A Deadly Calling
Show: The War --> Season: 1 - Season 1
AirDate: 3/12/2008
Runtime: 110
Voting: 7.5 (2)

Overview: November 1943 - June 1944: Americans are shocked by terrible losses on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, while in Italy Allied forces are stalled for months at Monte Cassino, and a risky landing at Anzio fails utterly. At home, as overcrowded "war towns" boom, economic transformation leads to confrontation and ugly racial violence.