Our #10 selection for Best of 2019 is this clip of daring WWII dogfights and naval clashes pulled from the Battle of the Philippines Sea. Stream The Pacific War in Color: http://bit.ly/2DM7lh7 | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

On this day in 1943, U.S. troops stormed the Japanese-held Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The bloody, 76-hour Battle of Tarawa is remembered as the first major American offensive in the central Pacific. For the full story, watch this clip from The Pacific War in Color: Island Hopping. | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation