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Episode Highlights: Counting the Cost: The Final Tally. After the Cannons Roar: Dawn Of A New Day: Peace.

Episode Highlights: Dancing in the Streets: VJ Day -- United Nations Established -- World War II Ends: Japan Formally Surrenders -- Recording for Posterity: Combat Cameramen.

Episode Highlights: Nuclear War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Japan Surrenders -- U.S. Rocket Program Boost: Von Braun Goes To The U.S. -- Why We Fought: Homefront U.S.A.

Episode Highlights: Atomic Bomb Tested -- Shaping the Post-War World: Potsdam -- Churchill Loses Election -- Paving the Way: Seabees -- Above and Beyond: Medal Of Honor.

Episode Highlights: Next Stop Japan: Invasion Plan Presented -- Good 'Ol Winnie: Churchill -- Carrier Strikes Against Japan -- The Stars Come Out: Hollywood Goes To War.

Episode Highlights: Okinawa: Last Stand Before Japan -- America's Daughters Join Up: Training Women For War -- Philippines Liberated -- The Unseen Enemy: Mines.

Episode Highlights: Pacific Update: Ah Naha! Americans Seize Key Airfield -- Surrender or Suicide: Top Nazis In Allied Hands -- End Nears On Luzon -- Battering Borneo: Aussies Wipe Slate Clean.

Episode Highlights: Landing at Macalajar Bay: Philippine Update -- Thousand Year Reich Ends: VE Day -- Okinawa Update -- Nazi Horror Revealed: The Holocaust.

Episode Highlights: Germany Surrenders. The 'Divine Wind': Kamikaze Action Off Okinawa. Picking Up the Pieces: Surrender Aftermath. Winged Messengers: Carrier Pigeons.

Episode Highlights: Kesselring Capitulates: German Forces in Italy Surrender -- British Forces Land At Rangoon -- The Last Battle: The Fall Of Berlin -- Unseen Wounds: Shell Shock.

Episode Highlights: Last minute housecleaning: West Front update -- Boom Town: Okinawa Update -- Finis to IL Duce: Mussolini Executed -- A Day in the Life: Hill 604.

Episode Highlights: Vaulting the Po: Italy Update -- Philippine Update -- No Targets Left: Allies Announce Bombing End -- Burma Update -- U.S. and Soviet Forces Link: Meet At Torgau in Germany.

Episode Highlights: Eastern Front: Forward to Berlin: Oder Breakout -- Big Push On Okinawa -- Rats Deserting: Goering Offers To Take Command -- Life Under the Rising Sun: Home Front Japan.

Episode Highlights: Heading toward the Po: Italy Update -- Ruhr Pocket Surrenders -- Southern Stalemate: Okinawa Update -- Hell on Earth: Nazi Camps Liberated.

Episode Highlights: New Allied Offensive in Italy -- Deep Six for the Yamato: Okinawa Update -- Life in the Reich: Home Front Germany -- Ponderous Pachyderms Pitch In: Elephants.

Episode Highlights: Allies encircle the Ruhr -- Camping on the Emperor's Doorstep: Okinawa Landing -- Thanks Tanks: Work Horses Of WWII. -- A Nation Mourns: FDR Dies.

Episode Highlights: Stalin Gets Green Light from Ike -- Black Pilots Blast the Hun: Tuskegee Airmen -- Philippines and Eastern Front Updates -- Backbone of Victory: The Story of G.I. Joe.

Episode Highlights: Iwo Jima Wrap Up -- Patton's Thunder: Over The Rhine -- Last Stop Before the Home Islands: Okinawa Prep - Spanning the Globe: American Bombers.

Episode Highlights: Living for Letters: V-Mail -- Mandalay Falls -- Hitler Orders Scorched Reich -- Kamikaze Action Off Okinawa -- Stoking the Home Fires Into Firepower: Rosie.

Episode Highlights: Tokyo Firestorm Raid -- Third Army Crosses Mosselle -- Fighting on the Shimbu Line: Philippine Update -- Breaching the Rhine: Remagen Crossing.

Episode Highlights: Iwo Jima Update -- German Counter Offensive in Hungary -- One Step Closer to Victory -- GI's Enter Cologne. A Tribute to the Girls Left Behind

Episode Highlights: Fight for Iwo Jima Rages -- Eyes of the Force: Reconnaissance -- Trier Falls To Patton. Corregidor Secured -- An Infantry Man's Lot: Life In The Trenches.

Episode Highlights: U.S. Lands on Iwo Jima -- Clearing the Rhine: Western Allies Launch New Offensive -- Manila Battle Rages -- Ministering To Body and Soul: Medics and Chaplains.

Episode Highlights: Allied Leaders Meet At Yalta -- Return to 'The Rock': U.S. Forces Land On Corregidor -- Honor Restored: The Comar Pocket -- Big Push in CBI: Burma Update.

Episode Highlights: Hell From Above: The Bombing of Dresden -- Closing the Ring: Fighting In Manila Suburbs -- The Reichswald Offensive -- War From the Shadows: Partisans.

