Air Power
Pacific Patterns
S1 • E15 Feb 17, 1957 30m
In late 1943 and early 1944, United States Navy aircraft carriers go on the offensive against the Japanese during the Pacific campaign of World War II, operating in support of U.S. forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign — the seizure of Tarawa and other atolls in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands — and launching a major air attack against the Japanese base at Truk.