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Frontline Fog – War Diaries from the Aleutian Islands offers a rare and gripping look into one of World War II’s most overlooked fronts. Narrated with raw authenticity, this wartime documentary captures the daily lives, struggles, and resilience of U.S. soldiers stationed in the remote and treacherous Aleutian Islands. Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, it blends historical significance with powerful visual storytelling.
Public domain documentary. Restored and presented for historical education.
Public domain documentary. Restored and presented for historical education.
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00:00THE END
00:30The Aleutian Islands are situated in the North Pacific Ocean,
00:34forming a chain which extends about 1,200 miles west-southwest from Alaska Peninsula towards Siberia
00:40to form the southern boundary of the Bering Sea.
00:45The Aleutians comprise four groups, the Fox, Andrianoff, Rat, and Near Island,
00:51and constitute part of the territory of Alaska, USA.
00:54Of volcanic origin, there are numerous combs on the chain, many of them still active.
01:08The coasts are rocky and surf-worn, rising immediately from the water in steep, bold mountains.
01:14The Aleutians are the storm part of the Western world.
01:24A permanent low-pressure area prevails there.
01:26Cold air masses from the polar regions flow with a shearing effect
01:37against the warm, moisture-laden air masses over the Japanese current
01:41to form cyclonic disturbances.
01:44Because of the Earth's rotation, these disturbances move from west to east,
01:54and this meteorological phenomenon constitutes one of the most dangerous weapons
01:58in the arsenal of our enemies,
02:00for it enables the Japanese to operate behind the moving curtain of a storm.
02:05In the early days of June 1942, they employed this advantage
02:12in an all-out attempt to secure absolute domination of the entire Pacific Ocean.
02:18Behind eastward-moving storms, they dispatched two invasion fleets
02:22against two widely separated objectives, Midway Island and Dutch Harbor,
02:27an operation designed to break the American line of sea defense
02:30upon which the security of the Pacific coast depends.
02:33Both attempts failed.
02:36American Air Forces engaged the enemy task force at Midway,
02:39achieving an historic victory.
02:41And at Dutch Harbor, American land-based planes from secret American airfields
02:46swarmed down, seemingly out of nowhere, to knock out one, two,
02:51troop-filled transports, three heavy cruisers, two destroyers,
02:54and one aircraft carrier.
02:56In pursuit of the enemy, our Army and Navy airmen flew through storm and fog and hurricane,
03:02one-fifth on instruments, four-fifths on luck,
03:05twenty hours out of twenty-four sometimes,
03:08through blind passes, by uncharted peaks,
03:11down through zero ceilings,
03:13not knowing whether the enemy fleet or a mountain lay below,
03:18sweating it out for hour after blind hour of continuous flight,
03:22at home without benefit of directional beam,
03:25to land an unlighted runway,
03:27refueled, and take off into gray, blind hell.
03:30There is no monument to the many who went out and did not return.
03:36They fought and patrolled in many instances until their fuel was gone,
03:40knowing they would be forced down at sea,
03:43but unwilling to break off contacts they had made with enemy forces.
03:48Few were alive of those that flew against the Japs in the Battle of Dutch Harbor.
03:52If you wish to see their monument,
03:55you Americans here at home,
03:56look around you.
04:00In retiring, the remnant of the defeated Japanese task force
04:04landed troops on the undefended islands of Atiu, Agatiu, and Kiska.
04:08We immediately undertook the offensive.
04:11So commenced our march out along the bridge toward Asia.
04:14In late August of 1942,
04:17a large detachment of our troops landed
04:19on an island several hundred miles out along the chain,
04:23and under two hours by bomber from Kiska.
04:27The name of this island is Adak,
04:30and it is closer to Japan than any other American outpost.
04:33Typical of the Aleutian chain,
04:35it is windswept, treeless, rain soap,
04:38carpeted with sphagnum of flat, spongy vegetation,
04:41like undersea grove,
04:42which oozes water at every step.
04:45The only bird life on the island
04:48is its scavenger raven,
04:49big, black wind ruffle.
