TV Guide American Heroes Channel Wednesday

The correspondents take time to examine the family trees of the preeminent fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers throughout history.

The history of traps, which demoralize the enemy by making the safe unsafe; the show traces their ancestry and displays the technology behind today's devices.

This episode focuses on hand-carried weapons; it discusses the varieties of hand and rocket-propelled grenades available to the modern soldier.

Fire's history as a weapon, from the times of the ancient Greek navies through the bombs of World War II and the Vietnam War and today's thermobaric bombs.

The correspondents take time to examine the family trees of the preeminent fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers throughout history.

The program examines the storied history of the bomber from throwing explosives out of the cockpit to laser-guided bunker busters.

The history of fighter planes; starting with the earliest examples, this episode explores the advances that make them the strongest weapons in modern warfare.

Against the backdrop of World War II, United States Air Force Pilot Francis "Gabby" Gabreski makes it his personal mission to be the best there ever was.

The story is told of Canadian fighter pilot George Beurling, who was known to break the rules, but became one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II.

The story is told of Britain's air ace Douglas Bader, whose squadron of Canadian fighter pilots went to battle against Hitler's Luftwaffe in July 1940.

An in-depth look is taken at the crew of the Lancaster ME669, who had the job of dropping mega-tonnes of high-powered explosives over Nazi-occupied Germany.

An in-depth presentation is presented about the Tuskegee Airmen, the brave all-black fighter pilots that beat discrimination from their own military.

In the 1930s, American Nazis plagued the United States, from rallies held at Madison Square Garden, to intricate plots involving the theft of weapons secrets.

As one of most highly-sought treasures of the world, gold has led man to often-deadly extremes in his pursuit of it, as profiled in this glittering episode.

The attack that changed the course of history, made heroes of ordinary men, and transformed how the United States would engage with war for the next 75 years.

American forces are discussed in relation to the invention of new wartime tactics, which resulted from attacks that turned the tide of WWII in the Pacific.

Grandiose parades, soaring speeches and passionate radio announcements from the Second World War are uncovered by military historians.

Archived material and expert commentary is brought together to provide proper perspective for Japan's dire situation during the mid-1940's.

The beginnings of the Second World War are seen as German troops invade Poland to kick off the world's most notorious international war.

An overwhelming majority in numbers and weaponry underscored a new type of warfare that Nazi Germany used to conquer the nation of Poland.

Towards the end of June, 1940, Hitler and his Nazi soldiers find that the looming shadow of a rebellious Britain have become too much to pass on.

Viewers are taken back to the harrowing circumstances that ensued in Europe during the autumn of 1940, when Germany waged conflict on the USSR.

Historical analysts paint a picture for how the horrifying bombing of Pearl Harbor caused a largely European conflict to consume the entire globe.

Viewers are provided with the perspective of an Italian dictator that sought conquest en route to a recreation of the expansive Roman Empire.

Historians provide an understanding for how the harrowing events of World War II caused nations on both sides of the conflict to push weaponry research.

Viewers are taken back to the harrowing circumstances that ensued in Europe during the autumn of 1940, when Germany waged conflict on the USSR.

Historical analysts paint a picture for how the horrifying bombing of Pearl Harbor caused a largely European conflict to consume the entire globe.

Viewers are provided with the perspective of an Italian dictator that sought conquest en route to a recreation of the expansive Roman Empire.

Historians provide an understanding for how the harrowing events of World War II caused nations on both sides of the conflict to push weaponry research.

An overwhelming majority in numbers and weaponry underscored a new type of warfare that Nazi Germany used to conquer the nation of Poland.