Victory at Sea
Victory at Sea
1. DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
2. THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
3. SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
4. MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
5. MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
6. GUADALCANAL
7. RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
8. MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
9. SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
10. BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
11. THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
12. THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
13. MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
14. ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
15. D-DAY: Normandy
16. KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
17. THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
18. TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
19. BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
20. RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
21. FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
22. THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
23. TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
24. THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
25. SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
26. DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war
Overview
Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded and sold as record albums. The original TV broadcasts comprised 26 half-hour segments—Sunday afternoons at 3pm in most markets—starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy award in 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic "compilation" documentaries as a viable television genre. Over 13,000 hours of footage gathered from US, British, German and Japanese navies during World War II were perused in the making of these compelling episodes.
