Great Raids of World War II

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  • BBC One
  • Documentary History Reality War

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Stopping Hitler's A-Bomb
Episode overview
How a team of Norwegian raiders kept an A-bomb ingredient from the Germans by destroying a factory.
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Prison Busters
Episode overview
How French Resistance operatives were freed from Amiens prison through exacting targeted bombing of the prison walls by the Mosquito fighter-bomber.
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Radar Beam Raiders
Episode overview
The British capture of a German radar installation that was key to the Nazi air-defense system is recalled.
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Storm at St Nazaire
Episode overview
The mission of the destroyer HMS Campbeltown to destroy the dry dock at St. Nazaire, the only dock large enough to repair Germany's giant battleship Tirpitz, thus making Britain's Atlantic sea operations safer.
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Cockleshell Raiders
Episode overview
How a special force in canoes tried to clog the flow of Nazi supplies moving through Bordeaux.
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Arctic Commando Assault
Episode overview
A British commando assault on Vaagso, Norway, in December 1941, which duped Hitler into committing and ultimately wasting 250,000 Nazi troops, who were pinned down there for the rest of the war.

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