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9 Episodes 2006 - 2006
Episode 1
Fri, Nov 3, 2006
We tell the story of one of the Pacific's bloodiest battlefields where 70,000 US Marines of the 5th Pioneer Battalion fought 21,000 entrenched Japanese over eight square miles of death at Iwo Jima.

Episode 2
Fri, Nov 10, 200641 mins

Episode 3
Fri, Nov 17, 2006

Episode 4
Fri, Nov 24, 2006
The U. S. Army and Marines battle a huge army of ferocious, entrenched Japanese who are making their last stand on Okinawa.

Episode 5
Fri, Dec 1, 2006
The American military returns to the shores of the Philippines on a secret mission to liberate 500 Allied prisoners in the Cabanatua death camp.

Episode 6
Fri, Dec 8, 2006
The 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War is recalled.

Episode 7
Fri, Dec 15, 2006
The Big Red One is the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division. Its history mirrors the conduct of World War II in Europe; North Africa, Italy, D-Day then on to Germany. The soldiers describe several of the unit's tougher battles; El Guettar, Troina, Omaha Beach and Falkenau.

Episode 8
Fri, Dec 22, 2006
Re-enacts some of the decisive battles in the the early years of the war in Afganistan (2001-2004) that drove the Taliban from power.

Episode 9
Fri, Dec 29, 2006
