WWII's Most Daring Raids

WWII's Most Daring Raids

Easy Company's First Assault (1x2)


: 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 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.

  • : 2016
  • : 6
  • : 1
  • Smithsonian Channel