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Great Raids of World War II Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

6 Episodes 2004 - 2004

Episode 1

Stopping Hitler's A-Bomb

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 30 mins

How a team of Norwegian raiders kept an A-bomb ingredient from the Germans by destroying a factory.

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Episode 2

Prison Busters

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 30 mins

How French Resistance operatives were freed from Amiens prison through exacting targeted bombing of the prison walls by the Mosquito fighter-bomber.

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Episode 3

Radar Beam Raiders

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 30 mins

The British capture of a German radar installation that was key to the Nazi air-defense system is recalled.

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Episode 4

Storm at St. Nazaire

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 30 mins

The mission of the destroyer HMS Campbeltown to destroy the dry dock at St. Nazaire, the only dock large enough to repair Germany's giant battleship Tirpitz, thus making Britain's Atlantic sea operations safer.

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Episode 5

Cockleshell Raiders

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 30 mins

How a special force in canoes tried to clog the flow of Nazi supplies moving through Bordeaux.

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Episode 6

Arctic Commando Assault

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 30 mins

A British commando assault on Vaagso, Norway, in December 1941, which duped Hitler into committing and ultimately wasting 250,000 Nazi troops, who were pinned down there for the rest of the war.

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