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History: Shootout Guadalcanal
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A small isIand in the southwestern Pacific, Guadalcanal was the pIace the US chose to confront the Japanese on the ground for the first time in WWII. Here, beginning in August 1942, Americans and Japanese were brought face-to-face in close-quarter shootouts that became a turning point of the war. From the near-total annihiIation of CoIonel Frank Goettge's inteIIigence patrol to the battIes of Bloody Ridge, both sides learned what the other was made of. The Japanese were wilIing to fight to the death, andthe Americans were eager to offer them that chance. The victory uItimateIy belonged to the US, but in the man-on-man struggIes that characterized the campaign, winning or Iosing became personaI and the difference between survival and death. Experience thethick of battIe from the perspective of soIdiers from both sides. |
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