Crusade in the Pacific looks at the campaign in the Solomon Islands directed at the Japanese stronghold on Bougainville. Allied reconnaissance aircraft target the island providing valuable intelligence for Allied bombing runs which loosen up the island for invasion. Allied troops eventual secure the beach and slowly fight their way across the island. The Japanese launch a counter-attack, but they are defeated in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. After brutal fighting, the island is secured.
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Sezon 1
- The Pacific in Eruption
- Awakening in the Pacific
- The Rise of the Japanese Empire
- America Goes to War in the Pacific
- The U.S. and the Philippines
- The Navy Holds: 1942
- Guadalcanal: America’s First Offensive
- War in the North: The Aleutians
- The Road Back: New Guinea
- Up the Solomons Ladder: Bougainville
- Attack in the Central Pacific: Makin and Tarawa
- The War at Sea
- 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 Returns to the Philippines
- 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
- The Chinese Reds Attack in Korea
- The Future: Asia and the United States
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