WWII: Pacific Theater

A look at the final day of WWII, when much of what had been was now blown to bits, and what was to come was still dangerously unknown.

Join host Don Wildman as he explores Okinawa's subterranean tunnels, caves, and bunkers, and as he dives the sunken naval destroyer in the waters off the Japanese island's coast.

In October 1944, Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita presided over the largest clash of naval arms in history as U.S. troops moved to recapture the Philippines' Leyte Gulf from Japan.

Between October 1944 and August '45, General MacArthur and his men recaptured the Philippines from the Japanese in the largest U.S. campaign in the Pacific. But the Japanese had one weapon the Americans did not.

On November 20, 1943, one of the most ferocious battles in U.S. history began. Cutting-edge techniques, archive film, reenactments and interviews with survivors tell the story of this overlooked World War II battle.

Examine famous Pacific Islands shootouts of World War II: a daring raid on the Makin Atoll; a solo machine gunner outnumbered in the Solomon Islands; dozens of Marines against hundreds on Peleliu; and more.

Discover the bloody story behind the iconic photograph of the Mt. Suribachi flag-raising at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

On the small island of Guadalcanal, Americans and Japanese were brought face to face in close-quarter shootouts that became a turning point of the war. Experience battle from both sides.

Equal parts bloodbath and chess match, Okinawa was the Pacific's bloodiest battlefield. Examine the strategy, leadership, and firepower of this battle through unique visual graphics and eyewitness testimony.

Captain Bob Prince and Lt. Robert Anderson describe the secret mission of U.S. soldiers who returned to the Philippines to liberate 500 Allied prisoners from the Cabanatua death camp.

While the allies storm France, American forces hit Saipan in the Marianas Island. The USS Enterprise supports one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Pacific War.

Rare footage of the Allied forces' D-Day invasion of Nazi-held Europe is rendered in high definition alongside interviews with Allied and German survivors recounting their first-hand experiences on that fateful day.