Customer Reviews

Crusade in Pacific 2 [VHS]

This is the most comprehensive of all the videos which I have seen on the subject of the Pacific War. The series was made in 1951 by Time, Inc., and features film clips from a number of sources: American, Japanese, British, Chinese, Australian, and others. The narration is straightforward. The picture quality is good. Animated maps help you to follow the progress of the various campaigns. The series covers a lot of ground, so you dont always get as much detail as youd like.

Volume 2 is 2 hours and 8 minutes long. Some of the subjects covered are: Japanese society in the early 1900s; Admiral Todos victory over the Russians in 1905; The Philippines in the early 1900s; MacArthur and the Philippine Scouts and Reserves; the 1941 invasion of the Philippines; the fall of Manilla; the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; MacArthurs departure from the Philippines; The fall of Bataan and Corregidor; General Homma, the Beast of Bataan; Admiral Nimitz; Recovery from Pearl Harbor; US air bases on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Espiritu Santo; the Battle of the Java Sea; US attacks on Wake Island; US, Australian assault of New Guinea; The Doolittle raid on Tokyo; The Japanese assault on Port Moresby; The Battle of the Coral Sea; Breaking Japanese codes; The Battle of Midway; Marines land on Tulagi and Guadalcanal; The Battle of Salvo Island; Japanese presence in Bougainville and New Georgia; The Battle of Santa Cruz; The US invasion of the Russell Islands; Rendova; the taking of the Munda airfield on New Gerogia; The two Battles of Kula Gulf; the Japanese on Rabaul; Bella La Bella Island; Japanese occupation of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians and the American response; Japanese conscription of their own people for the war effort; Australian Diggers in Port Moresby and Buna in New Guinea; Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Lae; the US attack on Bougainville;