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Last Flight of Lady/Hitler's Flying Blunders

Aired on Mar 31, 199943m

Last Flight of Lady/Hitler's Flying Blunders A WWII U.S. B-24 Liberator crew crashes in the Libyan desert. It takes 20 years to learn their fate. Then: Hermann Goering's plans for the new Luftwaffe lead to trouble for Germany.

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Sinking of the Graf Spee/Sinking of Force Z

Aired on Apr 02, 199942m

First, the captain of a German battleship on a secret mission in the Atlantic sails into a blind alley. Then: Churchill dispatches two of Britain's mightiest warships to Singapore - without air cover.