I will continue to stand by my idea that a mini series about the Pacific naval battles would be kick ass.
Episode 1 - The Japanese planning and rationalization for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and other IJN attacks in December 1941.
Episode 2 - The days before Pearl as the IJN left Japan and got into position
Epsiode 3 - The attack on Pearl plus Clark/Subic, Malaya, Guam, etc.
Episode 4 - The aftereffects of Pearl, HMS Prince of Wales and Renown, Wake Island and then the lead up to Coral Sea.
Epsidoe 5 - Coral Sea and losing the Lexington, getting Yorktown back to Pearl and patched up in time to head out for Midway and giving the codebreakers at Pearl more credit for breaking the IJN code
Epsidoe 6 - Midway
Episode 7 - Guadalcanal sea battles and coastwatchers
Episode 8 - Philipine Sea. Mitscher's wreckless but ballsy "turn on the lights".
Episode 9 - Leyte Gulf. Taffy 3 is the star here with the Battle off Samar getting the attention it deserves. Emergence of kamikaze attacks.
Episode 10 - Okinawa, the ramp up of kamikaze attacks, sinking of the Yamato and then just this footage of the Missouri pulling into Tokyo Harbor and flag officers arriving on board
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/battleship-uss-missouri-pulling-into-tokyo-bay-fleet-news-footage/169568035
Roll credits on the number of men, ships and planes involved on all sides of the conflict. Losses, etc.
I could justify this being 12-16 episodes because some of those could be split into multi-parts and I didn't throw in stuff like the Java Sea battles, Santa Cruz, a bunch of other smller engagements, sub warfare and the Indianapolis delivering the bomb to Tinian and the aftermath of that.