NaN/100 votes#1 - Week 228 - "Russians 27 Miles from Poland" - WW2 - January 7, 1944
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2023
That's what the headlines say as the Red Army continues its advance in Ukraine. There are also plans afoot for a northern offensive to end the siege of Leningrad. There are also plans afoot for an Allied amphibious attack in Italy at Anzio. Both of these are set to go off within a couple weeks, so January promises to be full of active conflict.
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#2 - Week 229 - Time to Liberate Leningrad! - January 14, 1944
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2023
Three Soviet Fronts launch major offensives to try and finally free Leningrad, under siege for nearly two and a half years now. The Soviets are, in fact, making attacks along most of the Eastern Front. In the South Pacific, the Allies step up their aerial assault to wreck Rabaul's air power, thus neutralizing it as a base.
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#3 - Week 230 - Monte Cassino, the Battle Begins - WW2 - January 21, 1944
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2023
The Allies have reached the linchpin of the German defenses in Italy, but a first attack proves disastrous. It does, though, divert troops from where they soon plan to make landings behind enemy lines. Meanwhile in the USSR, the huge Soviet offensive in the north makes great gains against the stunned Axis forces.
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#4 - Week 231 - Anzio Begins - Allies Already Pinned Down - WW2 - January 28, 1944
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2023
Some big news is the Allies amphibious offensive to hit the Germans behind their lines at Anzio in Italy, some other big news is that after nearly two and a half years, the Soviets have broken the siege of Leningrad and their twin northern offensives keep pushing back the enemy. Yet more big news is that the Soviets have managed to surround and cut off over 50,000 Axis troops near Korsun. This is one big week of action!
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#5 - Week 232 - Leningrad: NO STEP BACK! - WW2 - February 4, 1944
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2023
The Allies begin a new operation in the Pacific this week: assaulting the Marshall Islands. They also make big attacks from their beachhead in Italy at Anzio, but these are called off after only a few days in the face of heavy enemy resistance. However, in the USSR there's several successes against the Axis, as they are pushed back both in the far north and the far south of the front, and still surrounded near Korsun.
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#6 - Week 233 - German Desperation in Korsun Pocket - February 11, 1944
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2023
It is crisis mode in the Korsun Pocket this week for the Axis troops surrounded, but they are also losing ground all over the Eastern Front this week, including the big prize of Nikopol. In Italy, it is a different story as the Germans play offense at Anzio, though with only small gains.
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#7 - Week 234 - The Destruction of Mote Cassino - WW2 - February 18, 1944
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2023
The Allies bomb the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy, but just to the Northwest it's the Germans attacking them at Anzio this week. In the Soviet Union, the Axis break out of the Korsun Pocket, but at great cost, and in the Pacific comes a major Allied raid on the Japanese base at Truk and landings on Eniwetok Atoll.
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#8 - Week 235 - Tojo Takes Control - WW2 - February 25, 1944
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2023
Now that the Americans have seized the Marshall Islands, they can bypass the Japanese base at Truk. This impels Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to shake up both army and navy command, and he even takes personal control over the Japanese Army. On the Anzio Front, Lucian Truscott replaces John Lucas as Allied Commander. In the field, the Allies win a big victory in Burma, and in Ukraine, the Soviets are still on the move.
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#9 - Week 236 - MacArthur and Nimitz Go Head-to-Head - WW" - March 4, 1944
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2023
The American attacks against the Admiralty Islands are successful, but this causes real tensions between Commanders Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz. Much of this week is taken up by planning and meetings on both sides, actually- Adolf Hitler plans the occupation of Hungary, Josef Stalin plans new offensives in Ukraine, and the Allies plan to reconfigure their whole front in Italy. It's all the prelude to an explosion of action.
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#10 - Week 237 - Zhukov Hits the Ground Running - WW2 - Marc 11, 1944
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2023
The Soviets launch not one, not two, but three offensives in Ukraine this week, designed to destroy the entire southern wing of the German forces. The Japanese counterattack against the Americans on Bougainville finally begins after months of preparations, but there are more Japanese attacks elsewhere that get going: the operation to invade India.
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#11 - Week 238 - The Japanese Invade India! - WW2 - March 18, 1944
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2023
Operation U-Go, Renya Mutaguchi's invasion of India, is in full swing this week, as his men aim at Imphal and Kohima; three Soviets Fronts batter their way through the Axis positions all over Ukraine; and there is a huge Allied bombing campaign at Cassino in Italy, which mistakenly kills a lot of Allied soldiers. That's one busy week.
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#12 - Week 239 - Germany Invades Hungary - WW2 - March 25, 1944
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2023
Germany occupies Hungary this week to prevent any possible Hungarian defection from the war, the Soviets continue pushing back the Axis in Ukraine, pressing them ever more toward Romania, the Japanese advance on Imphal and Kohima continues, but Allied attacks in Italy and Japanese ones on Bougainville come to their ends.
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#13 - Week 240 - Goodbye Manstein... Hello Model - WW" - April 1, 1944
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/2023
As the Allies prepare to close in on Germany from all fronts, a shake up of the German military leadership can only achieve so much...
