Season 1 (1956)

The Day North America Is Attacked
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November 11, 1956 • 30m

The work of the United States Air Force Combat Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and of radar stations, fighter-int...Read more

The Early Days
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November 18, 1956 • 30m

Co-narrated by Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace and owner of Eastern Air Lines. The history of the airplane from its inv...Read more

The Luftwaffe
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November 25, 1956 • 30m

The rise of the German Luftwaffe, told with the use of German film captured during World War II.

Pearl Harbor
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December 2, 1956 • 30m

The story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, which brought the United States into World War II. ...Read more

The Battle of Britain
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December 9, 1956 • 30m

Co-narrated by Michael Redgrave. The story of the World War II Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, in which the British Royal...Read more

Counterblast
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December 16, 1956 • 30m

How the British Royal Air Force mounted a counterattack against Nazi Germany during World War II even while the United Kingdom was...Read more

Fools, Daredevils and Geniuses
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December 23, 1956 • 30m

Co-narrated by Art Carney. A look at aviation during the 1920s, including stunt flying, wing walking, and barnstorming.

The 1930s
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December 30, 1956 • 30m

Lieutenant General James Doolittle hosts the episode, which covers major events of the 1930s: the Great Depression in the United S...Read more

Target Ploesti
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January 6, 1957 • 30m

The United States Army Air Forces bomb oil refineries around Ploești, Romania, as part of the oil campaign of World War II.

Schweinfurt
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January 13, 1957 • 30m

U.S. Army Air Forces bombers attack Schweinfurt, Germany, in an attempt to cripple the German ball bearing industry during World War II.

Conquest of the Air
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January 20, 1957 • 30m

The story of the U.S. Army Air Forces North American P-51 Mustang, the high-performance long-range fighter that played the major r...Read more

The Japanese Perimeter
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January 27, 1957 • 30m

At the outset of the Pacific campaign of World War II, Japanese forces sweep through the Philippines, British Malaya, Singapore, a...Read more

Interdiction and Blockade
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February 3, 1957 • 30m

Allied and Japanese forces fight in the New Guinea campaign and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea during World War II.

Operation Strangle
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February 10, 1957 • 30m

In the spring of 1944 during the Italian campaign of World War II, Allied air forces interdict German supply lines in Italy in Ope...Read more

Pacific Patterns
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February 17, 1957 • 30m

In late 1943 and early 1944, United States Navy aircraft carriers go on the offensive against the Japanese during the Pacific camp...Read more

Advance the Bomber Line
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February 24, 1957 • 30m

To secure bases for U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers within range of the Japanese Home Islands, U....Read more

The Winning of France
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March 3, 1957 • 30m

The story of air power's role in the destruction of the German 7th Army in France in the summer of 1944 in World War II′s Operatio...Read more

Superfort
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March 10, 1957 • 30m

In World War II′s Battle of Iwo Jima in February–March 1945, United States Marine Corps forces seize Iwo Jima from the Japanese to...Read more

Victory in Europe
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March 17, 1957 • 30m

The last stages of World War II in Europe in the winter and spring of 1945, as Soviet forces capture Berlin, Soviet and Western Al...Read more

Kamikaze
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March 24, 1957 • 30m

Between October 1944 and August 1945, Japanese aircraft make kamikaze suicide attacks against Allied ships.

Defeat of Japan
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March 31, 1957 • 30m

The story of the top-secret production of the U.S. atomic bomb and its use against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...Read more

The Cold Decade: Airlift
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April 7, 1957 • 30m

As the Cold War begins after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union institutes the Berlin Blockade of West Berlin, prompting th...Read more

The Cold Decade: To the Yalu
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April 14, 1957 • 30m

After the Korean War breaks out in June 1950, United Nations and South Korean forces are pushed back, then regain the initiative a...Read more

The Cold Decade: Korean Stalemate
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April 21, 1957 • 30m

The People's Republic of China intervenes in the Korean War in November 1950 and pushes United Nations forces back, resulting a le...Read more

Starfighter
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April 28, 1957 • 30m

The story of the design and testing of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic interceptor.

The New Doctrine
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May 5, 1957 • 30m

The new concepts of future warfare, in which U.S. and Soviet Air Force planes will carry atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs if a war ...Read more