During World War II, German submarines are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping.

As three US servicemen – Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John "Doc" Bradley – are feted as heroes in a war bond drive, they reflect on their experiences via flashback.

On April 18 1942 during the Second World War, a squadron of B-25 bombers from the USS Hornet launches a lightning raid on Tokyo.

In December 1937 in Tokyo, American naval attaché intelligence officer Lieutenant Commander Edwin T.

Red Tails is a 2012 American war film directed by Anthony Hemingway in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr.

The Pacific follows the lives of a U. S Marine Corps squad during the campaign within the Pacific against the Japanese Empire during WW2.

In August 1939, the United States imposes a trade embargo on a belligerent Japan, severely limiting raw materials.

In June 1944, the Western Allies invaded the Third Reich in Operation Overlord, and Canada was a participant with its area of operations in Normandy, France designated Juno Beach.

In 2005, Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima, where they find something in the dirt.

A team of Soviet scouts is sent behind enemy lines to find the location of the German armor forces. The Soviets wait until night, and open up with an artillery barrage.

During the Bosnian War, United States Navy flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse are stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Adriatic Sea.

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission is a 1988 made-for-TV film directed by Lee H. Katzin, and is the third sequel to the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen.

During the Battle of the Atlantic, after sinking a merchant ship from an Allied convoy, German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer.

In 1916, Manfred von Richthofen is newly assigned to a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke.

In 1923 Tennessee, two best friends, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the German Empire in World War I.

During the night of 9 April 1940, the Danish army is alerted that the German army has crossed the border, and Denmark is now at war with Europe's strongest army.

In 2012, Benghazi in Libya is named one of the most dangerous places in the world, and countries have pulled their diplomatic offices out of the country in fear of an attack by militants.

In the Philippines, a terrorist kills the U. S.

Untold and lost history.

In the beginning of the film, a prologue says Allied tanks were defeated by the more advanced German tanks.