Directed by John Huston, 'Report from the Aleutians' is a 1943 wartime documentary that provides a firsthand look at the harsh realities of World War II in the remote Aleutian Islands. Filmed and narrated by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the documentary captures the daily life of soldiers stationed in Alaska’s cold and unforgiving terrain as they prepare for combat. Featuring authentic footage of aerial bombing missions and military operations, the film is a significant historical record of America's Pacific campaign during the war.
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Director: John Huston
Producer: U.S. Army Signal Corps
Narration: John Huston
Cinematography: Military combat cameramen
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Credits:
Director: John Huston
Producer: U.S. Army Signal Corps
Narration: John Huston
Cinematography: Military combat cameramen
#ReportFromTheAleutians #JohnHuston #WWIIDocumentary #WarHistory #PacificCampaign #1943Film #MilitaryArchives #HistoricFootage #PublicDomainMovies
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00:00THE END
00:30The Aleutian Islands are situated in the North Pacific Ocean,
00:33forming 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.
00:44The Aleutians comprise four groups, the Fox, Andrianoff, Rat, and Near Islands,
00:50and constitute part of the territory of Alaska, USA.
00:53Of volcanic origin, there are numerous combs on the chain, many of them still active.
01:02The coasts are rocky and surf warm, rising immediately from the water in steep, bold mountains.
01:13The Aleutians are the storm part of the Western world.
01:23A permanent low-pressure area prevails there.
01:26Cold air masses from the polar regions flow with a shearing effect
01:36against the warm, moisture-laden air masses over the Japanese current
01:40to form cyclonic disturbances.
01:43Because of the Earth's rotation, these disturbances move from west to east,
01:53and this meteorological phenomenon constitutes one of the most dangerous weapons
01:57in the arsenal of our enemies,
02:00for it enables the Japanese to operate behind the moving curtain of a storm.
02:04In 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
02:21against two widely separated objectives, Midway Island and Dutch Harbor,
02:26an operation designed to break the American line of sea defense
02:29upon which the security of the Pacific coast depends.
02:32Both attempts failed.
02:35American Air Forces engaged the enemy task force at Midway,
02:38achieving an historic victory.
02:41And at Dutch Harbor, American land-based planes from secret American airfields
02:46swarmed down, seemingly out of nowhere,
02:48to knock out one, two, troop-filled transports,
02:52three heavy cruisers, two destroyers, and one aircraft carrier.
02:56In pursuit of the enemy, our Army and Navy airmen
02:58flew through storm and fog and hurricane,
03:01one-fifth on instruments, four-fifths on luck,
03:04twenty hours out of twenty-four sometimes,
03:07through blind passes, by uncharted peaks,
03:10down through zero ceilings,
03:13not knowing whether the enemy fleet or a mountain lay below,
03:17sweating it out for hour after blind hour of continuous flight,
03:21at home without benefit of directional beam,
03:24to land on unlighted runways,
03:26refueled, and take off into gray, blind hell.
03:31There is no monument to the many who went out and did not return.
03:35They fought and patrolled in many instances until their fuel was gone,
03:40knowing they would be forced down at sea,
03:42but unwilling to break off contacts they had made with enemy forces.
03:47Few were alive of those that flew against the Japs in the Battle of Dutch Harbor.
03:51If you wish to see their monument,
03:54you Americans here at home,
03:56look around you.
03:59In retiring, the remnants of the defeated Japanese task force
04:03landed troops on the undefended islands of Atu, Agatu, and Kiska.
04:07We immediately undertook the offensive.
04:10So commenced our march out along the bridge toward Asia.
04:13In late August of 1942,
04:16a large detachment of our troops landed on an island
04:20several hundred miles out along the chain,
04:23and under two hours by bomber from Kiska.
04:26The name of this island is Adak,
04:29and it is closer to Japan than any other American outpost.
04:33Typical of the Aleutian chain,
04:34it is windswept, treeless, rain-soaked,
04:37carpeted with sphagnum of flat, spongy vegetation,
04:40like undersea growth,
04:41which oozes water at every step.
04:45The only bird life on the island
04:47is its scavenger ravens,
04:49big, black wind-ruffled.
04:54Remote as the moon and hardly more fertile,
04:57Adak is next to worthless in terms of human existence.
05:00Its sole value is that of a pin on a staff officer's map,
05:04but that value is measureless.
05:07Strategically, Adak is one of the most important
05:10locations in the world.
05:14Eleven days after the occupation,
05:16an airfield was completed,
05:18and the first U.S. bomber sat down.
05:21Three days later,
05:23flights took off on a bombing mission to Kiska,
05:25with complete fighter protection.
