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"This episode tells the tragic story of the 'bridge too far' and the ill-fated Operation Market Garden -- the Allied operation that was supposed to end World War II in 1944. Montogomery's rather fanciful conclusion that Market Garden was 'ninty percent successful' was hardly supported by the facts. The operation was an unmitigated failure. This episode is from the landmark television series 'Battlefield.' Featuring fascinating archive footage...
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"In this program we look at Allied armor and the critical role it played in establishing, defending and eventually expanding the Allied beachheads during the Battle of Normandy. Highly specialized tanks, like the Churchill AVRE and the Sherman Duplex Drive, were specifically designed to clear the beaches of a variety of German-made obstacles and anti-personal weapons and facilitate the landing of troops on D-Day"--Container.
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During World War II, Crimea was a scene of some of the bloodiest battles. The Germans suffered heavy casualties in the summer of 1941 as they tried to advance through the narrow Isthmus of Perekop linking Crimea to the Soviet mainland. The German occupied most of Crimea, with the exception of the city of Sevastopol, which held out from October 1941 until July 4, 1942. However, the tide turned after the German defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk. Cut off...
5) Kursk
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In the summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men and 6,000 tanks of the German and Soviet Armies faced each other near the Soviet city of Kursk for one of the war's most crucial engagements. The ensuing battle was, to this day, the largest tank battle ever fought in history. It marked the last major offensive operation of German forces in the East and, combined with the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, was the decisive turning point on the Eastern Front....
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The Battle of Tunisia was a series of battles during the North African Campaign of World War II. With the central Mediterranean contested by the British and the Italians, Tunisia's two deepwater ports (Tunis and Bizerte) were a major attraction, control of which could open the Mediterranean to Allied shipping. The battle opened with initial success by the German and Italian forces, but the Allies massive numerical superiority led to the Axis' complete...