04:55Remote as the moon and hardly more fertile,
04:58Adak is next to worthless in terms of human existence.
05:01Its sole value is that of a pin on a staff officer's map,
05:05but that value is measurable.
05:07Strategically, Adak is one of the most important locations in the world.
05:14Eleven days after the occupation,
05:17an airfield was completed,
05:18and the first U.S. bomber sat down.
05:22Three days later,
05:23flights took off on a bombing mission to Kiska,
05:26with complete fighter protection.
05:28Since that time,
05:29missions over Kiska have become a daily affair.
05:33The airfield is the heart of the island,
05:35beating with a half million horsepower
05:37of heavy and medium bombers,
05:40Navy amphibians,
05:41pursuit ships,
05:42transports.
05:45The sound of the engines warming up
05:48starts before dawn,
05:49echoing back from the mountains
05:51that flank the field.
05:52Every day,
05:58weather per million,
05:59the bombers take off
06:00on at least one mission.
06:13Often on good days,
06:14a first flight takes off in the sunrise,
06:16others following at regular intervals,
06:18so that Kiska's under bombardment
06:20every hour until nightfall.
06:35Equal in importance to the airfield,
06:37and without which the airfield could not exist,
06:40is Adak's excellent harbor.
06:43Landlocked on three sides
06:44with a natural island breakwater,
06:46it enables heavy draft vessels
06:48to come inshore
06:49and unload by lighter
06:51under almost any weather condition.
06:53If the airfield is the heart of Adak,
06:56the harbor is its hungry mouth.
06:58Its demands are ever on the increase.
07:01By day and by night,
07:03freighters, tankers, transports
07:05deposit munitions,
07:06supplies, men upon the beach.
07:09Standing guard over all the defense installations,
07:15coastal batteries,
07:17anti-aircraft emplacement,
07:19machine gun posts.
07:22There is nothing vulnerable
07:24about Adak any longer.
07:25The skies are constantly circled
07:42by aerial patrols
07:43and never-ending relays.
07:51PT boats,
07:52those seagoing in-fighters,
07:53stand by in readiness
07:54for a surprise landing attempt.
07:59Offshore, destroyers
08:01keep endless vigil,
08:03slipping like ghosts
08:04through the fogs,
08:05challenging each hull-down speck
08:07of an approaching vessel
08:08on the horizon,
08:09listening with their undersea ears
08:11for the beat of an engine,
08:13scanning the seas
08:14with a plume of periscope,
08:16standing rugged duty
08:17in the bearing patrols,
08:19or slipping into port
08:20on the flank of a convoy.
08:21Although the sea lanes
08:26to Adak
08:27are constantly traveled
08:28by convoy,
08:30and contact
08:31with enemy submarines
08:32is a daily occurrence,
08:34sinkings in these waters
08:35have been few
08:36and far between.
08:40Contact
08:41with an enemy submarine
08:42may continue
08:43on and off for hours,
08:45during which
08:46the undersea craft
08:47maneuvers
08:47for position to attack,
08:49venturing within the radius
08:50of the convoy's
08:51undersea detectors,
08:53only to crash dive,
08:54then kill engines
08:55and lie silent
08:56on the bottom
08:57as our destroyers
08:58bear down
08:59and release depth charges.
09:06Our destroyers
09:07and Navy reconnaissance
09:08have held
09:09the undersea enemy
09:10well in check.
09:11The flow of men,
09:12munitions,
09:13and supplies
09:13flows ceaselessly on.
09:15The gigantic task
09:20of furnishing
09:21every American
09:22expeditionary force
09:23with the materials
09:25needed in carrying
09:26the fight to the enemy
09:27falls to the Army
09:28service forces.
09:31ASF is the bloodstream
09:32of our whole military body,
09:35maintaining its every organ
09:36and muscle.
09:38Adak presents a special problem
09:40as the barren island
09:41furnishes nothing
09:42toward human needs
09:44save drinking water.
09:46Everything else
09:47must be brought here.
09:49Food,
09:51fuel
09:51for men and motors,
09:54machinery,
09:55munitions,
09:56shelter material.
