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John Wayne war [digital videodisc] / presented by Warner Home Video.

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2014]

Greatest classic legends film collection.

4 videodiscs (453 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Operation Pacific -- The sea chase -- Blood alley -- The wings of eagles.

Operation Pacific (b&w, 1951, 111 min.): World War II rages across the Pacific and Lt. Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands, oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor, and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish", torpedoes, at the hulls of the enemy fleet.

The sea chase (widescreen, 1955, 117 min.): German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.

Blood alley (widescreen, 1955, 115 min.): An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.

The wings of eagles (widescreen, 1957, 110 min.): Commander Frank 'Spig' Wead was a pioneer aviator, renowned screenwriter, and a man of war. The skies beckoned Spig to action; a crippling injury ultimately left him powerless to act, propelling him to discover the power of his pen.

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