January 1, 2022 • 20m
The attrition cannot continue so the Japanese decide they will evacuate Guadalcanal, conceding the Solomon Islands to the Allies. ...Read more
January 8, 2022 • 17m
Things look grim for the Germans, surrounded at Velikie Luki and Stalingrad and with no real help of relief. The Soviets are, in f...Read more
January 15, 2022 • 20m
Soviet attacks are launched this week to destroy the Hungarians, all while the German desperation at Stalingrad and Velikie Luki c...Read more
January 22, 2022 • 20m
This is a rough week for the Germans- their trapped garrison at Velikie Luki is liquidated, and their trapped army at Stalingrad i...Read more
January 29, 2022 • 20m
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of ...Read more
January 30, 2022 • 15m
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of ...Read more
February 5, 2022 • 21m
This week sees the 10th anniversary of Hitler's ascension to power in Germany, but while there may be celebrations and speeches in...Read more
February 5, 2022 • 16m
Operation KE, the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, concludes this week and the campaign has been a big loss for the Japanese. ...Read more
February 19, 2022 • 17m
The Red Army liberates both Rostov and Kharkov this week, but their advancing spearheads are close to an even bigger prize, Adolf ...Read more
February 26, 2022 • 18m
Erich von Manstein's Axis counterattack on the Eastern Front begins this week and right away smashes through the Red Army lines, t...Read more
March 5, 2022 • 19m
The Japanese again fail to reinforce New Guinea, losing many transport ships, and their forces there are ever more isolated. In T...Read more
March 12, 2022 • 16m
Erwin Rommel loses his command and leaves Tunisia, while change in American command there puts George Patton in charge. On the gro...Read more
March 19, 2022 • 19m
The twin prizes of Kharkov and Belgorod fall to Erich von Manstein's German forces this week, but this is a week of preparations- ...Read more
March 26, 2022 • 19m
The British are attacking the Mareth Line in North Africa while the Americans hit the Axis flank, but the Allies are withdrawing i...Read more
April 1, 2022 • 10m
The phantom submarine that has been savaging both Japanese and Allied shipping in the South Pacific is tracked to Hydra Island, Ba...Read more
April 2, 2022 • 18m
American attacks in Tunisia meet with local disaster, but in general the Axis forces are withdrawing there. The Allies learn about...Read more
April 9, 2022 • 18m
Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini to hopefully restore his flagging morale and convince him that the Axis can hold out in N...Read more
April 16, 2022 • 19m
The Allies have one chance left to catch the Axis forces in Tunisia before they can reach the Tunis defences, in the USSR both the...Read more
April 23, 2022 • 19m
The mastermind of Pearl Harbor meets his fate this week in the Solomons, as do a great many Italian airmen and sailors in the Medi...Read more
April 30, 2022 • 17m
The Allies launch a deception operation to hide their intent of soon attacking Sicily, but first, they'll actually have to secure ...Read more
May 7, 2022 • 17m
Tunis falls to the Allies, but the Axis are still fighting back from their little corner of Tunisia. There is more of the seemingl...Read more
May 14, 2022 • 17m
With the end of the Tunisian Campaign, the Allies have won the war for the African Continent. What next? They meet at the Trident ...Read more
May 21, 2022 • 16m
The Allies have won the battle for Africa, but now they have nearly 250,000 POWs to care for, and do not have the facilities to do...Read more
May 28, 2022 • 18m
German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the U-Boats to leave the Atlantic this week; the losses lately have just been too great fo...Read more
June 4, 2022 • 19m
The Chinese defeat the Japanese at Shipai Fortress and the Americans maul the Japanese in the Aleutians. The Japanese are also wor...Read more
June 11, 2022 • 17m
The Allies bomb Mediterranean islands in preparation for their invasion of Sicily next month; they also prepare a lot of deception...Read more
June 18, 2022 • 17m
The Soviets have put civilians to work by the hundreds of thousands, building line after line of defenses in the Kursk Salient, wh...Read more
June 25, 2022 • 17m
The Allies make some preliminary moves ahead of their next big operation in the Solomon Island as well as a few before their impen...Read more
July 2, 2022 • 16m
The Allies begin the next phase of their Solomon Islands offensives, the invasion of New Georgia, even as the regional fighting co...Read more
July 10, 2022 • 21m
Adolf Hitler launches his huge summer offensive in the USSR, Operation Citadel, known as the Battle of Kursk. Men in the millions ...Read more
July 13, 2022 • 17m
As dawn broke on 12th July 1943, the spearheads of the German II SS Panzer Corps and the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army were shufflin...Read more
July 16, 2022 • 21m
The Allies have begun their fight to take back Western Europe with Operation Husky. That's not the only news though. They are also...Read more
July 23, 2022 • 17m
The Allied invasion of Italy powers on and puts the future of a key axis power at play. In the USSR, the Soviets have learnt to de...Read more
July 30, 2022 • 16m
The Allied advance on Sicily continues, though they're really gearing up for operations next week. The Soviet advances around in t...Read more
August 6, 2022 • 20m
The Allies bomb the Romanian oil fields, a major Axis source of oil, but it does not go well for the attackers. They do advance in...Read more
August 13, 2022 • 20m
From Sicily to Spas-Demensk, the Axis continue conceding ground to the Allies this week. But the fighting is still tough. The Wehr...Read more
August 20, 2022 • 19m
The British and Americans race for Messina to complete the conquest of Sicily- who will reach it first? On New Guinea, the Allies...Read more
August 27, 2022 • 20m
As the war grows ever more ferocious, some people are unfortunate enough to see the front line arrive to their villages, towns, an...Read more
September 3, 2022 • 16m
Four years of war and no real end in sight, but as the week ends the Allies land their first troops on Italy, actively committing ...Read more
September 10, 2022 • 15m
Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the secret armistice signed last week, and Italy is now officially out of the war. The Italia...Read more
September 17, 2022 • 18m
Episode 41 of Season 05 premiered on September 17, 2022
September 24, 2022 • 19m
Benito Mussolini proclaims a new fascist republic in Italy, but this time it is a full puppet state to Germany. There is scattered...Read more
October 1, 2022 • 20m
Major prizes are taken by the Allies this week on two fronts- Naples in Italy and Smolensk in the USSR, but they are advancing all...Read more
October 8, 2022 • 17m
The Germans booby-trapped Naples when they evacuated last week and local civilians now pay the price. In the Mediterranean, Kos fa...Read more
October 15, 2022 • 19m
The Allies begin an aerial bombing campaign against the Japanese base at Rabaul. It has big success, though Allied bombing in Euro...Read more
October 22, 2022 • 17m
A Conference in Moscow lays out some postwar plans of the Allies, but the war has to be won first. The Allies fight their way acr...Read more
October 29, 2022 • 19m
Erich von Manstein finally gets the reserve armor he's been begging Hitler for, so he can carry out his counteroffensive in Ukrain...Read more
November 5, 2022 • 20m
The Allies hit the beaches of Bougainville, largest and last of the Solomon Islands. They create and expand a beachhead there and ...Read more
November 12, 2022 • 18m
The Red Army has driven the Axis forces out of Kiev, third largest city in the USSR. The Allies are also advancing, albeit slowly ...Read more
November 19, 2022 • 18m
A torpedo attack against the President; a Marine invasion in the central Pacific that turns very bloody in a hurry; German counter...Read more
November 26, 2022 • 23m
The Americans attack the Gilbert Islands this week, and though they successfully take Tarawa and Makin Atolls, it is VERY costly i...Read more
December 3, 2022 • 19m
The Teheran Conference is in full swing and the Allied leadership and plan for a cross channel invasion of Europe is agreed upon b...Read more
December 10, 2022 • 19m
There are plans afoot to hit the enemy from behind in Italy. Allied leaders are meeting again in Cairo to go over other plans, not...Read more
December 17, 2022 • 19m
This war has now lasted as long as the Great War did, but there's no signs of it slowing. The Soviets have three offensives going ...Read more
December 24, 2022 • 20m
Twas the night before Christmas and the war was grinding on. The Moro River Campaign continues in Italy with Canadian infantry pus...Read more
December 31, 2022 • 18m
1943 reaches its end with no end in sight for the war. In Italy, the Canadians take Ortona after bloody close fighting, the US Ma...Read more