EPISODE GUIDE

Greatest Tank Battles
Season 3.

6 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.

1. Canadian Tank Battle in Italy

Air date: 2013-11-17 · 60 min

May 1944: Canadian tanks begin their final push to drive the Germans from Italy. At each step, over rugged mountains and through steep valleys, the Canadians confront Hitler's elite Panzers - at the Melfa river, on the Trasimene Line, in the formidable Gothic Line, finally battering their way into the Po Valley.

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2. The Battle for Vietnam Insurgency

Air date: 2013-11-19 · 60 min

1965: American ground forces and Marine Corps tanks land in South Vietnam, confident that they will defeat the Communist insurgency, until they encounter the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.

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3. Battle for Vietnam Armoured Attack

Air date: 2013-11-26 · 60 min

1968: The Americans mobilize hundreds of tanks to help defeat Communist forces in South Vietnam. Now the Communists combine guerrilla tactics with conventional military might and send their own tanks into battle. The final struggle for Vietnam begins.

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4. The Battle for Germany

Air date: 2013-12-03 · 60 min

In 1944 the US 3rd Armored Division spearheads the Allied push from the western border of Germany towards Berlin. The American tankers battle fanatical Germans defending their homeland to the last, armed with the most powerful Panzers ever to take the battlefield.

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5. Tank Battles of the Pacific

Air date: 2013-12-10 · 60 min

By 1942, the Japanese Empire stretched halfway across the Pacific Ocean. This is the rarely told story of the key role played by US Marine tanks in the Pacific Campaign .They fight bloody battles against fanatical Japanese forces that defend the now infamous Islands of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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6. Michael Wittmann: Greatest Tank Ace

Air date: 2013-12-22 · 60 min

Michael Wittmann, the most decorated tank ace in history, fought at Kursk and in Normandy and in many of the greatest tank battles of all time. An officer in the notorious Waffen SS, hailed as a hero by the Nazis, Wittmann remains a focus of cult and controversy.

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