As we fly above the infamous battle sites of D-Day and Dunkirk, soar over hidden Nazi bunkers, and glide across lost battleships and sunken shipwrecks – this new series exposes secrets of World War Two - in a brand-new way. Through a unique aerial perspective – with exclusive access to key locations today and by matching them to historic aerial archive imagery - we will ‘fly back in time’ to recount daring raids and deadly battles in a way that has never been seen before.
Hitler launches a revolutionary new tactic, ‘Lightning War’. For the Allies, the result is the largest military evacuation in history at Dunkirk.
Allied air forces take on Hitler’s Luftwaffe in a fearsome arms race for air supremacy over Europe - a cat and mouse battle that will decide the outcome of the war.
Finnish soldiers face the might of the Soviet Red Army in the frozen forests of Finland, in an extraordinary war of David vs Goliath.
As Hitler’s feared battleship threatens the Arctic convoys and the wider course of the war, Churchill launches a campaign to destroy her. The hunt for the Tirpitz becomes a four-year game of cat and mouse, requiring more than thirty raids of ever-greater scale, skill and ingenuity.
Between August 1940 and May 1941, Hitler’s Luftwaffe bomb Britain’s port city of Liverpool, a vital Atlantic gateway for food, fuel and weapons, in an attempt to starve the country into surrender. Despite the devastation, Liverpudlians respond with resilience, resistance, and plans of ingenious deception.
7th December 1941: Japan launches a devastating surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet, anchored at their base on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. The Japanese strike unleashes two hours of terror that will change the course of WWII.
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