World War II - Pacific
Photographs, documents and drawings show the appalling life in prisoner of war camps O'Donnell and Cabanatuan.
Thousands of Japanese die on Saipan; Americans suffer many losses as well.
Navajo code talkers prevent a massacre of Marines on Saipan, although the Japanese continue to fight.
The island of Corregidor holds the last of the US and Filipino troops, it falls to the Japanese on May 6, 1942.
February 19, 1945 is the day US marines land on Iwo Jima. They soon face incredible resistance from hiding Japanese soldiers, and many Marines die.
In the city of Nanking, China, Japanese soldiers plunder, rape and kill thousands of men, women and children.
The Bataan Death March, shown in photos and maps, lasts over 60 miles; many Filipino and US soldiers die.
President Truman makes a decision to use America's atomic weapons to bomb Japan.
On December 8, 1941, following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt declares war.
MacArthur and Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippines, warn Roosevelt the end is near and ask for withdrawal of US troops.
African-American Dorie Miller works in the West Virgina's galley, but when the bombs fall, he assists the ship's captain, fires a machine gun and earn...
B-29 bombers drop fire bombs and napalm to burn Tokyo; see photographs of the destruction.
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