2012
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Summary World War II soldiers fight suicidal missions, rearguard actions against all odds to ensure their survival and save innocent lives. The series honors their courage and selfless acts. View more details

Documentary

2012
1h

Narrow Escapes of WWII

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Richard Overy Colin Tierney Erik Dellums Paul Markey

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : May 14, 2012

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : IMG Media

Documentary

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : May 14, 2012

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : IMG Media

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Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete (2012)

The Black Battalion Holds the Line (2012)

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Episode 1 • May 14, 2012

The Doolittle Raid

Seeking to hit back at Japan, Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-25 bombers on aircraft for a mission that the crews have little chance of surviving.

Episode 2 • May 21, 2012

Wingate and the Chindits

Surrounded by the Japanese, Orde Wingate led the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in one of the most imaginative and complex escapes of World War II.

Episode 3 • May 28, 2012

The Black Battalion Holds the Line

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.

Episode 4 • Jun 04, 2012

Manstein Holds the Line

Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is still studied in military schools.

Episode 5 • Jun 11, 2012

Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action against crack German mountain troops.

Episode 6 • Jun 18, 2012

The Amiens Raid

In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fighters await execution.

Episode 7 • Jun 25, 2012

Breakout Through Hell's Gate

With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousands of troops to escape.

Episode 8 • Jul 07, 2012

The Road of Bones

In 1944, 1500 outnumbered British and Indian troops amazingly hold Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima. This is their amazing story.

Episode 9 • Jul 14, 2012

Morshead Holds Tobruk

By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Leslie Morshead and his defenders are ordered to hold the Libyan port for eight weeks while the defenses of Egypt can be strengthened. The "Rats of Tobruk" are convinced that if they fail, the war against Germany will be lost.

Episode 10 • Jul 21, 2012

The Real Bridge Too Far

Episode 11 • Jul 28, 2012

Evacuation in the Baltic

As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.

Episode 12 • Aug 04, 2012

Operation Pedestal

By 1942, the fight between the Allies and the Axis for control of the Mediterranean is focused on tiny Malta. From there, British aircraft and submarines have been preying on enemy supply ships. When Hitler and Mussolini decide to crush Malta, Churchill dispatches a huge convoy to run the gauntlet of Axis air and naval power to reach the beleaguered island stronghold.

Episode 13 • Aug 18, 2012

Moore's March

With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc far behind the front. But after an LRDG patrol is attacked, a tough New Zealander named Ron Moore leads the survivors barefoot through the desert, 300 miles from Allied lines.

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