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Air War in the Pacific
ASIN/6301257952
The documentary story about the air war in
the Pacific Theatre.
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video
Time Capsule WWII War in
the Pacific ASIN/6303284094
The documentary story about the war in the
Pacific Theatre.
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video
Scorched Earth - Carrier
Warfare/ ;The story of the battle of the Central Pacific and the role of
the aircraft carriers.ASIN/B00004R82K
The story of the battle of the Central Pacific
and the role of the aircraft carriers.
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VHS Tape
- Cromwell Productions
The British Pacific Fleet.
ASIN/B00004CUIA
The official commemorative video. Britain’s
WW2 Pacific fleet was the largest single force ever assembled by the Royal
Navy, with rare newsrool footage selected by the crews who served in the
Fleet
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video
The most dangerous moment
- attack on Ceylon ASIN/B00004CUGN
The documentary story of the young Canadian
airman who first spotted the Japanese fleet in April 1942, Thids is about
the race to save the British Fleet moored in Ceylon in 1942 as the massive
Japanese armada approaches. Winston Churchill described the moment as the
'single most important contribution to victory of the War'.
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video
Carriers:Rehearsal for
War Coral Sea (US). ASIN: 6302174503
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video, 1991
Carriers - Vol. 2 - The
Carrier At War (UK)/Carriers:Midway the Escort Carrier (US). ASIN: B00004CLDZ
Second part in a four part series which covers
the history of the American aircraft carrier and naval air power. The American
and Japanese carriers do battle in the East Solomons and the Midway
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video
Carriers - Vol. 3 - From
Kamikazes To Korea (UK)/Carriers:Wave of Victory Kamikaze (US). ASIN: B00004CLE0
Third part in a four part series which covers
the history of the American aircraft carrier. The Battle of Leyte Gulf
saw the largest sea battle ever. Over two thousand Kamikaze Japanese pilots
attacked the US fleet. Over 23 US carriers were lost in just a few months.
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video 24 June, 1991
Hunters In The Sky - Hell
In The Pacific. ASIN/B00004CM8E
Documentary on the Fighter Aces of World World
II, with film footage of actual dogfights. Includes: 'Tigers Over
China' and 'Hell In The Pacific.'
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video / 11 June, 1992
Hunters In The Sky - Victory
In The Pacific. ASIN/B00004CMF1
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VHS Tape -
Dd Video / 10 August, 1992
Warbirds - Fury In The
Pacific. ASIN/B00004CKKD
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VHS Tape
- Dd Video
Kamikaze. ASIN/B00004CKKJ
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VHS
Tape - Leisureview Ltd. / 19 January, 1998
Kamikaze in Color (2
Volume Set) (2002) ASIN/B0000633W6
This extraordinary production takes you close
to ground zero of these devastating attacks. Featuring astounding, never
before seen footage from U.S. and Japanese archives. This incredible
film footage from cameramen who narrowly escaped with their lives as well
as the words of the men who were actually there. You will experience the
Kamikaze more vividly than you ever thought possible. This film stands
as an important and provocative look at some of the most horrible wartime
tactics ever imagined.tactics that continue to haunt the world to this
day.
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VHS
Tape 2002
S.O.S. Catastrophe: Spirit
of Survival - Typhoons & Kamikaze and the Saga of the U.S.S. Franklin
(1998) ASIN/B00000ID0D
The second half of this video focuses on the
bombing of the USS Franklin that occurred on March 19, 1945. The footage
is incredible.
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VHS
Tape 2002
V Is For Victory - America
Goes To War - Pearl Harbour To Midway.
ASIN/B00004CWLF
Pearl Harbor to Midway" is the first volume
in the ten volume "V for Victory" series. Hosted by noted journalists Eric
Sevareid and Edwin Newman, this series explores World War II using original
newsreel stories. Volume I covers how the United States was finally plunged
into the war following the daring dawn attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor.
