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This is the most comprehensive of all the videos which I have seen on the subject of the Pacific War. The series was made in 1951 by Time, Inc., and features film clips from a number of sources: American, Japanese, British, Chinese, Australian, and others. The narration is straightforward. The picture quality is good. Animated maps help you to follow the progress of the various campaigns. The series covers a lot of ground, so you don't always get as much detail as you'd like.

Volume 1 is 1 hour and 44 minutes long. It begins with a 30 minute summary of the whole Pacific war. The rest of the tape covers the early history of the Pacific area - American expansion in the 1800's; life in the islands in the early 1900's; The Chinese revolution in 1911; the rise of nationalism in Japan; Japanese incursions into Manchuria in 1931; the Marco Polo Bridge incident in 1937; the capture of Shanghai; the sinking of the USS Panay; further expansion into the Philippines, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies; the Tri-partite treaty between Japan, Italy and Germany; American economic restrictions on Japan; the rise of Tojo and Yamamoto; the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Wake, Guam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore; the sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse; Japanese attacks on Darwin, Australia; Incursions into Sumatra and Java; The Lend-Lease Program; The transfer of the First Marine Division to the Pacific.