World War II - Pacific
Philip Johnston believes Navajos can create an unbreakable code during WWII using their unwritten language.
Soldiers on duty at Opana Point see evidence of incoming planes on new radar equipment. It turns-out that the planes are not the expected American pla...
The Japanese have the authority to kill all prisoners and leave no trace.
Official records contain many military photographs of the more-than-month-long siege and capture of Iwo Jima.
The Sullivan Brothers give their all, and live-on in posters which remind U.S. citizens to give the war effort all they can.
Japan surrenders on August 14, 1945, just eight days after the US drops an atom bomb on Hiroshima.
Eight hundred US ships sail to Iwo Jima; they will first fire guns at the island, and then land over 70,000 Marines to capture it.
After the surrender of Bataan, the Japanese force soldiers on a death march.
At Iwo Jima, photographer Joe Rosenthal captures the instant the replacement flag goes up while other photos and movies depict the original flag comin...
The US fleet at Pearl Harbor is crucial to American and Britain's war interests; the military believes the fleet is safe.
Discover the story and politics behind the replacement flag raising on Iwo Jima and the famous photograph taken on Mt. Suribachi.
Henry Mucci and his special forces gather information and local help to plan the rescue of prisoners at Cabanatuan.
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