On August 17, 1943, the 8th U.S. Army Air Force launched its first major long-range bombing raids into Nazi Germany's heartland targeting the industrial towns of Regensburg and Schweinfurt.

Captain Otto Skorzeny mission--rescue the imprisoned Italian dictator Mussolini.

In 1943, the British deployed a large raiding force into Japanese-occupied Burma.

In January 1945, as the U.S. armed forces inched forward in a savage campaign to liberate the Philippine Islands from the Japanese, men of the 6th Ranger Battalion set off on a raid deep behind enemy lines. It was one of the most dramatic missions they ever undertook--to rescue more than 500 Americans held in the Cabanatuan POW camp. Speaking of the raid on the death camp, General MacArthur said: "No incident of the campaign in the Pacific has given me such satisfaction.

Boasting 1,800 of the finest hand-picked American and Canadian soldiers, the legendary commando unit known as the First Special Service Force was one of the best-kept Allied secrets of World War II.

On May 6, 1980, astonished British TV viewers watched as 26 hostages were freed.

The 1982 Falklands War witnessed the largest deployment of British Army Special Forces since WWII--the Special Air Service, the Special Boat Squadron, and the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre conducted several spectacular raids during the war. One of the most successful, the attack by the D Squadron SAS against an Argentinean airfield on Pebble Island, proved the SAS motto--Who Dares Wins. But the war cost heavily on both sides--255 British and over 1,000 Argentineans died.

In April 1918, a flotilla of British warships set sail from Dover bound for the port of Zeebrugge on the German-occupied Belgian coast. Their mission--to prevent German U-boats stationed there from entering the North Sea and Atlantic. Led by the cruiser HMS Vindictive, the ships headed across the English Channel, including two old ferries to be sunk at the harbor entrances. The battle that ensued proved costly with 200 British fatalities and 8 Victoria Crosses awarded for the night's action.

On August 17, 1943, the 8th U.S. Army Air Force launched its first major long-range bombing raids into Nazi Germany's heartland targeting the industrial towns of Regensburg and Schweinfurt.

Captain Otto Skorzeny mission--rescue the imprisoned Italian dictator Mussolini.

In 1943, the British deployed a large raiding force into Japanese-occupied Burma.

In January 1945, as the U.S. armed forces inched forward in a savage campaign to liberate the Philippine Islands from the Japanese, men of the 6th Ranger Battalion set off on a raid deep behind enemy lines. It was one of the most dramatic missions they ever undertook--to rescue more than 500 Americans held in the Cabanatuan POW camp. Speaking of the raid on the death camp, General MacArthur said: "No incident of the campaign in the Pacific has given me such satisfaction.

Boasting 1,800 of the finest hand-picked American and Canadian soldiers, the legendary commando unit known as the First Special Service Force was one of the best-kept Allied secrets of World War II.

On May 6, 1980, astonished British TV viewers watched as 26 hostages were freed.

The 1982 Falklands War witnessed the largest deployment of British Army Special Forces since WWII--the Special Air Service, the Special Boat Squadron, and the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre conducted several spectacular raids during the war. One of the most successful, the attack by the D Squadron SAS against an Argentinean airfield on Pebble Island, proved the SAS motto--Who Dares Wins. But the war cost heavily on both sides--255 British and over 1,000 Argentineans died.