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World War II strikes America the country fights back like never before America becomes the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen by entering the war the United States transforms itself into a superpower in only 4 years we are pioneers and Trailblazers we fight for we transform our dreams into the truth our struggles will become a nation America prepares for battle the 1930s men poverty future  what would more comes purpose and determination American industry goes into overdrive people go to war with the economic and Military powers of the axis Germany Italy and Japan now every weapon ration Medical Supply is mass-produced on a scale never seen before in human history sometimes it takes a terrific Challenge and a horrific threat to the Republic to discover how good you can be put the road to Greatness begins with treachery 7th 1941  200 miles north of Hawaii a pack of cutting-edge killing machines are on a mission to this play the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor  the Japanese zero was a better fighter than any the Americans had produced to that time the Japanese you can fly 2000 miles without refueling perfect for a surprise attack  when Pearl Harbor was attacked it was one of the most stunning moments in American history now 183 Japanese bombers and Fighters are heading straight for Hawaii another 170 follow right behind Japan has built an Empire across Korea Manchuria and Hong Kong it wants the whole Pacific Ocean but the u.s. fleet in Pearl Harbor stands in its way Opana Mobile radar station 30 miles north of Pearl Harbor  radar operator Joe Lockard makes first Contact what's this two blips of showing something out to see radar is still experimental technology in 1941 its importance is about to be realized if I could Reach Out And Touch you from greater distances I had a tactical strategic advantage radar will evolve into a system essential to the modern world tracking 10 million flights around America and 5 billion passengers around the world every year definitely incoming so far America has kept out of the second world war we had almost or whole Fleet I want to Little Harbor one little area Sitting Ducks but then again we trusted into Japanese at the same time we were having peace talks with an a even gave us a piece of America is about to receive the biggest wake-up call it's ever known operator private Joseph McDonald upper 500 80th aircraft warning division  Timber planes coming from the north 3 Points East hold on  it's early Sunday morning Japan is over 4000 miles from Hawaii Barber is not expecting to be attacked the surprise attack once the specialty of America Rifleman the war of independence the tactic that made America free now being used against it we still got plans coming looks like an awful big flight okay Kermit Tyler  he knows there was a flight of American b-17s doing today  he assumes that's what's on the screen what do you think it is Sir nothing the radar is invented and used by the British as early as 1935 this scr 270 mobile my system was developed by the US Army  but radar is still considered a gadget by the military there only 5 radar trucks over the whole of the Hawaiian Islands  they're only Man 3 hours a day  20 miles radar has another weak point Mackenzie to Hawaii's Mountain  the low-flying Japanese Squadron vanishes from Scream shift over there's nothing more the men can do McDonald types of his report a bug take a look at this man today America pays the price for neglect radar  when does the Snowman at 7:50 a.m. the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor go to the Marines and sailors are still in the rack they were still asleep we had no idea that this was going to happen we all know that it did  the Japanese have prepared this attack for a year rehearse bombing a model of Pearl Harbor in Japan until they reach an 80% hits Ray homemade battleships of put out of action  1178 Americans are rude 2403 are killed private McDonald's report was finally read but by then it was too late a day that will live in infamy we were completely unprepared for that emotionally and it turn the country plaid I overnight more people were down signing up to join the Navy the Army and the Marines whatever was required 27 hours after the attack America declares war on Japan 3 days later u.s. is at war with Germany at least the wrath of America and I think it gave us an energy the carry through the rest of the war once provoked that massive tiger of engineering was awakened we had factories that were sitting underutilized in Detroit and around the country because of the Great Depression we were ready to go on a building spray the sleeping giant awakens America transforms into an arsenal of democracy  the nation sets to work  before the war there were how many million unemployed  now America's huge potential is being realized there was no country that had a deeper economic and an enormous pool of not just the labor but of scientists and engineers and technologists American Icon is born general purpose vehicle known as the GP or the Jeep it's made for war top fast and low to the ground is 37 inches high as a flat hood and a folding Windstream it's low profile makes it difficult to line up in an enemy sites  it's small but can carry up to 7 then the front bumper is a seat an M1 carbine gun goes just below the Windstream there's a shovel in an did they cure self out of trouble there are Jerry cans of gas to get you home  get the Jeep flips over you just looked it out weighs in at a lean 2315 lb light enough to be put in gliders and drop Behind Enemy Lines what did Jeep symbolize in World War II was