Episode Highlights: The End in the Ardennes: St. Vith Falls -- Burma Road Completed -- They Also Serve: Military Nurses -- Zhukov Reaches Oder.

Episode Highlights: Third strike for the Third Reich: The Bulge Contained -- Clark Field Taken in Philippines -- Warsaw Falls To Russians -- The Forgotten Theater: Burma Update.

Episode Highlights: Drive for Manila: U.S. Forces land at Luzon -- The Bulge Battle Continues -- Leyte Secured -- Debacle in Poland: Soviets Drive Toward The Oder.

Episode Highlights: U.S. Forces land on Mindoro -- Hitting The Enemy Heartland: Bombing Update -- Hitler's Last Gamble: Battle Of The Bulge -- 1944: Memories of Christmas Past.

Episode Highlights: Supply Lines Shortened: First Convoy Reaches Antwerp -- Hell in the Philippines -- U.S. Subs In The Pacific -- Metz Falls -- British Home Guard Stands Down.

Episode Highlights: Walcheren Island Taken. -- Japan Reinforces Leyte -- Patton Drives to Germany's Border: 3rd Army Crosses Moselle Near Metz -- Tirpitz Sunk -- FDR Re-elected.

Episode Highlights: Foothold in the Fatherland: Aachen Falls -- Promise Kept: MacArthur Returns to the Philippines -- The World's Greatest Sea Battle: The Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Episode Highlights: Checkmate: Peleliu Falls -- The Coast is Clear: British Forces Take Antwerp -- Churchill Visits Moscow -- Russian Forces Sweep The Balkans.

Episode Highlights: Hells Highway: Operation Market Garden -- Softening Up the Philippines -- Third Army Slows Down: Metz Besieged -- Allies Breach The Siegfried Line.

Episode Highlights: Paris Liberated -- New Russian offensive in Baltics -- The Allies Debate: Broad or Narrow Approach -- B-29s arrive in Saipan -- U.S. forces land on Peleilu.

Episode Highlights: The Fight for Brittany -- Operations Anvil and Dragoon -- Photo Recon and Mapping.

Episode Highlights: Russians Halt: German Crush Warsaw Resistance -- Patton-Montgomery Rivalry Renewed -- British 7th Corps Takes Florence -- St. Lo Breakout.

Episode Highlights: Italy: Leghorn and Pisa fall -- British effort at Caen. St. Lo taken - Pacific Update: Tojo resigns as U.S. forces land on Guam and Tinian. Attempted assassination of Hitler.

Episode Highlights: Normandy Update: Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt fired -- U.S. 1st Army Advances on St. Lo -- Fighting on Saipan Ends -- Italy becomes a forgotten theater.

Episode Highlights: Patton's Third Army Becomes Operational -- Battle of the Philippine Sea -- GI Bill becomes law -- Battle for Saipan Continues.

Episode Highlights: Clark Enters Rome -- Allies Expand D-Day Beachhead -- Pacific Update: Americans Invade Saipan -- Hitler's Revenge: V-1's Strike London.

Episode Highlights: D-Day Special: Airborne Assault: Paratroop -- Secure Flanks. Battle for the Beach: Allies Assault Atlantic Wall -- German Reaction -- Sun Sets on Longest Day.

Episode Highlights: Anzio and Cassino: Allies Break Stalemate -- Hitler Shuffles Western Command -- Crazy Custom: Sailors Cross Equator -- Weight of the World: Ike's Big Decision.

Episode Highlights: CBI Update: Japanese Assault in India -- Russians "Liberate" Crimea -- Pacific Update: MacArthur Takes Hollandia -- Not Long Now: Preparation For Overlord.

Episode Highlights: Nazis Attack Anzio -- Costly Blunder: Allies Obliterate Abbey -- Americans Roll Across Pacific -- Daylight Bombing Of Germany Resumes.

Episode Highlights: Costly Crossing In Italy: Clark Gambles at Monte Cassino -- Allies Land at Anzio: Foundation or Failure? -- Overwhelming Force: Victory in the Marshalls.

Episode Highlights: Allied Escort Service: More Muscular Mustang -- Pacific Update: New Britain Invasion -- Turning of the Tide: 1943 - The Year In Review -- Leningrad Siege Lifted.

Episode Highlights: Atoll Disaster: Marines Bloodied on Tarawa -- Italian Update: Monty on the Move -- Ike to Command Overlord -- Hard-Headed Helper : America Drafts Mules.

Episode Highlights: Halsey Bags Bougainville In Solomons -- Allied Italian Offensive Stalls -- Allied Leaders Meet In Cairo -- A Touch of Home: Off Hours In Italy.

Episode Highlights: Italy: Allies take Naples -- With Friends Like These: Italy Turns on Germany -- Russians Retake Kiev -- Terra Infirma: Mud on the Battlefield.

Episode Highlights: Nazis Rescue Mussolini -- Navy Launches Pacific Drive -- Fly by Night: Daylight Raids Halted -- Shared Sacrifice: Life In Britain.

Episode Highlights: Vengeance Weapons: Allies Attack Rockets -- Japanese Routed in Pacific -- Operation Avalanche: Italy Quits -- Samurai Soldiers: Japanese Officer Training.

