5 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in monochrome digital optical Dolby video file DVD video region 1
Notes:
Film sources: U.S. Department of Defense, Australian Government Information Service, British Information Service, New Zealand Army, Netherlands Information Service, March of Time, Newsreel Pool, captured Japanese film from U.S. National Archives and Office of Alien Property Originally broadcast on television in 1951, produced by the March of Time newsreel unit Film editing and compilation, Jack Bush ... [et al.] ; narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis Set ISBN: 0778621200 DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono
Contents:
[Disc 1]: Rise of the Japanese empire America goes to war in the Pacific U.S. and the Philippines Navy holds, 1942 ; [Disc 2]: Guadalcanal: America's first offensive War in the north: the Aleutians Road back: New Guinea Up the Solomons' Ladder: Bougainville ; [Disc 3]: Attack in the central pacific: Makin and Tarawa War at sea Speeding up the attack: the Marshalls Stepping stones to the Philippines ; [Disc 4]: Battle for the Marianas War in China-Burma-India theater Palau: the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge MacArthur returns to the Philippines ; [Disc 5]: Bloody Iwo At Japan's doorstep: Okinawa Air war on Japan Surrender and occupation of Japan
