World War II: The Unseen Films

In the summer of 1944, the USA is fighting heavily on two fronts.

In the Pacific, reporter Robert Sherrod accompanies the massive invasion of the heavily defended island of Saipan, where Japanese civilians become part of war's tragic equation, while Marine Nolen Marbrey is wounded in the bloody battle of Peleliu.

In Europe, Lt. Charles Scheffel's unit breaks out of the hedgerows. But when he is ordered to seize a town on the border of Germany, he is injured so badly he earns a ticket home.

As the USA braces for her final battles, GI Rockie Blunt barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, but carries on and witnesses Nazi savagery at the liberated Ohrdruff concentration camp, before finally seeing the war in Europe come to an end.

In the Pacific, Robert Sherrod arrives on Okinawa to report on the first days of the battle, while Jack Werner is wounded during ferocious fighting. With Okinawa finally secured, the USA delivers a devastating and decisive blow to the Japanese mainland, defeating the last of the Axis powers.

Millions around the world take to the streets to celebrate the end of the war.