How America Became a Global Superpower After WWII

The story of how America’s battle to control the seas against the terrifying German U-boats in the Atlantic and Japan’s fearsome Navy in the Pacific ultimately turns the tide of the war. See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 5, "The War at Sea."

See what’s to come in the new episode of World War II with Tom Hanks, premiering Mon., June 8 at 8/7c and streaming the next day.

B-17 Bomber Pilot John H. "Lucky" Luckadoo recalls his harrowing experience during "Black Week" in October 1943, as a member of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, which became known as the "Bloody Hundredth."

Holocaust survivor Maud Dahme talks about her experience as a "hidden child" during the Holocaust in the Netherlands.