May 11, 2007 • 20m
This first episode covers Hitler's New Germany after his rise to power as Chancellor in 1933 and his rearmament of the German mili...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 21m
Hitler unleashes blitzkrieg with paratroops, massive air armadas and fast moving armored and mechanized divisions in Western Europ...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 20m
Tensions rise in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States and with Britain and France who have holdings throughout E...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 20m
Japan draws the United States into the war with attack on Pearl Harbor. Philippines, Guam, Wake Island and the British Crown Colon...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 20m
Rommel's forces retreat in North Africa. German Army puts Leningrad under siege that would last until early 1944. The British Colo...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 21m
U.S. troops in the Philippines retreat to Bataan. On the home front, America gears up for global war. The Afrika Corps reverses re...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 20m
Singapore, the major British military base in Southeast Asia and the keystone defense position for the region and the Southwest Pa...Read more
May 11, 2007 • 21m
Episode 8 of Season 1 premiered on May 11, 2007
May 11, 2007 • 20m
Japanese capture British stronghold Mandalay in Burma and begin occupation that lasts until March 1945. In the Pacific, the Allies...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
U.S. Bombers trike Tokyo in April 1942. President Roosevelt, when asked, where did the bombers come from, famously said from our s...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
The Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific in May 1942 was the first major action with aircraft carriers engaging each other. The ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
The Battle of Midway in June 1942 was a crucial and decisive naval battle and was the turning point in the Pacific war. It was a m...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Churchill visits North Africa and Moscow. The Luftwaffe pounds the British on Malta, and Rommel is defeated at El Alamein.
May 18, 2007 • 20m
After victories at Coral Sea and Midway the Allies take to the offense in the Pacific with U.S. Marines landing on Guadalcanal in ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal. Rommel returns to Germany from North Africa. Allies battle German U-Boat Wolfpacks attackin...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Marines halt Japanese Guadalcanal offensive to retake Henderson Field. Major victory in North Africa as British 8th Army scores hu...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
U.S. Navy turns the tide off Guadalcanal ending stalemate. The Vichy French government surrenders to the Allies in North Africa. G...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 18m
Allies fight to hold New Guinea against Japanese forces. Red Army tightens the trap of German forces in Stalingrad. The miracle of...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
First Marine Division relieved by Army forces on Guadalcanal after months of brutal fighting. In North Africa, Admiral Darlan, Com...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
The German grip in Russia broken at Stalingrad and Leningrad. In North Africa British forces take Tripoli. Japan's Hollow Army: Af...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Final victory at Guadalcanal in February 1943 transitions Allies in the Pacific from defense to a posture of strategic offense. In...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Allies inflict major defeat on Japanese trying to reinforce New Guinea at battle of Bismarck Sea. British bombing campaign against...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
U.S. forces under Patton defeat German tank units at battle of El Guettar in Tunisia. In the Pacific Admiral Yamamoto, commander o...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
The Battle of Hill 609 in Tunisia is a key victory for American forces. British fool Germans with Operation Mincemeat convincing G...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
The Battle of Attu in the Aleutians in May 1943 was the only land battle in World War II fought on incorporated territory of the U...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
U.S. plans for Pacific Campaign in 1943 centers on Central Pacific Theater. German armored forces on the Eastern Front move toward...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Patton takes Palermo in Sicily in route to Messina. American forces capture Munda and key airfield n New Georgia island group in t...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
General George Patton and his 7th Army and British Field Marshal Montgomery and his 8th Army race to take Messina in Sicily and cu...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Allies attack German rocket bases to stop Nazi 'vengeance' rocket weapon attacks on Britain. Allies inflict defeats on Japanese th...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Mussolini rescued by German paratroopers and restored to power in Northern Italy. In the Pacific U.S. Navy launches major drive to...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Allies take Naples. Italian government turns on Germany and lines up with Allies. Germans fortify northern Italy with more troops....Read more
May 18, 2007 • 20m
Admiral Halsey takes Bougainville in the Solomon Islands isolating main Japanese base at Rabaul. Heavy German resistance stalls Al...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
The Battle of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. U.S. forces t...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
A faster and more lethal Mustang fighter, the P-51 D, provides better cover for Allied bombers in Europe in bombing raids against ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy finally ended after months of heavy fighting with an Allied breakthrough in May 1944. This, p...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allied landings at Anzio in Italy initially successful but slow movement allows for major German counterattack stalling drive to R...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Japanese move out of Burma and invade India in 1944. Allied resistance forces Japanese retreat and by July the invading divisions ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
The Allies finally break stalemate in Italy and move towards Rome. Hitler makes changes to command structure in Western Europe wit...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
D-Day Special: Paratroopers airborne assault to secure key roads and bridges begin the invasion of Europe. Allies assault the Germ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies moving in Europe: General Clark takes Rome and D-Day beachheads expanded as Allied troops moving inland. In the Pacific, U....Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Patton's Third Army becomes operational and leads breakout from the Normandy hedge row fields turning American armor loose across ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