05:27Since that time,
05:29missions over Kiska have become a daily affair.
05:32The airfield is the heart of the island,
05:34beating with a half million horsepower
05:36of heavy and medium bombers,
05:39Navy amphibians,
05:40pursuit ships,
05:41transports.
05:45The sound of the engines warming up
05:47starts before dawn,
05:49echoing back from the mountains
05:50that flank the field.
05:51Every day,
05:57weather per million,
05:58the bombers take off
05:59on at least one mission.
06:12Often on good days,
06:13a first flight takes off
06:14and the sun rises,
06:16others following
06:16at regular intervals,
06:18so that Kiska's under bombardment
06:20every hour
06:20until nightfall.
06:21Equal in importance
06:35to the airfield,
06:37and without which the airfield
06:38could not exist,
06:39is ADAC's excellent harbor.
06:42Landlocked on three sides
06:44with a natural island breakwater,
06:46it enables heavy draft vessels
06:48to come inshore
06:49and unload by lighter
06:50under almost any weather conditions.
06:53If the airfield
06:53is the heart of ADAC,
06:55the harbor is its hungry mouth.
06:58Its demands
06:58are ever on the increase.
07:01By day and by night,
07:02freighters, tankers,
07:03transports,
07:04deposit munitions,
07:06supplies,
07:06men upon the beach.
07:11Standing guard over all
07:13the defense installations,
07:15coastal batteries,
07:15anti-aircraft emplacements,
07:17machine gun posts.
07:21There is nothing vulnerable
07:23about ADAC any longer.
07:38The skies are constantly circled
07:41by aerial patrols
07:42and never-ending relays.
07:44PT boats,
07:51those seagoing in-fighters,
07:52stand by in readiness
07:54for a surprise landing attempt.
07:59Offshore,
07:59destroyers keep endless vigil,
08:02slipping like ghosts
08:03through the fogs,
08:04challenging each hull-down speck
08:06of an approaching vessel
08:07on the horizon,
08:09listening with their undersea ears
08:11for the beat of an engine,
08:12scanning the seas
08:13with a plume of a periscope,
08:15standing rugged duty
08:16in the bearing patrol,
08:18or slipping into port
08:19on the flank of a convoy.
08:24Although the sea lanes
08:25to ADAC
08:26are constantly traveled
08:27by convoys,
08:29and contact with enemy submarines
08:31is a daily occurrence,
08:33sinkings in these waters
08:34have been few
08:35and far between.
08:36Contact with an enemy submarine
08:42may continue on and off
08:43for hours,
08:44during which the undersea craft
08:46maneuvers for position to attack,
08:48venturing within the radius
08:50of the convoy's undersea detectors,
08:52only to crash dive,
08:54then kill engines
08:55and lie silent on the bottom
08:56as our destroyers bear down
08:58and release depth charges.
09:00Our destroyers
09:06and Navy reconnaissance
09:07have held the undersea enemy
09:09well in check.
09:10The flow of men,
09:11munitions,
09:12and supplies
09:13flows ceaselessly on.
09:17The gigantic task
09:19of furnishing
09:20every American expeditionary force
09:22with the materials
09:24needed in carrying
09:25the fight to the enemy
09:26falls to the Army service forces.
09:29ASF is the bloodstream
09:32of our whole military body,
09:34maintaining its every organ
09:35and muscle.
09:37ADAC presents
09:38a special problem.
09:40As the barren island
09:41furnishes nothing
09:42toward human needs
09:43save drinking water,
09:45everything else
09:46must be brought here.
09:49Food, fuel
09:50for men and motors,
09:53machinery, munitions,
09:55shelter materials.
09:57Raise these basic requirements
09:59to the nth power,
10:01add parts and replacements
10:02for everything
10:03from caterpillar tractors
10:05to can openers,
10:06plus the operations
10:07of estimating,
10:09purchasing,
10:09assembling,
10:10transporting,
10:11delivering,
10:12and becomes apparent
10:14why the job
10:15of supplying
10:16a military force
10:17is now dignified
10:18by a $12 word
10:20like logistics.
10:21Since the original landing,
10:29the manpower of ADAC
10:31has been constantly
10:32augmented.
10:33Where before it was hundreds,
10:35now it is thousands,
10:37troops arrive
10:38after a voyage
10:39that may take anywhere
10:40from a week to a month,
10:42depending on the sea route.
10:44But it took more
10:45than a single month
10:46to land them here,
10:48the months of training
10:49that toughened them
10:50to rigors
10:51of wind and weather,
10:52that taught them
10:53to handle their weapons
10:54that made them
10:55into soldiers.
