WWII: Pacific Theater

A look at the final day of WWII, when much of what had been was now blown to bits, and what was to come was still dangerously unknown.

Join host Don Wildman as he explores Okinawa's subterranean tunnels, caves, and bunkers, and as he dives the sunken naval destroyer in the waters off the Japanese island's coast.

In October 1944, Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita presided over the largest clash of naval arms in history as U.S. troops moved to recapture the Philippines' Leyte Gulf from Japan.

Between October 1944 and August '45, General MacArthur and his men recaptured the Philippines from the Japanese in the largest U.S. campaign in the Pacific. But the Japanese had one weapon the Americans did not.

On November 20, 1943, one of the most ferocious battles in U.S. history began. Cutting-edge techniques, archive film, reenactments and interviews with survivors tell the story of this overlooked World War II battle.

Examine famous Pacific Islands shootouts of World War II: a daring raid on the Makin Atoll; a solo machine gunner outnumbered in the Solomon Islands; dozens of Marines against hundreds on Peleliu; and more.