WWII Frontlines

Aired 2021-02-05

Midway became the location for the most decisive naval battle in the Pacific War. The Japanese should have triumphed, yet the Americans turned the Japanese trap into a bold ambush.

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In January 1944 thousands of Allied troops converge on Monte Cassino. Over the next four months the Monastery is reduced to rubble and the fight claims over 200,000 lives.

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On January 22nd 1944, two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied amphibious assaults of the war.

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Omaha beach - a nightmare for advancing American troops: open ground, sustained fire, heavy casualties and no retreat. But the whole fate of D-Day hinged on Omaha succeeding.

Aired 2021-02-12

Three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled. The killing fields around Hill 112 become a graveyard for the British soldiers that try to take it.

Aired 2021-02-12

20/12/1944; the Germans attacked the Allies in the Ardennes. The US 101st Airborne rushed to Bastogne and halted the Nazi advance long enough for Patton's 3rd Army to arrive.

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Iwo Jima was where a quarter of all the US Marines who died in World War II were killed. The Leathernecks had to re-think their tactics, as one in three became a casualty.

Aired 2021-02-12

April 1945, Berlin - the last savage chapter in the Battle for Europe. Stalin's generals compete to avenge the Nazis assault in the East and raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag.