December 31, 2002 • 45m
For weeks after the D-Day Iandings, AIlied troops were pinned down in the dense Normandy 'bocage', the small fields, narrow lanes,...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
The 1944 Battle of the Bulge, which pitted U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley against German Field Marshall Walter Model, is recalled.
December 31, 2002 • 45m
When the Allies captured the airfield at Myitkyina in May 1944 it brought together two determined and ruthless commanders, General...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Erwin Rommel made his name as one of the outstanding commanders of World War 2 Ieading the German Afrika Korps in a series of swee...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Following the Allies success at El Alamein, the war in the desert became the retreat of the Afrika Korps and Italian forces and al...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
In October 1944, US tropps invaded Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. What followed was the largest clash of naval arms in history: 21...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Operation Citadel, Hitlers attempt to 'pinch out' the Kursk salient, was his last great offensive on the Eastern Front. It became ...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
The fight between two battle-hardened commanders, US marine Alaxander Vandegrift and Japanese general Haruyoshi Hyakutake, to hold...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
When Arthur Harris was appointed commander-in-chief of RAF Bomber Command, he was convinced that a strategic bombing offensive cou...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
As he was forced to withdraw from the Philippines in the dark days of spring 1942, Dougias MacArthur vowed 'I wiII retum'. Almost ...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
In early June 1967 the signs of an imminent Arab assault on Israel finally to eliminate the hated enemy were unmistakeable. But th...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
The AIIied invasion of Europe on 6 June 1944 was the greatest all-arms combined operation in military history. Allied Supreme Comm...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
In late August 1914, at Tannenberg, in today's Poland, took place one of the most momentous battles of World War I between Germany...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
As 1918 dawned, Germany's commander on the Western Front, Erich von Ludendorff, Iaunched a desperate gamble to win the war before ...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Desperate to break the stalemate on the Western Front in 1916, Germany's army chief-of-staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, conceived a di...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
After the Allied invasion in September 1943 and Italy's Surrender, General Mark Clark's US Fifth Army pursued the German forces of...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
By the beginning of December 1941, German troops were within sight of the Kremlin. The Panzers of Fedor von Bock seemed poised to ...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
The German defeat at Stalingrad was a defining moment in Hitler's dream of world domination. For the first time in World War 2, a ...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
When Saddam Hussein, dictator of lraq, sent his forces to occupy oil-rich Kuwait, he could hardly have anticipated the response. W...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
With Allied Merchant ships transporting vital supplies and It was the longest campaign in World War 2, and the one which came clos...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Gen. Edmund “Bull” Allenby faces Gen. Otto Liman von Sanders in the 1918 Battle of Megiddo during World War I.
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner faces Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
December 31, 2002 • 45m
By the beginning of 1968, the war in Vietnam had reached stalemate. The US had deployed half a million men, massive firepower, and...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
Few batties have been so decisive or decided so swiftly. In only four minutes the elite of Japan's naval airpower was devastated b...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. Much of Europe had been defeated, and the triumphant Luftwaffe und...Read more
December 31, 2002 • 45m
At times, warfare comes down to a duel between two great commanders. In the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives the first full...Read more