June 1940. With England on the brink of invasion, a reluctant young hero leads a team of robot commandos to take the fight back to the enemy, but with dissention in the ranks, a traitor in their midst and his nemesis hot on their heels, the odds are against them. June 1940. After an insanely heroic rearguard action, Jack Stone and his friend, Billy Briggs, escape Dunkirk by the skin of their teeth with the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force, leaving Jack's nemesis, General Ernst M???rder, immolated but alive. As ...
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June 1940. With England on the brink of invasion, a reluctant young hero leads a team of robot commandos to take the fight back to the enemy, but with dissention in the ranks, a traitor in their midst and his nemesis hot on their heels, the odds are against them. June 1940. After an insanely heroic rearguard action, Jack Stone and his friend, Billy Briggs, escape Dunkirk by the skin of their teeth with the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force, leaving Jack's nemesis, General Ernst M???rder, immolated but alive. As France falls, Great Britain's invasion appears imminent. Haunted by his brother's death at M???rder's hands, Jack is recruited by Winston Churchill to lead his first team of commandos. In Berlin, Adolf Hitler resurrects M???rder, an old comrade, ordering that he oversee a top-secret project in Norway. Hell-bent on revenge, M???rder is re-born, concealing his disfigurement with a grotesque crimson samurai mask. Flown to the Scottish Highlands to meet their team, Jack and Billy join Brigadier Charles Hastings and sassy American scientist, Doctor Cammy Sullivan, who introduces them to the Tin Can Tommies--four humanoid machines who fought for the Allies during the Great War--nicknamed Lancaster, Hurricane, Mosquito and Spitfire. Jack and Cammy bond as Lancaster stubbornly resists Jack's command, and Billy starts to befriend the robots. While Jack remains unconvinced, the team slowly bond under the dutiful eye of their gritty drill instructor, Mungo McNulty, who is killed when Hastings reveals himself to be a quisling during the Tommies' graduation celebration, handing M???rder top secret documents before committing suicide. Distraught at McNulty's loss, Jack spirals into depression. Introducing him to the crawlers, the team's single caterpillar-tracked motorcycles, Cammy challenges Jack to a race across the Highlands where she persuades him that the Tommies can take the fight to the enemy. Falling for Cammy, Jack commits to lead the team who are posted to Dover for paratroop training under maverick young Spitfire ace, Alan 'Nosy' Parker, and his pilots of 2 Squadron, and meet Sal 'Fixer' Remmy, the wise-cracking pilot of their new vehicle, the Valiant, a modified Flying Fortress. After a skirmish with a German U-boat off the English coast, the team earn 2 Squadron's respect and training begins in earnest. Jack and Cammy grow closer as the team's first mission is revealed--the destruction of a Hydropower plant in Vemork, Norway, to prevent the creation of the world's first atomic bomb. M???rder arrives in Vemork on a mission of his own. As the team's bomber is destroyed mid-flight over its drop zone, they parachute into Norway but are separated above the hostile wastes. Alerted to the crash, M???rder dispatches troops to investigate. Rescued by Norwegian resistance, Jack meets their leader, Magnus Hellstr???m, and is reunited with his team, but discovers Spitfire is missing. Aware of the team's survival, M???rder plots their location. The team take refuge at Hellstr???m's sister's village where Spitfire's motionless shell has been discovered. Cammy tells Jack that her parachute was slashed, and that there may be a traitor in the group. As Lancaster, Hurricane and Mosquito pray for Spitfire's reactivation in the village church, M???rder arrives with his troops but Hellstr???m thwarts his plans, scattering M???rder's men across a lake of broken ice as he and the team escape with a now reactivated Spitfire. Reaching Vemork, they infiltrate the factory where Mosquito reveals he is the traitor and the team are captured. M???rder tortures Jack and Lancaster as Mosquito loads heavy water barrels onto a train. After escaping captivity, the remainder of the team rescue Jack and Lancaster who head for the station. Hellstr???m is killed as Cammy, Billy and the Tommies blow up the factory. Commandeering a hal
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