Season 1 (1952)

DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
5.0

October 26, 1952 • 30m

World War II comes, and Germany succeeds in invading Poland and France. But is held back by England thanks to the vital convoys, C...Read more

THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
5.0

November 2, 1952 • 30m

Using Japanese footage, we see the planning, execution, and ultimately the celebration of the Asian country's attack on Pearl Harb...Read more

SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
5.0

November 9, 1952 • 30m

With war now declared on the U.S. front, naval forces throughout the states have banded together to bring convoys of supplies acro...Read more

MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
5.0

November 23, 1952 • 30m

Japan is ascendant as it successfully invades Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. But the Americans draw first blood, first ...Read more

MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
5.0

November 30, 1952 • 30m

World War II comes to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian, French and British naval forces flex their muscle. British forces have the...Read more

GUADALCANAL
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December 14, 1952 • 30m

After training in Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. The U.S. Navy suffers defeat after defeat at th...Read more

RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
5.0

December 21, 1952 • 30m

The Japanese Navy is ascendant in its conquests, of which its linchpin is the main base at Rabaul in the New Britain Islands. This...Read more

MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
5.0

December 28, 1952 • 30m

Mussolini calls the Mediterranean "mare nostrum"--our sea. And seeks to exploit it to the full. British and Greek military forces,...Read more

SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
5.0

January 4, 1953 • 30m

The Soviet Union demand a "second front" as their country struggles under the might of the Nazis. The wish is granted as Roosevelt...Read more

BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
5.0

January 11, 1953 • 30m

The South Atlantic becomes a front in the overall Battle of the Atlantic, from the pursuit of the Graf Spee to the battle between ...Read more

THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
5.0

January 18, 1953 • 30m

This episode of Victory at Sea explores the battles between the Allies and Germans over the Arctic Circle, and the convoys battlin...Read more

THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
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January 25, 1953 • 30m

The ubiquitous aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy goes into the attack in the Central Pacific at the Gilberts and Marshalls, destro...Read more

MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
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February 1, 1953 • 30m

The Allies are victorious in New Guinea as they repel the Japanese. They thus bring the fight through a series of island-hopping o...Read more

ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
5.0

February 8, 1953 • 30m

While Hitler's Germany starts its decline, Mussolini's Italy falls. Eventually, as destruction is heaped upon Naples and Rome, Ita...Read more

D-DAY: Normandy
5.5

February 15, 1953 • 30m

The Allied invasion of Normandy--from preparation to execution--is detailed to very compelling effect courtesy of vintage footage ...Read more

KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
6.0

February 22, 1953 • 30m

The U-Boats are ascendant, and their triumphs trumpeted over Germany. But the Allies hit back with new bases in lands bordering th...Read more

THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
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March 1, 1953 • 30m

Guam, a U.S. territory, gets invaded by Japan a few days after Pearl Harbor and remains under occupation for two and a half years ...Read more

TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
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March 8, 1953 • 30m

Before the Philippines, the United States first attacks Peleliu and Anguar. Through communiques, we follow the bloody battle in its ferocity.

BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
6.0

March 15, 1953 • 30m

The Japanese fleet is fast disappearing, and the Imperial Navy conducts its last major operation in the Philippines. It ends in de...Read more

RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
5.0

March 22, 1953 • 30m

Just after the U.S. entered World War II, the Japanese conquered the Commonwealth of the Philippines, an American protectorate, br...Read more

FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
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March 29, 1953 • 30m

In this episode of Victory at Sea, we see how the U.S. Navy's submarines contributed to the Japanese empire's downfall, sinking th...Read more

THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
5.0

April 5, 1953 • 30m

Sevastopol was liberated, and the Allies finally crush Germany. We also witness the meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin on...Read more

TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
5.5

April 12, 1953 • 30m

The United States fought two battles here--the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima against the Japanese, and the U.S. Navy against the typhoo...Read more

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
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April 19, 1953 • 30m

Japan invades China in 1936, but the Japanese are not satisfied, and they began to invade Indochina and Thailand, paving the way f...Read more

SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
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April 26, 1953 • 30m

In one last ditch effort at glory, having lost most of their best men in military actions, Japan employs suicide pilots--the Kamik...Read more

DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war
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May 3, 1953 • 30m

The atomic bomb is detonated, and its effects demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With that, Japan surrenders, and their count...Read more