Season 1 (2015)

The Doolittle Raid
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April 1, 2015 • 1h

Seeking to hit back at Japan, Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-25 bombers on aircraft for a mission that the crews have little chance of surviving.

Wingate and the Chindits
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April 2, 2015 • 1h

Surrounded by the Japanese, Orde Wingate led the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in one of the most imaginative and complex escapes of World War II.

The Black Battalion Holds the Line
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April 3, 2015 • 1h

Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.

Manstein Holds the Line
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April 5, 2015 • 1h

Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is s...Read more

Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete
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April 12, 2015 • 1h

This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action again...Read more

The Amiens Raid
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April 19, 2015 • 1h

In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fi...Read more

Breakout Through Hell's Gate
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April 26, 2015 • 1h

With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousand...Read more

The Road of Bones
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May 3, 2015 • 1h

In 1944, 1500 outnumbered British and Indian troops amazingly hold Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima. This is their amazing story.

Morshead Holds Tobruk
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May 10, 2015 • 1h

By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Les...Read more

The Real Bridge Too Far
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May 17, 2015 • 1h

Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to f...Read more

Evacuation in the Baltic
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May 24, 2015 • 1h

As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer disti...Read more

Operation Pedestal
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May 31, 2015 • 1h

By 1942, the fight between the Allies and the Axis for control of the Mediterranean is focused on tiny Malta. From there, British ...Read more

Moore's March
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June 7, 2015 • 1h

With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc ...Read more