Part one: Victory's inception, production, and impact. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy and Victory's genesis; Assembling Victory's production team, preparing an episode; Victory's debut season : sponsorship (or not?), promotion, scheduling, and awards; Richard Rodgers : twelve themes for Victory, the "thirteen hour score" legend and two breakout hits; Robert Russell Bennett : preparing for Victory, music for a global war, and the importance of F# -- The NBC Symphony -- and Victory's 1952-1953 recording sessions; The Victory scripts' poetics -- Robert Montgomery, C.S. Forester, and Victory; Victory on records : the commercial and "house" LPs; Victory abridged : for film (1954) and television (1960); Victory's predecessors and successors -- Part two: The twenty-six Victory episodes. Introduction; EP1, "Design for war"; EP2, "The Pacific boils over"; EP3, "Sealing the breach"; EP4, "Midway is east"; EP5, "Mediterranean mosaic"; EP6, "Guadalcanal"; EP7, "Rings around Rabaul"; EP8, "Mare nostrum"; E9, "Sea and sand"; EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross"; EP11, "The magnetic north"; EP12, "the conquest of Micronesia"; EP13, "Melanesian nightmare"; EP14, "Roman renaissance"; EP15, "D-Day", EP16, "Killers and the killed"; EP17, "The turkey shoot"; EP18, "Two if by sea"; EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf"; EP20, "Return of the allies"; EP21, "Full fathom five"; EP22, "The fate of Europe"; EP23, "Target Suribachi"; EP24, "The road to Mandalay"; EP25, "Suicide for glory"; EP26, "Design for peace"; Postscript -- Appendix one: Robert Russell Bennett : a grandson's Victory remembrance -- Appendix two : Victory at sea : a chronology -- Appendix three : Digest of Victory's music-scoring statistics -- Appendix four : sample shot list (EP26) -- Appendix five : The 1959 companion book
