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6 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 6, 201348 mins
Michael Wittmann - the most decorated tank ace in history - fought at Kursk and in Normandy - and in many of the greatest tank battles of all time. An officer in the notorious Waffen SS, hailed as a hero by the Nazis, Wittmann, even today, is a focus of both cult and controversy.
Episode 2
Wed, Feb 6, 201348 mins
May 1944: Canadian tanks begin their final push to drive the Germans from Italy. At each step, over rugged mountains and through steep valleys, the Canadians confront Hitler's elite Panzers -at the Melfa River, on the Trasimene Line, in the formidable Gothic Line, finally battering their way into the Po Valley.
Episode 3
Wed, Mar 6, 201348 mins
1965: American ground forces and Marine Corps tanks, land in South Vietnam, confident that conventional military will defeat the Communist insurgency. But American Tankers quickly discover that even the power of armor cannot overcome the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
Episode 4
Sat, Apr 6, 201348 mins
Following the Tet Offensive in 1968 the North Vietnamese begin introducing conventional forces including Soviet built PT 74 amphibious tanks into their guerrilla tactics. As American forces begin to pull out the NVA gradually transforms into a conventional armored army sporting hundreds of Soviet T54 tanks ready for the invasion of the south.
Episode 5
Mon, May 6, 201348 mins
In 1944 the US 3rd Armored Division spearheads the Allied push from the western border of Germany towards Berlin. The American tankers battle fanatical Germans defending their homeland to the last, armed with the most powerful Panzers ever to take the battlefield.
Episode 6
Thu, Jun 6, 201348 mins
Tanks play a small but useful role in the island war against Japan.