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Crusade in the Pacific is a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Japan's Empire of the Rising Sun during and immediately after World War II. Each episode examines a crucial stage in a war that was contested bitterly and marked by unheard-of savagery. This episode, rusade in the Pacific: Speeding Up the Attack - The Marshalls, covers the battles for the Marshall Islands, a campaign that forced the Japanese to abandon their most important base outside Japan, the critical supply point of Truk.