Patton 360° - Season 1 - Eps 10: Crushing the Third Reich
After Patton's troops invade Germany, a secret mission to rescue U.S. POWs goes horribly wrong; the Third Army liberates the Buchenwald death camp; Nazi Germany surrenders; Patton dies of injuries from a postwar car accident.
About Patton 360°
Title: Patton 360°
First Air Date: 2009-04-10
Last Air Date: 2009-06-28
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.333/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: Unknown
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Patton 360° is a weekly television series that originally ran from April 10 to June 26, 2009, on the History channel. It was produced by Flight 33 Productions in Los Angeles, and features a mixture of CGI, archival footage, recreations, and interviews with World War II veterans and historians. The series follows General George S. Patton and the units he commanded, from the Operation Torch landings in Morocco in 1942, through the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, and in the battles across Northwest Europe. The episodes were written by Samuel K. Dolan and Jim Hense, and produced by Rob Beemer, Brian Thompson, Samuel K. Dolan, associate producer Ryan Hurst, and executive producers Louis Tarantino and Douglas Cohen for Flight 33 Productions and Carl Lindahl for the History channel.
