Adolf Hitler said Germany’s attempt to take back France would be “the most decisive of the war.” But a small group of National Guardsmen, sitting atop Hill 314 in the little-known town of Mortain, would change everything. Their courage and sacr

Season 2 Episode 5 - The Death Ridges of Peleliu

Dec 9th, 2016 30m 47s

The First Marine Division engaged in a ferocious struggle with the Japanese at Peleliu. It would take 74 days and cost 10,000 American lives, but the courage of this small band of heroes would ultimately break the back of the enemy.

Season 2 Episode 4 - The Magnificent Bastards of Dai Do

Dec 2nd, 2016 35m 32s

The noble warriors of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines face down an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army in Dai Do and rescue their fellow Marines. Though tattered, torn and depleted, the men of Echo Company dig deep to repeatedly deny t

Season 2 Episode 3 - 46 Days of Hell in Fallujah

Nov 25th, 2016 41m 17s

Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, helped lead the charge into Iraq’s most dangerous city in 2004. Battling in the bloodiest, most sustained house-to-house urban combat American soldiers had seen since Vietnam proves costly beyond measu

Season 2 Episode 2 - The Untold Story of the Rescue at Dogshead

Nov 18th, 2016 39m 8s

Charlie Company of the 1st Cavalry Division wanders into an NVA stronghold. A blistering attack leaves supplies low, casualties mounting and the enemy circle tightening. But Team Alpha, hearing the distress calls, volunteers to pull off the di

Season 2 Episode 1 - Fighting Fox: Road to Hell

Nov 11th, 2016 38m 16s

The paratroopers of Fighting Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment fought and died from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Their sheer determination against the enemy was matched only by their devotion to one another.

Season 1 Episode 6 - A Chance in Hell: The Battle of Ramadi

Mar 16th, 2016 41m 23s

When Colonel MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda had arrogantly declared Ramadi capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland’s Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America a cle

Season 1 Episode 5 - The Marines at Hue

Mar 9th, 2016 36m 24s

The city of Hue, South Vietnam, was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Three understrength U.S. Marine battalions, consisting of fewer than 2,500 men, attacked and soundly defeated overwhelming, entrenched enemy troops,

Season 1 Episode 4 - Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir

Mar 2nd, 2016 39m 37s

This is the untold true story of “Bloody George,” an understrength, undermanned, Marine rifle company, hastily called to serve their country in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. As the war turned apocalyptic, a cruel twist of fate awaited Bl

Season 1 Episode 3 - The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

Feb 24th, 2016 38m 17s

The capture of the island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible and costly engagements of WWII. The key to the taking of Okinawa was an otherwise nondescript hill dubbed Sugar Loaf Hill. The epic battle would come down to the sheer

Season 1 Episode 2 - Those Damned Engineers

Feb 17th, 2016 43m 39s

In December of 1944, the seemingly defeated Germans secretly mustered 600,000 battle-hardened troops, including whole SS Panzer Divisions, into an all-out offensive to capture Antwerp, the heart of the Allied supply chain. What the Germans coul

Season 1 Episode 1 - The Heroes of Tarawa

Feb 10th, 2016 38m 52s

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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