10:57Add those months
10:59to the period
10:59of the voyage
11:00from the States.
11:01on ADAC,
11:29down-eastern accents
11:31mixed with Texas drawls
11:33and Middle Western
11:33twangs
11:34and Brooklynese.
11:36Bookkeepers,
11:37grocery clerks,
11:38college men,
11:39and dirt farmers.
11:40That is, of course,
11:41ex-dirt farmers,
11:43ex-bookkeepers,
11:44ex-college men.
11:46Soldiers now,
11:47as though all their lives
11:48they'd been nothing but.
11:59orders for the day,
12:10special orders and news
12:12appear on the bulletin board.
12:13Since newspapers
12:14and magazines
12:15are usually from a month
12:16to three months
12:16out of date,
12:17these radioed news flashes
12:19are the only means
12:20by which the soldier
12:20knows what's going on
12:21outside.
12:25No fresh meat,
12:26no green vegetables,
12:28powdered eggs,
12:29tin bully beef,
12:30potatoes,
12:31canned tomatoes,
12:32peanut butter,
12:33canned fruit and coffee
12:34make up the basic diet.
12:41And biscuits,
12:42barrels full of biscuits.
12:47Appetites are huge.
12:49Officers and men
12:53attend the same mess.
12:55As often as not,
12:56an officer doesn't display
12:57the insignia of his rank.
12:59The salute is reserved
13:00for rare occasions,
13:01but discipline
13:02does not suffer.
13:03Customary military formality
13:05is relaxed,
13:06plain civil necessity
13:07taking its place.
13:13After months
13:14in an outpost
13:15like ADAC,
13:16there is a tendency
13:17on the part of the soldier
13:18to think and live
13:19only in terms
13:20of the present.
13:21That far away world
13:22from which he came
13:23begins to seem
13:24like a dream to him.
13:26A letter in his hand
13:27is proof
13:28of the reality
13:28of that world,
13:30of Saturday night dances,
13:31of jalapes,
13:32and ice cream sodas,
13:33of sport pages,
13:34and shaving
13:35in the same mirror
13:36with the old man.
13:39A letter means
13:41more than his paycheck
13:42to the soldier.
13:43If he happens
13:44to be in the Air Corps,
13:45he'd gladly make
13:46an extra flight
13:46over Kiska
13:47for one more letter.
13:55No girls,
13:56pretty or otherwise.
13:58Nothing to drink,
13:59not even a Coke.
14:01Candy bars,
14:02cigarettes,
14:02and chewing gum
14:03are rationed,
14:04but you never hear
14:05any belly aching.
14:07The extraordinary fact
14:08is that morale
14:09actually gets strong
14:10when the closer troops
14:11come to the enemy.
14:12On ADAC proper,
14:15morale is first rate.
14:17there.
14:17THE END
14:47The 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, for the work never ceased.
15:10Bulldozers shifted thousands of tons of the lava ash which composed the bed of the lagoon.
15:15Not a new gain to the core that built the Panama Canal.
15:19As the waters receded, grading crews followed, leveling and impacting the area in preparation for the final surface.
15:44This surface was not to be the usual concrete runway of an airport, but a steel one whose sections had been prefabricated in American mills.
15:54It was put down by the infantry, of course, in thirty-six hours.
16:00A million and a half square feet of it.
16:12From then on, only the severest weather kept our planes grounded.
16:27Local storms materialize, deluge the island, and pass on or dissipate, all within a few short minutes.
16:33It'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.
16:59A 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.
17:07THE END
17:18The END
17:23The END
17:30The End
18:00The End
18:30The greater percentage of casualties, however, occur in the anti-aircraft fire over Kiska.
18:47As a rule, our bombers make it back, but often they are sorely crippled and wounded or dead aboard.
18:53In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.
19:13I 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.
19:22And where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, ye know, and away ye know.
19:28The return of the day's mission is the highlight of each 24 hours.
19:54Eyes turn skyward and ears strain for the faint beat of approaching engines.
20:00At the first sound, an alert is flashed to the ground defenses.
20:04Units clear for action. Anti-aircraft and machine guns are stripped.
20:09Ammunition broken out.
20:10And everything is put in readiness for an enemy who may be tailing our flight's home.
20:14Six bombers went out, and six are coming back.
20:27A first ship last.
20:55The remainder circle the field, another coming to Earth each time around.
21:00Those damaged are with wounded aboard, taking priority.
21:06It's a revelation how much punishment one of these big bombers can take and still navigate.
21:12Unless both sets of controls are shot away, or an explosive shell finds the gas tank,
21:18the odds are all in her making it safely home.
