The surrender at Reims ended the major phase of the European Theater of WWII. The film dissolves from the surrender ...

The draft law of 1940 is passed and American men are inducted into the Army. Large-scale maneuvers are held in 1941....

President Roosevelt lectures Americans on their conduct. Churchill visits the U.S. American troops are deployed in ...

Americans arrive in Britain, try to get along with British civilians, and are made ready physically and mentally to f...

The troops of Operation Torch come from the U.S. and Britain. U.S. industry is shown going to full war production. ...

Eisenhower has to deal with keeping the French in North Africa from causing trouble in the American rear, while at th...

Eisenhower describes how the Allies squeezed Rommel's forces in Tunisia. The Afrika Korps attacks to the Kasserine P...

The decision is made at Casablanca to invade Sicily. Pantelleria is bombed and surrenders. The invasion convoys com...

General Montgomery attacks Italy across the Strait of Messina. A landing is made at Salerno to coincide with Italy's...

On July 25th, 1943, Benito Mussolini is ousted from power. We then flashback to his rise to power, including the Fas...

The Italian Campaign was termed by most G.I.'s as the toughest campaign in the European Theater. A G.I., now in a ve...

Eisenhower tours the Italian Front in December, 1943. The terrain and weather make life difficult for Allied troops....

Eisenhower works with the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan the invasion of France and beyond. The Ruhr is featur...

Paratroops are dropped into France in the early hours of June 6th. Forty-one hundred Allied ships bring the men and ...

Eisenhower inspects the landing beaches and we see the "Mulberry" harbors put in place along the Normandy beaches. A...

The German attack at Mortain is defeated with the help of Allied airpower. The Allies cut off large German forces at...

Operation Anvil-Dragoon lands in Southern France on August 15, 1944. The troops land against light resistance which ...

The supply services strain to the utmost to supply the Allied advance. Equipment was offloaded at the "Mulberry" har...

This film recounts the air offensive against Nazi Germany after the RAF had successfully repulsed the Luftwaffe in th...

The opening shows the American capture of Strasbourg from the Germans, followed by the leave facilities for American...

The Allies cross the Rhine River into Germany in the early part of 1945. The Canadians cross in February, followed b...

The Western Allies entrap a large part of the German Army in the Ruhr Pocket, and captures some 325,000 enemy soldier...

This installment talks about the lesson learned, military and diplomatic, about coalition warfare. It includes a ree...

The post-war government of Germany is shown. The U.S. in Cologne puts things in order. The Potsdam Conference and N...

Russian and American attitudes about fighting war are compared. The Germans surrender to Zhukov, and Eisenhower goes...

This final installment is a review of the whole series. Highlights deal with the rise of Nazism, finishing with the ...