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WWII's Most Daring Raids
DocumentaryWar & Politics
They were U.S. paratroopers, Norwegian operatives, and British Commandos, Allied teams leading high-risk operations throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia to fight Hitler and turn the tide of the war. WWII's Most Daring Raids puts you in the heart of the action, giving you a minute-by-minute account of the most astonishing surprise attacks against the Third Reich. We forensically examine how exactly these assaults played out, through expert analysis and testimonies from the brave men who carried them out.
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6 Episodes
011. 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.
022. 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.
033. Churchill Strikes Back
British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.
044. Storming Mussolini's Island
The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.
055. Cutting Rommel's Lifeline
A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.
066. 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.