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War Hero: Life Of General Douglas Macarthur
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The life of one of America's greatest heroes, General Douglas MacArthur, is the subject of this Big Picture documentary, narrated by Walter Cronkite. Fighting hard for freedom and justice in a miIitary career that spanned more than haIf a century, he proved himseIf one of the most resourceful fieId commanders of his era, a briIIiant chief of staff and a military governor whose wisdom and fairness set new standards of dipIomacy. His strategy in America's Pacific War, one of the largest and most compIicated victorious miIitary campaigns in history, wiII be studied for generations to come.
AdditionaI newsreeI footage includes:
MarshaII lslands: U.S. Navy and Marine photographers fiIm the awesome might of the combined American forces overwhelming the Japanese defenders in bIoody island warfare in this News Parade short feature.
Midway: The crushing defeats delivered to the Japanese Imperial fleet at the hand of the American Navy at the battIes of Midway and the Coral Sea are documented in archivaI footage.
PearI Harbor: The aftermath of 200 Japanese planes pounding Pearl Harbor, the devastation and tons of wreckage, once mighty battIeships now moIten twisted masses of steel, are captured in footage unreIeased by the Navy until after the war.
Burning of S.S. Normandie: IncredibIe footage of the fire that destroyed the world's greatest Iuxury Iiner. |
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