44min - When an American regiment drives for the coast to liberate the French port city of St. Malo, it encounters a stiff Nazi resistance that has blocked every road. Even when the 3rd Battalion does break through, within hours it finds itself surrounded by the enemy, the roadblock retaken. Cut off from food, reinforcement and medical care, the saga of the Lost Battalion begins.
44min - December 1944. Determined to recapture the port of Antwerp, Hitler mobilizes a massive surprise offensive into the Ardennes Forest against undermanned American lines. The plan relies on speed and paved roads to advance tanks to Bastogne, then Antwerp before the Allies can mobilize a response. U.S. forces fight to the death to slow the Nazi advance, allowing for the legendary defense of Bastogne.
44min - January 1945. As part of the Allied campaign to liberate France, the Americans’ 7th Infantry Regiment prepares to capture the village of Houssen in the Colmar Pocket. To drive Nazi forces back across the Rhine, a decorated battle hero volunteers for a dangerous role as forward artillery observer to counter an attack by elite Mountain Division troops, despite efforts to keep him safe.
44min - September 1944. After liberating much of France, Luxembourg and Belgium Allied forces launch General Bernard Montgomery’s ambitious plan to end the war in 1944. Operation Market Garden is the largest airborne operation ever, but over confidence and miscalculations trap Allied soldiers behind Nazi lines in desperate attempts to capture bridgeheads. When they fail, the fight for survival begins.
44min - As part of the Allied effort to open the port in Antwerp, the Canadian First Army spends weeks clearing the Scheldt Peninsula in Holland. On November 1, 1944, the Calgary Highlanders launch a diversionary attack against a heavily defended causeway. With the Germans distracted, Allied commandos carry out an amphibious assault on Walcheren Island, the final Nazi stronghold guarding the port.
44min - March 1945. As Allied armies line up along the River Rhine, prepared to invade Nazi Germany, the generals jostle for the honor to be the first to cross. Hitler has ordered that no bridge is to fall into Allied hands. So when a surprise opportunity develops, a dramatic race is on to capture a crossing intact — and change the course of the war.
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