Series from 2015
World War II - the largest, most destructive conflict mankind has ever known. Decisive battles, both epic and complex, played out against a vast lands…
The attack on Pearl Harbor changed the world, but how did the Japanese manage to cause so much damage? Now, new technology is revealing the answer, by uncovering hidden traces of that attack. Our team of experts explores on land and underwater to discover a mini-submarine, a lost airfield and the secret of the destruction of the USS Arizona.
In the autumn of 1944, the Nazis unleashed a terrifying weapon on London. V-2 ballistic rockets were Hitler’s last roll of the dice, as Germany was losing World War II. Marty Morgan and Pete Kelsey search for the top-secret missile sites and uncover the dreadful story behind the Fuhrer’s vengeance rockets.
In Italy, the Allies’ attempt to quickly injure the ‘soft underbelly’ of Axis Europe became a bruising and exhausting encounter. Marty and Pete use scanning technology to locate the remains of a formidable German defensive line, investigate the site of one of America’s worst military disasters, and question why an ancient monastery was destroyed.
By September 1944, Paris is free. But In the Hürtgen Forest, American troops became embroiled in the longest battle to be fought in their history. How was the American advantage lost? And why did so many men die? We investigate remains of bunkers, anti-tank barriers, tree burst explosions, and hidden emplacements that slowed US troops to a grinding halt and made this a ‘green hell’.
1942: the Japanese have swept through the Pacific. The rays of the rising sun creep towards Australia. The Allies’ last hope is to stand and fight in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world. Marty and Pete investigate submerged fighter planes, discover networks of tunnels, and travel to a lost battlefield that has remained hidden for 80 years.
In the summer of 1940, the first of 3,000 Axis bombing raids hit the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta. Over the next three years, Hitler and Mussolini subjected the Allied-held country to a brutal siege and turned it into the most bombed place on Earth. Marty Morgan and Pete Kelsey are on a search to find out how, against the odds, the island held out and fought back.
