Battlefront - WWII: Road To Victory

The near-miraculous evacuation of hundreds of thousands of stranded, surrounded British troops.

As the German military stormed Poland on September 1, 1939, WWII officially began.

Britain sends destroyers to end Germany's access to the Norwegian port of Narvik.

Spitfire pilot George Unwin describes his experiences in the momentous Battle of Britain.

British, New Zealand and Australian forces gathered in Tobruk to launch an all-out assault.

Five thousand of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed in 1941, to complete the Nazi conquest.

Italy's first target in WWII became the most bombed country of the war.

The British colony was considered impregnable, but the Japanese Imperial Army swept the city.

An American turret gunner and a Japanese airman describe their experiences of December 7, 1941.

The day after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces destroy US military installations.

Turning point of the pacific war.

Combatants relive their experiences.

British and Canadian forces raided the German-held Dieppe, but the Nazis proved too strong.

In one of the battles of WWII, the besieged Soviet Red Army turned the tables on the German Army.

General Bernard Montgomery begins an offensive against German and Italian forces in North Africa.

November 1942 marks the first Allied amphibious landing of World War II.

The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.

The Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, setting up the eventual Italian withdrawal.

Romania's oil refineries were targeted in a grueling 13-hour mission.

This ancient Italian monastery was fortified by Germans fighting to block the oncoming Allied army.

American forces fought a long and bloody battle against the incumbent Japanese.

The Allied invasion of Italy met with deceptively little resistance at the town of Anzio.

US troops wrestle control of a tiny coral island from the Japanese, providing a military base.

As the U.S. prepares for the invasion of the Philippines, the Palau Islands must be taken first.

U.S. Ranger Walter Martinez shares memories of the famous landings on June 6, 1944.

Allied forces push the Germans back through the Hedgerows of the French countryside.

Following the D-Day invasions at Normandy, Allied forces joined French Resistance fighters.

The largest proposed airborne operation of WWII, with 30,000 Allied paratroopers, went very wrong.

In 1944, American forces launched a final push to retake the islands.

Turning point of the pacific war.

The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.

American forces clash with German Panzers in the Ardennes forest in December 1944.

American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants.

German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge.

Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa as American forces approach.

Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east.

Sneak attacks from German gunboats disguised as regular cargo ships crippled supply routes.

Strategic bombing by Allied forces of crucial German centers.

German U-boats sank hundreds of military and merchant supply ships during WWII.