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  • Season 2 Episode 6 - The Untold Story of the Battle of Mortain

    December 17, 2016 · 32 min

    Adolf Hitler said Germany’s attempt to take back France would be “the most decisive of the war.” But a small group of National Guardsmen, sitting atop Hill 314 in the little-known town of Mortain, would change everything. Their courage and…

  • Season 2 Episode 5 - The Death Ridges of Peleliu

    December 9, 2016 · 31 min

    The First Marine Division engaged in a ferocious struggle with the Japanese at Peleliu. It would take 74 days and cost 10,000 American lives, but the courage of this small band of heroes would ultimately break the back of the enemy.

  • Season 2 Episode 4 - The Magnificent Bastards of Dai Do

    December 2, 2016 · 36 min

    The noble warriors of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines face down an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army in Dai Do and rescue their fellow Marines. Though tattered, torn and depleted, the men of Echo Company dig deep to repeatedly…

  • Season 2 Episode 3 - 46 Days of Hell in Fallujah

    November 25, 2016 · 41 min

    Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, helped lead the charge into Iraq’s most dangerous city in 2004. Battling in the bloodiest, most sustained house-to-house urban combat American soldiers had seen since Vietnam proves costly beyond…

  • Season 2 Episode 2 - The Untold Story of the Rescue at Dogshead

    November 18, 2016 · 39 min

    Charlie Company of the 1st Cavalry Division wanders into an NVA stronghold. A blistering attack leaves supplies low, casualties mounting and the enemy circle tightening. But Team Alpha, hearing the distress calls, volunteers to pull off…

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  • Season 2 Episode 1 - Fighting Fox: Road to Hell

    November 11, 2016 · 38 min

    The paratroopers of Fighting Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment fought and died from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Their sheer determination against the enemy was matched only by their devotion to one…

  • Season 1 Episode 6 - A Chance in Hell: The Battle of Ramadi

    March 16, 2016 · 41 min

    When Colonel MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda had arrogantly declared Ramadi capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland’s Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America…

  • Season 1 Episode 5 - The Marines at Hue

    March 9, 2016 · 36 min

    The city of Hue, South Vietnam, was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Three understrength U.S. Marine battalions, consisting of fewer than 2,500 men, attacked and soundly defeated overwhelming, entrenched enemy…

  • Season 1 Episode 4 - Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir

    March 2, 2016 · 40 min

    This is the untold true story of “Bloody George,” an understrength, undermanned, Marine rifle company, hastily called to serve their country in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. As the war turned apocalyptic, a cruel twist of fate…

  • Season 1 Episode 3 - The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

    February 24, 2016 · 38 min

    Rather than just being a straightforward stepping stone to Japan the capture of the island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible and costly engagements of WWII. The key to the taking of Okinawa was an otherwise nondescript…

  • Season 1 Episode 2 - Those Damned Engineers

    February 17, 2016 · 44 min

    In December of 1944, the seemingly defeated Germans secretly mustered 600,000 battle-hardened troops, including whole SS Panzer Divisions, into an all-out offensive to capture Antwerp, the heart of the Allied supply chain. What the Germans…

  • Season 1 Episode 1 - The Heroes of Tarawa

    February 10, 2016 · 39 min

    Everything went wrong in America’s first test of whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific, the key steppingstones to the doorstep of Japan, could be captured by across-the-beach infantry assaults.

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About the show

Against the Odds features the true stories of real-life bands of brothers who exhibited unparalleled bravery, solidarity and endurance on the battlefield to come out on top in a fight against impossible odds. Reliving battles from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, these are true stories of the harsh realities of war, as told by the veterans who survived to tell.