Americans are shocked by terrible losses on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, while in Italy Allied forces are stalled for months at Monte Cassino and a risky landing at Anzio fails utterly. At home, as overcrowded "war towns" boom, economic transformation leads to confrontation and ugly racial violence.

Cast: Keith David, Burt Wilson, Paul Fussell, John Hope Franklin, John Gray, Clyde Odum, Katharine Phillips, Sidney Phillips, Maurice Bell, Olga Ciarlo, Daniel Inouye, Asako Tokuno, Robert Kashiwagi, Tim Tokuno, Tom Ciarlo