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MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel
Lecture no. 10 from the course: World War II: The Pacific Theater
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Taught by Professor Craig L. Symonds | 33 min | Categories: History
General MacArthur was a controversial figure, a brilliant but complex commander with a large ego, who found himself sharing command of the Pacific with US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz. Watch these two commanders conduct a dual campaign on both New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands.
24 Lectures
1
The Road to War in the Pacific, 1931–1941
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of 33 min
2
Infamy! The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
0
of 32 min
3
Japan Moves South, December 1941–May 1942
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of 31 min
4
The Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942
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of 29 min
5
Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code
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of 28 min
6
Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
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of 30 min
7
Midway: 10 Minutes That Changed the War
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of 32 min
8
Guadalcanal: Jungle Warfare
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of 32 min
9
Ironbottom Sound, 1942–1943
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of 31 min
10
MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel
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of 33 min
11
The Big Blue Fleet and American Industry
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of 31 min
12
Battle for Tarawa: A Square Mile of Hell
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of 32 min
13
A Three-Front Pacific War, January–May 1944
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of 33 min
14
The US Leaps to the Marianas, June 1944
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of 32 min
15
Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
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of 30 min
16
Bombing Japan: Fire from the Sky
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of 30 min
17
American Submarines in the Pacific, 1944–1945
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of 32 min
18
MacArthur Returns to the Philippines
0
of 30 min
19
Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
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of 32 min
20
Admiral Halsey’s Typhoons, 1944–1945
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of 30 min
21
Battle for Iwo Jima, February–March 1945
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of 30 min
22
Battle for Okinawa, April–June 1945
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of 31 min
23
Kamikazes: Japan’s Special Attack Units
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of 31 min
24
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
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of 34 min
