Against the Odds

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S1 E3 The Heroes of Tarawa

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American forces launch an across-the-beach infantry attack on the heavily fortified, Japanese-held atoll of Tarawa. Everything went wrong in America's first test of whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific, the key steppingstones to the doorstep of Japan, could be captured by across-the-beach infantry assaults.

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2014/03/10 S1 E2

Those Damned Engineers

The Germans muster a force of 600,000 troops in December 1944 in an offensive to capture the heart of the Allied supply chain in Antwerp. A look at how Allied combat engineers tried to thwart German advances during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 by destroying roads and bridges.

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2014/03/24 S1 E4

The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

U.S. Marines struggle to capture an elevated Japanese strongpoint on the island of Okinawa during World War II. Taking an otherwise nondescript hill on the embattled island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible battles of WWII. The young weary marines of Charlie Company strained against the searing Pacific sun to see the top of Sugar Loaf Hill.

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2014-03-03

哇，窗口太小啦

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