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All Episodes of Battle Stations

Battle Stations is a documentary series of 1 hour episodes, which uses archive footage, re-enactments and first-hand accounts from the crews, to follow the machines...
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Season 1

  • Sherman Assault
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    Sherman Assault

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2000

    Ride along in the thick of battle in the American M4 Sherman Tank, as it blasts its way into history and paves the way for liberation of Europe.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Spitfire Squadron
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    Spitfire Squadron

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2000

    In this episode, see how it feels to be a Spitfire fighter pilot in a dogfight.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Drop Zone
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    Drop Zone

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2000

    In this episode, we fly on a Dakota, and American C47/DC3 cargo plane used to transport paratroopers across the English Channel for the D-day invasion at Normandy.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • DUKW Landing
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    DUKW Landing

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2000

    Ride in the American DUKW Amphibious Vehicle (Duck to G.I.s)

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • P-51 Mustang
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    P-51 Mustang

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2001

    Originally built for the RAF, the USAAF's P-51 Mustang became one of the greatest fighter planes ever to be built.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • T-34 Russian Victory
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    T-34 Russian Victory

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2001

    Stalin enlisted the ideas of an American engineer, J. Walter Christie, to develop one of the most formidable tanks in history.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mulberry Harbour
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    Mulberry Harbour

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/16/2001

    Outlining the most audacious engineering feat of WWII.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hitlers Vengeance Weapons
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    Hitlers Vengeance Weapons

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/23/2001

    Enter the world of rocket scientists, secret weapons, and the race to destroy two of Hitler's most elusive weapons.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Tiger Attack
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    Tiger Attack

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2001

    Adolf Hitler became personally involved in the Tiger Tank, one of history's finest armoured fighting vehicles.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Liberty Convoy
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    Liberty Convoy

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2001

    The terror of being hunted by Hitler's U-boats and the bravery of crews that risked their lives to deliver men and material to defeat Nazi forces.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Messerschmitt 262
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    Messerschmitt 262

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/2001

    We take the viewer inside the cockpits of the German pilots who flew the jet-powered Messerschmitt 262 which was a wonder weapon.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Radar
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    Radar

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/2001

    Details how one man was asked to develop a death ray, but discovered radar.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Lancaster Bombers: Target Germany
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    Lancaster Bombers: Target Germany

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/2001

    The RAF Lancaster Bomber ranks as one of the finest aircraft of WWII.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Huey Helicopter: Air Armada
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    Huey Helicopter: Air Armada

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/2002

    The Vietnam War was the Huey war-a brutal war, where the lethal Huey gunship wreaked havoc on the Viet Cong. The Huey revolutionised U.S. Army tactics and changed the way modern wars were fought.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • B-26 Marauder
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    B-26 Marauder

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2002

    Bombing from altitudes of over 10,000 feet, the Marauder had the lowest loss rate of any Allied bomber during WWII.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • F-86 Sabre-Jet Strike
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    F-86 Sabre-Jet Strike

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/2002

    Developed from jet technology captured from the Germans after WWII, the F-86 approached speeds of Mach 1.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • MIG-15: Russian Stealth
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    MIG-15: Russian Stealth

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/2002

    The MiG 15 was one of the 20th century's most feared high-performance weapons.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Catalina Patrol
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    Catalina Patrol

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/2002

    The legendary "Black Cat" squadrons won fame as night bombers in the battles of the Solomon Islands.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Black Hawk: Night Stalker
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    Black Hawk: Night Stalker

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/29/2002

    The Black Hawk remains today the world's most advanced twin-turbine military helicopter and flies wherever duty calls, from hot deserts to the icy Arctic.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Blackbird Stealth!
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    Blackbird Stealth!

