WWII's Most Daring Raids

Episode 2

Easy Company's First Assault

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.

Episode 3

Churchill Strikes Back

British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

Episode 4

Storming Mussolini's Island

The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.

Episode 5

Cutting Rommel's Lifeline

A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.

Episode 6

Secret Weapon Sabotage

An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.