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Narrow Escapes Of World War II
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Narrow Escapes Of World War II
The Doolittle Raid. The Amiens Raid. The From Athena. battalion of black soldiers, down to their last rounds, who helped win the Battle of the Bulge. The Siege of Kohima, when India was nearly lost to the Japanese. Told through eyewitness accounts and expert testimony, featuring previously unseen archival film and dramatic reconstructions, this series features stories of amazing heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. Seen on the Military Channel.
Episode 1: The Amiens Raid
In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fighters await execution.
Episode 2: The Doolittle Raid
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, America seeks a way to hit back at Japan. Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-52 bombers on aircraft carriers and sails towards Japan, aware that the crews have little chance of surviving the mission.
Episode 3: Wingate and the Chindits
To take on the undefeated supermen of the Japanese army advancing toward India, the British call on the eccentric Orde Wingate, who forms a special unit called the Chindits to blow up an important railroad line inside Japanese-controlled Burma.
Episode 4: The Black Battalion
When Hitler launches his final major offensive on the Western front, everything turns on the ability of the U.S. Army to hold the town of Bastogne. Outnumbered 10 to one, an artillery unit of African American soldierswith little combat experience and even less respect from their white colleaguesmust stand fast against the battle-hardened troops of the Waffen-SS.
Episode 5: Lucky Laycocks Escape from Crete
After the German invasion of Crete in May 1941, Winston Churchill orders the 25,000 British and Commonwealth troops stationed there to defend the island at all costs. A force of specially trained commandos under Col. Robert Laycock arrives to sabotage the Germans, but their mission soon changes.
Episode 6: Manstein Holds the Line
By the spring of 1943, the German army is on the run across southern Russia. Gen. Erich von Manstein has plans for a new, highly mobile form of defensive warfare that might reverse the course of the war in the East. But first he has to convince Hitler, who is adamantly opposed to any kind of retreat, strategic or otherwise.
Episode 7: The Siege of Kohima
In a bid to topple the British Raj, the Japanese invade India from neighboring Burma in March 1944. Their route takes them through Kohima, a sleepy village in the Himalayan foothills. The troops in Kohimas tiny garrison know that if the village falls, the wealth of Indias natural resources would be in the hands of the Japanese.
Episode 8: Roy Urquharts Escape from Arnhem
In September 1944, 40,000 Allied troops descend on occupied Holland to secure the bridges over the countrys many waterways, pave the way for an invasion of Germany, and bring about an end to the war. But for British soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart, the new mission becomes survival.
Episode 9: Morshead Holds Tobruk
By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypts Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australias 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.
Episode 10: Evacuation in the Baltic
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 German civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic portsthe start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.
Episode 11: Moores March
With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British armys 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.
Episode 12: Operation Pedestal
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.
Episode 13: Breakout through Hells Gate
With their backs to the Dnieper River in January 1944, 60,000 German troops face encirclement by a larger Soviet force. After an airfield supplying the defenders falls to the Russians, their survival depends on rejoining the rest of the German army. They head for a narrow corridor flanked by Russian soldiers, tanks, artillery, and cavalryknown thereafter as Hells Gate.
Bild: | Widescreen 16:9 Anamorfisk |
Ljud: | Engelska DD Stereo |
Text: | Engelska |
Längd: | 660 Minuter |
Skivor: | 4 |
Region: | 1 |
Upplagd i sortimentet: 23 Oktober, 2012