Royal Air Force. The episode examined in detail the RAF's efforts to destroy the German Krupp armament factories in Essen in the Ruhr Valley, and the raid of 23 October 1944, described as the largest raid the RAF had ever undertaken. It covered the RAF tactics of using the Oboe navigation system to guide its heavy bombers, and the use of the de Havilland Mosquito as Pathfinders to mark targets with flares, and the German air defences. People Charles Harold, 19, a navigator of No. 35 Squadron RAF, flying Mosquitos Werner Schaumann, 16, a loader of 826 FlaK Battery, a German 20mm anti-aircraft unit Jack Harris, 24, a pilot of No. 550 Squadron RAF flying Lancaster bombers Equipment Avro Lancaster bomber NX611 Just Jane, shown taxiing under engine power A German wheeled 88mm gun in its anti-aircraft role The Battle of the Bulge In "The Battle of the Bulge", Murray looks at the German attempted counterattack through the Ardennes forest. The episode looks in detail at the German plans for Operation Autumn Mist, their intended counter-attack using the cover of the Ardennes forest, following the Allied liberation of Antwerp in Belgium. It also examines German attempts to confuse Allied forces using Commandos of Panzer Brigade 150 disguised as American units, the battle fought around Bastogne by the American 101st Airborne Division, in particular Easy Company of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, and the subsequent Siege of Bastogne. People Corporal Ludwig Lindemann, 19, of the German 26th Volksgrenadier Division, an infantryman involved in Autumn Mist and at Bastogne Victor Bouvy-Pesesse, 11, a resident of Bastogne who took refuge in a cellar Equipment The German Jagdpanther tank destroyer The American M1 carbine, the infantry weapon used by the 101st Airborne at Bastogne The Eastern Front In "The Eastern Front", Murray again departs from Allied road to Berlin, to look at the Soviet advances from the east It looks in detail at the Soviet offensive toward the River Vistula in Poland, aiming for the strategic objective of the valuable Silesia region, while German civilians evacuated en-masse in fear of the Soviet troops. It examines the Soviet encirclement of the city of Breslau and the ensuing 3-month siege, and the parallel advance up the River Oder towards Berlin. People Nikolai Yakovlevich Zheleznov, 21, a Soviet tank commander in the 4th Tank Army Klavdia Andreevna Deriabina, 22, a bomber pilot of the Soviet all-female 588th Night