As Allies move from beachheads German high command changes as overall commander Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt replaced. U.S. 1...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Allied forces take Pisa a key position in the last German Army defensive line in Italy. In France U.S. forces take St. Lo and Brit...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Russians halt advance outside Warsaw and Germans crush resistance in Polish capital. The Patton-Montgomery rivalry, started in Nor...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
U.S. forces move in Brittany to take key ports needed to supply Allied forces in France. Allies make new landings in Southern Fran...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Allied forces liberate Paris with German commander surrendering to French forces on August 25th 1944. The Russians open a new offe...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 21m
Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was the largest airborne force used to that time. While initially successful the operati...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Peleliu falls to the Marines in the Pacific while British forces take key port of Antwerp in Belgium opening new supply lines for ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies in Europe push into Germany with capture of Aachen. MacArthur fulfills his promise and returns to the Philippines as Allies...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies take the Dutch island of Walcheren taking out German forces in a position to block Allied forces getting to key port of Ant...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
First Allied convoy reaches Antwerp shortening supply lines for Allied forces in Europe. Vicious land battle in the Philippines co...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
U.S. forces land at Mindoro as part of battle of Luzon in the Philippines. A look at the bombing campaign in Europe. Hitler's last...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
U.S. forces in Luzon drive towards Manila. Battle of the Bulge continues on the Western Front. U.S. forces secure Leyte. Russian f...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies contain Bulge breach ending German Army offense in the West and Allied forces go back on the offensive and drive toward Ger...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
St. Vith falls to Allies ending all German offensive operations in the Ardennes. The Burma Road is completed opening vital supply ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
British and American Air Forces bomb Dresden in Germany for three days in February 1945 reducing the city to rubble. American forc...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt and Stain meet at Yalta to discuss post-war Europe. In the Philippines: Return to the Rock: U....Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
U.S. forces land on Iwo Jima to eliminate Japanese ground and air forces and then prep the island as a staging base for the eventu...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Heavy fighting on Iwo Jima continues. A look at Recognizance units: the eyes of the force. In Germany Eisenhower tells Patton to b...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Fighting continues on Iwo Jima as Marines push toward Mt. Suribachi through tenacious Japanese defense. Germans launch a major cou...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Patton's 3rd Army crosses Moselle River and defeat German forces invested at Nancy. U.S. Air Forces conduct major fire bombing rai...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
V-Mail, short for Victory Mail, was the mail process used during the war as the primary means of corresponding with U.S. serviceme...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Fighting winds down on Iwo Jima and flag raising photo becomes historic image. The battle saw the award of 27 Medals of Honor to M...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Stalin gets a green light from Eisenhower resulting in Russians to take Berlin. A look at the Tuskegee Airman: Black pilots blast ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies encircle the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland. U.S. landings on Okinawa put U.S. forces on the Emperor's doorstep. A lo...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies launch new offensive in Italy pressuring German defenders. In the Pacific, Japanese Navy sends the battleship Yamato into t...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Allies cross Po River on April 25th and on May 4th the war in Italy is over. Allied forces include the Brazilian Expeditionary For...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Russian forces breakout at the Oder River only 40 miles from Berlin. Marines make big push on Okinawa. In Germany Herman Goering, ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
With the Po crossed and Italy done, an update on the Allied activity in Italy. Update on fighting in the Philippines. With no targ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
'Il Duce,' Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they at...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Kesselring capitulates and surrenders German forces in Italy to Allies. British forces in Burma press towards Rangoon after victor...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
May 7th 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German force...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Philippines Update: U.S. forces land at Macaljar Bay on Mindanao. Okinawa fighting continues. The Thousand Year Reich Officially E...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
American forces seize Naha Airfield on Okinawa. The Battle of Okinawa was the last major ground battle between U.S. and Japanese f...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Okinawa: Last stand for Japanese forces before home island invasion planned for November 1945. America's Daughters join up: A look...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
Next Stop in the Pacific: Japan - Invasion plan presented to Allied high command. A look at British Prime Minister Winston Churchi...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
U.S. tests atomic bomb at Trinity base in New Mexico. Allied leaders meet in Potsdam Germany outside Berlin from July 17th to Augu...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
American air forces drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th in 1945. Japan announced ...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
September 2nd 1945: VJ Day: Victory over Japan Day causes celebration throughout America. Led by the victorious Allied powers, the...Read more
May 18, 2007 • 22m
The final cost of the war is counted. Axis war criminals are tried. Out of the ashes the world looks toward the future - and peace.