Three secret missions that could've rewritten history — and almost nobody knows them.
Showcases 3 major events during World War 2 involving both the Europeans & Pacific conflicts. The Raids to destroy Nazi Germany's heavy water production based in Norway, plus the final desperate act to deny them what had already been stockpiled. The Japanese midget submarines role and participation in the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What they achieved plus what was their ultimate fate. The attacks on United States warships in the Pacific late in World War 2 by the Japanese Kamikaze and Okha Squadrons. The Kamikaze attacks were in whatever planes the Japanese forces were able to gather. The Okha attacks were made in specially built flying bombs that were towed by larger and usually slower aircraft that were not suitable for fighter work.
Production
Actual Norwegian commandos telling their own story
Editing
Tight 53 min runtime — zero documentary bloat
Director
Stephen Burns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Knut Haugland, one of the interviewed Norwegian commandos, later became a celebrated explorer and radio operator on Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition.
This 1998 doc aired before the 'greatest generation' nostalgia boom of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers — making it a fascinating pre-Speilbergian time capsule of WWII storytelling.
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