References are made , in the episode , to ongoing housing and food shortages , food rationing , the Lend-Lease programme and abuses of the Official Secrets Act . Women 's multi-style coupon busters shoes , fashionable at the time , serve as a plot point . Filmed : October – November 2012 The Americans use as leverage with MI5 the 1943 BRUSA Agreement and loan terms the US has extended the UK . Mortain was an important battle site , but the massacre bears traits with Malmedy . Operation Sunflower happened in Africa in 1941 . Filmed : November – December 2012 Series Seven was broadcast in the United States on PBS stations on '' Masterpiece Mystery ! '' as '' Foyle 's War VII '' on 15 , 22 and 29 September 2013 , and on Netflix as of April 2014
Malmedy
Malmedy massacre
Foyle's War (series 7)