1 Season
6 Episode
WWII's Most Daring Raids - Season 1 Episode 2 Easy Company's First Assault
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.
- Year: 2016
- Country: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
- Studio: Smithsonian Channel
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