January 1943 - December 1943: Americans mobilize for total war at home and overseas. Factories hum around the clock, while in North Africa and then Italy, inexperienced GIs learn how to fight. Meanwhile, in the skies over Europe, thousands of American airmen gamble their lives against preposterous odds on daylight bombing missions.

Cast: Keith David, Olga Ciarlo, Katharine Phillips, Ward Chamberlin, Charles Mann, Paul Fussell, Clyde Odum, John Gray, Emma Belle Pelcher, Sascha Weinzheimer, Robert Kashiwagi, Susumu Satow, Asako Tokuno, Sam Hynes, Earl Burke