WWII's Most Daring Raids (2016 - 2016)

Hours before the most ambitious amphibious invasion in history, Douglas C-47s drop a small group of American paratroopers from Easy Company, the 101st Airborne Division, behind enemy lines. The mission: to take out four German howitzers about to assault Utah Beach. Witness the moments before the D-Day invasion through the perspective of the men carrying out this daring raid, including commanding officer Lieutenant Winters, whose remarkable improvised assault against a much larger force would make history.

British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.

A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.

An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.