A few weeks after the death of President Roosevelt shocks the country, Germany surrenders. Meanwhile, American sailors, soldiers and Marines endure the worst battle of the Pacific - Okinawa. In August, American planes drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese, too, surrender. Millions return home - to try to learn how to live in a world without war.
By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
Victory in Europe seems imminent.
On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
