The Korean War Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Bitter Stand-off

  How, when General Ridgway replaced MacArthur, he turned back the communist tide with two years of the war's bloodiest fighting

• F86 Sabre

  America's F86 Sabre fighter jet, the first with swept-wing design, which took part in airborne dogfights with Russia's Mig-15s

• Fire & Ice : Bitter Standoff

  How American-dominated UN forces almost used nuclear weapons against China during the conflict. With more than two million dead, the efficiency of the new jets and guns was established

• Fire and Ice : Making of a Bloodbath

  How unprepared UN forces found themselves fighting with their backs to the sea as they struggled during the North Korean surprise attacks

• Fire and Ice : Retreat from Hell

  The plight of shattered and freezing UN troops fleeing a Chinese trap in the longest retreat in US history

• Fire & Ice : Triumph to Tragedy

  How MacArthur's amphibious strike baffled the North Korean forces until the intervention of the Chinese

• Making of a Bloodbath

  A history of the three-year conflict, focusing in this episode on North Korea's surprise attacks on UN forces

• Triumph to Tragedy

  How MacArthur's amphibious assault baffled North Korean forces until the intervention of the Chinese