2024-07-03
Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences. (Repeat).
The 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shocks the nation. (Repeat).
Investigators risk their own lives to determine why TWA Flight 841 fell from the sky in Michigan. (Repeat).
The crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121 in 2007 is recalled. What should have been a seven-minute island-hop from Moorea to Tahiti ended in disaster when the plane crashed into the ocean two minutes after takeoff. (Repeat).
In the Season 9 premiere, a large cargo jet slices into an apartment complex in Amsterdam and reveals a potentially lethal problem threatening every 747 in the sky. (Repeat).
A look into air disasters that happened because of improper weight distribution. (Repeat).
The crew of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier prepares to give air support to ground troops battling ISIS in Iraq. (Repeat).
A behind-the-scenes look at the operations of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, and the dedicated sailors who keep it running at maximum efficiency. (Repeat).
Examine the history of the aircraft carrier and witness how its air wing operates. (Repeat).
How the U.S. Navy's radically redesigned class of aircraft carrier, the Ford, was built. (Repeat).
The Pacific Ocean is also known as "The Peaceful Sea," and color footage of some of its remote American outposts taken in the late-1930s captures a world of fun and sun. But a wave of war will soon replace these serene scenes with images of cataclysmic horror. Through rarely seen color home movies and combat footage, we detail Japan's violent blitz of the Pacific-from its raid on China to its atta
Six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the shockwaves of war have flooded into every corner of the Pacific, from Alaska to parts of China to New Guinea. U.S. soldiers head into unfamiliar worlds thousands of miles from home, encountering steamy island jungles, bitter arctic cold, and an unrelenting enemy. Through rare personal films and color combat footage, witness early Allied victories-i
Under the command of Admiral Nimitz in 1943, America advances towards Japan, engaging in a new series of island-hopping invasions through the Central Pacific. But a ferocious and inauspicious start at the Tarawa atoll forces war strategists to redesign their plan from top to bottom, sparking new innovations and breaking new barriers. (Repeat).
After a disastrous start, Admiral Chester Nimitz's island-hopping campaign across the Central Pacific has gained momentum and led his men to their largest and most important target yet: Saipan in the Mariana Islands. The nearly month-long battle on this island featured mountain sieges, Banzai attacks, white-knuckled dogfights, and escalating tensions between the U.S. Army and Marines. (Repeat).
While an attack on Japan from inland Asia stalls, the U.S. island-hopping campaign gains momentum. (Repeat).
March 1945. Japan feels the pressure coming from all fronts-ships from the sea, boots on the ground, and fire from the sky. The Japanese Empire has been weakened, but there is no sign of surrender. Through rarely seen color combat footage and frontline stories, witness the American invasions of Peleliu, the Philippines, and Iwo Jima, in addition to the war's first organized kamikaze attacks and th
The Allies celebrate the end of the war in Europe, but the Pacific War rages on. Okinawa, the last stop in the island-hopping campaign to the Japanese mainland, is absolute havoc, with Japan sending an unprecedented wave of kamikaze attacks to destroy Allied warships. Meanwhile, Australians liberate Indonesians from three years of oppressive Japanese occupation in Borneo. Witness the final battles
By the summer of 1945, the Allies are reducing Japan to ashes, but there's no sign of surrender. While a ground invasion seems imminent, a casualty estimate of U.S. soldiers in the hundreds of thousands leads President Truman to a decision that will not only end the war, but forever change the course of warfare. Color combat footage and witness accounts of the atomic bombings provide rare insights
Hitler unleashes the full power of the German military, threatening the world. (Repeat).
The German blitzkrieg across Europe in 1940, but failure to defeat Britain, is detailed. Also: Hitler's decision to turn against the Soviet Union. (Repeat).