World War Two

Season 5, Episode 8

Episode Title: Week 181 - Victory at Guadalcanal - WW2 - February 12, 1943

Air Date: 2022-02-05

Overview:

Operation KE, the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, concludes this week and the campaign has been a big loss for the Japanese. The Axis forces are also withdrawing- and the Red Army advancing- in the Donbas and the Caucasus, closing in on both Kharkov and Rostov. And a front that's been quiet for a while, the Burma front, begins heating up again with an Allied advance out of India.