Narrow Escapes of WWII

Season 12015

13 Episodes

E01 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.

April 1, 2015

E02 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.

April 2, 2015

E03 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.

April 3, 2015

E04 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.

April 5, 2015

E05 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.

April 12, 2015

E06 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.

April 19, 2015

E07 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.

April 26, 2015

E08 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.

May 3, 2015

E09 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.

May 10, 2015

E10 The Real Bridge Too Far

Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to far'. More than 1,750 Allied soldiers who were killed during Operation Market Garden lie buried at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek.

May 17, 2015

E11 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.

May 24, 2015

E12 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.

May 31, 2015

E13 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.

June 7, 2015

Narrow Escapes of WWII

E01 The Doolittle Raid

E02 Wingate and the Chindits

E03 The Black Battalion Holds the Line

E04 Manstein Holds the Line

E05 Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

E06 The Amiens Raid

E07 Breakout Through Hell's Gate

E08 The Road of Bones

E09 Morshead Holds Tobruk

E10 The Real Bridge Too Far

E11 Evacuation in the Baltic

E12 Operation Pedestal

E13 Moore's March

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E01 The Doolittle Raid

E02 Wingate and the Chindits

E03 The Black Battalion Holds the Line

E04 Manstein Holds the Line

E05 Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

E06 The Amiens Raid

E07 Breakout Through Hell's Gate

E08 The Road of Bones

E09 Morshead Holds Tobruk

E10 The Real Bridge Too Far

E11 Evacuation in the Baltic

E12 Operation Pedestal

E13 Moore's March