Battle Plan Under Fire Raiding Operations (Season 1, Episode 15)
TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

Battle Plan Under Fire

Raiding Operations (Season 1, Episode 15)

TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

A raid is an offensive military operation that aims to achieve a specific objective and often requires elite special forces. German paratroopers rescue Mussolini in 1943, and US troops attempt to free POWs from Son-Tay camp in Vietnam.

Writers

Ed Fields | Gordon Stevens

Cinematographer

Nigel Blackburn

Editor

Antony Oliphant

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 31, 2004

Release date

2004 (United States)

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17 cast members

Name	Known for
John Gresham Self - Military Analyst Self - Military Analyst See fewer	Defcon 2: Cuban Missile Crisis (2002)
Will Fowler Self - Military Analyst Self - Military Analyst See fewer	Secret War (2012)
Lloyd Clark Self - RMA Sandhurst Self - RMA Sandhurst See fewer	Meet the Ancestors (1998)
Bruce Gudmundsson Self - Military Analyst Self - Military Analyst See fewer	Battle Plan Under Fire (2004)
Thomas X. Hammes Self - Military Analyst Self - Military Analyst See fewer	Pritzker Military Library Presents (2006)
Eric Meyers Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Snatch (2000)
Donald D. Blackburn Self - U.S. General (archive footage) Self - U.S. General (archive footage) See fewer	Surrender - Hell! (1959)
Jimmy Carter Self - President of the United States (archive footage) Self - President of the United States (archive footage) See fewer	The American President (2000)
Adolf Hitler Self - Führer of Germany (archive footage) Self - Führer of Germany (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Richard J. Meadows Self - U.S. Army Officer (archive footage) Self - U.S. Army Officer (archive footage) See fewer
Benito Mussolini Self - Prime Minister of Italy (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of Italy (archive footage) See fewer	Hundred Days (1935)
Richard Nixon Self - President of the United Sttaes (archive footage) Self - President of the United Sttaes (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Arthur D. Simons Self - U.S. Army Officer (archive footage) Self - U.S. Army Officer (archive footage) See fewer
Otto Skorzeny Self - SS Officer (archive footage) Self - SS Officer (archive footage) See fewer	Les grandes batailles (1966)
Fernando Soleti Self - Italian General (archive footage) Self - Italian General (archive footage) See fewer
David Stirling Self - British Army Officer (archive footage) Self - British Army Officer (archive footage) See fewer	Great SAS Missions (2004)
Kurt Student Self - German General (archive footage) Self - German General (archive footage) See fewer