Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

April 12, 2015

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Narrow Escapes of WWII - S1 - E5

This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action against crack German mountain troops.

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Narrow Escapes of WWII: Season 1 - 13 Episode s

1x1 - The Doolittle Raid
April 1, 2015
Seeking to hit back at Japan, Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-25 bombers on aircraft for a mission that the crews have little chance of surviving.
1x2 - Wingate and the Chindits
April 2, 2015
Surrounded by the Japanese, Orde Wingate led the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in one of the most imaginative and complex escapes of World War II.
1x3 - The Black Battalion Holds the Line
April 3, 2015
Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.
1x4 - Manstein Holds the Line
April 5, 2015
Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is still studied in military schools.
1x5 - Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete
April 12, 2015
This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action against crack German mountain troops.
1x6 - The Amiens Raid
April 19, 2015
In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fighters await execution.
1x7 - Breakout Through Hell's Gate
April 26, 2015
With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousands of troops to escape.
1x8 - The Road of Bones
May 3, 2015
In 1944, 1500 outnumbered British and Indian troops amazingly hold Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima. This is their amazing story.
1x9 - Morshead Holds Tobruk
May 10, 2015
By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Leslie Morshead and his defenders are ordered to hold the Libyan port for eight weeks while the defenses of Egypt can be strengthened. The "Rats of Tobruk" are convinced that if they fail, the war against Germany will be lost.
1x10 - The Real Bridge Too Far
May 17, 2015
Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to far'. More than 1,750 Allied soldiers who were killed during Operation Market Garden lie buried at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek.
1x11 - Evacuation in the Baltic
May 24, 2015
As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.
1x12 - Operation Pedestal
May 31, 2015
By 1942, the fight between the Allies and the Axis for control of the Mediterranean is focused on tiny Malta. From there, British aircraft and submarines have been preying on enemy supply ships. When Hitler and Mussolini decide to crush Malta, Churchill dispatches a huge convoy to run the gauntlet of Axis air and naval power to reach the beleaguered island stronghold.
1x13 - Moore's March
June 7, 2015
With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc far behind the front. But after an LRDG patrol is attacked, a tough New Zealander named Ron Moore leads the survivors barefoot through the desert, 300 miles from Allied lines.

Narrow Escapes of WWII: All seasons

S1: Season 1
13 Episode s

1x1 - The Doolittle Raid

1x2 - Wingate and the Chindits

1x3 - The Black Battalion Holds the Line

1x4 - Manstein Holds the Line

1x5 - Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

1x6 - The Amiens Raid

1x7 - Breakout Through Hell's Gate

1x8 - The Road of Bones

1x9 - Morshead Holds Tobruk

1x10 - The Real Bridge Too Far

1x11 - Evacuation in the Baltic

1x12 - Operation Pedestal

1x13 - Moore's March

S1: Season 1