Heroes of the Second World War

Heroes of the Second World War

"never in the field of human conflict..."

Documentary using rare archive footage to examine the unsung heroes of the Second World War in the years when Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace, from the merchant sailors who risked German U-Boats to transport supplies from the USA, to the pilots of the RAF who fought off the German Luftwaffe and the agents who were dropped behind enemy lines in occupied France to sabotage the German war machine.

Chapters:

1. Merchant seaman under attack
2. Individual heroes
3. Bomber command achievements
4. Corporal Jack Edmonson
5. The warship Tirpitz
6. General Montgomery's air offensive