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Title:

Victory at sea [videorecording (DVD)] / [a production of the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the United States Navy] ; produced by Henry Salomon ; directed by M. Clay Adams ; written by Henry Salomon with Richard Hanser. Episodes 20-26

Format:

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Edition:

Multi-disk collectors set.

Publisher:

Mill Creek Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

1 videodiscs (ca. 156 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war
Documentary television programs.
War films

Other Authors:

Graves, Leonard
Adams, M. Clay.
Salomon, Henry
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
National Broadcasting Company, inc.
Mill City Entertainment, Inc

Other Titles:

Victory at sea (Television program)

Notes:

Originally produced as an NBC television series in 1952. Title from container. Narrated by Leonard Graves.

Contents:

Disk 1. Design for war -- The Pacific boils over -- Sealing the breach -- Midway is East -- Mediterranean mosaic -- Guadalcanal -- Rings around Rabaul -- Marenstrum -- Sea and sand -- disk 2. Beneath the Southern Cross -- The magnetic North -- Conquest of Micronesia -- Melanesian nightmare -- Roman renaissance -- D-Day -- Killers and the kill -- The turkey shoot -- Two if by sea -- disk 3. The battle for Leyte Gulf -- Return of the Allies -- Full fathom five -- The fate of Europe -- Target Suribachi -- The road to Mandalay -- Suicide for glory -- Design for peace.

Summary:

The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.

Locations:

GIPC251 -- De Soto Public Library (De Soto)