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- After the surprise of the D-Day landings Nazi loyalists dig in to keep a merciless grip on the towns, strongholds and fortresses of occupied Europe.
- U.S. forces fight to the death against Adolf Hitler's massive surprise offensive to slow the Nazi advance allowing for the legendary defense of Bastogne, Belgium.
- In bitter fighting, American forces clash with elite Nazi troops in the Colmar Pocket to complete the liberation of France in January 1945.
- After liberating much of France, Luxembourg and Belgium Allied forces launch the largest airborne attack ever in an attempt to end the war in 1944.
- As Allied armies line up along the River Rhine prepared to invade Nazi Germany, the race for a bridge could change the course of the war.
- The Calgary Highlanders launch a diversionary attack against a heavily defended causeway to assist Allied Commandos to land on Walcheren Island.
- In advance of the D-Day Landings, paratroopers from the US 82nd Airborne Division are dropped behind enemy lines to capture strategic positions. One such location is near the town of Ste Mere Eglise where American airborne troops fight Nazi forces for control of a bridgehead for three days, to prevent German reinforcements from reaching the beaches.
- In November 1944, Eisenhower's Broad Front strategy is tested by heavy rains and thick mud which sever supply lines and hinder reinforcements, as British troops arrive to fight on German soil alongside US troops to take the fortified town of Geilenkirchen, a stronghold in Hitler's infamous Siegfried Line.
- In April 1945, 2nd Lt. Vernon J. Baker and a platoon of American Buffalo Soldiers fight three miles into enemy territory to close in on a Nazi occupied castle in Italy, avoiding minefields, destroying observation posts and capturing machine gun nests. But to make a final assault, they must wait for reinforcements. It will take more than fifty years for the valor of these African American soldiers to be fully acknowledged.
- In August 1944, the Allies close in on remnants of the German Army in Normandy-about 100,000 soldiers, their weapons and tanks to create the Falaise Pocket. But as they squeeze, a small gap remains in the Allied line that promises escape. A small Canadian tank squadron must hold the line as the pressure builds.
- In December 1944, Hitler launches his infamous Operation Wacht am Rhein and his tanks make a desperate dash for the port of Antwerp in the opening of what would become known as the Battle of the Bulge. In response, the US 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment is sent into the Ardennes to secure a critical bridge against a Nazi battle group and defend it at all costs.
- After coming ashore with the French-Canadian Regiment de la Chaudiere on D-Day, a sniper loses the sight in one eye during the battle for Caen but refuses to be sent home and rejoins his regiment. In April 1944, as the Chaudieres Leo Major volunteers to try and make contact with the Dutch resistance in the city of Zwolle, and manages to liberate the city without the loss of civilian life.
- In the aftermath of the D-Day landings, Nazi paratroopers dig in to defend at Carentan to prevent the link up on US forces on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
- As the war finally arrives on German soil, US soldiers must smash through two layers of the infamous Siegfried Line to capture the city of Aachen.
- A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains, and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost US battalion in the Vosges Mountains.
- As the Battle of the Bulge rages, a young US scout becomes separated from his regiment and spends the night trapped behind the enemy line.
- In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops.
- After a nighttime crossing of the Savio River, a platoon of Canadian tank hunters fights off Nazi Panther tanks with only the weapons they can carry.
- 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. In response, the Nazi occupiers dispatch 10,000 German soldiers from elite airborne and mountain units to crush their rebellion by whatever means necessary.
- 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 completely encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314. An American artillery observer and his radio is all that stands between their survival and certain capture.
- 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. Using C2 plastic explosives, gasoline and grenades to find a new way to smash the German line and advance to 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. When three quarters of his regiment is wiped out in one of Germany's counterattacks, a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead them into battle.
- American soldiers risk everything to protect their comrades to clear German defenses in the Hurtgen Forest. So 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.
- January 1945. 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. When he prepares to retreat, he notices a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a burning tank destroyer and climbs aboard to continue his fight.
- Allied forces had planned to take the French city of Caen on D-Day, but more than a month later, German troops still cling stubbornly to the critical hub, bottling up 860,000 Allied soldiers on the Normandy beachhead. On July 8th, a Canadian regiment must capture the Abbaye d'Ardenne, which guards the city but is held by a notorious Panzer unit accused of horrific war crimes.
- Desperately needing men and supplies to feed the Allied advance after D-Day, the Allies target the deep water port of Brest, France occupied by the Nazis since 1940. During the month long siege, the US 116TH Infantry Regiment storms a fort protected by minefields and defended by elite paratroopers. When flame-throwing tanks fail, they turn to an explosive solution to bring down the walls.
- Six months after D-Day, the war in Europe reaches a stalemate. As Allied forces close in on the German border, supply lines fail to keep up and fighting conditions deteriorate as winter sets in. US Rangers must capture Hill 400, a critical peak which permits observation of enemy activity for miles around, including a secret Nazi build up preparing for the infamous Battle of the Bulge.
- After Adolf Hitler's suicide during the final days of World War Two, an American Tank Commander leads a motley mix of German and American soldiers determined to protect French VIP prisoners held in a castle in the Austrian alps from loyal Nazi troops. When their tank is struck and the Waffen SS forces attack, it is not clear they will be able to hold out.