NaN/100 votes#1 - Week 175 - And Now It's 1943... - WW2 - January 1st, 1943
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2022
The attrition cannot continue so the Japanese decide they will evacuate Guadalcanal, conceding the Solomon Islands to the Allies. The Allies are also conceding the Caucasus, and a naval battle in the far north convinces Hitler that he should scrap the entire German surface fleet. 1943 begins ominously for the Axis.
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#2 - Week 176 - A Soviet Offensive Along the Entire Front? - WW2 - January 8th, 1943
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2022
Things look grim for the Germans, surrounded at Velikie Luki and Stalingrad and with no real help of relief. The Soviets are, in fact, making plans for attacks all along the front, as are the Americans to push the Japanese off of Guadalcanal.
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#3 - Week 177 - Food for Leningrad, Breaking the Siege! - WW2 - January 15th, 1943
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2022
Soviet attacks are launched this week to destroy the Hungarians, all while the German desperation at Stalingrad and Velikie Luki continues, but in the far north the Soviets have broken through the siege of Leningrad after 16 months. And the Casablanca Conference begins, a meeting to guide the war’s future progress.
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#4 - Week 178 - Hitler's Interference is Losing the War - WW2 - January 22, 1943
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2022
This is a rough week for the Germans- their trapped garrison at Velikie Luki is liquidated, and their trapped army at Stalingrad is... well, it isn't going well for them. In fact, it isn't going well for the Axis anywhere this week, being pushed back or retreating in New Guinea, the Caucasus, North Africa, and on Guadalcanal. Berlin is even bombed this week as well.
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#5 - Week 179 - Time to Fire Rommel? - WW2 - January 29, 1943
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2022
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, closing in on Stalingrad, and launching new operations up and down the eastern front, to the dismay and detriment of the Axis forces.
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#6 - Week 179B - Stalingrad: Endgame - WW2 - January 31, 1943
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/30/2022
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, closing in on Stalingrad, and launching new operations up and down the eastern front, to the dismay and detriment of the Axis forces.
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#7 - Week 180 - Guadalcanal, A New Offensive - WW2 - February 5, 1943
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/5/2022
This week sees the 10th anniversary of Hitler's ascension to power in Germany, but while there may be celebrations and speeches in Germany, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to its end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. The Soviets are on the move all over, launching yet more winter offensives. It is the Axis who are attacking in Tunisia, and in the Solomon Islands... well, the Allies aren't sure what the Japanese are up to.
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#8 - Week 181 - Victory at Guadalcanal - WW2 - February 12, 1943
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/5/2022
Operation KE, the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, concludes this week and the campaign has been a big loss for the Japanese. The Axis forces are also withdrawing- and the Red Army advancing- in the Donbas and the Caucasus, closing in on both Kharkov and Rostov. And a front that's been quiet for a while, the Burma front, begins heating up again with an Allied advance out of India.
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#9 - Week 182 - Can the Red Army Capture Hitler? - WW2 - February 19, 1943
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2022
The Red Army liberates both Rostov and Kharkov this week, but their advancing spearheads are close to an even bigger prize, Adolf Hitler himself. It is the Axis, however, who are both advancing and consolidating in Tunisia, and gearing up for new offensive actions next week.
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#10 - Week 183 - The Blitzkrieg is Back - WW2 - February 26, 1943
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2/26/2022
Erich von Manstein's Axis counterattack on the Eastern Front begins this week and right away smashes through the Red Army lines, threatening all the recent Soviet gains. The Allies- the Americans- also suffer a big defeat in Tunisia at the Kasserine Pass, though in the Pacific it is the Americans who occupy the Russell Islands.
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#11 - Week 184 - Another Naval Disaster for Japan - WW2 - March 5, 1943
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/5/2022
The Japanese again fail to reinforce New Guinea, losing many transport ships, and their forces there are ever more isolated. In Tunisia the Axis lose a bunch of new Tiger tanks, but in the Soviet Union it is the Axis forces that are on the offensive as Erich von Manstein's offensive continues.
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#12 - Week 185 - Rommel Leaves Africa - March 12, 1943
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/12/2022
Erwin Rommel loses his command and leaves Tunisia, while change in American command there puts George Patton in charge. On the ground the Axis lose the Battle of Medenine, but in the Soviet Union, Axis forces are on the move and heading for Kharkov.
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#13 - Week 186 - Kharkov Falls Once Again - WW2 - March 19, 1943
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/19/2022
The twin prizes of Kharkov and Belgorod fall to Erich von Manstein's German forces this week, but this is a week of preparations- the Americans and New Zealanders are on the move in North Africa so everyone can attack next week, and in the USSR Hitler plans for the Kursk salient to be eliminated. He might not survive to see that happen, since there is an attempt on his life- a failed one- this week, and there may well be more to come.
