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In the fight to wrest control of the free world away from the Axis powers of Germany and Japan, the Allies engaged in a fight to the death in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Nowhere was the fighting more intense or the casualties greater than in the steamy jungles of the South Pacific Islands. The enemy was not only the Japanese; it was malaria, but the U.S. Marines fought on. This documentary chronicles the story of the crucial engagements at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal, where the stakes and casualties were high, as American forces fought their way to victory over the Japanese. Archival film clips, photographs, personal accounts of veterans, and commentary by historians recount these bloody battles in the Pacific.