The focus is on the Japanese advances across the South Pacific, including
the fall of the Philippines. However, the episode does end with the pivotal
battle of Midway, which marked the end of Japan's eastward expansion and
the beginning of the American counterattack (which is the subject of Volume
II). The newsreel footage is the chief strength of this series, which does
attempt to provide the viewer with an idea of how the war was being portrayed
back home.
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VHS Tape - Acorn Media UK / 8 June, 1998
V Is For Victory - America
Goes To War - Tarawa And The Island War. ASIN/B00004CWLL
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VHS Tape - Acorn Media UK / 8 June, 1998
V Is For Victory - America
Goes To War - Guadalcanal And The Pacific Counterattack. ASIN/B00004CWLG
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VHS Tape - Acorn Media UK / 8 June, 1998
V Is For Victory - America
Goes To War - Iwo Jima, Okinawa And The Push On Japan. ASIN/B00004CWLN
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VHS Tape - Acorn Media UK / 8 June, 1998
VJ Day - The War In
The Pacific. Robert Powell (Pres/Narr). ASIN/B00004CZ5P
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VHS
Tape - Castle Home Video / 1 June, 1999
Hell In The Pacific.
ASIN/B00005OA5E
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VHS Tape - Carlton Home Entertainment / 12 November, 2001
War in the Pacific:Volume
01. December 7th and Battle of Midway (1942) . ASIN: 6305828318
Wartime documentary filmed in 1942 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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War in the Pacific:Volume
02. Report from the Aleutians and the Price of Rendova (1943) . ASIN: 6305828326
Wartime documentary filmed in 1943 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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War in the Pacific:Volume
03. With the Maines at Tarawa. US Navy blasts the Marshall Islands,
Action at Anguar (1943) . ASIN: 6305828350
Wartime documentary filmed in 1943 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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War in the Pacific:Volume
04. Attack, the battle for New Britain (1944) . ASIN: 6305828385
Wartime documentary filmed in 1944 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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VHS Tape
War in the Pacific:Volume
06. Payoff in the Pacific (1945) . ASIN: 6305828415
Wartime documentary filmed in 1945 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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VHS Tape
War in the Pacific:Volume
07. The Jap Zero, Okinawa, The Fleet that came to stay, the Formal Japanese
Surrender (1943) . ASIN: 6305828423
Wartime documentary filmed in 1945 by US Government
Documentary Films unit.
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VHS Tape
The Battle Of Java Sea.
ASIN/B00004CW07
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VHS Tape - The Big Little Picture Company / 29 June, 1998
World War II - With Walter
Cronkite - Vol. 5; The War Against Japan [1981]. ASIN/B00004CKCE
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VHS Tape - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
World War II - With Walter
Cronkite - Vol. 7; The Pacific Campaign [1981]. ASIN/B00004CKCG
This volume is divided into four episodes;
`The Japanese Perimeter', `Pacific Patterns', `Advance The Bomber Line'
and `Superfort'
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VHS Tape - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
World War II - With Walter
Cronkite - Vol. 2; The Pacific War Begins [1981]. ASIN/B00004CKCB
This volume is separated into four episodes.
`The Man Who Spied On Pearl Harbour', `Attack On Singapore', `Freedom For
The Philippines' and `The Doolittle Raid'
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VHS Tape - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Crusade In The Pacific
- Vol. 1 - Pearl Harbour To The Aleutians [1995]. ASIN/B00004CQYK
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VHS Tape - Dd Video / 11 September, 1995
Crusade In The Pacific
- Vol. 2 - New Guinea To The Marianas. ASIN/B00004CR73
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VHS
Tape - Dd Video / 9 October, 1995
Crusade In The Pacific
- Vol. 3 . ASIN/B00004CR73
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VHS
Tape - Dd Video / 9 October, 1995
Chronicles Of World
War II, The Pacific. ASIN/B000006QT4
British Movietone
News - Vol. 3 - Triumph Of Flight . ASIN/B00004CK00
Wartime stories about the Lancaster Bomber,
the Flying Fortress, the Royal Air Force and the Japanese kamikaze pilots.
