WWII: Frontlines
From North Africa to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific, we reflect on the enormous diversity of conditions which frontline soldiers had to come to grips with during WWII.
Anzio
Jan 1944: Two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied assaults of the war. But they fail to exploit their advantage, giving the…
Omaha
June 1944: A stretch of beach overlooked by fortified cliffs created a devastating baptism of fire. Failed plans, missed opportunities and courage make this frontline a major turning point in…
Hill 112
Jun-Jul 1944: Three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled. The killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot…
Bastogne
Dec 1944: with Europe in the grip of a terrible winter, Hitler's Panzers spearhead an attack on the Allied frontline in the Ardennes. They are to break through and re-capture…
Iwo Jima
Feb 1945: A quarter of all the US Marines who died in WWII were killed in Iwo Jima. The Leathernecks were forced to re-think their tactics, as one in three…
Berlin
April 1945: Stalin's generals compete to raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag. A Panzer Army, two army groups, and the home guard are locked in a desperate battle with…
