A United News reel includes footage of U.S. troops bombing Japanese air bases, landing on sandy shores, and making their way through jungles. For photographs of the U.S. in the Pacific, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.