49min - Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.
50min - This story of one of the most daring bombing raids of World War Two, told through the eyes of some of those who took part in early 1942. From the US, flying ace Jimmy Doolittle, was the answer against the Janpanese force. The operation would push them to the limit of their flying range. Everything would have to go exactly to plan.
50min - 1943, Orde Wingate was an extraordinary British General, forming the Chindits as the Japanese appeared to be planning to invade India. They marched deep into the jungles of Burma to destroy Japanese supply lines and disrupt their advance. Remarkable eyewitness interviews, of how the Chindits survived in the jungle and walked to freedom.
51min - The 333rd First Arillery Battlion, an all African American unit formed when black combatants weren't highly thought of by their white counterparts and racism was endemic in US society. They fought to slow Hitler’s last bid to win the war. They have gone down in history as the great all African American fighting units of the 2nd World War.
52min - 20th May, 1941, German forces attacked the island of Crete in the largest airborne assault ever. This dramatic story of how the island is lost and Robert Laycock’s mission changes into a desperate rear guard action against German mountain troops. Watch first-hand accounts of Navy veteran's courageous evacuation and Laycock's leadership.
50min - Spring 1943, the German army on the Eastern front was in deep trouble. This is the confrontation between two of WWII's greatest generals. Erich von Manstein - Hitler’s most brilliant tactician. Georgy Zhukov - Stalin’s enforcer. Historians have estimated Manstein’s defensive warfare tactics may have prolonged the war by up to 12 months.
48min - Outnumbered by ten to one, a tiny garrison of British and Indian soldiers stood firm against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. One of the greatest sieges of WWII, the final conflict coming down to a matter of yards between enemy trenches. India, and it’s wealth of natural resources, could have been at the mercy of the Japanese.
51min - September 1944 everyone thought Hitler was finished. It was the biggest airborne assault in history - 40,000 men would descend on occupied Holland to answer the big question of how to press home the advantage and end the war. Leading the vanguard was Major General Roy Urquhart, courageous and head strong, fulfilled a textbook operation.
51min - The heroic story of Australian General Leslie Morshead and his brilliant defence of Tobruk. In 1941 it was besieged by Hitler's favourite General, Erwin Rommel. The vital artery that led to Britain’s Empire, the Suez Canal was at stake. If Tobruk’s defenders could hold on, it would be the narrowest escape of WWII.
50min - In early 1945 nearly two million people were trapped in the German enclave of East Prussia by the advancing Red Army. The Russians had an appalling reputation for rape, pillage and murder. Told through the eyes of two of the survivors, Operation Hannibal, five times bigger than Dunkirk. Yet, outside Germany, it’s almost unknown.
49min - Pat Clayton, the model for the character played by Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient. Clayton’s unit targeted Kufra. But the Italians, listening in, sent out a superior force to meet and assault them. Chaos, vehicles destroyed and captured troopers until hero Ronald Moore led one of the most extraordinary marches in military history.
51min - For the Axis powers in 1942, control of the Mediterranean was vital. Rommel had been fighting the British in Libya and Egypt, supplied by ships bringing arms across the Mediterranean from Europe. In their path lay Malta a lone British base, on the verge of disintegration after a massive bomb attack. Did the ensuing huge gamble pay off?
49min - This is the story of how Leon Degrelle together with a motley mixture of Finns, Estonians and fellow Belgians held off the might of the brilliant Russian General Marshal Georgiy Zhukov’s army. 40,000 men would escape from the Red Army’s grasp in a manoeuvre that became known as “the breakthrough at Hell’s Gate."
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