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America Fights Back

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S1, EP1 "America Fights Back"

U.S. submarine skippers change the course of the WWII after entering the war and taking the fight to Japanese warships.

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S1, EP2 "Fatal Voyage"

Submarine skipper Dick O'Kane and the USS Tang sink Japanese ships through 1944, until their reign is threatened.

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S1, EP3 "Destroyer Killer"

In June of 1944, American skipper Sam Dealey leads a rescue mission in Borneo.

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S1, EP4 "The Wolfpack"

Germany devastated Allied ships in the Atlantic, thanks to the new wolf pack tactic in 1940.

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S1, EP5 "Hitler's Revenge"

The Nazi campaign to send U-boats across the Atlantic to the U.S. at the beginning of Operation Drumbeat.

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S1, EP6 "Atlantic Showdown"

A 3-day clash between Nazi U-boats and Allied ships in March 1943 marks a major turning point in World War II.

Air Disasters

S13, EP6 "Fatal Climb"

A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest causing suspicions to rise.

Air Disasters

S15, EP3 "Explosive Touchdown"

After touching down, a Taiwanese commuter plane is rocked by a massive explosion, but investigators find no evidence of a bomb on board.

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S15, EP9 "Cockpit Killer"

When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators have to rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a conclusion.

Air Disasters

S19, EP4 "Power Play"

When a turboprop loses engine power and crashes in Papua New Guinea, investigators discover a fatal defect existing in Dash 8s around the world.

Air Disasters

S19, EP10 "Mystery Over the Mediterranean"

When an Airbus crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian authorities, French investigators and an Italian journalist theorize different causes for the accident.

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S12, EP10 "Dead of Winter"

An investigation into Continental Airlines Flight 1713, which crashed on takeoff from Denver during a snowstorm in 1987, changes commercial flight forever.

Air Disasters

S4, EP7 "Catastrophe at O'Hare"

On 25 May 1979, the number-one engine on American Airlines Flight 191 detaches moments after taking off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The aircraft banks to the left and crashes into an open field, killing all 271 people on board.

Disasters Engineered

S2, EP2 "Construction Catastrophe"

A towering inferno that killed 72 residents becomes Britain's deadliest fire; a pedestrian bridge collapses in Florida over eight lanes of traffic, killing six people; how can fatal design flaws happen in such important constructions?

Air Disasters

S1, EP2 "Gimli Glider"

A pilot heads for a decommissioned air force base when the Boeing 767 jet he is flying unexpectedly runs out of fuel.

Air Disasters

S18, EP14 "A Wounded Bird"

A blade on the left-side propeller of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight breaks off; the imbalance of the rotating propeller causes the engine to partly tear itself from its mounting.

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