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I'm going to meet. 6,000 miles away, fdr travelsha across the ocean, the u-boat infested waters. churchill, stalin, fdr meet for the first time at the soviet embassy. they plan an operation overlord which we now know as d-day. that changed the war and changed the world. >> tucker: the logistics of it must've beenen remarkable. the winter in '43 at the height of the war. from washington to reiman tehra. >> it was the secret effort because there were assassination attempts all over the place. fdr gets on his presidential yacht, the potomac, they meet up with the uss iowa, the naval destroyer, th...

Of the united states how good they are at the u.s. navy. the next ship, the william s porter, simulating an exercise, accidentally has a firing mechanism in one of the torpedo tubes and fires a live torpedo at the uss iowa. the captain turns the uss iowa towards the torpedo and the thing misses the bow just barely and explodes about 1,000 feet off. fdr is thrilled. he claps. but the captain realizes that he could have lost the president and all of his joint chiefs of staff on that one ship. that's just one of the little nuggets.is >> tucker: that's just remarkable. i have to ask you. do you th...