not cutting edge technology although it was a four-wheel-drive vehicle so it was very capable but what the Jeep really showed with the power of American Manufacturing design by Bantam and produced by willys-overland and Ford 3-g show produced every 4 minutes by the end of the war over the course of the war we deployed over 600,000 Jeeps to fly around is open vehicle at top speed was just something every American Boy wanted to grow up to do  to this day are the boom and SUVs that we saw with that notion that you want a vehicle they can go anywhere they can do anything it's a very American Spirit I really started with the Jeep Jeeps tanks and every other weapon of War will be produced in record numbers America's best kept secret weapon of World War II has yet to be revealed America sets to work the plan overwhelm the enemy through mass production 88000 tanks 7333 ships 20 million rifles and small arms and 40 billion bullets produced in 4 years 43 million men are registered for combat service what America needs more manpower the answer is the best kept secret weapon of World War II is actually the women back in this nation that were the ones working in the factories they were putting the taste together building a ship's building the airplanes you know so they are actually once that logistic Lee won the war Force women like Peggy Blakey a migrant Farm worker  now she works in a Munitions Factory like two million other women depression is suddenly over  the factory used to make fireworks now it's pumping out 20 millimeter Tracer show Tracer shells leave a trail of burn chemicals containing magnesium see where it's going and you can hit your target the pressure to produce quickly is real  so is the danger  just combing your hair could kill you static electricity in gunpowder equal explosion but the risk is worth Iggy makes real money $32 a week  it was just an now we have money to buy shoes and a dress and pay rent and get some food on the table and pay taxes tax returns jump from less than 4 million in 1939 to 42 million in 1945 World War II will cost 300 billion dollars  twice as much as the federal government had spent since George Washington women's salary set off of wartime consumer boom 11000 supermarkets are built purchases top 12%  oppressive what women had accomplished in World War II did linger in the memory of the society at large and I think was one of the things in n the feminist movement to decade or two later  in World War II when women entered the workforce once they cut a taste of that cancel filament that work can give you there was no going back but Peggy's job is undeniably dangerous I was most worried about the detonators detonators put into the tip of the shell last  they explode on impact they set off the gunpowder in the shell  detonators are extra unstable the factory is a giant bomb it's loaded with tons of explosives the only spark to set it off does terrible thunderstorm came call Steiner hurry to go and somebody knocked the detonators on the floor we were in the pitch-dark somebody was screaming don't move anybody I just froze right where I was I was afraid to step I was so scared I crawled on my hands and knees we were in slow motion  because if we someone  making weapons can be as dangerous as using in the first 16 and 1/2 months of the war 12000 military men died what's 64000 American workers true accidents  another six million are injured tonight Peggy is one of the first they survive the depression now they risk their lives every day for their country at War that was our finest generation in terms of people who would sacrifice and give something of themselves 300000 aircraft come out of us factories during the war  America will put them to use with a bold new tactic high altitude Precision bombing by day for the British vomit night August 17th 1942 shuttle man Google see if it can be done  if they survive  the way we respond will change forever Paul Tibbets from Quincy Illinois to America's Best Pilots of the B-17 bomber the Flying Fortress my father thought I was crazy not to be a doctor he said if you want to go kill yourself go ahead the planes are cramped unheated and unpressurized cruise suffer claustrophobia altitude sickness and frostbite of the 111 man on this mission 31 will be dead or missing by the end of the war these men depend on each other you know if you ask anybody that's ever been in combat they will tell you yeah sure you fought for your country you for your way of life you know but in all reality you're fighting for your buddy that's right next to you the B-17 bomber is just as tough as its crew it's got four engines not to it's got 4000 pounds of bombs  you can go with least two thousand miles bristles like a porcupine 850 caliber machine guns fight off enemy air attacks the B-17 bomber aircraft that was ever created but it was tough it was durable and a found a way to keep going which is pretty much like an American you know tough durable and find a way to keep going the planes climb oxygen keeps you alive above 10,000 feet no oxygen you could black out in 3 minutes stop in 20 the target is ruined the Germans biggest Railway pulling yard in northern France  Trane Supply the German economic and Military Empire across Europe skip its mission is to wipe the yard from the map 17th 1942 before today the Allies had only bombed under the cover of night  what targets are hard to see to increase the chances of a direct hit America bombs by day VA Ms accuracy Lenoir bomb site is the way to get it  it's an early computer it's top secret the crew will destroy it rather than have it fall into enemy dial an air speed wind direction and altitude 1 minutes machine calculates