Nazi Armaments Minister Albert Speer will later call it the day that Germany lost the war. May 12, 1944 brings a fateful encounter between Zemke, Rall, and Rankin, revealed in exclusive first-hand interviews.

Nazi Armaments Minister Albert Speer will later call it the day that Germany lost the war. May 12, 1944 brings a fateful encounter between Zemke, Rall, and Rankin, revealed in exclusive first-hand interviews.

Nazi Armaments Minister Albert Speer will later call it the day that Germany lost the war. May 12, 1944 brings a fateful encounter between Zemke, Rall, and Rankin, revealed in exclusive first-hand interviews.

Nazi Armaments Minister Albert Speer will later call it the day that Germany lost the war. May 12, 1944 brings a fateful encounter between Zemke, Rall, and Rankin, revealed in exclusive first-hand interviews.

A series of bombing missions utilizing make-shift rope slings to carry Russian 500 lb bombs under war-weary aircraft, in historical retrospect, had prevented the fall of China and the linking up of Japan's Army with Nazi Forces in North Africa.

A series of bombing missions utilizing make-shift rope slings to carry Russian 500 lb bombs under war-weary aircraft, in historical retrospect, had prevented the fall of China and the linking up of Japan's Army with Nazi Forces in North Africa.

Four survivors of the immortal Doolittle Raid on Japan describe the events that led to the Raid, and to their volunteering to become ''Doolittle Tokyo Raiders.''

General ''Hap'' Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces, persuades aviation legend James H. Doolittle to return to active duty at age 46, to plan and execute the most daring aerial raid of World War II.

Doolittle's Raiders are forced to launch their planes early when the task force carrying the bombers is spotted by a Japanese patrol boat. Roaring in at treetop level, the Raiders strike Japan then race for refuge in China.

This raid was intended to raise morale of a war-stunned America. Instead, it set into motion a series of tactical missteps by the Japanese Navy and Air Force that resulted in the decimation of the Japanese war machine in the Pacific.

Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, the last remaining crew member of the B-29 Superfortress that delivered the atomic bomb to Hiroshima, gives a first-person account of the airplane, crew and target selection, as well as the training for the historic mission.

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb used as a weapon of war on Hiroshima, Japan, offers his first-person account of historic mission, flown on August 6, 1945.

A series of bombing missions utilizing make-shift rope slings to carry Russian 500 lb bombs under war-weary aircraft, in historical retrospect, had prevented the fall of China and the linking up of Japan's Army with Nazi Forces in North Africa.

A series of bombing missions utilizing make-shift rope slings to carry Russian 500 lb bombs under war-weary aircraft, in historical retrospect, had prevented the fall of China and the linking up of Japan's Army with Nazi Forces in North Africa.