How two WWII veterans, Charles Schulz and Rod Serling, smuggled the truth into America's living rooms.

Elgin Staples went over the side at Savo Island with a rubber belt around his chest. His mother may have inspected it herself.

A German radio message went unread for eighty-five years. Last week, an AI program and a man with a Sunday read it in ten hours.

An afternoon in Needham, Massachusetts, with the children of WWII veterans, and perspectives on D-Day 82 years later.

A man in Waterloo, New York, nearly threw out a box. Inside: statements from 120 American POWs, missing since 1945.

August 30, 1945: MacArthur landed unarmed in a nation of 70 million enemies, and set the terms of the occupation in an hour.

Hitler ordered Paris destroyed, and the explosives were in place. One man refused to give the signal. Many others pushed him.

August 16, 1940: forty-eight volunteers with no manual made the first official parachute jump in U.S. Army history. Airborne started with them.

At home the crowds filled the streets. In the Pacific, the men who'd done the fighting heard the news and sat down in silence.

One aircraft and one bomb ended a war and opened a new age. Weeks earlier, its builders had asked the President to think twice.

August 1, 1944: Warsaw rose expecting help within a week. The help never came. What a city does when it discovers it's alone.

The USS Indianapolis sank in twelve minutes after delivering the Hiroshima bomb. Correcting the record took 55 years and a 12-year-old.

WWII B-24 pilot Bud Berthold flew 35 missions, including D-Day. He died at 106. His advice: stay active.

The Norwegian heavy water sabotage, 1942 to 1944: what a handful of well-trained skiers did to Hitler's atomic ambitions.

An Italian submarine captain sank an enemy ship, then risked his own boat to save its crew. Twice. Character is what remains.

A missing security check, a quiet choice in London, and fifty SOE agents who never came home from occupied Holland.

A country house, wooden huts that look like garden sheds, and the thousands at Bletchley who worked knowing no one would ever know.

How two Czech paratroopers killed Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, what it cost the village of Lidice, and why their country still remembers.

How quiet houses on a Hampshire estate turned 3,000 ordinary men and women into the most dangerous people in Europe.

Billy Fiske had two Olympic golds and an American passport that made him illegal in the RAF. He talked his way in anyway.