where to fly and went to drop the bombs by destroying the Germans economic and Industrial America will weaken the Nazis military month  today's Target East key the railway yards Andrew in keep the German warm no live  45 seconds to Target  US Air Cruise pay a high price in casualties to achieve their goal in 19 tree alone two-thirds of aircrews never came home the weather is perfect for the bombing visibility for Julie infant  what is 23000 ft B-17 vapor trails in the sky pointing right to the plains German anti-aircraft fire explodes under the b-17s Tibbetts keeps his nerves and the plane study the computerized bomb site zeroes in on the target Target success of the mission all rests on bombs away success 36900 lb of at the railyard  50% of the bombs fall in the Target area in 1942 that is precision bombing a big improvement over night time attacks this technology so ultimately lead to today's gps-guided smartphones but now the direct hit rate is up to 95%  gibbets knows his mission the success we caught the Germans by surprise they hadn't expected it daytime attack but then shrapnel the Germans open up their big guns 88 Peter anti-aircraft shells explode around the plane Hibbetts goes into a steep climb swinging the black they approved daylight bombing is possible a feeling of elation too cold of us as we went back across the channel we had braved the enemy in his own skies and we are alive to tell about it both sides Bond industrial Targets in cities in World War II targeting trade and Industry means coming in or near population centers a grim fact of World War II e-at Seas ordinary families killed in numbers undreamed of in earlier conflicts Paul Tibbets will be famous for another bombing Road  but it's three years away you will drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima reverie B-17 shot down American workers produced two more overwhelmed the enemy Tell Mum would machines end Manpower  my 1943 10 million Americans have been drafted on this eighteen-year-old Harold baumgarten New Yorker from the Bronx keep an offer to try out at Yankee Stadium put the four I could begin playing for the team I was drafted on July 10th 1943 I entered the US Army what they did is 18 or 19 year old Soldiers was far-and-away are your significance than anything they ever did in the rest of their lives  William Dabney is his grandmother to let him sign up at the age of 17 I just wanted to follow my buds  during Revolutionary War sixth of all of George Washington soldiers were black men and every time in the course of our first couple of hundred years that we had a conflict and called upon all citizens black citizens as well to serve blacks step forward despite the struggles of old prejudices remain platoons or segregated  the Army played a significant role because it many ways the Army was first place that blacks and whites began to have to stand together and represent the same idea even though they were in you gave the barracks  more war to change the entire world but it certainly transform the American the black Americans in a way that led to and made possible the civil rights movement of the 50s and the 60s  William Dabney volunteers for the exciting sounding special service the training in the world cannot prepare him for the horror that is to come  June 19th 4  Southern England becomes a massive army camp of 3 million Allied troops over a million and a half tons of equipment are shipped and from America the goal is to retake Europe from the Germans General Dwight D Eisenhower takes command of the biggest amphibious military in history codenamed Operation Overlord  the world the Normandy Landings are simply known  SD every material factor of Wars cater for medical Corps alone stockpiles tens of thousands of tons of medical Pines bandages morphine surgical instruments bedpans oxygen tents and x-ray machines leaving eyeballs in five sizes in four colors  by 1944 and American combatant could drown 4 tons of sea versus a Japanese combatant who had just two pounds no one had ever produced so much in such a short time and this is what really shocked both the Japanese and the Germans  blood is so crucial to us develop what system of blood banks on an industrial scale  in the six months leading up to DJ Americans donate a pint of blood every two seconds the blood is turned into plasma so can be used on the battlefield  is bottled putting ice in packed in cans but all these supplies are useless without men prepared to die DJ is coming June 5th 1944 American industry gives the military the means retake Europe now the nation must sacrifice its Sons over 5.4 million US soldiers will invade Europe in World that's 40 times the number of us combat troops originally invaded a rock  this is the night before the biggest single and Landing the world has ever seen  DJ Harold baumgarten has come a long way enlisting a year ago  many of us had our head shave so that are here could not be grabbed during hand-to-hand combat many of these men had less than 12 hours to live  I did not expect to come back alive I wrote Such to my safe to get the mail before my parents and break the news gently to them when she received the telegram  you know brought up on a good guys and bad guys we go back we talked about our our our westerns that way you know Hitler a clear enemy I think when you have a really clear enemy you've won the hearts and Minds there was that commitment of Sac Eve of battle rituals include Mohican haircuts for pain preparations are mental as well as material dog tags are taped together so they don't rattle stealth in mean you live or die sir tells his men what they can expect look to the right of you look to the left of you