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The Daredevils of D-Day Part 2

In the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horse gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day .

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The Dare Devils of D-Day – Part 1

In the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horse gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day .

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Lightning Strikes & The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourne

On the 9th of October, 1943, one of the bloodiest air battles of the war was unfolding over German skies. Over 300 hundred fighters were attacking the Flying Fortresses of the American 1st air division, who were on a daylight bombing raid to Anklam, East Germany. The dog fighting was savage, the Germans relentless. The men on the bombers who flew that day were seasoned war fighters and those that returned said they had never experienced anything like it.

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WarDaddy – The Real Fury

On a moonlit night of 28th August 1944 an American Sherman M4A1-76 tank sat on a hillside watching the approaching train in the valley below .

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The Punishers of Pebble Island

In the early hours of the 15th May 1982 three SeaKing helicopters lifted off the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes in complete darkness .

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The Kings of Kekoda

On the 29th August 1942 a soldier of the Australian Maroubra Force placed his hand on the bipod of his Bren gun, the barrel was still too hot to hold and loaded a fresh magazine .

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The Hitmen of Heraklion

On the morning of June 10th, 1942 six armed men in three rubber dinghies filled with explosives, paddled ashore to a small beach near Malia, Crete. Their mission - to destroy as many planes as possible at the Luftwaffe Airbase at Heraklion .

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The Demolition Men of D-Day

On the night of 6th June 1944 Major Tim Roseveare and a heroic band of 7 parachute engineers were tasked with blowing up a bridge behind enemy lines to stop a German counter attack. The only thing was they had been dropped in the wrong place with hardly any equipment..

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