WWII in the Pacific

On December 7 1941 Japan took a giant risk and launched a surprise bombing against the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii In the following months Japanese forces rampaged across Asia humiliating America and its allies It looked as though Japan was unbeatable but then America mustered the strength and plan to fight back

This episode shows how America crushed Japans Pacific Empire during World War Two a bloody and brutal war of attrition on land in the air and on the ocean By the Spring of 1945 the loss of life is great for both sides but Japan refuse to surrender The US chiefs are desperately looking for a way to end the war to save American lives

The War in the Pacific has at last started to go Americas way yet Japan is more determined than ever to fight to the death The Americans are doing everything they can to break Japans will including launching the most ruthless aerial firebombing campaign the world has ever seen Will a new secret US weapon offer an even quicker way out prevent a bloody invasion of Japan