WWII's Most Daring Raids - Season 1
1 - Stealing Hitler's Radar
Air Date: September 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 German radar system, but there is an even greater goal to be achieved: show Hitler that they still have plenty of fight in them. But what the brave men of C Company are about to do has never been attempted before, and pulling it off will require sneaking past the very radar they are trying to capture.
2 - Easy Company's First Assault
Air Date: September 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.
3 - Churchill Strikes Back
Air Date: October 2, 2016
British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.
4 - Storming Mussolini's Island
Air Date: October 9, 2016
The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.
5 - Cutting Rommel's Lifeline
Air Date: October 16, 2016
A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.
6 - Secret Weapon Sabotage
Air Date: October 23, 2016
An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.