The third episode focuses on the European theater during the months between D-Day in June 1944 and V-E Day in May 1945.

The third episode focuses on the European theater during the months between D-Day in June 1944 and V-E Day in May 1945. Among the many scenes captured in color footage are the seizure, two days before D-Day, of a German U-boat carrying Enigma code machines; the Allied assault on the beaches at Normandy; the jubilant welcome received by GIs after the liberation of Paris; freed American POWs burning their prison; the first Jewish Sabbath service conducted at the just-liberated Dachau concentration camp; and V-E Day celebrations following Germany's surrender.