Okinawa would achieve this objective.
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Battle for Iwo Jima, February--March 1945
2020-08-14
Iwo Jima is the iconic battle of the US Marine Corps, and a living symbol of the determination and sacrifice of the Marines. Review why Iwo Jima became a strategic target, watch the battle unfurl, and then consider its tragic consequences.
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20
Admiral Halsey's Typhoons, 1944--1945
2020-08-14
Meet Admiral William F. Halsey, a fighting admiral and a man of action who led the American carrier forces during the Philippine campaign.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
2020-08-14
Here, find out why Professor Symonds calls the Battle of Leyte Gulf the greatest naval battle in history. The Japanese had a complex plan, and for several hours, the Americans in Leyte Gulf teetered on the brink of disaster.
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18
MacArthur Returns to the Philippines
2020-08-14
When General MacArthur left the Philippines at the start of the war, he famously announced, "I shall return." Go inside MacArthur's meeting with President Roosevelt and follow the general's long preparation for his return.
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American Submarines in the Pacific, 1944--1945
2020-08-14
American submarines played important roles in some of the biggest battles of the Pacific War, including the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yet the biggest contribution of the submarine force was not in sinking warships, it was in the destruction of Japanese maritime trade.
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16
Bombing Japan: Fire from the Sky
2020-08-14
Shift your attention from the sea to the sky, where the US Army Air Forces conducted both tactical and strategic air campaigns. Review the technology and personalities of the air war against Japan and witness the devastation American bombs wrought on the Japanese homeland.
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Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
2020-08-14
Since the 1930s, both the American and Japanese war strategists assumed that any war between the two countries would be decided by a major sea battle in the western Pacific. See why the Battle of the Philippine Sea was nothing like what the planners had imagined, how the battle actually played out, and what impact it had on the war.
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14
The US Leaps to the Marianas, June 1944
2020-08-14
One of the reasons Japan attacked the United States in the first place was because it needed a secure supply of oil to fight China, but by 1944, Japan's supply lines were failing. The US, too, was stretched in June 1944, with simultaneous campaigns planned for both Normandy and the Marianas.
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A Three-Front Pacific War, January--May 1944
2020-08-14
By 1944, the momentum in the Pacific Theater had shifted decisively in favor of the Americans. Learn the lessons of Tarawa and continue your study of the stepping-stone strategy as the US military advanced from the Gilberts to the Marshalls and beyond.
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Battle for Tarawa: A Square Mile of Hell
2020-08-14
By 1944, the American offensive strategy was to island-hop across Micronesia, and the first step was the island of Tarawa, a name that haunts the history of the US Marine Corps. Follow the invaders to see how a tidal anomaly and Japanese defenders led to a bloodbath as 3,000 Marines were killed or wounded in only three days.
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11
The Big Blue Fleet and American Industry
2020-08-14
For all the military planning and hard fighting, much of the American success in World War II was due to the country's astonishing industrial output. From the Grumman-built F6F Hellcat fighter planes to new Essex-class aircraft carriers, the American industrial juggernaut produced weapons at an unprecedented rate.
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10
MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel
2020-08-14
General MacArthur was a controversial figure, a brilliant but complex commander with a large ego, who found himself sharing command of the Pacific with US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz. Watch these two commanders conduct a dual campaign on both New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands.
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Ironbottom Sound, 1942--1943
2020-08-14
The battle for the Solomon Islands was a grinding and wasting six-month campaign. After multiple bloody engagements on both land and sea, Admiral Yamamoto and the Japanese high command cut their losses.
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Guadalcanal: Jungle Warfare
2020-08-14
Even before the improbable victory at Midway, Ernest J. King, the Commander in Chief, US Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, wanted to initiate an offensive.
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Midway: 10 Minutes That Changed the War
2020-08-14
Why were the Japanese determined to capture an American base on a tiny atoll in the middle of the Pacific? The surprising answer has to do with the changing nature of naval warfare, and recognition of the important role carriers played.
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Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
2020-08-14
The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first naval battle in history fought entirely by carrier-based airplanes, in which opposing fleets never caught sight of each other. Although the Japanese inflicted more tactical damage (including the sinking of the US carrier Lexington), they failed to achieve their objective: Port Moresby in New Guinea.
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Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code
2020-08-14
Codebreaking is one of the most captivating stories in World War II, both in Europe and the Pacific. While the British were breaking German codes, Americans stationed in Hawaii wrestled with Japanese intercepts.
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The Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942
2020-08-14
In 1942, the United States needed a morale boost, and the Doolittle Raid against Tokyo and other cities was a public relations coup. Here, as elsewhere, many of the operational decisions in the Pacific Theater revolved around logistics and supplies, such as how to equip planes with enough fuel to fly 650 miles over open sea while carrying 500-pound bombs.
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Japan Moves South, December 1941--May 1942
2020-08-14
During the first six months of 1942, the Japanese military juggernaut moved from success to success in the Pacific, conquering new territory at a dizzying pace. Learn how the Japanese were able to wreck Allied naval forces in the Java Sea, and examine the invasion of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and General Douglas MacArthur's escape to Australia.
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Infamy! The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
2020-08-13
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a tactical success for Japan, in that it destroyed much of the US naval fleet. But it also proved to be one of the most reckless and irresponsible strategic decisions in the history of warfare.
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The Road to War in the Pacific, 1931--1941
2020-08-13
The origins of the war predate December 7, 1941. In this opening episode, trace the events that led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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World War II: The Pacific Theater is a series categorized as a new series. Spanning 1 seasons with a total of 24 episodes, the show debuted on 2020. The series has earned a no reviews from both critics and viewers. The IMDb score stands at undefined.
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