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00:00The Aleutians are a string of island bases extending over a thousand miles westward from

00:22the Alaskan Peninsula. These islands, the Japs once considered a back door to the United States,

00:28but when the door was opened... Oh, forget about incident. And now our back door is a front door to Tokyo.

00:42Bountiful Mother Nature has endowed these islands with all the rich variety of weather

00:47from her abundant storehouse.

00:49In fact, the old bag blew her top!

01:08My gracious, such conditions are almost unbelievable.

01:12Nevertheless, that's the conditions that prevail.

01:19Another factor that complicates life here is the thick, gummy mud peculiar to this region.

01:26I don't mind the mud, but George hates it. Claude don't like it neither.

01:33It often gets quite breezy up here.

01:35However, these willy-wahs, as they are called, die down as suddenly as they arise.

01:49Airstrips present a serious problem. It's almost impossible to keep their surface entirely free of

01:54with moisture.

02:24Ah, life in the illusions.

02:27But that's the way things are up here.

02:30Unbelievable conditions.

02:32Unbelievable!

02:34Nevertheless, that's the conditions that prevail.