Battlefield:_Series_5

社会科学类纪录片,Others 频道 2001 年出品。

註: 本系列影片不確定是那個公司, 頻道的產品, DocuWiki說是Discovery Channel, sharethefiles說是PBS

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  • 英文片名 :Battlefield: Series 5
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  • 地区 :美国
  • 语言 :英语
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THE BATTLES THAT WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Six classic two-hour episodes from the acclaimed TV series

The campaign in Tunisia saw the battles that fi nally ended the brutal war in the desert. The arrival of the British 1st Army gave the Allies a six-to-one numerical advantage in troops and a fi fteen-toone superiority in tanks, guns, and aircraft. The Allied blockade in the Mediterranean also began to bite, making the beleaguered Germans short of fuel, food, and ammunition. Eventually, all German troops in Tunisia surrendered.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. Winston Churchill s words illustrate clearly why the two battles fought near the Egyptian coastal town in the western desert during 1942 were a turning point of World War Two.

At the center of the German defensive line was the heavily fortified town of Cassino, which was dominated by a sixth-century Benedictine monastery.

This is the story of the construction and defence of Hitler’s three mile deep web of fortifications, pillboxes, troop shelters and anti-tank obstacles that ran along Germany s western frontier opposite the French Maginot Line. As the war progressed and the tide turned against the Reich, breaching the West Wall caused the Allies a huge problem as they pushed for final victory.

This episode tells the tragic story of the “bridge too far” and the ill-fated Operation Market Garden–the Allied operation that was supposed to end World War II in 1944. Montgomery’s rather fanciful conclusion that Market Garden was “90% successful” was hardly supported by the facts. The operation was an unmitigated failure.

The defeat of the German forces at the Falaise Gap in August 1944 was the culmination of an effort that had begun the previous June, when British, U.S. and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches during Operation Overlord. Then followed the bloody fighting for the all-important city of Caen. The Falaise Gap was an area between Argentan and Falaise, southeast of Caen. For the Germans, it represented an escape route from the advancing Allied troops, who threatened to trap the 7th Army, 5th Panzer Army and Panzergruppe Eberbach. The Canadian 1st and British 2nd Armies had finally broken out from Caen after weeks of hard and bitter fighting which had stalled the entire Normandy invasion. At the same time, the US 1st and 3rd Armies had forced their way off the Normandy beaches and were rapidly heading towards Falaise from the north and the east. The fighting in the lanes and fields was intense, as the Allies battled hard to overcome determined resistance by some 80,000 German troops. With so many men and weapons on the ground, it is not surprising they were eventually undone by fierce artillery fire from three sides and by constant attacks from the air. The Gap was closed on 19th August, leaving only a small pocket of German resistance that was overrun on 21st August. The German losses were catastrophic – 10,000 killed, 50,000 taken prisoner, nearly 600 tanks and assault guns destroyed, and 7,500 vehicles lost.

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