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#14 - Week 241 - New Offensive in the Crimea - WW2 - April 8, 1944
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/2023
The Soviets are finally going to try and push the Axis out of Sevastopol and the Crimea. They also continue to drive the Axis back in Transnistria. Over in Burma and Northeastern India, the Japanese have the Allies under siege at not one, but two towns, and are also attacking Imphal from several points, but the Japanese have way bigger future plans up their sleeves in China.
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#15 - Week 242 - 4,000 German Teens Trapped in Tarnopol - WW2 - April 15, 1944
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/2023
Thousands of German soldiers, mostly new teenage recruits, are obeying Hitler's 'Fortress Directive' and are surrounded in Tarnopol; it does not go well for them. German forces in Ukraine manage to all pull back across the Dniester, but they are under serious pressure in the Crimea. Meanwhile, in India, the Japanese siege of Kohima continues, and in China they are poised to launch a gigantic offensive.
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#16 - Week 243 - The Biggest Offensive in Japanese History - WW2 - April 22, 1944
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/2023
Japan Launches Operation Ichigo in China, their largest offensive of the war... or ever, but over in India things are not going well for the Japanese at Imphal and Kohima. The Allies also launch attacks on the Japanese at Hollandia, while over in the Crimea, the German defenses at Sevastopol are cracking under Soviet pressure.
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#17 - Week 244 - Germany's Existential Crisis - WW2 - April 29, 1944
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2023
The fighting at Kohima is up close, personal, and vicious, as it is at Imphal. The Allies consolidate their gains at Hollandia, the Japanese are advancing in Central China, and it seems like the Chinese Nationalist Army has lost the support of the civilian population. This might not surprise you when we take a closer look.
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#18 - Week 245 - Total Chaos on the Chinese Front! - WW2 - May6, 1944
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2023
A command crisis in the Chinese Nationalist Army benefits the Japanese invaders, in Italy, Mark Clark spends his birthday planning new offensives, the Japanese are pushing for Imphal, and the Soviets for Sevastopol- another busy week of the war!
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#19 - Week 246 - Victory at Sevastopol! - WW2 - May 13, 1944
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2023
The Soviets push the Axis out of the Crimea this week once and for all. In Italy, the Allies launch a major offensive, and the French make a breakthrough there by week's end. In China, the Japanese are aiming at Luoyang, but in India at Kohima they're slowly being pushed back.
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#20 - Week 247 - The Fall of Monte Cassino - WW2 - May 20, 1944
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/2023
In Italy, the Allies finally overcome Monte Cassino and break through the Gustav Line; in Burma Merrill's Marauders surprise the Japanese and take Myitkyina Airfield; in China, it's the Japanese who are playing offense, as Operation Ichi Go and the siege of Luoyang continue. That's the field action, but there's big planning behind the scenes for major June offensives going on by both the Western Allies and the Soviets.
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#21 - Week 248 - Breakout from Anzio! - WW2 - May 27, 1944
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/27/2023
After four month, the Allies breakout from their bridgehead at Anzio and meet with the advancing troops heading north after the fall of Monte Cassino last week. The Japanese begin phase two of their big operation in China, and both the Soviets and the Western Allies continue making plans for their massive June offensives to squeeze the Axis from both sides of Europe.
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#22 - Week 249 - The Allies are Driving for Rome - WW2 - June 3, 1944
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 6/4/2023
The Allies head north in Italy after the fall of Monte Cassino last week; the Japanese head south in China in a new phase of their offensive; and the Soviets and the Western Allies make ever more concrete plans for their huge offensives, to go off very soon.
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#23 - Week 250 - The Invasion of Normandy Begins! - WW2 - June 10, 1944
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 6/10/2023
The Allies' gigantic, amphibious invasion of France begins and by the end of the week they've carved out a decent sized beachhead. Meanwhile in Italy the Allied advance takes Rome. The Soviets are launching new attacks of their own- now against the Finns, and the Japanese at Kohima... have just plain had enough.
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#24 - Week 251 - Titanic Clash Looms in Pacific - WW2 - June 17, 1944
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 6/17/2023
Japanese and American navies are heading for a showdown in the Philippine Sea, even as American forces land on Saipan in the Marianas in force. The Japanese have Changsha under siege in China, the Allies advance in both Normandy and Italy, the Soviets advance in Finland, and the massive Soviet summer operation is coming together and will begin in a matter of days.
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#25 - Week 252 - The Greatest Pincer Movement in Military History - WW2 - June 24, 1944
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 6/24/2023
The Red Army surges forward in Operation Bagration, a mighty new offensive to destroy German Army Group Centre. Fighting continues in Normandy, Italy, and Finland. The United States Navy tears the heart out of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Philippine Sea even as the Imperial Japanese Army has success in China. The British and Indian armies lift the siege of Kohima.
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"Week 228 - "Russians 27 Miles from Poland" - WW2 - January 7, 1944" is the best rated episode of "World War Two" season 6. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/7/2023. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Week 229 - Time to Liberate Leningrad! - January 14, 1944".