Victory at Sea

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MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle

Japan is ascendant as it successfully invades Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. But the Americans draw first blood, first on the Coral Sea, and ultimately on Midway as they manage to bomb four of Japan's aircraft carriers--the same ones that participated in Pearl Harbor--making the imperial fleet retreat and giving the U.S. an incredible early victory in the pacific...

Aired: Nov 23, 1952 Genre: Documentary War & PoliticsCasts: Leonard GravesDuration: 30m Rating: 2.5 Country: United States of America Production:

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01: DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941 02: THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 03: SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943 04: MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle 05: MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta 06: GUADALCANAL 07: RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands 08: MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942 09: SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943 10: BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic 11: THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska 12: THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls 13: MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign 14: ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign 15: D-DAY: Normandy 16: KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945 17: THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas 18: TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur 19: BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf 20: RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines 21: FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines 22: THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender 23: TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima 24: THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean 25: SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa 26: DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war