09:58Raise these basic requirements
09:59to the nth power.
10:01Add parts and replacements
10:03for everything
10:04from caterpillar tractors
10:06to can openers,
10:07plus the operations
10:08of estimating,
10:09purchasing,
10:10assembling,
10:11transporting,
10:12delivering,
10:13and becomes apparent
10:15why the job
10:16of supplying
10:17a military force
10:18is now dignified
10:19by a $12 word
10:21like logistics.
10:28Since the original landing,
10:30the manpower of Adak
10:32has been constantly augmented.
10:34Where before it was hundreds,
10:36now it is thousands,
10:38troops arrive
10:39after a voyage
10:40that may take anywhere
10:41from a week to a month,
10:43depending on the sea route.
10:45But it took more
10:46than a single month
10:47to land them here.
10:49The months of training
10:50that toughened them
10:51to rigors
10:51of wind and weather,
10:53that taught them
10:54to handle their weapons
10:55that made them
10:56into soldiers.
10:58Add those months
10:59to the period
11:00of the voyage
11:01from the States.
11:06The End
11:07On Adak,
11:30down eastern accent,
11:31mixed with Texas draws
11:33and Middle Western twangs and Brooklynese.
11:37Bookkeepers, grocery clerks, college men, and dirt farmers.
11:41That is, of course, ex-dirt farmers, ex-bookkeepers, ex-college men.
11:46Soldiers now, as though all their lives they've been nothing but.
12:03Orders for the day, special orders and news, appear on the bulletin board.
12:14Since newspapers and magazines are usually from a month to three months out of date,
12:18these radioed news flashes are the only means by which the soldier knows what's going on outside.
12:26No fresh meat, no green vegetables, powdered eggs, tin bully beans,
12:31potatoes, canned tomatoes, peanut butter, canned fruit, and coffee make up the basic diet.
12:41And biscuits, barrels full of biscuits.
12:48Appetites are huge.
12:53Officers and men attend the same mess.
12:56As often as not, an officer doesn't display the insignia of his rank.
12:59The salute is reserved for rare occasions, but discipline does not suffer.
13:04Customary military formality is relaxed, plain, simple necessity taking its place.
13:09After months of an outpost like Adak, there's a tendency on the part of the soldier to think and live only in terms of the present.
13:22That faraway world from which he came begins to seem like a dream to him.
13:27A letter in his hand is proof of the reality of that world.
13:30Of Saturday night dances, jalapes, and ice cream sodas, and sport pages,
13:35and shaving in the same mirror with the old man.
13:40A letter means more than his paycheck to the soldier.
13:44If he happens to be in the Air Corps, he'd gladly make an extra flight over Kiska for one more letter.
13:49No girls, pretty or otherwise.
13:59Nothing to drink, not even a Coke.
14:01Candy bars, cigarettes, and chewing gum are rationed.
14:05But you never hear any bellyache.
14:07The extraordinary fact is that morale actually gets strong when the closer troops come to the enemy.
14:12On Adak proper, morale is first rate.
14:17Andтом half an hour,ifiable a heart,inters
14:20sozusagen goes to the sea, but the difficulty of making ow binding.
14:24pumps, pumps, liberals, peppers, etc.
14:36Well, hope you found that morale is better and more pure oil.
14:41But perform in the air as a millisecond,
14:43Poetry ofбуck and oil
14:45The site of the airfield was originally a shallow tidal lagoon.
14:54Army engineers diked up its inlet and drained off its waters by means of a channel to the sea.
15:00It was their resourcefulness in exploiting a natural formation which made possible the completion of the field in ten days and eleven nights,
15:08for the work never ceased.
15:10Bulldozers shifted thousands of tons of the lava ash which composed the bed of the lagoon.
15:16Not a new gain to the core that built the Panama Canal.
15:20As the waters receded, grading crews followed, leveling and impacting the area in preparation for the final surface.
15:30This surface was not to be the usual concrete runway of an airport, but a steel one whose sections had been prefabricated in American mills.
15:40It was put down by the infantry, of course.
15:45In thirty-six hours.
15:46A million and a half square feet of it.
15:47A million and a half square feet of it.
15:48This surface was not to be the usual concrete runway of an airport, but a steel one whose sections had been prefabricated in American mills.
15:55It was put down by the infantry, of course, in thirty-six hours.
16:00A million and a half square feet of it.
16:13From then on, only the severest weather kept our planes grounded.
16:27Local storms materialized, deluge the island, and pass on or dissipate.
16:32All within a few short minutes.
16:34It's a land of cloud bursts and rainbows.
16:37If you don't like the weather, wait a minute, the soldier says.
16:40Everything the weatherman has to offer may be had in a single day.
16:44Downpours, hurricane winds, hail, snow, fog, sleet, and sunshine.
16:52It is not so much bad weather as changing weather that makes flying hazardous to the uninitiated there.
17:00A new pilot must learn to side-slip through local squalls and sit her down in a field rimmed by mountains and under a half foot of water.
17:10Just say, I give it something to a light some degree to try.
17:11If you don't like the weather permitir .
17:12явing world loves only.
17:13It is nothing any other, no matter what makes theseOf what shapes the unusualuur PMly
17:31The End
18:01The End
18:31A greater percentage of casualties, however, occur in the anti-aircraft fire over Kiska.
18:48As a rule, our bombers make it back, but often they are sorely crippled and wounded or dead aboard.
18:54In my father's house had many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.
19:14I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
19:23And where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and away ye know.
19:29The end of the day's mission is the highlight of each 24 hours.
19:54Eyes turn skyward and ears strain to the faint beat of approaching engines.
20:01At the first sound, an alert is flashed to the ground defenses.
20:05Units clear for action. Anti-aircraft and machine guns are stripped.
20:09Ammunition broken out.
20:11And everything is put in readiness for an enemy who may be tailing our flight's home.
20:15Six bombers went out, and six are coming back.
20:27A first ship lands.
20:56The remainder circle the field, another coming to Earth each time around.
21:01Those damaged who had wounded aboard, taking priority.
21:07It's a revelation how much punishment one of these big bombers can take and still navigate.
21:13Unless both sets of controls are shot away, or an explosive shell finds the gas tank,
21:19the odds are all in her making it safely halt.
21:22Anyone who's been over will tell you that the most wonderful ride in the world is the ride back from Kitzker.
21:33No matter if two engines have calmed down, and daylight is pouring through the wings,
21:38there's just something about the scenery on the way home.
21:41Crews proceed to the field operations tent of the bomber commandment,
21:58where there will be questionless results and observations.
22:01Their jigsaw reports, taken singly, are compared and cross-checked
22:18until a complete and accurate record of the operation has been assembled.
22:22Thereafter, they're dismissed, with nothing to do till tomorrow, but eat, drink, and be merry.
