Customer Reviews

Crusade in Pacific 5 [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.

Volune 5 is 1 hour and 42 minutes long. Subjects include: the battle for Iwo Jima; raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi; the battle for Okinawa; kamikaze attacks; the air war against Japan  setting up air bases in the Marianas; air raids on Tokyo; the atomic bomb  Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the formal Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri; Japanese surrenders at Wake, Malaysia, Burma and the Philippines; MacArthur becomes leader of Japan; war crimes trials; the US occupation of Japan; Communists in Japan; Japanese accept some western customs; the rebuilding of Japan.