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Crusade in the Pacific looks at the campaign in the Solomon Islands directed at the Japanese stronghold on Bougainville. Allied reconnaissance aircraft target the island providing valuable intelligence for Allied bombing runs which loosen up the island for invasion.
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Jan 1, 2004 · The Allies' crusade to defeat imperial Japan's bloody expansion featured difficult, heroic fighting at sea, in the air, and on innumerable jungle islands. This richly detailed, visually stunning documentary series covers the entire dramatic saga of World War II in the Pacific.
The Pacific is a 2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010. The series is a companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers and focuses on the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War.
YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)2010Outstanding Achievement in Casting – ...Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, Christine ...2010Steve Porter (for "Peleliu Landing")2010Best TV DVD or Blu-RayBest TV DVD or Blu-Ray2010Las Vegas Film Critics Society AwardsBest DVDBest DVDCrusade in the Pacific examines early American offensive operations in World War II beginning with the Battle of Guadalcanal. U.S. marines land on the island and fight a well dug-in Japanese army while also being harassed by Japanese aircraft.
Crusade is an American spin-off television series from J. Michael Straczynski 's Babylon 5, released in 1999. It is set in 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped.
Aug 18, 2019 · Crusade in the Pacific was an independently produced television documentary series on the Pacific Theater of World War II. The twenty-six episodes were telecast in 1951-3. The episodes are not always factually accurate.
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The foregoing shortcomings are trivial and soon forgotten when you are watching this series. Its comprehensive, detailed narrative, amplified as it is by maps, counts of planes and ships downed in each of the major battles and command of the history leading up to the war all make it very impressive.