there's only going to be one after the first week William Dabney now knows what his special service mission is he has to a barrage balloon Asher while under heavy fire  it's a tactic designed to block German aircraft from strafing Allied troops his chances are slim that he is determined to survive I will return I will come back to the USA I'm not looking forward to getting shot killed I'm looking forward to going home more than 70,000 American troops are about to invade German held friends over a thousand will die on the first day June 6th 1944 D-Day over 5,000 ships and 10,000 aircraft are involved in the first wave alone  5B will be stormed the most infamous is codenamed Omaha Beach  think about Omaha Beach the standpoint of the young man  the ramp is about to drop and the sights and the sound all around provide the context of hell the first troops on Omaha Beach me ferocious German resistance rocket launchers Motors and 85 Machine Gun Nest tear into the Americans they were meant to be 32 tanks with 27 sink  the men are left with virtually no cover on the beach William Dabney is totally exposed  chatter to his barrage balloon he's defense when it's chop down he has his chance like every other Soldier on Omaha Beach black or white that means mission survive there wasn't any segregation damn Harold baumgarten is thrown straight into the Carnage today men with guts hanging out of their wounds and body parts line along our path  Sumner person overwhelmed by the hell they met by 9 a.m. almost five thousand men are sure there are more than 2,000 us casualties on Omaha Beach William Daphne survives is later awarded the Legion of Honor Operation Overlord is a logistical Miracle but the cost is staggering nearly 126000 America are killed wounded or go missing during the Battle of Normandy Harold baumgarten is hit 5 times  after losing blood for over 30 hours baumgarten Rock back from the dead by a plasma transfusion then injections of penicillin and morphine the very supplies America has mass-produced to this man alive  D-Day is key to Hitler's defeat within a month the Allies have landed more than 800 77000 troops 112,000 vehicles and 573000 tons of supplies best bombing destroys German oil reserves in transportation  American machinery and Men how is the drive to Berlin and victory in Europe but men are still dying fighting the Japanese America turns to technology once again weapon to end more a weapon to change the world the Alamogordo desert New Mexico July 16th 1945 5 7 a.m.  in 3 minutes American Technology will change the world forever Robert Oppenheimer the theoretical physicist who loves poetry as much as science the FBI would track his every move buried that he's a communist get up and Heimer leave the biggest scientific test in history the top-secret Manhattan Project theoretically fishing physics for the naval in Norma's amounts of explosives what energy be released from a single device the atomic bomb mom is the most technologically advanced weapon in the world  but nobody is sure whether it will work  even many of the people who worked when the bomb itself were skeptical that the bomb would actually work no one had ever done anything like this the use of bombing Escalades on all sides in World War II so that whole cities of civilians Army now the US military hope a single bomb can destroy an entire city Rican find a mass destruction that that was something new in the history of warfare the atomic bomb was putting emphatic punctuation to that decision but the decision was before 19 August of 1945 if this test works there are more atomic bombs to use on the Japanese hopes of ending the war Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project Thomas Farrell watches Oppenheimer answer as the last seconds ticked off he scarcely breathed he stared directly ahead 11 * 29 - 10 - 8 - 2016 today call 321 the temperature generated at the center of the explosion is 10000 times greater than the surface of the Sun  the Heat the desert sand to glass  the explosion is more massive than even Oppenheimer expects when it went off in the New Mexico Dawn that first atomic bomb we thought of Alfred Nobel and his hope his vain hope that Dynamite put an end to Wars even the scientists themselves recognize the gravity of that moment and of course off and high famous he said I become death the destroyer of worlds quoting the Bhagavad Gita and recognizing that man it really reached a turning point leave the power available to us was almost Limitless when atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and mated 120,000 people died instantly the days months and years that follow up to 80,000 more. lonely  a day after the second bomb is dropped the Japanese surrender America's technical Innovation is decisive in winning the bloodiest war in history having survived the Depression and World War II e the greatest Generation comes home  they've been through it all and they wanted one thing they wanted a better life for their families than and that's what they dedicated themselves to  America's distance from Battle leaves its infrastructure intact and its economy vibrant did produces twice as much oil as the rest of the world combined  good as half the world's manufacturing capacity and to where is if it's gold stocks  they had no real competition in the world because you're up was devastated Asia was devastated and America could be the Colossus play the game  World War II transforms the USA in only 4 years  Americans make twice as much money as they did before I have 50 million babies in 15 years there are 20 million new jobs in 25 years America becomes a superpower

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