Recalls the death of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., whose plane exploded over Great Britain in 1944.
Examining mysteries surrounding the 1943 death of Japan's Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The death of Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in a 1943 plane crash is examined.
The death of Glenn Miller in 1944 is examined. Miller was a bandleader who died in a plane crash while serving in World War II.
The 1942 assassination of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich is recalled.
World War II secret weapons developed by Germans are examined.
Examining the pre-D-Day plan to deceive Germany into believing the Allied attack would be at the Pas de Calais. Included: the use of inflatable tanks.
Examining Hitler's plans to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
Examining the operations of Hitler's special forces in World War II under the command of Otto Skorzeny. Included: archival footage taken by a German cameraman.
Plots to kill Hitler during World War II are analyzed.
Recalling the 1934 execution of Nazi leader Ernst Roehm, on Hitler's orders.
Examining Germany's Kammhuber Line, a World War II system of air defenses employing search lights, radar and fighter planes.
Examining the 1943 sinking of the HMS Dasher and its connection to an Allied plot to trick Germany regarding an invasion of Greece.
Recalling the flight of Nazi leaders from the Berlin bunkers during the fall of the city, and their actions following the end of the war.
The history of U.S. Intelligence gathering, beginning with World War I. Included: aerial-reconnaissance technology; and the creation of the CIA.
Recalling a mission undertaken by Nazi deputy Rudolph Hess to make peace with the British. He was ultimately convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and spent the remainder of his life in Spandau Prison.
At the outbreak of World War II, the ocean liner Normandie was brought into New York City harbor where it was to be converted into a carrier for US troops to the battlefields of Europe. After a mysterious fire broke out, the huge vessel capsized leaving American authorities suspecting the act to be the work of Nazi spies. But some feel that Lucky Luciano, American mafia kingpin, may have a hand in it. As events unfolded, Luciano and the US Government entered into a deal which helped the war effort, but left the Mafia as a powerhouse in the States thereafter, despite Luciano's eventual deportation to Italy.
A history of German U-boats during World War II recalls their tactics and the ways U.S. forces counterattacked.
The history of a Russian spy ring during World War II that exposed German secrets during the war.
Chronicling British efforts during World War II battles in the deserts of North Africa to push back Italian and German forces, which included Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps.
Recalling the role in World War II of M19, the British agency responsible for escape and evasion. Included: comments by former Resistance members.
Examining the work of World War II technicians who intercepted and tracked enemy messages used to track ships and aircraft and pinpoint locations.
Recalling a 1939 report on Nazi technological advances that was given to British intelligence, and how it affected World War II.
Examining the 1945 disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who tried to save Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
Tracing the path of stolen gold taken during World War II by Germans from pillaged European cities and used to fund their war.