Wartime Stories· Folge 63

The Battle of Alcatraz

Montag, 1. September 2025 · 35 min

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Alcatraz was designed to be an inescapable prison for America’s most dangerous criminals. But in 1946, a desperate breakout attempt by its prisoners forced battle-hardened U.S. Marines – fresh from the islands of the Pacific – to lay siege to the fortress on their own shores.
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