The final, bloody slog across the Pacific. Japan was beaten, but it took dozens of bloody battles on barren atolls and across the vast stretches of ocean to prove it.

For the first six months of the war, the Japanese fleet seemed invincible. They conquered the western Pacific almost effortlessly... that is until Midway when they lost three carriers in five minutes.

From Britain’s struggle for survival, to the invasions of North Africa and Italy, and culminating with the greatest amphibious operation in human history: the landings on the beaches of France on July 6th, 1944, D-Day. This is the story of WWII in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.