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WWII's Most Daring Raids
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Broadcast date
18-09-2016 • 6 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Stealing Hitler's Radar
The code name is Operation Biting, a planned British raid on Bruneval, in Nazi-occupied Northern France. The mission is to drop paratroopers behind enemy lines and capture a powerful German radar system, but there is an even greater goal to be achieved: show Hitler that they still have plenty of fight in them. But what the brave men of C Company are about to do has never been attempted before, and pulling it off will require sneaking past the very radar they are trying to capture.
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2. Easy Company's First Assault
Hours before the most ambitious amphibious invasion in history, Douglas C-47s drop a small group of American paratroopers from Easy Company, the 101st Airborne Division, behind enemy lines. The mission: to take out four German howitzers about to assault Utah Beach. Witness the moments before the D-Day invasion through the perspective of the men carrying out this daring raid, including commanding officer Lieutenant Winters, whose remarkable improvised assault against a much larger force would make history.
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3. Churchill Strikes Back
British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.
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4. Storming Mussolini's Island
The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.
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5. Cutting Rommel's Lifeline
A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.
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6. Secret Weapon Sabotage
An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.
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