No Man Left Behind
American television series
No Man Left Behind is an American television series which aired on the National Geographic Channel. The series tells the stories of American and British military encounters using archival footage, reenactments and testimony from those who were involved.
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This entry incorporates text from “No Man Left Behind” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.