Describes the Japanese surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 American officers and servicemen and an immediate declaration of war on Japan.
Recounts the history of General MacArthur's obsession with retaking the Philippines from the Japanese, from the Clark Field bombings of 1941 until the destruction of Manila in 1945.
Describes the Allied attack of the beaches of Normandy, the largest invasion the world had ever seen, which marked the end of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Europe.