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Battlefront (2001) | Couchpile

Season 1

40 Episodes

2001

E01

Dunkirk

9/25/2001

British and Allied forces are pushed back by an overwhelming German Army. 400,000 Allied troops are trapped in the French town of Dunkirk. After several failed attempts at rescue, the British Navy was able to rescue 330,000 troops.

E02

Fall of Poland

10/2/2001

German tanks roll into Poland in September 1939.

E03

Battle for Norway

10/9/2001

Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.

E04

Bombing of England

10/16/2001

Hitler has taken France and has his sights set on England. At a heavy toll, the Royal Air Force swings into action to stop Hitler from crossing the Channel.

E05

Battle of Tobruk

10/23/2001

German field marshal Erwin Rommel scores a major victory at the Libyan seaport of Tobruk.

E06

Operation Mercury: Fall of Crete

10/30/2001

After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.

E07

Battle of Malta

11/6/2001

In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his inadequate air force fails to bomb the Maltese into submission, Hitler's Luftwaffe joins the campaign.

E08

Fall of Singapore

11/13/2001

Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to the rubber-rich nation takes them into Singapore, the World's most armed fortress.

E09

Pearl Harbor

11/20/2001

During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.

E10

Fall of the Philippines

11/27/2001

American and Philippine troops and Philippine scouts take on a fast advancing Japanese invasion.

E11

Battle of Midway

12/4/2001

Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.

E12

Solomon Islands

12/11/2001

For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadalcanal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.

E13

Battle of Dieppe

12/18/2001

The Allies launch an ill-fated attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.

E14

Battle of Stalingrad

12/25/2001

German forces encounter Russian resistance.

E15

El Alamein

1/1/2002

Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.

E16

North Africa

1/8/2002

In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.

E17

The Forgotten Front

1/15/2002

The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.

E18

Battle of Sicily

1/22/2002

Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.

E19

Bombing of Ploesti

1/29/2002

Bombing of Ploesti

E20

Monte Cassino

2/5/2002

Allied troops are advancing through Italy and meet a stiff German defensive position in an old monastery Monte Cassino.

E21

Gilbert Islands

2/12/2002

Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.

E22

Battle of Anzio

2/19/2002

Allied armies encounter German resistance in the Italian fishing town of Anzio.

E23

Kwajalein

2/26/2002

Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.

E24

Battle in Palau

3/5/2002

American forces overtake Japanese troops on the islands of Palau on the way to the Philippines.

E25

D-Day

3/12/2002

D-Day, the 6th of June--one of the most pivotal moments in world history. In a massive armada of thousands of ships, 3,000,000 allied troops land at Three Beaches in Normandy, France.

E26

Retaking France

3/19/2002

Six weeks after the D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy, the allied forces are pushing the Germans back through the French countryside. Town by town is won back as Panzer divisions retreat back to the Meuse River.

E27

Operation Dragoon

3/26/2002

Allied Forces continue across France pushing the German troops back into Germany.

E28

Liberation of Paris

4/2/2002

Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.

E29

Arnhem

4/9/2002

The Allies launch an attack designed to push the Germans back to the Rhine River.

E30

Liberation of the Philippines

4/16/2002

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and the final push to retake the islands after two years of Japanese occupation.

E31

The Last Stronghold

4/23/2002

American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.

E32

Mount Belvedere

4/30/2002

The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.

E33

Battle of the Bulge

5/7/2002

The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.

E34

Mount Hot Rocks

5/14/2002

American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.

E35

Battle of Remagen

5/21/2002

German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.

E36

Battle of Okinawa

5/28/2002

Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.

E37

Fall of Berlin

6/4/2002

In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.

E38

Commerce Raiders

6/11/2002

Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.

E39

Bombing of Germany

6/18/2002

The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.

E40

U-Boat War

6/25/2002

U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.