Crusade in the Pacific looks at the difficult New Guinea campaign. The Japanese lands on the island and entrench themselves there early in 1942. They attack Milne Bay with an amphibious force, but they are beaten back by allied forces. Australian forces drive across the mountainous island and eventual meet up with U.S. soldiers. Slowly they move through the northern part of the island defeating the Japanese at Lae and the Bismarck Sea.
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Dokument, Wojenny, Historyczny
Sezony
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

