Thousands of Inexperienced US Troops Face Off During Operation Torch

As Hitler’s influence extends beyond Germany and darkness descends across Europe, his hateful rhetoric fuels anti-Jewish persecution and, ultimately, genocide. See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 7, “Darkness Falls.” New episodes Mondays at 8/7c.

See what’s to come in the new episode of World War II with Tom Hanks, premiering Mon., June 15 at 8/7c and streaming the next day.

The War Department considered coffee an essential element of the troops' diet. In 1942, coffee became so critical to the war efforts that Americans back home rationed coffee to preserve stocks for the soldiers.

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."