22:27I've got sixpence to last me all my life
22:33I've got toughence to spend, and toughence to lend
22:37And toughence to send home to my wife
22:40No cares have I to greet me
22:43No pretty little girls to deceive me
22:47I'm as happy as a king, believe me
22:50As we go rolling home
22:52Rolling home
22:54Rolling home
22:55Rolling home
22:56Rolling home
22:57By the light of the silvery moon
22:59Happy is the day when the heaven gets to face
23:03As we go rolling home
23:06But ADAC's tomorrow begins today
23:09with a directive from Kodiak Island
23:11A photographic ship accompanies missions to Kiska
23:14It's tasked to follow the bombers over their target
23:17recording the immediate results of the bombardment
23:19Also enemy defense activities, new installations, camouflage
23:23These photographs are studied by specialist interpreters
23:27And submitted with comments to the general and his staff officers
23:30Colonel William Prince and Colonel C.M. McCorkle
23:34Here is Kiska
23:40Her camp area, with its steel huts
23:43Her hangers, her underground railway
23:45Her gun installation
23:46Kiska
23:47One of the hottest spots on the earth
23:49Or above
23:51The main objectives in any mission from ADAC
23:56Are the destruction of enemy shipping en route to Kiska
23:59Destruction of installations on the island
24:01Harassing of enemy personnel
24:03When the broader aspects of the operation have been decided upon
24:08The senior officers of the bomber and fighter units work out its details
24:12Among considerations in planning a mission are the type of aircraft to be employed
24:17The weight and type of bomb
24:19The time, altitude, and direction of the attack
24:21All of these are interrelated
24:23A change of one influencing all the others
24:26The overall determining factor is weather
24:28For this reason, the Navy meteorologist plots his charts
24:32Up to the very time of takeoff
24:34A change of weather at the last moment may mean a complete revision of tomorrow's plans
24:40Tomorrow is Sunday
24:41At their outposts on the island, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish chaplains
24:57Not priests, ministers, or rabbis, but chaplains all
25:02Are leading fighting men in their devotions
25:05Under the snows of an Aleutian mountain
25:07These defenders of the faith
25:09Exercise the first of their four freedoms
25:12But so far as the business of war is concerned
25:34Sunday on ADAC is like any other day
25:36There's a mission going out at 13 o'clock
25:39Bombs must be brought down to the field
25:41From their camouflage dumps
25:43A heavy bomber carries either 16, 250-pounders
25:5312, 500-pounders
25:54Or 8, 1,000-pounders
25:57The size of the bomb to be employed
25:59Depends upon the nature of the target
26:01Since if the target is small
26:03There's a better chance of hitting it
26:04With a salvo of 250-pounders
26:06Than with a single, large bomb
26:08On the other hand, in congested areas
26:11Such as the campsite of Kiska
26:12A blockbuster comes into its own
26:15Tail fins and fuses are put on
26:17Directly before the assembled bomb
26:19Is hoisted into the bomb bay
26:21When the time comes
26:24Bombs can be released either individually
26:26In sticks or in salvo
26:28Belts of ammunition are brought to machine guns
26:35And threaded into receivers ready for firing
26:37The rounds are put onto the belts in successions of three
26:40Red tip tracers, yellow incendiaries, and black regulation
26:44Each moving part of each gun
26:46Has been tended with watchmaker's care
26:48And every belt of ammunition is cleaned, oiled, and checked
26:51Before the takeoff
26:52It is 12.40 o'clock
27:00And the pilots who are going to fly the mission
27:02Receive final instruction
27:04Three flights, two of B-24s and one of B-17s
27:09To go over the target
27:10The first flight at 1,100 feet
27:12To drop 500 pounders on anti-aircraft installations
27:15At North Head
27:16Then to proceed along the coastline
27:18Strapping to the western limits of the camp area
27:21The second flight at 7,500 feet
27:23To drop 1,000 pound bombs on the camp area
27:26The third flight at 4,500 feet
27:29To destroy hangars with 500 pound bombs
27:31Second and third flights to follow
27:33At intervals of 45 seconds
27:35Three fighters to proceed each bomber flight at 600 feet
27:39And three fighters to afford overhead protection
27:41From enemy aircraft
27:42One of thosepeutic departments
27:49To quais Radiant
27:51Samợ
27:54The third flight at 7,000 feet
27:56Step兩個
27:58The third flight will not be Good to fly
28:00The third flight will not be Good to fly
28:01The third flight will not be Good to fly
28:04Let us go
28:05At morning
28:05Let us go
28:06Let us go
28:07Let us go
28:08Let us go
28:08Let us go
28:10Crews begin to assemble around the ships,
28:20awaiting the appearance of their officers.
28:23A bomber crew is a team,
28:24and the longer it's together, the better the teamwork.
28:28Theirs is a mutual responsibility.
28:30The safety of the ship and the lives of all the others
28:33may depend on any single member.
28:36Trust, respect are implicit in such a relationship.
28:40If it is to endure.
28:43Maybe in the beginning you don't like the color of a guy's hair,
28:46but if he's all there at his job, you'll get to like it fine.
28:51Enlisted men eat, sleep, fly together.
28:54Their voices on the intercom become familiar,
28:57easy to understand, when understanding is vital.
29:01Every gunner knows the quality of every other's marksmanship and courage.
29:05The navigator can plot a thousand-mile course over open sea
29:08and make a landfall.
29:09Eight men can testify.
29:12Trust and respect for the bombardier, the radio operator,
29:16the engineer, co-pilot,
29:18and trust and respect for the ship they fly.
29:21A monument ought to be put up to that pre-war fraternity
29:28of high school speed maniacs.
29:30For out of their ranks, our fighter pilots are largely drawn.
29:34Lieutenant George I. Riddell, 12 straffing missions over Kiska.
29:47Lieutenant Hawley P. Mills, 14 missions.
29:55Lieutenant Lyle A. Bean, 13 missions.
29:59Major Milton Ashkin, 15 missions.
30:01Lieutenant Henry J. Strankofsky, 11 missions.
30:08Colonel Jack Chennault, son of General Chennault of the Flying Tigers.
30:13Colonel Jack has a zero on a submarine to his credit.
30:16A last-minute weather observation is made.
30:24The word is given to go.
30:30It's good luck and over the hill.
30:32The aerial camera goes aboard.
30:50The bomber pilot informs his crew the exact part their ship is to play in the mission.
30:55Your bomber pilot is of a different breed to your fighter.
30:59Where the fighter is reckless and inspired,
31:02the bomber pilot is responsible, determined.
31:05Because of the size and imponderability of his ship,
31:08there are no last-moment decisions for him.
31:11And besides the big, intricate, costly piece of machinery that a heavy bomber is,
31:16he has the lives of six or eight others to think about.
31:19One hundred men, nine bombers, 12 fighters,
31:27are setting out to attack and immobilize 10,000 men
31:32behind naval and military defenses.
31:35This is the significance of aerial supremacy.
31:40But behind this supremacy lies the enormous system
31:44which makes it possible for the ships to take off.
31:47ASF, Naval Convoy, Army Air Transport,
31:54the Corps of Engineers, Army and Navy Intelligence,
31:58Signal Corps, Ordnance, and Ground Forces.
32:03These have done their part for today.
32:06The stage is set.
32:09Rehearsals are over.
32:11The actors are ready.
32:13The curtain is going up.
32:15But this is no make-believe drama.
32:19They will be playing for keeps.
32:21Oh!
32:26Oh!
32:27Oh!
32:31Ah!
32:32The End
33:02Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT and led the original mission over Kiska.
33:32The End
34:02Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT and led the original mission over Kiska.
34:09The End
34:11Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT.
34:16Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT.
34:23Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT.
34:30Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAT.
34:45Oh, my God.
35:15Oh, my God.
35:45Oh, my God.
36:15The thunder of engines makes the earth tremble and the ravens rise.
36:24The echelon proceeds toward Kiska.
36:42It's about an hour and three quarters from Adak to Kiska.
36:46One of the most hotly defended of enemy-held areas, Kiska is also one of the most strongly fortified.
36:53The Japs have dug in like so many moles.
36:56An estimated force of 10,000 goes underground at the sound of our approaching engine.
37:03We cannot, by air attack, hope to annihilate.
37:05We can only harass the force on Kiska, cripple the island's defense, keep the enemy from adding to its resources,
37:13while we build our own fighting strength to the day and the hour when we shall undertake a landing operation.
37:19Radio contact is maintained between the bombers and Adak throughout the flight,
37:37which proceeds at military speed to 165 miles per hour.
37:41During the first part of the journey, the waste guns are swung into position.
38:06Turret mechanisms tested, and trial rounds fired.
38:18Time moves slowly going out to the target.
38:22Crew members have even been known to play stud poker.
38:26The route is quite familiar by now.
38:29Many pilots and crews have made the flight 25, 30 times.
38:33Long about the time Ann Chitka is sighted, they begin to look out for enemy planes.
38:46The men whose regular job it is say no matter how often a fellow's gone over,
38:51he always feels funny up there over Kiska.
38:55At a signal from the squadron leader, the pilots will open throttle,
38:59and the planes will go into the bombing run.
