
Rarely has a war produced such clear cut reasons to fight as World War II. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves thrown into fearsome, situations worthy of any Hollywood movie. The only difference in this series is that every story is true. Real people emerge as the Heroes of Telemark. Ordinary GIs and US Airforce and Navy personnel suddenly find themselves flying against the Japanese in China, jungle fighting in Burma and being dropped by submarine on enemy coasts at midnight. These untold stories can now be examined in great detail with the benefit of hindsight, newly-discovered film, maps and graphics. Each fifty-two minute story covers the background to the main action. It will give the viewer a clear view of the historical context, the strategic objective and the tactical effort made by flyers, sailors and foot-soldiers - often in the most oppressive and life-threatening situations - to win victory from the enemy.
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Air Date: 1998-01-01
Little did the Germans know that the body they discovered on the coast of Spain in 1943 was part of one of the most e...
Air Date: 1998-01-08
With access to Eva Braun's personal photograph album, this programme reconstructs the final days in the Dictator's un...
Air Date: 1998-01-15
After numerous adventures, a small number of American officers managed to rendezvous with their submarine on the Nort...
Air Date: 1998-01-22
In June 1942 two German U-Boats landed secret agents on Long Island and at Jacksonville, Florida. Their aim was sabot...
Air Date: 1998-01-29
In June 1942 two German U-Boats landed secret agents on Long Island and at Jacksonville, Florida. Their aim was sabot...
Air Date: 1998-02-05
He was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox' and highly decorated by Hitler. However, Rommel was not in sympathy with the Nazi p...
Air Date: 1998-02-12
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Air Date: 1998-02-19
In 1941 four Italian frogmen used their two-man underwater 'chariots' to place explosive charges on two British battl...
Air Date: 1998-02-26
In 1944 as Hitler faced defeat he tried one last gamble of an offensive on the Western Front. The result was the 'Bat...
Air Date: 1998-03-05
There have been larger land battles and more protracted air campaigns than Okinawa but this was a combined operation,...
Air Date: 1998-03-12
The underwater war saw many innovations and a rapid increase in electronic technology, which eventually enabled the A...
Air Date: 1998-03-19
Hundreds of sailors, eight ships and two American Admirals were to be lost in actions where valour overcame many mist...
Air Date: 1998-03-26
In 1943 as the Germans were producing 'heavy water' to build their atomic bomb, the Norwegian resistance launched a d...
Air Date: 1998-04-02
Between 1941 and 1943 some of America's most talented fighter pilots flew for Nationalist China against the Japanese....
Air Date: 1998-04-09
One thousand bomber raids flown by the US airforce by day and the same by Britain's RAF by night. The result was a fi...
Air Date: 1998-04-16
She was faster than any British battleship, but in what was to become known as 'The Battle of the North Cape', the Sc...
Air Date: 1998-04-23
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Air Date: 1998-04-30
Had it not been winter, North America's vast western forests, farms and cities might have been decimated by a secret ...
Air Date: 1998-05-07
One of the most feared weapons of World War II was the mine. Some were laid by ship and submarine, others by aircraft...
Air Date: 1998-05-14
Throughout occupied Europe the Nazis systematically plundered the continent's museums, galleries, and private collect...
Air Date: 1998-05-21
The exciting story of the emergence of special forces such as the British SAS and the US Rangers.
Air Date: 1998-05-28
America's answer to fighting behind Japanese lines in the jungle was to deploy a highly trained unit called Merrill's...
Air Date: 1998-06-04
The citizens of Japan could not believe their eyes when the Americans dared to fly an audacious bombing mission again...
Air Date: 1998-06-11
Amazing new footage has become available which shows the raid by the US Air Force against the Ploesti oil fields in R...
Air Date: 1998-06-18
The Germans said it was impregnable but the confines of Colditz were to inspire some of the most legendary escapes of...
Air Date: 1998-06-25
The fascinating story of the secret heavily-armed cargo ships deployed by the Germans which were in reality designed ...