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VHS Tape
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / 20 August, 2001
Face Off:Yamamoto Vs. Nimitz
ASIN/B00005O5FJ
Aircraft carriers were the most important
pieces on the board in an epic chess match between the U.S.' and Japan's
foremost naval commanders - Admirals Yamamoto and Nimitz. This video uses
archival footage, the testimony of veterans, and interviews with historians
and strategists to analyze the Battle of Midway
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VHS Tape
Battlefield: The Battle
of Midway (1942) .
ASIN/6304493819
Pearl Harbor to Midway were decisive periods
in WW2 for the aircraft carrier. John Ford's 1942 short documentary on
the Battle of Midway. The story is that President Franklin Roosevelt insisted
that this documentary about the pivotal World War II battle in the Pacific
be made for the mothers of America. In this battle the torpedo squadrons
from three American aircraft carriers were all shot down by the Japanese,
without ever having one torpedo hit anything and only one man surviving.
In an incredibly lucky twist of fate, the torpedo planes had forced the
Zeroes providing air cover for the Japanese carriers down on the deck,
giving the American dive bombers a clear shot at their targets. John Ford
directed this 20 minute documentary, which is narrated by Donald Crisp
with Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell providing dialogue voices. Ford happened
to be on hand with a crew of naval photographers and was wounded during
the battle. The film covers the attack on Midway, including some aerial
footage, the search for survivors, and aftermath of the battle. Edited
in secret, the film was released just days after its completion.
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VHS Tape - Acorn Media UK / 8 June, 1998
Colours Of War, The - Vol.
2 - The Battle Of Midway And With The Marines AtTarawa ASIN/B00004CRYP
Documentary about 'The Battle Of Midway' which
looks at the Japanese attack on that strategic Pacific island. 'With The
Marines At Tarawa' follows the build up to the Japanese invasion of Tarawa.
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VHS Tape
National Geographic Video
- The Battle For Midway. ASIN/B00004SCA6
The man who found the Titanic, Dr. Robert
Ballard, took on the greatest technical challenge of his career when he
traveled to the Pacific waters off Midway Island, site of a critical turning
point of World War II, in search of the sunken aircraft carrier U.S.S.
Yorktown. This documentary not only details Ballard's challenge in finding
the Yorktown, which rests three miles below the surface, a mile deeper
than the Titanic, but also provides an intelligent and gripping narrative
of the Battle of Midway, in which four Japanese carriers were also
sent to the bottom in a furious day of fighting that turned the tide of
the war in the Pacific. On the expedition with Ballard are four veterans,
two Japanese and two Americans, who had been involved in the decisive 1942
battle, and who are at times overwhelmed by emotion as Ballard looks for
their old ships. The dogged search for a Japanese carrier is fruitless,
but finally Ballard finds a debris field that leads him to the Yorktown.
Ballard's remarkable underwater cameras scan the great carrier, which rests
upright on the ocean floor, its antiaircraft guns still pointed skyward
as if to ward off yet another furious Japanese attack.
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VHS Tape - Quadrant Video / 11 October, 1999
Great Battles of World
War II: The Battle of Midway (1999) .
ASIN/B00005Q64D
Documentary about the Battle of Midway
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VHS Tape 1999
Chronicles Of World War
II, The Battle For Midway ASIN/B00004CXUQ
Documentary about the decisive aircraft carriers
battle:Midway, put together from clips made by propaganda film units
Carriers:Midway the
Escort Carrier (1991) .
ASIN/6302174511
Documentary about escort aircraft carriers:Midway
the Escort Carrier
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VHS Tape 1991
Midway. Starring Charlton
Heston, Henry Fonda, et al. (1976). ASIN/6300181472
Six months after the Japanese destroyed the
U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese
were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging
point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. Outnumbered four to one, the
Americans won a surprise victory and shattered the backbone of the Japanese
Imperial Navy. This 1976 film feels more like a history lesson than a drama,
but World War II buffs will appreciate the attention to historical fact
(especially the way in which fate and a few bad decisions turned the tide),
as well as the generous use of actual battle footage. The all-star cast
includes Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, and Cliff Robertson in cameos and
a whole slew of familiar TV faces in supporting roles.
