How Japan almost won WW2
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This is a story of how Japan built a massive naval empire in less than 6 months and then lost it all.

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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
00:00 Intro
02:00 The Japanese offensive
04:14 Midway
08:26 Island hopping
11:16 Okinawa
12:23 Endgame

Correction:
2:58 This map should have been labeled “Germany and Occupied Territories” to reflect the extent of the German army’s advance in December 1941.
3:01 This map mistakenly includes the territories of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and Finland as part of German-occupied territories. These nations were aligned with the Axis powers but not under German occupation.

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