In twenty-six parts. “The World at War” series tells the story of World War II. Part 23. The Allied Pacific offensive came under the command of two rivals; General Macarthur sweeps upward from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea to the Philippines, and Admiral Nimitz leaps from island to island starting in November 1943 in the Gilbert Islands at Tarawa. Heavy casualties awaited the Americans in their attack. Part 24. On August 1945, an American B-59 bomber, The “Enola Gay”, named after the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets, droped the world’s first uranium bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Four days latter a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
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ACMI Identifier
507962
Language
English
Subject categories
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Atomic bomb victims
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Hiroshima (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nagasaki-Shi (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear weapons
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945 - Pacific Area
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
History → Hiroshima (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945
History → Nagasaki-Shi (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)