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The Pacific perimeter The war against Japan

Introduces segments of actuality footage from World War II which have been edited together with a music, sound effects and voice-over track to illustrate the following stories: the war in New Guinea, the war in the Aleutians, the role of the United States aircraft carrier the Enterprise in the Pacific, and the United States treatment of its Nisei population during the war. Themes include the problems of fighting soldiers (Japanese) who are taught to fight to the death, the role of weather in the conduct of battle, the internment of the Nisei population in the West, and racial prejudice against Orientals.

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  • "Introduces segments of actuality footage from World War II which have been edited together with a music, sound effects and voice-over track to illustrate the following stories: the war in New Guinea, the war in the Aleutians, the role of the United States aircraft carrier the Enterprise in the Pacific, and the United States treatment of its Nisei population during the war. Themes include the problems of fighting soldiers (Japanese) who are taught to fight to the death, the role of weather in the conduct of battle, the internment of the Nisei population in the West, and racial prejudice against Orientals."@en
  • "The Pacific perimeter: A chronicle of war waged on the fringes of the Pacific theater, from the steamy jungles of New Guinea to the frozen Aleutian Islands. Includes information of the internment of Japanese-Americans."@en
  • "Narrator Walter Cronkite introduces segments of actuality footage from World War II to illustrate the following stories: the war in New Guinea, the war in the Aleutians, the role of the United States aircraft carrier the Enterprise in the Pacific, and the United States treatment of its Nisei population during the war. Themes include the problems of fighting soldiers (Japanese) who are taught to fight to the death, the role of weather in the conduct of battle, the internment of the Nisei population in the West, and racial prejudice against Orientals."@en
  • "The war against Japan: Walter Cronkite guides us through the building of the Burma Road, the fighting at Tarawa where the entire U.S. 5th Fleet engaged the Japanese forces on the most heavily defended island in the Pacific theater, to Okinawa--the strategic stepping stone to the Japanese mainland, and you will witness the single most devastating blow of the War --the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima."@en

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  • "The Pacific perimeter"
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