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Dd Video
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
-- Don Ameche, Dana Andrews. ASIN/B00005PJ8L
Don Ameche and Dana Andrews head an all-star
cast in this acclaimed film about life aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier after
the attack on Pearl Harbor. A group of young, eager Navy pilots become
frustrated when their higher-ups enact a non-combat strategy against the
Japanese. To make matters worse, the pilots must answer to a rigid, unyielding
commander
(AMECHE). Against all odds, the men fly into action in the decisive Battle
of Midway. Nominated for a 1944 Best Original Screenplay Oscar, this stunning
war drama uses actual combat footage to tell its engrossing story.
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Dd Video
Airforce (1943) -- John
Ridgely, John Garfield, et al.. ASIN/6302224446
There was no better director than Howard Hawks
at depicting group action. Because of his sense of character and pacing,
Air Force transcends its propaganda purpose. It's well crafted all the
way around, from the acting to the writing to the aerial fighting to James
Wong Howe's painstakingly striking cinematography. A B-17 takes off from
San Francisco in December of 1941 headed for Hawaii only to witness the
Pearl Harbor attack from above, so it lands and takes off to thwart an
oncoming attack. Reassigned to Manila, the crew (which includes the always
cynical John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, and Harry
Carey) is thrust into the thick of battle. Incidentally, Hawks enlisted
William Faulkner to rewrite a death scene that resulted in a sublime sense
of honor.
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VHS Video
Pearl Harbor [2001]
- Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale. ASIN: B00005QB7P
A big summer blockbuster, Pearl Harbor is
pitched as a romantic epic, but the story is essentially a frame for an
impressive depiction of the Japanese Naval aviation dive bombing attack
on that "day of infamy" against the United States Navy in 1941, deploying
all the modelwork, CGI, stunts and special effects necessary to trump previous
screen re-enactments in Tora! Tora! Tora! and From Here to Eternity.
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Dd Video
Task Force (1949) -- Gary
Cooper, Jane Wyatt;. (1949). ASIN/6302923026
Gary Cooper plays Admiral Jonathan L. Scott
in this 1949 film directed by Delmer Daves, that proved to be one of the
most popular films of the late 1940s. About to retire, Scott recalls how
he and other Navy Men had argued the importance of aircraft carriers. During
one such argument Scott insults a Japanese diplomat and is sent to a desk
job in Panama. But a year later he is aboard a new carrier, the USS Saratoga
an after Pearl Harbor he is the Operations Officer on the USS Yorktown
at the Battle of Midway, and ends up commanding his own flattop. At the
Battle of Okinawa, his ship is badly damaged by a kamikaze attack, but
refuses to abandon his ship. The stars of "Task Force" are Cooper and the
Technicolor combat footage of World War II included in the film, which
gave it an authenticity beyond most war films.
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Dd Video
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
(1944) VHS . Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum ASIN: 0790747464
Set during World War II April 18, 1942 - the
Doolittle raid over Japan - the first US raid on Japan after Pearl
Harbor. One purpose of it was to create a strong psychological impact on
the Japanese who used to believe their territory was safe from such
an attack (a parallel can be drawn here with what happened in New
York on September 11, 2001). Another purpose was to boost the morale of
Americans, both that of the civil population and of the military. This
dual aim was fully reached.Like the book it's faithfully based on, the
film is divided in 3 main parts :
1) the training for the raid or how to learn on land to get a heavy B-25
to take off from a carrier knowing you only have one chance to do it :
the day of the mission,
2) the bombing raid itself involving 16 planes (if I remember right), and
3) the survival story : how to get back home after crashing in hostile
territory : mainland China occupied by Japanese forces (knowing it was
impossible to fly back to the carrier and that you couldn't probably have
landed on it with a heavy plane like a B-25).
