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Dateline: World War II

Season 1 · Episode 13

The Tide Turns in the Desert

5.020mMay 18, 2007

Churchill visits North Africa and Moscow. The Luftwaffe pounds the British on Malta, and Rommel is defeated at El Alamein.

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Episode 1The Path to War
Episode 2Victory at El Alamein
Episode 3The Desert to the Steppes
Episode 4The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Episode 5The World at War
Episode 6Water & Sand
Episode 7An Empire Shaken
Episode 8"I Shall Return"
Episode 9New Pacific War Strategy
Episode 10US Bombs Tokyo
Episode 11Prelude to Midway
Episode 12Pacific War Turning Point
Episode 13The Tide Turns in the Desert
Episode 14Marines Invade Guadalcanal
Episode 15Battle of the Atlantic
Episode 16Victory at El Alamein
Episode 17Allies Hold Firm
Episode 18Pacific Miracle
Episode 19Guadalcanal Secured
Episode 20Breaking the Siege
Episode 21Two Fronts, Two Results
Episode 22Patton Arrives in North Africa
Episode 23Patton Pounds Nazis
Episode 24Operation Mincecoats
Episode 25Surrender in North Africa
Episode 26Operation Husky
Episode 27Patton Takes Palermo
Episode 28A Rivalry Rages
Episode 29Major Shift
Episode 30Nazis Rescue Mussolini
Episode 31German Forces Squeezed
Episode 32Halsey Captures Bougainville
Episode 33Atoll Disaster
Episode 34The Tide Turns
Episode 35Allies Land in Anzio
Episode 36Americans Roll Across Pacific
Episode 37Not Long Now
Episode 38Operation Overload
Episode 39D-Day
Episode 40Rome Liberated
Episode 41Patton's Third Army
Episode 42US Army in France
Episode 43Assassination and Resignation
Episode 44Patton-Montgomery Rivalry Reignites
Episode 45Anvil and Dragoon
Episode 46Paris Liberated!
Episode 47Airborne Attack
Episode 48British and Russian Success
Episode 49A Promise Kept
Episode 50Patton Drives to German Border
Episode 51Hell in the Phillippines
Episode 52Hitler's Last Gamble
Episode 53Drive for Manila
Episode 54Third Strike for the Third Reich
Episode 55They Also Serve
Episode 56Hell From Above
Episode 57Yalta Conference
Episode 58Battle of Manila
Episode 59Life in the Trenches
Episode 60American Forces Enter Cologne
Episode 61Breaching the Rhine
Episode 62Rosie the Riveter
Episode 63American Bombers
Episode 64Backbone of Victory
Episode 65A Nation in Mourning
Episode 66Japanese Service Fleet Crippled
Episode 67Hell on Earth
Episode 68Allies Push to Berlin
Episode 69Meeting in Torgau
Episode 70Mussolini Executed
Episode 71Berlin Falls
Episode 72Germany Surrenders
Episode 73Horrors of the Holocaust
Episode 74Philippine Campaign Nears End
Episode 75Japanese Last Stand in Okinawa
Episode 76Next Stop Japan
Episode 77Medal of Honor
Episode 78Japan Surrenders
Episode 79Dancing in the Streets
Episode 80The Final Tally