14. May 20-May 26: Victory in Europe (2005)
Okinawa--the last stepping stone on the way to mainland Japan. The Allied High Command deems the island's capture absolutely vital, but the already difficult fight is complicated when the region is hit by torrential rain and the battlefield becomes a quagmire. Meanwhile, U.S. bombers continue to pound mainland Japan and submarines have isolated the country from the outside world. And in the Philippines, Japanese troops try desperately trying to hold the Wawa Dam on the Marikina River.
Release date: 2005-05-20
Season number: 1
Episode number: 14
Runtime: 43 minutes
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Greg Stebner - Narrator, Kerry Smith - Self - Professor, Brown University, Gregory J.W. Urwin - SelfSelf - Professor, Temple University, William Atwater - Self - Curator, US Army Ordnance Museum, Alan Brinkley - Self - Professor, Columbia University, Omer Bartov - Self - Professor, Brown University, Donald Dencker - Self - WWII Veteran, Pacific, Richard Rhodes - Self - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', James Sheehan - Self - Professor, Stanford University