39:01For a minute and a half to two minutes, they will proceed at level flight
39:05in an absolutely straight line toward the target,
39:09thereby enabling the bombardier to make his computation.
39:12Wind velocity, speed, temperature, altitude, drift.
39:17There can be no deviation whatever in the flight if the bombs are to find the target.
39:23Ten miles in three minutes from the objective.
39:26Before Kiska volcano, the mission deploys,
39:30each flight going to its designated altitude in preparation for the run.
39:34The enemy will endeavor to throw the flights off their run,
39:38and to this he will bring all his firepower to bear.
39:42The earth below will blaze with hatred.
39:45Our ships will heave and rock in the yak-ak.
39:48Machine gun bullets may make a filigree of their wings.
39:51How do you see they open up holes big enough for a man to crawl through?
40:07Little Kiska, outer defense of Kiska Harbor.
40:11Bombay door's open.
40:13Bombay door's open.
40:15Six degrees right on course.
40:16The object is to hit the target, not to avoid anti-aircraft.
40:20Remember this.
40:21You're just as liable to run into it as away from it.
40:24The best way is to forget what's happening outside and make the run by instrument.
40:27That way, if it comes, well, you just look over your shoulder
40:30and see a man with a long beard, and you say,
40:32Good morning, Father Abraham.
40:33I want every man to stick by his gun until I say he can leave.
40:37Use every round of ammunition on this ship.
40:40Fire straight at the gun flashes until they stop.
40:43Before we're ahead and have to bail out,
40:45there'll be plenty of Navy around to pick us up.
40:48Okay, shall we give it to him?
40:54Kiska.
40:55Oh, wait.
41:08Oh, wait.
41:22Oh, wait.
41:24What result?
41:42A man hit.
41:45Enemy aircraft in three o'clock.
41:46Second flight.
41:57Go attitude.
42:09Once again, all the lightning.
42:10Nothing.
42:23One.
42:23One.
42:24One.
42:24One.
42:36Two.
42:37One.
42:38On target.
42:48Limb him.
43:08Pour it on him. Make him like it.
43:38Third flight at 4,500 feet.
43:47Bomb's the way.
44:04Here we go.
44:08Bomb's the way.
44:34Bomb's the way.
44:36Bomb's the way.
44:38Bomb's the way.
44:40Bomb's the way.
44:41Bomb's the way.
44:42Bomb's the way.
44:43Bomb's the way.
44:44Bomb's the way.
44:45Bomb's the way.
44:46Bomb's the way.
44:47Bomb's the way.
44:48Bomb's the way.
44:49Bomb's the way.
44:50Bomb's the way.
44:51Bomb's the way.
44:52Bomb's the way.
44:53Bomb's the way.
44:54Bomb's the way.
44:55Bomb's the way.
44:56Bomb's the way.
44:57Bomb's the way.
44:58Bomb's the way.
44:59Bomb's the way.
45:00Bomb's the way.
45:01Bomb's the way.
45:02Bomb's the way.
45:03Bomb's the way.
45:04Bomb's the way.
45:05Radio's in.
45:07Okay.
45:08I'm a turret.
45:09I'm kind of slugging more, but I'm okay.
45:12Silly turret.
45:13Okay.
45:14No.
45:15Okay.
45:18Kiskis hangars are destroyed, burning.
45:21Our bombs found the target.
45:24Nine bombers came out, and nine are going home.
45:27Oh, I've got sixes, darling, darling, sixes.
45:46I've got sixes, I've got sixes, I've got sixes all my life.
45:50I've got seven to ten, and seven to land, and seven to ten, to my mind.
45:57Oh, can't that life go creepy.
46:01Oh, pretty little girl, still deceiving.
46:05I'm as happy as you think, believe me.
46:09And we call it all in hope.
46:12We call it all in hope, call it all in hope, call it all in hope.
46:17By the life of the children we hold on.
46:21Happy is the day when the air is yet to stay.
46:24And we call it all in hope, call it all in hope, call it all in hope.
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