Crusade in the Pacific looks at the Battle of Iwo Jima. Allied forces need the island to launch support aircraft for long range bombers over Japan. The Allies land on the beach and face strong resistance from the Japanese. The U.S. eventually take Mount Suribachi and the southern half of the island, but suffer a large number of casualties. The Allies move north and after after a difficult battle, they take control of the island.
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Dokument, Wojenny, Historyczny
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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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