The elite U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps pilot-rescue unit swings into action deep behind enemy lines.
Recalling the 1976 Entebbe Raid, during which the Israeli Defense Force rescued passengers aboard a hijacked Air France flight in Uganda.
Recalling the WWII British unit called the Chindits, which specialized in jungle raids and was organized by Brig. Gen. Orde Wingate.
Allies and resistance fighters destroy a bridge over which Nazi supply trains travel.
Norwegian raiders foil Hitler's dream of a weapon of mass destruction.
Recalling the unsuccessful World War II raid on the industrial town of Schweinfurt, Germany, by the 8th U.S. Army Air Force, flying the B-17 Flying Fortress. Included: archival film footage.
A leader of Germany's Special Forces leads a glider assault on a hotel in order to rescue imprisoned Benito Mussolini.
Winston Churchill demands a plan of harassment.
During World War II, one- and two-man crews aboard minisubs threaten the largest battleships at anchor.
The 6th Ranger Battalion rescues more than 500 American soldiers being held in a 1944 prisoner-of-war camp.
The military genius of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), better known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” is explored.