TV Guide PBS America Tuesday

Examining the weapons used on different battlegrounds during the Second World War, scrutinising their design, production, performance and their role in victory or defeat. During land warfare, every weapon was made to fill a specific need. Designed for a single purpose: to win the race for technological supremacy over the enemy. From handguns to tanks, the stakes were never greater

Inhabitants of four American towns in Alabama, California, Connecticut and Minnesota recall the events of D-Day, in which more than 150,000 men landed on French soil to take part in the bloodiest conflict in US history since the Civil War

The Allies make slow progress through Europe during the summer of 1944, finding themselves bogged down in the Normandy countryside. In the Pacific, American forces on the island of Saipan fight their costliest battle to date, but the mood is buoyed by the eventual Nazi retreat and the liberation of Paris on August 25, ending four years of occupation