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Season 1

  • The Doolittle Raid
    7.8/108 votes

    The Doolittle Raid

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2015

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Wingate and the Chindits
    8.0/109 votes

    Wingate and the Chindits

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2015

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Black Battalion Holds the Line
    7.8/105 votes

    The Black Battalion Holds the Line

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/3/2015

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Manstein Holds the Line
    7.4/107 votes

    Manstein Holds the Line

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/2015

    Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is still studied in military schools.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete
    7.6/108 votes

    Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/2015

    This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action against crack German mountain troops.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Amiens Raid
    7.3/109 votes

    The Amiens Raid

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/2015

    In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fighters await execution.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Breakout Through Hell's Gate
    6.4/105 votes

    Breakout Through Hell's Gate

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/2015

    With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousands of troops to escape.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Road of Bones
    8.2/105 votes

    The Road of Bones

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/3/2015

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Morshead Holds Tobruk
    7.8/105 votes

    Morshead Holds Tobruk

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/10/2015

    By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Leslie Morshead and his defenders are ordered to hold the Libyan port for eight weeks while the defenses of Egypt can be strengthened. The "Rats of Tobruk" are convinced that if they fail, the war against Germany will be lost.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Real Bridge Too Far
    7.8/106 votes

    The Real Bridge Too Far

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/17/2015

    Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to far'. More than 1,750 Allied soldiers who were killed during Operation Market Garden lie buried at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Evacuation in the Baltic
    8.0/105 votes

    Evacuation in the Baltic

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/24/2015

    As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Operation Pedestal
    7.8/1012 votes

    Operation Pedestal

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/31/2015

    By 1942, the fight between the Allies and the Axis for control of the Mediterranean is focused on tiny Malta. From there, British aircraft and submarines have been preying on enemy supply ships. When Hitler and Mussolini decide to crush Malta, Churchill dispatches a huge convoy to run the gauntlet of Axis air and naval power to reach the beleaguered island stronghold.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Moore's March
    7.4/109 votes

    Moore's March

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/7/2015

    With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc far behind the front. But after an LRDG patrol is attacked, a tough New Zealander named Ron Moore leads the survivors barefoot through the desert, 300 miles from Allied lines.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown