Victory at Sea
S01E07 RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
The Japanese Navy is experiencing significant success in its territorial gains, with Rabaul in the New Britain Islands serving as its crucial hub. This episode of Victory at Sea highlights the U.S. strategy in late 1943, aiming to encircle and weaken the Japanese stronghold through targeted invasions of nearby islands such as Bougainville and Rendova. Special recognition goes to the Seabees, who rapidly made the airfields operational, along with the use of observation planes and radar that enabled the U.S. Navy to effectively halt Japanese reinforcements and counterattacks.
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DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
GUADALCANAL
RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
D-DAY: Normandy
KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war