Season 5
6 episodes · 2023
1Resistance Revenge
In July of 1944, French resistance fighters called Maquisards declare a Free French Republic on the remote Vercors plateau in eastern France to support the Allied invasion of Normandy.
2Artillery Showdown
In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314.
3Fortress Fury
In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz; after being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later.
4Guard the Rhine
In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine defended by elite paratrooper units; a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead them into battle.
5Forest Hell
When his company attempts to capture a small village, an American soldier, born in Mexico but raised in Texas, must crawl through an enemy minefield to capture two German machine gun nests holding up his unit.
6Audie Murphy's Finest Hourfinale
An American 2nd lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket; he tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets.