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Victory at Sea(1952)

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First Air Date: 1952-10-26
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 6.8
Votes: 9
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 26

Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded and sold as record albums. The original TV broadcasts comprised 26 half-hour segments—Sunday afternoons at 3pm in most markets—starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy award in 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic "compilation" documentaries as a viable television genre. Over 13,000 hours of footage gathered from US, British, German and Japanese navies during World War II were perused in the making of these compelling episodes.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 26
E01
DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941

Air Date: 1952-10-26

30m

World War II comes, and Germany succeeds in invading Poland and France. But is held back by England thanks to the vit...

E02
THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Air Date: 1952-11-02

30m

Using Japanese footage, we see the planning, execution, and ultimately the celebration of the Asian country's attack ...

E03
SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943

Air Date: 1952-11-09

30m

With war now declared on the U.S. front, naval forces throughout the states have banded together to bring convoys of ...

E04
MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle

Air Date: 1952-11-23

30m

Japan is ascendant as it successfully invades Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. But the Americans draw first ...

E05
MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta

Air Date: 1952-11-30

30m

World War II comes to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian, French and British naval forces flex their muscle. British fo...

E06
GUADALCANAL

Air Date: 1952-12-14

30m

After training in Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. The U.S. Navy suffers defeat after...

E07
RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands

Air Date: 1952-12-21

30m

The Japanese Navy is ascendant in its conquests, of which its linchpin is the main base at Rabaul in the New Britain ...

E08
MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942

Air Date: 1952-12-28

30m

Mussolini calls the Mediterranean "mare nostrum"--our sea. And seeks to exploit it to the full. British and Greek mil...

E09
SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943

Air Date: 1953-01-04

30m

The Soviet Union demand a "second front" as their country struggles under the might of the Nazis. The wish is granted...

E10
BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic

Air Date: 1953-01-11

30m

The South Atlantic becomes a front in the overall Battle of the Atlantic, from the pursuit of the Graf Spee to the ba...

E11
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska

Air Date: 1953-01-18

30m

This episode of Victory at Sea explores the battles between the Allies and Germans over the Arctic Circle, and the co...

E12
THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls

Air Date: 1953-01-25

30m

The ubiquitous aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy goes into the attack in the Central Pacific at the Gilberts and Mars...

E13
MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign

Air Date: 1953-02-01

30m

The Allies are victorious in New Guinea as they repel the Japanese. They thus bring the fight through a series of isl...

E14
ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign

Air Date: 1953-02-08

30m

While Hitler's Germany starts its decline, Mussolini's Italy falls. Eventually, as destruction is heaped upon Naples ...

E15
D-DAY: Normandy

Air Date: 1953-02-15

30m

The Allied invasion of Normandy--from preparation to execution--is detailed to very compelling effect courtesy of vin...

E16
KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945

Air Date: 1953-02-22

30m

The U-Boats are ascendant, and their triumphs trumpeted over Germany. But the Allies hit back with new bases in lands...

E17
THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas

Air Date: 1953-03-01

30m

Guam, a U.S. territory, gets invaded by Japan a few days after Pearl Harbor and remains under occupation for two and ...

E18
TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur

Air Date: 1953-03-08

30m

Before the Philippines, the United States first attacks Peleliu and Anguar. Through communiques, we follow the bloody...

E19
BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf

Air Date: 1953-03-15

30m

The Japanese fleet is fast disappearing, and the Imperial Navy conducts its last major operation in the Philippines. ...

E20
RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines

Air Date: 1953-03-22

30m

Just after the U.S. entered World War II, the Japanese conquered the Commonwealth of the Philippines, an American pro...

E21
FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines

Air Date: 1953-03-29

30m

In this episode of Victory at Sea, we see how the U.S. Navy's submarines contributed to the Japanese empire's downfal...

E22
THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender

Air Date: 1953-04-05

30m

Sevastopol was liberated, and the Allies finally crush Germany. We also witness the meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, ...

E23
TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima

Air Date: 1953-04-12

30m

The United States fought two battles here--the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima against the Japanese, and the U.S. Navy again...

E24
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean

Air Date: 1953-04-19

30m

Japan invades China in 1936, but the Japanese are not satisfied, and they began to invade Indochina and Thailand, pav...

E25
SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa

Air Date: 1953-04-26

30m

In one last ditch effort at glory, having lost most of their best men in military actions, Japan employs suicide pilo...

E26
DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war

Air Date: 1953-05-03

30m

The atomic bomb is detonated, and its effects demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With that, Japan surrenders, an...

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Leonard Graves
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