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On May 6th, 1944 destroyer escort USS Buckley was steaming at full speed to fight a German U-66 submarine. An American patrol plane found her by radar and sent coordinates to the US Navy hunter-killer group. The USS Buckley found the submarine and engaged it in combat. A hard battle ensued where the submarine was rammed and the fight spilled into hand-to-hand combat on the American ship. In this fight captain of the USS Buckley was forced to issue a command not heard in the US Navy for decades. "Stand by to repel boarders!"

It's November 20th, 1944 and Lieutenant Sekio Nishina is at the helm of a new secret weapon. The Kaiten. It's a small and fast submersible built around a torpedo. But there's a catch. It's a one-way mission. Nishina and 3 other 'underwater Kamikaze' pilots closed in on the lagoon entrance of Ulithi atoll which serves as one of the biggest forward anchorages of the US Navy. These desperate men are trying to stop the US advance towards the Japanese home islands. Kaiten means 'Turning the Heaven'. Will the sacrifice of best and brightest young Kaiten pilots turn the will of Heaven and change fate of Empire of Japan?

On January 3rd, 1943 a group of 72 B-17 Flying Fortresses were on a bombing mission in occupied France. Their target was a heavily fortified German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, an important strategic location for the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic. Inside a B-17 named Snap! Crackle! Pop! was 24-year-old Staff Sergeant Alan Magee in the position of ball turret gunner. Magee was on his seventh and last combat mission during which he was sucked out of the B-17 at an altitude of 20,000 feet without a parachute!

It's April 7th, 1945, and a pilot roams the skies in his Bf-109. Unteroffizier Klaus Hahn has been hardened by the firestorms that the Americans and British unleashed over the German cities. He now finds himself in the Sonderkommando Elbe whose mission is to bring down the B-17's, B-24s and Lancasters by any means, including ramming. Harassed by enemy fighters he spots an opportunity and makes a dive for a B-17. On board the B-17 is 1st. Lieutenant Bud Wentz. What fate has in store for Klaus, Bud and his crew is an incredible story.

This is a compilation of some of our most riveting stories from the Pacific Theatre in the air and at sea. Taffy 3's heroic defense against the goliath IJN Yamato's entire war fleet in the Battle Off Samar, the war-decisive role of aircraft at Midway, Adair’s 1 vs 60 attack over India, a single ship fighting off 22 kamikazes intent on destroying her, the manhunt for Yamamoto, and more. Real stories of real heroes.

On 27th March, 1999 Lt. Col. Darrell Zelko from the USAF 49th Fighter Wing was on a bombing mission over Serbia in his F-117A Nighthawk as a part of the Operation Allied Force. His mission was to take out the enemy command center near Belgrade. Without any support aircraft that night, Zelko relied solely on the stealth capabilities of his Nighthawk. But below him, a Serbian SAM battery under the command of Lt. Col. Zoltan Dani, equipped with an obsolete Soviet-made S-125 Neva missile system was waiting.

On the night of April 26th, 1944 more than two hundred RAF bombers were on a mission to take out strategic targets in Schweinfurt, Germany. In one of the Lancasters from the 106th Squadron sat Flight Engineer Norman Cyril Jackson. When his Lancaster was hit, he made the incredible decision to go outside the plane on the wing to put the fire out. An incredible story of bravery for which he would earn the Victoria Cross.

On December 7, 1941, Lieutenant Clarence Dickinson and his wingman, John McCarthy, take off from the USS Enterprise in 2 Dauntlesses, unaware they're flying straight into the chaos of the Pearl Harbor attack. Flying through the chaos, both planes engage the Japanese and are shot down. Losing a friend in the battle drives Dickinson to immediately seek out and attack the biggest Japanese target he can.... a submarine!