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#14 - Week 187 - American Army Finally Does Something Right - WW2 - March 26, 1943
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 3/26/2022
The British are attacking the Mareth Line in North Africa while the Americans hit the Axis flank, but the Allies are withdrawing in Burma. It's the Germans who are pulling back in the USSR, though, and there is another attempt from within German Command to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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#15 - Week 187B - The End of Hydra? - WW2 - April 1, 1943
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/1/2022
The phantom submarine that has been savaging both Japanese and Allied shipping in the South Pacific is tracked to Hydra Island, Baron von Strucker's base. The fighting for it is a tough hand-to-hand combat, as Japanese and American soldiers ally with each other in the face of a common enemy.
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#16 - Week 188 - Patton Has a Plan, and it's Bad - WW2 - April 2, 1943
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/2/2022
American attacks in Tunisia meet with local disaster, but in general the Axis forces are withdrawing there. The Allies learn about the German rocketry plans this week, and both sides are making plans for action in the Pacific.
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#17 - Week 189 - Mussolini is Tired of War - WW2 - April 9th, 1943
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 4/9/2022
Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini to hopefully restore his flagging morale and convince him that the Axis can hold out in North Africa, but the situation there grows more precarious and this week there the Allies advancing from the west and the east link up for the first time. The Axis are also holding out in the Caucasus, as new Soviet attacks to take Krymskaya begin.
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#18 - Week 190 - Kursk - The Next Great Battle? - WW2 - April 16, 1943
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/16/2022
The Allies have one chance left to catch the Axis forces in Tunisia before they can reach the Tunis defences, in the USSR both the Axis and Soviets are making plans for a fight near Kursk, and in the skies, in the South Pacific a Japanese aerial offensive ends and Yamamoto himself flies off to congratulate his pilots.
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#19 - Week 191 - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Got Him - Yamamoto - WW2 - April 23, 1943
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/2022
The mastermind of Pearl Harbor meets his fate this week in the Solomons, as do a great many Italian airmen and sailors in the Mediterranean in the Palm Sunday Massacre trying to supply the desperate Axis forces in Tunisia.
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#20 - Week 192 - The Race for Tunisia Turns into a Crawl - WW2 - April 30, 1943
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2022
The Allies launch a deception operation to hide their intent of soon attacking Sicily, but first, they'll actually have to secure Tunisia, and it is slow going. A German offensive in the Caucasus grinds to a halt, and German U-Boats are suddenly finding themselves unable to destroy Allied shipping in the Atlantic.
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#21 - Week 193 - Kilroy was Here! The Fall of Tunis - WW2 - May 7, 1943
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2022
Tunis falls to the Allies, but the Axis are still fighting back from their little corner of Tunisia. There is more of the seemingly endless fighting in the Kuban in the Caucasus, and the Chinese Theater comes to life with a new Japanese offensive.
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#22 - Week 194 - The End of the War in Africa - WW2 - May 14, 1943
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2022
With the end of the Tunisian Campaign, the Allies have won the war for the African Continent. What next? They meet at the Trident Conference in Washington DC to try and figure that out. Meanwhile, the fight in the field continues - in Burma, the Aleutians, China, and the Kuban.
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#23 - Week 195 - Wrapping up the North African Campaign - WW2 - May 21, 1943
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/21/2022
The Allies have won the battle for Africa, but now they have nearly 250,000 POWs to care for, and do not have the facilities to do so. The Trident Conference continues in Washington to try and decide the direction of the Allied war effort, but they launch the Dambuster Raids this week in Germany to try and cripple German water power - and thus, industry - with a new type of bomb.
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#24 - Week 196 - Black May, Nazi Subs Defeated - WW2 - May 28, 1943
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/28/2022
German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the U-Boats to leave the Atlantic this week; the losses lately have just been too great for their patrols to continue there. There is active fighting in China, the Aleutians, and the Kuban, and there are special weapons tests in the skies over Germany.
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#25 - Week 197 - Banzai Charges in Alaska - WW2 - June 4, 1943
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 6/4/2022
The Chinese defeat the Japanese at Shipai Fortress and the Americans maul the Japanese in the Aleutians. The Japanese are also worried about the possibility of the USSR joining the war against them. Meanwhile the Allies still plan to invade Sicily, but have no idea what they'll do after that.
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"Week 175 - And Now It's 1943... - WW2 - January 1st, 1943" is the best rated episode of "World War Two" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/2022. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Week 176 - A Soviet Offensive Along the Entire Front? - WW2 - January 8th, 1943".