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The history of the most notable armored fighting vehicle engagements is told.

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1. Canadian Tank Battles in Italy

48m

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.

2. Michael Wittmann: Greatest Tank Ace

48m

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, even today, is a focus of both cult and controversy.

3. The Battle for Vietnam: Insurgency

48m

1965: American ground forces and Marine Corps tanks, land in South Vietnam, confident that conventional military will defeat the Communist insurgency. But American Tankers quickly discover that even the power of armor cannot overcome the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.

4. The Battle for Germany

48m

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.

5. The Battle for Vietnam: Armoured Attack

48m

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.

6. Tank Battles of the Pacific

48m

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.