WWII's Most Daring Raids

Overview

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.

Episodes

S01E01 Stealing Hitler's Radar

September 18, 2016 60 min
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...

S01E02 Easy Company's First Assault

September 25, 2016 60 min
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...

S01E03 Churchill Strikes Back

October 2, 2016 60 min
British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

S01E04 Storming Mussolini's Island

October 9, 2016 60 min
The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.

S01E05 Cutting Rommel's Lifeline

October 16, 2016 60 min
A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.

S01E06 Secret Weapon Sabotage

October 23, 2016 60 min
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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