12:15 Sunday
World War 2
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12m
January 1945 - With his plane falling from the sky, navigator John Jenkins parachuted down onto Nazi Germany farmland. He was alone in the cold with no food or water. With no immediate aid, his chances of escaping back to Ally territory appeared grim. In this documentary, John retells the story of his first mission over Germany nearly seventy years after it occurred.
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