TV Guide PBS America Thursday

A look at how advancements in aeronautics and weaponry reshaped battle strategies in the Second World War, from bombers to fighters, witness the dawn of a new era as militaries vie for dominance in the skies

Hitler takes an enormous gamble as Nazi forces fight the war on two fronts, braving the worst winter in memory to tackle the Allies to the west in the Ardenne Forest of Belgium and Luxemburg as the Russian army gets closer to Berlin. In the Philippines thousands of prisoners starve while they await liberation at the Japanese Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila

The violence in the Pacific in early 1945, when Japanese soldiers were ordered to kill as many Americans as possible before their own deaths. Meanwhile, in Europe two armies headed for Berlin as hundreds of thousands of allied troops raced from the west, hoping to reach the German capital before Russia's Red Army advanced from the east

Events of May 1970 to March 1973. South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat, while a re-elected President Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal