Season 1
40 episodes · Sep 25, 2001
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- S1E1
Dunkirk
Sep 25, 2001British and Allied forces are pushed back by an overwhelming German Army. 400,000 Allied troops are trapped in the French town of Dunkirk. After several failed attempts at rescue, the British Navy was able to rescue 330,000 troops.
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Battle for Norway
Oct 9, 2001Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
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Bombing of England
Oct 16, 2001Hitler has taken France and has his sights set on England. At a heavy toll, the Royal Air Force swings into action to stop Hitler from crossing the Channel.
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Battle of Tobruk
Oct 23, 2001German field marshal Erwin Rommel scores a major victory at the Libyan seaport of Tobruk.
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Operation Mercury: Fall of Crete
Oct 30, 2001After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
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Battle of Malta
Nov 6, 2001In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his inadequate air force fails to bomb the Maltese into submission, Hitler's Luftwaffe joins the campaign.
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Fall of Singapore
Nov 13, 2001Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to the rubber-rich nation takes them into Singapore, the World's most armed fortress.
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Pearl Harbor
Nov 20, 2001During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
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Fall of the Philippines
Nov 27, 2001American and Philippine troops and Philippine scouts take on a fast advancing Japanese invasion.
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Battle of Midway
Dec 4, 2001Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.
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Solomon Islands
Dec 11, 2001For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadalcanal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
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Battle of Dieppe
Dec 18, 2001The Allies launch an ill-fated attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.
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North Africa
Jan 8, 2002In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.
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The Forgotten Front
Jan 15, 2002The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.
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Battle of Sicily
Jan 22, 2002Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
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Monte Cassino
Feb 5, 2002Allied troops are advancing through Italy and meet a stiff German defensive position in an old monastery Monte Cassino.
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Gilbert Islands
Feb 12, 2002Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
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Battle of Anzio
Feb 19, 2002Allied armies encounter German resistance in the Italian fishing town of Anzio.
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Kwajalein
Feb 26, 2002Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
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Battle in Palau
Mar 5, 2002American forces overtake Japanese troops on the islands of Palau on the way to the Philippines.
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D-Day
Mar 12, 2002D-Day, the 6th of June--one of the most pivotal moments in world history. In a massive armada of thousands of ships, 3,000,000 allied troops land at Three Beaches in Normandy, France.
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Retaking France
Mar 19, 2002Six weeks after the D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy, the allied forces are pushing the Germans back through the French countryside. Town by town is won back as Panzer divisions retreat back to the Meuse River.
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Operation Dragoon
Mar 26, 2002Allied Forces continue across France pushing the German troops back into Germany.
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Liberation of Paris
Apr 2, 2002Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
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Arnhem
Apr 9, 2002The Allies launch an attack designed to push the Germans back to the Rhine River.
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Liberation of the Philippines
Apr 16, 2002Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and the final push to retake the islands after two years of Japanese occupation.
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The Last Stronghold
Apr 23, 2002American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
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Battle of the Bulge
May 7, 2002The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
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Mount Hot Rocks
May 14, 2002American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.
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Battle of Remagen
May 21, 2002German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
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Battle of Okinawa
May 28, 2002Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
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Fall of Berlin
Jun 4, 2002In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
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Commerce Raiders
Jun 11, 2002Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
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Bombing of Germany
Jun 18, 2002The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
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U-Boat War
Jun 25, 2002U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.