April to June 1945: Focus shifts to the Pacific theater, where the Battle of Okinawa is underway. As America considers an invasion of Japan, efforts to build the atomic bomb are reaching climatic stages. 

Hosts Kirk Saduski and Donald Miller speak with historian Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. 

Academy Award nominee Gary Sinise reads an excerpt from American war correspondent Ernie Pyle.