This installment of America The War Years covers the final months of World War II as they reached the American home front, from the Battle of the Bulge into 1945 through the hard fighting on Leyte and Iwo Jima in the Pacific. Archival newsreel footage and period broadcasts trace how US forces pushed into Germany itself while the country absorbed the death of President Roosevelt, who did not live to see the victory he had spent years pursuing. The film follows the news as Americans actually received it: the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler, the collapse of the Reich, and finally the atomic bombings of Japan that ended the war in the Pacific. Rather than a broad strategic overview, the focus stays on home-front experience, radio bulletins, newspaper headlines, and public mourning, showing how a nation learned of victory in stages rather than all at once. It closes on VJ Day and the mixed relief and grief that followed years of loss.