War in Europe

The rise of Hitler, the spread of Nazism, the fall of France, and Dunkirk. Westbrook Van Voorhis narrates.

The draft law of 1940 is passed and American men are inducted into the Army. Pearl Harbor is bombed and Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war.

President Roosevelt lectures Americans on their conduct, Churchill visits the U.S. as American troops are deployed to England, and Eisenhower gets command of the European Theater.

Americans arrive in Britain and are made ready physically and mentally to fight the Germans.

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 the same time advancing into Tunisia to destroy the Afrika Korps.

The defeat of General Rommel in North Africa.

"Operation Husky": the landing of Allied forces on Sicily.

Allied assault on Italy: Britain's Montgomery at the Messina Straits, America's Clark at Salerno.

This episode follows German leader Adolf Hitler while which he becomes increasing isolated from the public and eventually reduced to a living inside concrete bunker.

Eisenhower's personal views are blended with the memories of an American veteran.

This episode follows Eisenhower's 1943 tour of the Italian front and the attack at Anzio.

Eisenhower plans the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.

The beginning of the end: D-day and the "Battle of the Beachhead." Three thousand Americans are killed, wounded or missing on Omaha Beach, but are ultimately successful.

General Eisenhower, Admiral King, General Arnold, and members of their staffs visited the beaches during the first week following the assault landing.

The liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation.

The Allies invade Southern France and Patton's Third Army heads the swift thrust up the Rhone valley.

This episode recounts the air offensive against Nazi Germany after the RAF had successfully repelled the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.

As the winter of 1944-45 approached, the Germans secretly massed their forces for a surprise attack against the allied lines in the Ardennes Forest in the Battle of the Bulge.