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Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 5: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. military's response to the attack on Pearl Harbor including actual wartime footage. Also included are Target Tokyo, a 1945 documentary which follows the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortresses, and another World War II short film, Air war against Japan. Appointment in Tokyo, a 1945 documentary, features enemy film taken from captured Japanese newsreels, and depicts General Douglas MacArthur's long struggle to fight his way back...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States. During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told-until now. It was Wade McClusky who remained calm when the Japanese fleet was not where it was expected to be. It was he who made the counterintuitive...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks
See Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942,...
See Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942,...
16) Windtalkers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The USS Enterprise took part in twenty battles during World War II--no other American ship came close. Enterprise is credited with sinking or wrecking 71 Japanese ships and destroying 911 enemy aircraft. This is the epic, heroic story of this legendary aircraft carrier--nicknamed "the fightingest ship" in the U.S. Navy--and of the men who fought and died on her. She was commissioned in 1938, and her bombers sank a submarine just three days after the...
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On the morning of December 7, 1941, a surprise attack by Japanese naval aviation against the American held island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. This story details one of the most momentous events in American history and a crucial turning point in the 20th century.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
xii, 290 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The stunning and decisive battle of Midway was perhaps the most crucial naval battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. Walter Lord explained away the US victory at Midway against a numerically superior and apparently more skilled Japanese fleet due to 'Lady Luck.' In The Silver Waterfall acclaimed historian Brendan Simms and historian and military veteran Steve McGregor show it was no such thing. Luck had little to do with it. Instead the...
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