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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Marines at Hue

    • March 3, 2014
    • AHC

    The Battle of Hue at the beginning of the Tet Offensive in 1968 during the Vietnam War is examined.

  • S01E02 Live to Tell: Those Damned Engineers

    • March 10, 2014
    • AHC

    A look at how Allied combat engineers tried to thwart German advances during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 by destroying roads and bridges.

  • S01E03 The Heroes of Tarawa

    • March 17, 2014
    • AHC

    The November 1943 Marine assault on the Japanese Pacific island stronghold of Tarawa is examined.

  • S01E04 The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

    • March 24, 2014
    • AHC

    Marines fight on Okinawa to take Sugar Loaf Hill from the Japanese in May 1945.

  • S01E05 Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir

    • March 31, 2014
    • AHC

    The exploits of a Marine rifle company at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in subfreezing temperatures in late 1950 during the Korean War are recalled.

  • S01E06 A Chance in Hell: The Battle of Ramadi

    • April 14, 2014
    • AHC

    When Colonel MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda had arrogantly declared Ramadi, capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland’s Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America a clear victory.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Fighting Fox: Road to Hell

    • February 15, 2016
    • AHC

  • S02E02 The Death Ridges of Peleliu

    • February 22, 2016
    • AHC

  • S02E03 The Magnificent Bastards of Dai Do

    • February 29, 2016
    • AHC

    The noble warriors of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines face down an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army in Dai Do and rescue their fellow Marines. Tattered, torn and depleted the men of Echo Company repeatedly deny the enemy its victory.

  • S02E04 46 Days of Hell in Fallujah

    • March 7, 2016
    • AHC

    Charlie Company of the 1st Cavalry Division wanders into an NVA stronghold. A blistering attack leaves supplies low, casualties mounting and the enemy circle tightening. Team Alpha hearing the distress calls, volunteers to try the difficult rescue.

  • S02E05 The Untold Story of the Rescue at Dogshead

    • March 14, 2016
    • AHC

    Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, helped lead the charge into Iraq's most dangerous city in 2004. Battling in the bloodiest, most sustained house-to-house urban combat American soldiers had seen since Vietnam would prove costly for the men.

  • S02E06 The Untold Story of the Battle of Mortain

    • March 21, 2016
    • AHC

    Hitler said, "The coming battle would be the most decisive of the war." But, little did he know, that battle would be determined by a small group of National Guardsmen on top a hill fighting like hell to deny what Hitler wanted most-victory.