Victory in the Pacific

This documentary recounts the final stages of the war in the Pacific, as American forces destroyed Japan's air power through a costly island-hopping campaign. It follows the strategy that carried the war toward the Japanese mainland and President Truman's fateful decision to use nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film weighs the military logic and human toll of a war's brutal end. It is a sobering account of victory and its price. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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