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2 Disc Set
Pearl Harbor:
These programs vividly tell the true story of the rise of Japanese military air power leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. It details the attack on the U.S. military base in Hawaii and plots the significant events of World War II, that involved the Japanese air fleet.
Follow the events as they unfold throughout the area, culminating when the Japanese High Command, in desperation, decides to resort to suicide missions to avert defeat. The Kamikaze-"Divine Wind"-Squadrons' first strike was against U.S. naval forces just off the Philippines in October 1944 and the attacks continued through to 1945 when, in May, they sank 17 U.S. ships off Okinawa. It was also in these waters that the U.S. carrier Franklin was severely damaged and almost sank after a direct hit. This is "the ultimate fight between defenders that want to live and pilots that want to die!"
The Battle Of Midway:
June 1942-By any ordinary standard, the United States Navy was hopelessly outclassed. They had no battleships, the enemy eleven. They had eight cruisers, the enemy twenty- three. They had three carriers (one of them crippled), the enemy had eight...they knew little of war. On one of the carriers, none of the Navy pilots had ever seen combat, nor had any of the Army fliers. Of the Marines, 17 of 21 new pilots were just out of flight school -some with less than four hours of flying time since then. They were plagued with equipment problems. Some of their dive bombers couldn't dive - the fabric came off the wings. Their torpedoes were slow and unreliable; the torpedo planes even worse. They were up against the finest fighting plane in the world: the Japanese Zero...Yet, they prevailed! See how in this fascinating program.
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