Crusade in the Pacific

The Navy Holds - 1942

0.024mJanuary 22, 2004

Stirring film footage, animation, and maps are combined to vividly illustrate a carrier- based bombing raid on Tokyo and battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. Dizzying aerial dogfights, air attacks on ships, and spectacular naval gunfire feature prominently in this coverage of America's early successes in the Pacific. Admiral Nimitz explains difficulties of fighting a war across the Pacific's vast area