Synopsis
In STRIKING BACK Historian and host Norm Christie takes us to the battlefield where, on August 19, 1942, Britain and her Allies strike back at Adolf Hitler’s “Fortress Europe”, by testing the defenses of his “Atlantic Wall” in a large-scale, sea-borne raid against the fortified French coastal town of Dieppe. In a few hours, on Dieppe’s beaches, 900 Allied soldiers – most of them Canadian – die. Thousands are taken prisoner. An invasion of Europe, the Allies conclude, will have to wait. With liberation from the sea now years away, the Allies concentrate on striking back at the Nazis from the air. Vividly re-living the bombing campaign, we follow Bomber Command recruit, rear-gunner Jim Moffat, as he signs up, survives one raid after another, and finally, miraculously, emerges as the only survivor from his crew, when his Halifax goes down during the tragic March 30/31 1944 bombing raid on Nuremberg, climax of the pre-Normandy air war against Nazi Germany.


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