The battle for Iwo Jima begins - one of the bloodiest of World War II. Follow the action in this series that details,...

In this episode of our series that details, week by week, the last six months of WWII, American daytime bombing and B...

In this episode, Operation Lumberjack, the assault into the Rhineland by General Bradley's U.S. 12th Army Group, is i...

The B-29s blitz and the U.S. Air Force's new low-level bombing tactics using incendiary bombs prove deadly for the Ja...

In this episode, Allied forces commanded by generals Montgomery, Bradley, and Devers are poised to make their way acr...

As March of '45 drew to a close, even the most steadfast Germans could see the inevitable end, and thousands of troop...

By the first week of April, 1944, tensions among the Allies were heating up. When Eisenhower decided to stop his adva...

Berlin lies in ruins. Nearly 120,000 people are homeless. FDR's sudden death stuns the world. Tension among the Allie...

The Red Army launches its assault on the German capital and Ernie Pyle is fatally wounded at Okinawa. As the Red Army...

Berlin has been reduced to rubble, setting the stage for the Red Army's entry. Benito Mussolini's brutal murder force...

After weeks of battles and political squabbles among the Allies, Berlin finally falls. But Hitler does not live to se...

In London, Paris, New York, and Moscow, people take to the streets celebrating victory. Denmark, Norway, and the Chan...

As the last remnants of the Nazi regime are dismantled, the "Big 3" nations set about the daunting task of rebuilding...

Okinawa--the last stepping stone on the way to mainland Japan. The Allied High Command deems the island's capture abs...

Fighting on Okinawa intensifies as the Japanese begin their retreat. Enemy forces on the island of Borneo send hundre...

U.S. forces make further advances in the Philippines while fanatical Japanese troops continue to hold out on the Paci...

On Okinawa, a U.S. victory is now in sight, while in the Philippines, the Japanese are holed up in the Sierra Madre M...

In the Philippines, Appari, the last port held by the Japanese, falls to U.S. forces, who now make contact with Filip...

In Moscow, more than 200 captured Nazi banners are ceremonially dragged across a rain-soaked Red Square and thrown to...

33,000 Australian troops land in the Great Sundra Islands and win control of Asia's richest oil regions. In Manila, G...

In Indochina, Chinese forces advance rapidly eastwards and cut the last link between the Japanese army and its garris...

In Europe, the war's aftermath is gaining steam: the Municipal Council in Berlin confiscates the property of former N...

As the last vestiges of Japanese resistance crumble, Truman announces his intention to drop the atomic bomb. In Burma...

Japanese aircraft factories are targeted by American forces. The U.S. submarine Indianapolis is sunk by the Japanese....

Atom bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the U.S. Army arrives at Luzon and prepares for the invasion of Japan.

In Tokyo, the Japanese government at last accepts the inevitable and surrenders to the Allies unconditionally. Presid...