PBS America (Freeview) Wednesday

Exploring how naval warfare evolved from battleships to submarines, then into aircraft carriers and how pivotal battles in the Atlantic and Pacific hinged on megaship production

The plan to end the war in Europe by winter 1944 founders as Allied forces massed on the German border find themselves short of fuel, leading commanders to take a risky gamble

General MacArthur's campaign to liberate the Philippines and his resultant popularity back home in America - which belied the scale of the bloodshed necessary for victory

President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops, news breaks of a massacre carried out by US soldiers and an incursion into Cambodia reignites anti-war protests

The plan to end the war in Europe by winter 1944 founders as Allied forces massed on the German border find themselves short of fuel, leading commanders to take a risky gamble

General MacArthur's campaign to liberate the Philippines and his resultant popularity back home in America - which belied the scale of the bloodshed necessary for victory

President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops, news breaks of a massacre carried out by US soldiers and an incursion into Cambodia reignites anti-war protests

In New Mexico, Capri Cafaro learns about the history of chilies, the backbone of Southwestern cuisine, and their various uses today from Santa Fe to Hatch and beyond