Episode Highlights: Raging Rivalry: Patton and Monty Race for Messina -- Leapfrog in Pacific: Halsey Breaks The 'Rules' -- Celebration! Russians on A Roll.

Episode Highlights: Sicily: Patton Takes Palermo -- Pacific Update: Americans Capture Munda -- Allies Bomb Ploesti Oil Fields -- Eastern Front: Red Army Gets Relief.

Episode Highlights: Army Vs Navy: U.S. Plans Pacific Campaign -- Nazi Tanks Advance On Kursk -- Allies Invades Sicily -- Engineers Essential In Europe.

Episode Highlights: Americans Capture Attu -- Allied Leaders Resolve Dispute -- Axis Driven from North Africa. -- Allies Plan Invasion of Sicily -- Americans Invade New Georgia.

Episode Highlights: Key North Africa Battle: 2nd Corps Takes Hill 609 -- Operation Mincemeat Fools Nazis -- German Subs Retreat From North Atlantic -- Life On A Carrier.

Episode Highlights: Patton Pounds Nazis at El Guettar -- Intelligence coup: Yamamoto Assassinated -- RAF Strikes German Industry -- Luftwaffe Fights For Skies -- A Look at Aircraft Nose Art.

Episode Highlights: Battle of Bismarck Sea -- British Target Nazi Industry -- North Africa: Patton Arrives Rommel Leaves -- Russian Air Force Soars -- Americans Train For Jungle War.

Episode Highlights: U.S. Victory On Guadalcanal -- Guerrilla Tactics in Burma -- Americans Hit Hard at Kasserine Pass -- Germans Counter-Attack -- Low Maintenance Machines.

Episode Highlights: Stalingrad and Leningrad: German Grip Broken -- British Take Tripoli -- Japan's Hollow Army -- New Wave of Technology: Radar Scans the Horizon.

Episode Highlights: Ah Relief! Marines Leave Guadalcanal -- Surprise: Admiral Darlan Assassinated -- Allies Bomb Sub Pens -- Rolling To Victory: Americans Recycle Rubber.

Episode Highlights: Allies Fight for New Guinea -- Germans Trapped At Stalingrad -- Miracle at Pearl: Shattered Ships Salvaged -- Liberty Ship Production Explodes.

Episode Highlights: Navy Turns Tide Off Guadalcanal -- Vichy French Surrender in North Africa -- Red Army Traps Nazis at Stalingrad -- U.S.A. - The Arsenal Of Democracy.

Episode Highlights: Marines Halt Japanese Guadalcanal Offensive -- British Victory at El Alamein -- Allies Invade North Africa -- Medicine Men: Doctors In The Jungle.

Episode Highlights: Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge -- Rommel Returns To Germany -- Allies Battle Wolfpacks -- Allies Aid Russians -- Preparing The North Africa Invasion.

Episode Highlights: Marines Invade Guadalcanal -- Decisive Battle: Stalingrad -- Canadians Invade Dieppe -- The Rise of Mussolini.

Episode Highlights: Nazi's Push Toward Stalingrad -- Travels With Winston -- Malta: Mediterranean Linchpin Attacked -- U.S. Fighter Planes -- Rommel Stopped at El Alamein.

Episode Highlights: Turning Point: Americans Win at Midway -- FDR and Churchill Meet -- Rommel Takes Tobruk -- Admiral Nimitz.

Episode Highlights: Carrier Battle in Coral Sea -- Operation Millennium -- Japanese Invade Aleutians and Approach Midway -- Goebbels, Goering and Himmler.

Episode Highlights: U.S. Bombers Strike Tokyo -- Bataan and Corregidor -- Great Britain and Russia Forge Alliance -- Tensions Mount in African Desert -- Building a Better Nazi.

Episode Highlights: Japanese Capture Mandalay -- Allies Split Pacific Command -- Military Industrial Complex -- Propaganda Wars.

Episode Highlights: "I Shall Return" -- Soviet Secret Weapon -- China-Burma-India -- Battle of Java Sea -- This Is The Army.

Episode Highlights: Singapore Falls -- Nazi's Final Solution -- RAF Changes Tactics -- Security Risk? -- The Brass Ring.

Episode Highlights: S Troops Retreat to Bataan -- America Gears Up For War -- Afrika Korps Catches Allies Off Guard -- U.S. Pilots in China.

Episode Highlights: Rommel Retreats -- Leningrad Under Siege -- British Colonies Fall -- US Fighter Planes -- The World At War.

Episode Highlights: Japan Draws United States into War with Attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines -- Russians launch massive counter-attack against the Germans.

Episode Highlights: Tensions Rise in Pacific -- Brits Duel Desert Fox -- Blitzkrieg in the East -- US To Arm Allies.

Episode Highlights: Hitler Unleashes Blitzkrieg -- Hitler Invades France -- RAF Frustrates Germans -- America Builds Military.

This first episode covers Hitler's New Germany after his rise to power; Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain's attempt to stave off war. It also includes Japan's invasion of China and the Hitler and Stalin deal.