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Season 1, Episode 3

March 4-March 10: Firestorm Over Tokyo

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Air Date: 2005-03-04

Overview: In this episode, Operation Lumberjack, the assault into the Rhineland by General Bradley's U.S. 12th Army Group, is in full swing. In Berlin, Hitler announces that all males born in 1929 must be conscripted for military service. To the south, Patton's lead armored division has progressed over 40 miles and taken 5,000 German prisoners. And as Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower deliberates on where to make his main crossing of the Rhine, U.S. forces in the Pacific torch Japan's capital city in a horrific assault from above.

Runtime: 42 minutes

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Greg Stebner

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Max Hastings

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Kerry Smith

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Gregory J.W. Urwin

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William Atwater

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Alan Brinkley

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Omer Bartov

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Donald Dencker

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Richard Rhodes

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James Sheehan