WWII's Most Daring Raids

  • Premiered: Sep 2016
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • Smithsonian Channel
  • Sunday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Stealing Hitler's Radar
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Sep 18, 2016
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 .. show full overview
1x2
Easy Company's First Assault
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Sep 25, 2016
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 .. show full overview
1x3
Churchill Strikes Back
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Oct 02, 2016
December 1941: under cover of a fierce naval bombardment, a taskforce of elite British commandos sail towards the Norwegian town of South Vaagso. Their objectives are the town’s .. show full overview
1x4
Storming Mussolini's Island
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Oct 09, 2016
Just off the coast of Sicily, the men of the 1st and 4th Ranger Battalions are aboard landing craft preparing to spearhead a mass allied assault. Behind them are 150,000 troops, 3,000 .. show full overview
1x5
Cutting Rommel's Lifeline
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Oct 16, 2016
On the outskirts of Bouerat Harbor in Libya, a small group of British special forces prepare to destroy a crucial German fuel depot. The men are far behind enemy lines and success will .. show full overview
1x6 Show finale
Secret Weapon Sabotage
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Oct 23, 2016
February 17, 1943. Six Norwegian agents parachute into occupied Norway. Their objective is the Norsk Hydro Plant, where the Germans are stockpiling a chemical needed for nuclear weapons .. show full overview

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