1. Design for War
Aired: Oct 26, 1952Design for War: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941. World War II begins and th...
2. The Pacific Boils Over
Aired: Nov 2, 1952Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Using Japanese footage, viewers see the plann...
3. Sealing the Breach
Aired: Nov 9, 1952Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943. With war now declared by the U.S., naval f...
4. Midway Is East
Aired: Nov 23, 1952Japanese victories and the Battle of Midway. The Japanese are ascendant as th...
5. Mediterranean Mosaic
Aired: Nov 30, 1952Malta, the central access point to various locations in the Mediterranean Sea...
6. Guadalcanal
Aired: Dec 14, 1952The Imperial Japanese had every intention of expanding its Greater Asia Co-Pr...
7. Rings Around Rabaul
Aired: Dec 21, 1952After the victory at Guadalcanal, Australia and the U.S. next planned to remo...
8. Mare Nostrum
Aired: Dec 28, 1952Benito Mussolini uses 'mare nostrum' which means 'our sea.' Italy's enters in...
9. Sea and Sand
Aired: Jan 4, 1953The Russians asked the Allies to open a second front to divert some German fo...
10. Beneath the Southern Cross
Aired: Jan 11, 1953The British Navy engages German U-Boats and the pocket battleship Graf Spee i...
11. The Magnetic North
Aired: Jan 18, 1953The Murmansk Run required the shipping of lend-lease material by convoys to a...
12. The Conquest of Micronesia
Aired: Jan 25, 1953Beginning in August 1943 with more ships of all types available, Admiral Nimi...
13. Melanesian Nightmare
Aired: Feb 1, 1953The Japanese crafted Operation Mo to take control of New Guinea and thus ensu...
14. Roman Renaissance
Aired: Feb 8, 1953In Jul 1943, Operation Husky occurred - the amphibious landings at Sicily.whi...
15. D-Day
Aired: Feb 15, 1953What was involved in the planning, who was to be involved, and when would the...
16. Killers and the Kill
Aired: Feb 22, 1953Highlighting the June 4,1944 capture of the German submarine U-505 and her cr...
17. The Turkey Shoot
Aired: Mar 1, 1953In June 1944, the U.S. decided to continue releasing islands from Japanese oc...
18. Two If by Sea
Aired: Mar 8, 1953American troops were to free some Japanese held islands before MacArthur coul...
19. The Battle for Leyte Gulf
Aired: Mar 15, 1953The Japanese assembled its entire fleet for a desperation gamble to stop the ...
20. Return of the Allies
Aired: Mar 22, 1953The Battle for the Leyte Gulf was only the first step that had been accomplis...
21. Full Fathom Five
Aired: Mar 29, 1953See the submariners training, relaxation styles, and preparation for warfare....
22. The Fate of Europe
Aired: Apr 5, 1953Visually see European and Russian city warfare sights in 1944 as the Allies f...
23. Target Suribachi
Aired: Apr 12, 1953Before B-29 Flying Fortress' could bomb Japan from airfields on Iwo Jima, it ...
24. The Road to Mandalay
Aired: Apr 19, 1953The oil and minerals contained in Burma were the cause of Imperial Japan's oc...
25. Suicide for Glory
Aired: Apr 26, 1953Suicide missions were desirous of all Japanese who were believers in the 'Div...
26. Design for Peace
Aired: May 3, 1953Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their population experience the atomic bombs ever ...