ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2011-01-01

ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC - National Archives and Records Administration 1946 - ARC Identifier 2765 / Local Identifier 18.13 - War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947). Uses Air Force Combat Film Digest pictures to show the strategy for aerial assault against Japan. British infantry advances in Burma with the help of U.S. fighter strafings. Oil fields and industry in Borneo are bombed. Gen. McArthur inspects damage caused by U.S. bombings of the Philippines. Gens. Doolittle, Arnold, and Whitehead confer on Okinawa. Saipan is invaded and its airstrip is repaired and used by B-29's. Shows the attack on Iwo Jima and resultant destruction. B-29's bomb Japan. Shows the Los Alamos, New Mexico, atom bomb explosion.