TV Guide PBS America Wednesday

Exploring how naval warfare evolved from battleships to submarines, then into aircraft carriers and how pivotal battles in the Atlantic and Pacific hinged on megaship production. An examination of how control of supply lines shaped the war at sea

The plan to end the war in Europe by winter 1944 founders as Allied forces massed on the German border find themselves perilously short of fuel, leading commanders to take a risky gamble and parachute thousands of additional troops behind enemy lines. In the Pacific, General MacArthur heads one of the most brutal campaigns of the conflict while taking the island of Peleliu

Examining General MacArthur's campaign to liberate the Philippines and his resultant popularity back home in America - which belied the scale of the bloodshed necessary for victory. The documentary also studies the US Army's losses in late autumn 1944, while trying to force its way through the heavily defended Hurtgen Forest and Vosges Mountains, which lie on Germany's eastern border