Hitler's Last Stand

The Allies must capture the Abbaye d'Ardenne, which guards the city of Caen but is held by a notorious Panzer unit accused of horrific war crimes.

Desperate to feed the Allied advance after D-Day, US forces target a deep water port in France during a month long siege against Nazi paratroopers.

As winter sets in, US Rangers must capture Hill 400, a strategic peak on the German border.

During the Allied drive to liberate the fortified port of St. Malo, Nazi forces cut off and encircle an American battalion in a bold defensive move.

U.S. forces fight to the death against Hitler’s massive surprise offensive to slow the Nazi advance allowing for the legendary defense of Bastogne.

In bitter fighting, American forces clash with elite Nazi troops in the Colmar Pocket to complete the liberation of France in January 1945.

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 June 1944, paratroopers from the 101st Airborne race to secure the French city of Carentan and open a link between the American forces on Omaha and Utah beaches. But Nazi paratroopers arrive first and pin them down outside of the city. Running out of options, their commander orders a daring bayonet charge to break through the Nazi defenses.

After months of fighting in Europe, US forces finally cross into Germany to destroy Hitler's war-making power and encounter the infamous Siegfried Line defenses. With their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must smash through two lines of bunker fortifications to capture the ancient capital.

In October 1944, a regiment of segregated Japanese American soldiers fights to rescue an encircled US battalion in the steep, booby-trapped forests of the Vosges mountains. With the Nazis closing in and supplies running out, the Nisei soldiers push the limits to reach their brothers-in-arms. It will take more than fifty years for their valor to be fully acknowledged.

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 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 encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314.

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.