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WWII., the complete history, DVD/Widescreen/Fullscreen

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WWII.

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the complete history

Covers all the events that took place during World War II in Europe, the Pacific, and other areas

Disc 1. -- Hitler's new Germany : the scum also rises -- Chamberlain: Hitler is man of peace : dumb and dumber -- Japan invades China : a darkness descends -- Hitler unleashes Blitzkrieg : Polish plunder -- RAF frustrates Germans : their finest hour -- America builds military : FDR pumps iron -- Tensions rise in the Pacific : demise of diplomacy -- Brits duel desert fox : 1001 Arabian fights -- Nazis invade Russia : Blitzkrieg in the east -- US to arm allies : bomb now, pay later -- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor : day of infamy -- Soviets launch counter attack : winter warriors -- Japan invades Philippines : big Mac's attacked -- Wolfpacks stalk allied shipping : lambs to the slaughter -- North Africa update : Rommel retreats -- Leningrad in dire straits : under siege and starving -- Japan expands empire : British colonies fall -- US fighter planes : stable of champions -- World at war : well I declare -- US troops retreat to Bataan : Philippine update -- America gears up for war : Winston, wolfpacks and WPB -- Africa corps catches allies offguard : Rommeling to victory -- Flying tigers bite back : US pilots in China -- Save the pilots : bright ideas -- Singapore falls to the Japanese : Pacific update -- Nazis final solution : Jewish fate sealed -- RAF changes tactics : pummel the people -- Japanese Americans interned : security risk -- Destined for duty : the brass ring -- MacArthur leaves Philipinnes : I shall return -- Defending mother Russia : soviet secret weapon -- Sillwell takes command in China : China Burma India -- The battle of Java sea : Pacific update -- This is the army Mr. Jones : saving the worldDisc 2. -- Japanese capture Mandalay : Stilwell takes a hike -- Allies split Pacific command : parting the waters -- Carriers come of age : fleet of the future -- War department's new home : militaty industrial complex -- Lies, damned lies & statistics : propaganda wars -- US bombs strike Tokyo : can dolittle -- Bataan, Corregor fall to Japanese : Pacific update -- Great Britain & Russia forge an alliance : dueling diplomats -- Tensions mount in African desert : the sands of time -- Hitler youth molding the master plan : building a better Nazi -- Carrier battle in the Coral sea : US victory in Pacific -- RAF strikes back : operation millenium -- Japanese invades Alleutians : rising sun in the north -- Japanese approach Midway : Pacific update -- Goebbels, Goering, Himmler : unholy trinity -- Americans win big at Midway : turning point in Pacific -- FDR & Churchill meet : confrontational conference -- Rommel takes Toburk : British battered -- Carrier of US Hopes in Pacific : Admiral Nimitz -- Nazis push toward Stalingrad : eastern front update -- Here there & everywhere : travels with Winston -- Mediterranean linchpin attacked : RAF on Malta -- Rommel stopped at El Amamein : Monty's stand -- Marines invade Guadalcanal : Pacific land war begins -- Stalingrad on brink of collapse : decisive battle -- Canadians invade Dieppe : disaster on French coast -- The rise of Benito Mussolini : Hitler's little buddy -- Marine battle for Blodd Ridge : Guadalcanal update -- Rommel returns to Germany : one sick fox -- Allies battle wolfpacks : control of the seas -- Allies and beleagered Russians : supply thy neighbor -- Preparing to invade Africa : lighting the torch -- Marines halt Japanese offensive -- Gaudalcanal update -- British victory at El alamein : Monty wins big -- Allies invade North Africa : bearing the torch -- Doctors do it in the jungle : medicine menDisc 3. -- US-Japanese battle of Guadacanal : navy turns tide -- French troops surrender in Africa : oh my Darlan -- Red army traps Nazis at Stalingrad : Stalin strikes back -- Arsenal of democracy : US public pitches in -- Allies fight at New Guinea : Pacific update -- Germans trapped at Stalingrad : The noose tightens -- Shattered ships salvaged : miracle at Pearl -- Liberty ship production explodes : boxy but good -- Christmas in North Africa : longing for home -- Marines leave Guadalcanal : ah relief -- Admiral Darlan assasinated : surprise, surprise -- Allies bomb sub pens : to the wolf's lair -- Allies meet at Casablanca : war plans -- Americans recycle old rubber : rolling to victory -- German grip broken : Stalingrad and Leningrad -- British take Tripoli : Rommel on the run -- Japans hollow army : Tojo's troubled troops -- Radar scans the horizon : new wave of technology -- US claims victory on Guadacanal : one giant step -- Chindits fight in Burma : guerrilla tactics -- Battle of Kasserine pass : Americans hit hard -- Germans counter attack : down, but not out -- Front loaded pachyderm : low maintenance machines -- Battle of the Bismark Sea : Pacific update -- British bomb Essen : targeting Nazi industry -- Patton arrives, Rommel leaves : North Africa update -- Russian airforce soars : Soviet air power -- Americans train for jungle war : life in the tropics -- Patton pounds Nazis at El Guettar : against all orders -- Americans assassinate Yamamoto : intelligence coup -- RAF strikes German industry : roasting the Ruhr -- Luftwaffe fights for skies : airborne Aryans -- Pilots prefer blondes : a nose for girls -- 2nd corps takes hill 609 : North Africa update -- Operation Mincemeat fools Nazis : dead man floating -- Nazi subs retreat from North Atlantic : dunkin' Dentiz -- Life on a carrier : islands in the moveDisc 4. -- Americans capture Attu : North Pacific update -- Allied leaders resolve bitter dispute : off the record -- Allies drive Axis from North Africa : end of the beginning -- Allies plan invasion of Sicily : next -- Americans invade New Georgia : climbing Solomon Ladder -- US plans Pacicfic campaign : army vs. navy -- Nazi tanks advance on Kursk : armored mayhem -- Allies invade Sicily : operation husky -- Engineers essential in Europe : a bridged version -- Patton takes Palermo : inevitable in Sicily -- Americans capture Mundo : Pacific update -- Allies bomb Ploesti : offensive on the oil -- Red army gets relief : eastern front update -- Patton & Monty race for Messina : raging rivalry -- Halsey breaks the rules : leapfrog in Pacific -- Americans bomb Schweinfurt : get your bearings -- Russians on a roll : celebration -- Allies sock it to the rockets : vengance weapons -- MacArthur routs Japanese : Pacific update -- Italy throws in the towel : Operation Avalanche -- Japanese officer training : Samurai soldiers -- Nazis rescue Mussolini : El Duce is wild -- Navy launches Pacific drive : fleet afoot -- Daylight raids halted : fly by night -- Life in Britain : shared sacrifice -- Allies take Naples : Italian update -- Italy turns on Germany : with friends like these -- Russians retake Kiev : party orders party -- Halsey dupes Japanese : keep em guessin -- Slip sliding away : terra infirma -- Halsey atop Solomon Ladder : Bougainville bagged -- Allied offensive stalled : Italian update -- FDR, Stalin stymie Churchill : allied conferences -- Off hours in Italy : a touch of homeDisc 5. -- Marines bloodied on Tawara : Atoll disaster -- Monty on the move : Italian update -- Ike to command overlord : invasion prep -- America drafts mules : hard-headed helpers -- More muscular mustangs : allied escort service -- Invasion of New Britian : Pacific update -- New nests for big birds : stop whining -- The year in review : turning the tide -- Clark gambles at Cassino : costly crossing -- Allies land at Anzio : foundation or failure -- Victory in the Marshalls : overwhelming force -- Leningrad siege lifted : how to spell relief -- Nazis attack Anzio : erase the abcess -- Allies obliterate Abby : coslty blunder -- Americans roll across Pacific : Pacific update -- Doolittle does it in the daylight : bombing the Bosch -- Japanese assault in India : CBI update -- Russians liberate Crimea : better or worse -- MacArthur takes Hollandia : Pacific update -- Preparations for overlord : not long now -- Allies break stalemate : Anzio and Cassino -- Hitler shuffles command : imposing his will -- Sailors cross equator : crazy custom -- Ikes big decision : weight of the world -- Paratroops secure flanks : airborne assault -- Allies assault Atlantic wall : battle for the beach -- The German reaction : the invasion -- sun sets on longest day : end of the beginning -- Clark enters Rome : glory or gaffe -- Allies expand beachhead : slowly but surely -- Americans invade Saipan -- Pacific update -- V-1s strike London : Hitler's revengeDisc 6. -- Marines forge ahead on Sapian : Smith sacks Smith -- Americans take Cherbourg : Normandy update -- Americans devour Japanese navy : gobble, gobble, gobble -- Roosevelt signs GI bill : new deal for servicemen -- Allies forge ahead in Italy : all but forgotten -- Saipan falls to marines : one step closer -- Americans stopped at St Lo : bloody Bocage -- Republicans nominate Dewey : pointless platform -- St Lo falls : rewarded with rubble -- Monty stymied at Caen : Germans burn Goodwood -- Americans bomb on Guam : Pacific update -- Americans leaned on at Pisa : Italy update -- Failed assassination attempt : Whack der Fuhrer -- Bradley's boys breakout : Operation Cobra -- Premature poles pounded : Warsaw uprising -- Schoolboy rivalry resumes : Patton and Monty -- Gothic line looms large : Florence falls -- Expedient armour adaptation : mother of invention -- Battered boats bandaged : amphibious repair shop -- Germans routed at Falaise : crushing defeat -- Miraculous mulberries : have harbor with travel -- Allies land in southern France : debate over -- French rise in Paris : put down your cheese -- War on VD : wrap that rascal -- Paris liberated : Vive la France -- Allied stategy debated : broad vs. narrow -- Soviet offensive ballistic : Eastern front update -- Americans invade Peleliu : Operation Stalemate -- Super forts arrive on Saipan : long arm of the law -- Operation Market Garden : hell's highway -- Softening up the Philippines : morning music over Manilia -- Metz besieged : third army slows down -- Aachen attacked : allies breach the Siegfried line -- Peleliu falls : checkmate on Operation Stalemate -- British forces take Antwerp : the coast is clear -- Churchill visits Moscow : we shall defend our interests -- Russian forces sweep the Balkans : housecleaning Soviet styleDisc 7. -- Aachen Falls : foothold in the fatherland -- MacArthur returns to the Philippines : promise kept -- The Battle of Leyte Gulf : the world's geatest sea battle -- Walacheren Island taken : popping the cork -- Japan reinforces Leyte : better Leyte than never -- 3rd army cross Moselle near Metz : Patton drives to Germany's borders -- Turpitz sunk : tall job for the tallboy -- FDR reelected : an unprecedented 4th term -- First convoy reaches Antwerp : shorting the supply lines -- Pacific update : Hell in the Phillippines -- US subs in the Pacific : steel sharks -- Western front update : Metz falls -- British homeguard stands down : duty done -- US forces land on Mindoro : driving on in the Philippines -- Bombing update : hiting the enemy heartland -- The Battle of the Bulge begins : Hitler's last gamble -- Christmas 1944 : memories of Chrismas past -- US forces land at Luzon : the drive for Manila -- The Bulge continued : the hole in the doughnut -- The bombing of Dresden : bridge head secured -- Soviets drive toward the Oder : Debacle in Poland -- The Bulge contained : third strike for the Third Reich -- Clark Field falls : keeping the drive alive -- Warsaw falls to the Russions : red dawn in Poland -- Burma update : the forgotten theater -- St Vith falls : the end in the Ardennes -- Burma road complete : dump the hump -- Nurses : they also serve -- Zhukov reaches Oder : chicken farmer chickens out -- The bombing of Dresden : Hell from above -- Fighting in Manila suburbs : closing the ring -- Partisans : war from the shadowsDisc 8. -- The Yalta conference : critical covenants on Crimea coastline -- US forces on Corregidor : return to the rock -- The Colmar pocket : honor restored -- Burma update : big push in CBI -- US lands on Iwo Jima : knocking on the front door -- Western allies launch new offensive : clearing the Transrhine -- Manila battle rages : a tough nut to crack -- Medics & chaplins : ministering to the body & soul -- Fight for Iwo rages : step by bloody step -- Reconaissance : eyes of the force -- Trier falls to Patton : pushing through the Palatinate -- Corregidor secured : let no enemy ever haul them down -- Life in the trenches : an infantry man's lot -- Iwo update : standing staunchly amid the stench -- German counter offensive in Hungary : last encore for the Wehrmacht -- Manilla falls : one step closer to victory -- GIS enter Cologne : Rhine City captured -- Babes : always thinkin' 'bout the -- Tokyo firestorm raid : burning out the heart of the empire -- 3rd army crosses Mosselle : tying up loose ends -- Philippine update : fighting on the Shimbu line -- Regemen crossing : breaching the Rhine -- V-mail : living for them letters -- Mandalay falls : fighting in the Burma theater -- East front update : Hitler orders scorched Reich -- Kamikaze action off Okinawa : frenzied defense of the empire -- Rosie : stoking the home fires into firepower -- Iwo wrap : fried, sealed and delivered -- Over the Rhine : Patton's thunder, Brits plunder -- Okinawa prep : last stop before the home islands -- American bombers : spanning the globe -- Eto update : Stalin gets the green light from Ike -- Tuskagee airman : black pilots blast the Hun -- Philippines update : Cebu City falls -- East front update : tightening the noose -- The story of GI Joe : the backbone of victoryDisc 9. -- Allies encircle the Ruhr : destroy the industrial heartland -- Okinawa landing : camping on the emperor's doorstep -- Work horses of WW II : thanks tanks -- FDR dies : a nation mourns -- New allied offensive : slugging up from the underbelly -- Okinawa update : deep six for the Yamato -- Homefront Germany : life in the Reich -- Elephants : ponderous pachyderms pitch in -- Italy update : heading toward the Po -- Ruhr pocket surrenders : allies rule the Ruhr -- Okinawa update : southern stalemate -- Nazi camps liberated : hell on earth -- Order breakout : forward to Berlin -- Big push on Okinawa : boxing day comes early -- Goering offers to take command : the rats are deserting -- Homefront Japan : life under the rising sun -- Italy update : vaulting the Po -- Philippine update : GI's land at Moro Gulf -- Allies announce bombing end : no targets left -- Burma update : driving hard toward Rangoon -- US-Soviet forces meet at Torgau : Allies link-up -- West front update : last minute housecleaning -- Mussolini executed : finis to Il Duce -- Hill 604 : a day in the life -- German forces in Italy surrender : Kesselring capitulates -- British forces land at Rangoon : endgame in Burma -- The fall of Berlin : the last battle -- Shellshock : the unseen wounds -- Germany surrenders : it's all over -- Kamikaze action off Okinawa : the divine wind returns -- Surrender aftermath : picking up the pieces -- Carrier pigeons : winged messengersDisc 10. -- Philippine update : landing at Macalajar Bay -- Ve Day : thousand year Reich ends -- Okinawa update : there, I've shelled it again -- The holocaust : Nazi horror revealed -- Americans seize airfield : ah Naha -- Top Nazis in allied hands : surrender or suicide -- End nears on Luzon : Philippine update -- Aussies wipe slate clean : battering Borneo -- Last stand before Japan : Okinawa wrap -- Training women for war : American's daughters join up -- Philippines liberated : final resistance crushed -- Mines : the unseen enemy -- Plans for invasion presented : next stop Japan -- Churchill : good 'ol Winnie -- Carrier strikes against Japan : the noose tightening -- Hollywood goes to war : the stars come out -- Atomic bomb tested : the shatterer of worlds -- Potsdam : shaping the post-war world -- Churchill loses election : how quickly they forget -- Seabees : paving the way -- Medal of honor : above and beyond the call -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki : nuclear war -- Soviets declare war, Japan surrenders : Japan accepts terms -- Von Braun goes to the US : boosting America's rocket program -- Homefront USA : why we fought -- VJ day : dancing in the streets -- The United Nations : to ensure a lasting peace -- Japan signs surrender : World War II ends -- Combat cameramen : recording for posterity -- The final tally : counting the cost -- War crimes trials : serving justice on the unjust -- Dawn of a new day peace : after the cannons roar -- Conclusion

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