Battleline

The Americans wanted to capture Iwo Jima to use as a base for airstrikes against Japan, but Japan fought fiercely to defend the island.

German advances through Belgium into France pinned thousands of Allied troops and, ultimately, more than 30,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk.

In September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, marking the beginning of WWII. The Poles fought bravely, but they were no match for German blitzkrieg.

The Ploesti Raid was a combined bombing mission by the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force against Axis oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania in 1943.

Authentic archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battle line combine to describe the liberation of Paris.

The Battle of El Alamein halted the advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.

The March 1945 Allied capture and crossing of the bridge at Remagen over the Rhine River in Germany was both a strategic and symbolic victory.

Archival film footage & accounts from soldiers on both sides explore Operation Shingle, an Allied landing against Axis forces in Anzio, Italy.

Operation Torch—the Allied land, sea, and air invasion of North Africa—commences in June 1942, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

June 6, 1944, the Allied landing on Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast of France is the scene of the bloodiest battle of D-Day.

The story of one German field marshal's last line of defense along the summits of the Apennines during the fighting retreat of German forces in Italy.

The islands of Midway were the focus of a brutal struggle between the Japanese Imperial Navy & the United States Pacific Fleet in the summer of 1942.

The plan was to raid the town of Dieppe, demonstrate the strength of the Allies, and take pressure off the Eastern front. But it failed tremendously.

Authentic archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battle line depict the Pacific battle for Tarawa.

Although U.S. & Filipino soldiers outnumbered the invading Japanese in 1942, the inexperienced troops were no match for the enemy’s superior training.

In 1940, Hitler's plan is to occupy ports along the Norwegian coastline. It is the first combined air, land, and sea operation in history.

As the Red Army advanced towards Berlin in early 1945, Germans feared retribution for what their forces had done to the people of the Soviet Union.

On Crete, the tired, ill-equipped British were helpless as German paratroopers captured key airfields & ports, putting the Mediterranean in jeopardy.

In September 1944, an ambitious two-part Allied operation was launched to secure key bridges in Holland, cross the Rhine, and advance into Germany.