S1, E5: By September 1944 on the Western Front, American and British troops massed on the German border are desperately short of fuel. Allied commanders gamble on a risky scheme to drop thousands of airborne troops behind enemy lines in Holland, In the Pacific, General MacArthur is poised to invade the Philippines at Leyte. The fighting drags on for more than two months in one of the most brutal and unnecessary campaigns in the Pacific.