Wartime Secrets With Harry Harris.txt
Wartime Secrets With Harry Harris
Episode 1 - Flirting with Hitler
Harry also reveals for the first time on television photographs of Lufftwaffe pilots being buried with full military honours by the RAF in an East End cemetery in 1944.
Episode 2 - Nazi Invasion
A 93 year old former 'Spitfire girl' Mary Ellis becomes the oldest person ever to return to the skies in one of the iconic Battle of Britain fighters.
Also, the daughter of a flying ace shot down over Kent 70 years ago joins in the search for the wreckage of his Hurricane in a back garden.
London cabbie and history guide Harry Harris uncovers previously unseen film of the devastation caused to his home patch, the East End of London.
He then investigates how the Brits used their brains to retaliate against Hitler with remote-controlled flying planes, top secret petrol pipelines under the ocean and deceive the Nazis with ingenious deception techniques including building a fake army.
Episode 5 - D-Day Disasters
A D-Day veteran reveals for the first time how marker buoys in the English Channel almost gave the Nazis 24 hours' notice of the Normandy Landings.
Also featured is the British military memorabilia collector who reveals how he discovered the skeleton of a German soldier whilst unearthing the secrets of a long-lost Nazi gun battery.
Plus a woman in North Devon speaks for the first time on TV about the friendly wartime 'invasion' of American soldiers - and reveals some of the never-before-seen mementos that they left behind.
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