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/15/2002

    Designed in the 1950s by Kelly Johnson, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealthy aircraft, designed to over-fly enemy territory with impunity while photographing 100,000 square miles in an hour.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Aircraft Carrier
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    Aircraft Carrier

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 12/16/2002

    Weighing in at over 27000 tons and over 800 feet in length, they were known as floating cities.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Corsair: Pacific Warrior
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    Corsair: Pacific Warrior

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/26/2002

    Designed for aircraft carriers, it proved too hot to handle during deck landing.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • B-52 Stratofortress
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    B-52 Stratofortress

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/26/2002

    The race to produce the first intercontinental jet bomber.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • M1 Abrams: Supertank
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    M1 Abrams: Supertank

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 12/26/2002

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • P-38 Lightning Strikes
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    P-38 Lightning Strikes

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/5/2003

    The P-38s struggle for aerial supremacy in the skies of the South West Pacific during WWII - Americas Ace of Aces.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Destroyer
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    The Destroyer

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 8/1/2003

    Featuring interviews with sailors who served on these gladiators of the sea in the often suicidal Pacific Theatre, striking archive film, much of it in colour, and detailed re-enactments.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • FA-18 Hornet
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    FA-18 Hornet

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 8/15/2003

    One aircraft in the US arsenal best typifies the will to win. Using the latest and most sophisticated computerized technology, the F/A-18 Hornet is now one of the foremost fighters of the 21st century.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • B-17 Flying Fortress
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    B-17 Flying Fortress

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 9/15/2003

    This is the story of the young airmen of the "Mighty Eighth" and the angers they faced at 30,000 feet!

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The F-15
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    The F-15

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 10/24/2003

    Built to put US pilots back in charge of the skies, the F-15 Eagle proved its superiority in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • F-117 Nighthawk Stealth
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    F-117 Nighthawk Stealth

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 2/1/2004

    Dogged by controversy, shrouded in secrecy F-117's have become the world's first truly stealth aircraft - forever changing the concept of aerial warfare.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A-10 Tankbuster
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    A-10 Tankbuster

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 2/27/2004

    It is the most feared aircraft in the US Air Force. The A-10 Tankbuster was the first aircraft in the US aviation history designed specifically for Close Air Support.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mosquito Attack
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    Mosquito Attack

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/1/2004

    Powered by two Rolls Royce Merlin engines, this plane was a revolutionary design with no armour or weapons but could carry the same bomb load as a B-17.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Apache Helicopter
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    Apache Helicopter

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 11/19/2004

    Developed during the Cold War, this incredible aircraft is now the most powerful and feared helicopter in the world. Able to dive into action at over 200mph, it can deliver a devastating firestorm of missiles or rockets.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • PT Boats
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    PT Boats

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 12/17/2004

    These boats were WWII's most heavily armed fighting boats. Screwed and glued together on a hull made of wood, they were nicknamed "The Devil Boats of the Night".

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Challenger Tank
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    Challenger Tank

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 12/17/2004

    When this 60 tons of high-tech military hardware rumbles onto the battlefield there's nowhere for the enemy to hide.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • HMS Victory
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    HMS Victory

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/26/2005

    The HMS Victory would play a crucial role in the foremost naval engagement in 19th century maritime history, the Battle of Trafalgar.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • B-2 Bomber
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    B-2 Bomber

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/26/2005

    With its origins in single wing experimentation carried out in Germany in the 1930s, and continuing through cutting edge aviation research in the 1950s and 60s, the B-2 was developed under a cloak of secrecy.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Heavy Metal of D-Day
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    Heavy Metal of D-Day

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 4/12/2006

    The greatest machine of WWII springs into action. It is made up of thousands of ships and aircraft, tens of thousands of men and millions of tons of steel and concrete.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • F-22 Raptor
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    F-22 Raptor

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/14/2006

    Deadly and undetectable at long range, this super-jet is the latest in fifth-generation fighter technology.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • HMS Belfast: Fortress of Steel
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    HMS Belfast: Fortress of Steel

    Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 12/15/2006

    Commissioned in 1938, the British cruiser HMS Belfast was the Royal Navy's most modern warship.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown