American Heroes Channel

The decisive moments of American involvement in Vietnam, highlighting key battles and turning points.

Key battles and strategies surrounding the liberation of Kuwait from invading dictator Saddam Hussein.

Three U.S. Marine battalions wage a successful attack against larger, entrenched enemy forces in the South Vietnamese city of Hue.

A hastily assembled, undermanned Marine rifle company known as "Bloody George" battles the odds during the Korean War.

War on the two fronts catches up with Hitler, leaving him on the run in mid-1943.

Hitler faced a new threat, Allied preparations to invade north-west France were coming to a climax.

By late summer 1944, the Allied forces in north-west Europe were thrusting towards the German border.

By the spring of 1943, the Pacific war had reached a turning point.

Allied forces are within striking distince of the Rhine; a Red Army blitzkrieg brings Soviet forces to the River Oder.

in 1945, a desperate Japan is attacked by U.S. carriers and amphibious forces.

The most destructive war begins as German troops invade Poland.

U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Francis "Gabby" Gabreski becomes America's top flying ace in Europe during World War II.

Canadian aviator George Beurling becomes one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II.

Royal Air Force fighter pilot Douglas Bader leads a ragtag squadron of Canadian counterparts against Hitler's Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.

The crew of the Allied Lancaster ME669 bomber had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War II, but the controversial tactic known as "total war" overshadowed its legacy.

A look at the American Nazis and how they terrorized the United States in the 1930s and waged a battle against the FBI and an undercover team of amateur spies.

Gold is one the most rare treasures on Earth. Since ancient times, man has gone to extreme and often deadly lengths to get it.

The attack at Pearl Harbor changed the course of history and shaped how America would engage with war for the next 75 years, and made heroes of ordinary men.

Exploring the huge drug program that fueled the Nazi war machine; possessed by narcotics, Hitler and the German troops consume tens of millions of crystal meth tablets throughout the war, driving them to extremes.

Exploring whether a solar death ray that could obliterate any city and orbiting the skies 5,100 miles from the Earth was more than a Nazi dream.

Pseudo-history dreamt up by occult fantasists lay behind the myth of the Aryan super race, but it inspired the Nazis into war, legitimized the holocaust and led to the abduction of tens of thousands of young Aryan-looking children.

New evidence suggests Hitler planned to use bio-weapons and colluded with experts on germ warfare.

Exploring the huge drug program that fueled the Nazi war machine; possessed by narcotics, Hitler and the German troops consume tens of millions of crystal meth tablets throughout the war, driving them to extremes.

Exploring whether a solar death ray that could obliterate any city and orbiting the skies 5,100 miles from the Earth was more than a Nazi dream.

Pseudo-history dreamt up by occult fantasists lay behind the myth of the Aryan super race, but it inspired the Nazis into war, legitimized the holocaust and led to the abduction of tens of thousands of young Aryan-looking children.

New evidence suggests Hitler planned to use bio-weapons and colluded with experts on germ warfare.

Gold is one the most rare treasures on Earth. Since ancient times, man has gone to extreme and often deadly lengths to get it.