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## HEADING: GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II
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WAR-212. GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II
VOLUME 2 (1987)
Counterattack
Running time: 90 minutes
"There was another battle going on in the jungles -- the battle against insects and hunger," viewers are reminded as Operation Carwheel is set in motion. The plan: bypass enemy concentrations on Rabaul and take other, less heavily defended outposts.
Scenes of intense jungle warfare on New Georgia, determined but bloody landings at Arawe and Cape Gloucester in New Britain; Arawe and Cape Gloucester in New Britain; and routing the enemy on Tarawa are followed by the "building of the impossible" -- a road to move supplies from India to inland China.
The Solomons and New Guinea 1:00-15:00
New Britain 15:30-50:30
Tarawa 51:00-62:30
The Burma Road 1942-1943 63:00-90:00
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1944: Closing In
Running time: 88 minutes
Bitter jungle fighting continues as Allied troops push on to Manus and Los Negros in the Admiralties; Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas; and Peleliu and Angaur in the Palaus.
"History's greatest single naval engagement," Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, and bombing raids by B-29 Superfortresses over Tokyo climax these episodes in the escalating war. By the end of this volume, no part of the enemy empire is beyond Allied range.
Manus and Los Negros 1:00-16:00
Saipan and Tinian 16:30-36:00
Peleliu and Angaur 36:30-56:00
The Battle of Leyte Gulf 56:00-76:00
Target Tokyo 76:00-88:00
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1945: The End Approaches
VOLUME 4 (1987)
Plus Your Video Bonus
Pacific Warpath
Running time: 108 minutes
U.S. forces land in the Philippines. Filipinos in Manila team up with American forces during grueling street fighting. U.S. paratroopers surprise the enemy on Corregidor. On two islands, Marines inch their way up Mt. Sunbacht. Off Okinawa, naval personnel defend their giant carriers against day and night attacks by kamikaze pilots.
Sung or unsung, these are but a few of the brave Allies whose accomplishments were recorded for posterity as the war in the Pacific reached its climax.
Return to the Philippines 1:30-26:30
Iwo Jima 26:30-46:00
Okinawa 46:30-65:30
Surrender 66:00-73:00
Special Feature
Pacific Milk Run 73:00-90:00
Warpath of the Air Apaches 90:00-108:00
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WAR-211. Reader's Digest
GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II
NORTH AFRICA AND WESTERN EUROPE-VOL. 1
Beginning of the End
NORTH AFRICA TO CASSINO
On the Move
D-DAY TO THE LIBERATION OF FRAI
Against All Odds
THE SIEGED LINE!
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Victory in Sight
TO THE RHINE, THE ELBE, AND THE PO
GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II
WAR-212. VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC
The First Years
Running time: 76 minutes
The horrors of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, are memorably captured in the opening segments.
The many dramatic scenes that follow include the surrender of Corregidor; the Battle of Midway, a critical turning point; and clashes in Burma that preceded the construction of the Ledo Road.
Approximate running times:
Pearl Harbor 1:00-28:30
Corregidor 29:00-33:30
Midway 34:00-52:00