21:21Anyone who's been over will tell you that the most wonderful ride in the world is the ride back from Kiska.
21:32No matter if two engines have conked out, 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 command,
21:58where they will be questioned as to results and observations.
22:01Their jigsaw reports, taken singly, are compared and cross-checked
22:17until a complete and accurate record of the operation has been assembled.
22:21Thereafter, they're dismissed, with nothing to do till tomorrow, but eat, drink, and be merry.
22:27I've got a six-pence to last me all my life.
22:33I've got a tuppence to spend, a tuppence to lend, and tuppence to send home to my wife.
22:39No cares have I to grieve me, no pretty little girls to deceive me.
22:46I'm as happy as the king believed me, as we go rolling home.
22:52Rolling home, rolling home, rolling home, rolling home, by the light of the silvery moon.
23:00Happy is the day when the heaven gets its face, as we go rolling home.
23:06But ADAC's tomorrow begins today with a directive from Kodiak Island.
23:11A photographic ship accompanies missions to Kiska.
23:14It's tasked to follow the bombers over their target, recording the immediate results of the bombardment.
23:18Also, enemy defense activities, new installations, camouflage.
23:23These photographs are studied by specialist interpreters
23:26and submitted with comments to the general and his staff officers,
23:30Colonel William Prince and Colonel C.M. McCorkle.
23:38Here is Kiska, her camp area, with its steel huts,
23:42her hangers, her underground railway, her gun installations.
23:45Kiska, one of the hottest spots on the earth, or above.
23:53The main objectives in any mission from ADAC are the destruction of enemy shipping en route to Kiska,
23:58destruction of installations on the island,
24:01harassing of enemy personnel.
24:02When the broader aspects of the operation have been decided upon,
24:07the 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 bombs, the time, altitude, and direction of the attack.
24:21All of these are interrelated, a change of one influencing all the others.
24:25The overall determining factor is weather.
24:28For this reason, the Navy meteorologist plots his charts up 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, the 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 the Nileushan Mountains,
25:07these defenders of the faith exercised the first of their four freedoms.
25:30But so far as the business of war is concerned,
25:33Sunday on ADAC is like any other day.
25:35There's a mission going out at 13 o'clock.
25:38Bombs must be brought down to the field from their camouflage dumps.
25:48A heavy bomber carries either 16, 250-pounders,
25:5212, 500-pounders, or 8, 1,000-pounders.
25:56The size of the bomb to be employed depends upon the nature of the target.
26:00Since, if the target is small, there's a better chance of hitting it
26:03for the salvo of 250-pounders than with a single, large bomb.
26:08On the other hand, in congested areas, such as the campsite of Kiska,
26:12a blockbuster comes into its own.
26:15Tailpins and fuses are put on directly before the assembled bomb
26:18is hoisted into the bomb bay.
26:20When the time comes, bombs can be released either individually,
26:26in sticks, or in salvos.
26:32Belts of ammunition are brought to machine guns
26:34and threaded into receivers ready for firing.
26:37The rounds are put onto the belts in successions of trees,
26:40red-tip tracers, yellow incendiaries, and black regulations.
26:43Each moving part of each gun has been tended with watchmaker's care,
26:47and every belt of ammunition is cleaned, oiled, and checked before the takeoff.
26:57It is 12.40 o'clock,
26:59and the pilots who are going to fly the mission receive final instructions.
27:05Three flights, two of B-24s and one of B-17s, are to go over the target.
27:10The first flight at 1,100 feet to drop 500-pounders
27:13on anti-aircraft installations at North Head.
27:15Then to proceed along the coastline,
27:18straffing to the western limits of the camp area.
27:20The second flight at 7,500 feet
27:22to drop 1,000-pound bombs on the camp area.
27:26The third flight at 4,500 feet
27:28to destroy hangars with 500-pound bombs.
27:31Second and third flights to follow at intervals of 45 seconds.
27:35Three fighters to proceed each bomber flight at 600 feet,
27:38and three fighters to afford overhead protection from enemy aircraft.
27:41The third flight at 6,500 feet,
28:11crews begin to assemble around the ships,
28:19awaiting the appearance of their officers.
28:22A bomber crew is a team,
28:24and the longer it's together, the better the teamwork.
28:27Theirs 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
28:39if it is to endure.
28:42Maybe in the beginning you don't like the color of a guy's hair,
28:45but if he's all there at his job,
28:47you'll get to like it fine.
28:50Enlisted men eat, sleep, fly together.
28:53Their voices on the intercom become familiar,
28:56easy to understand,
28:57when understanding is vital.
29:00Every gunner knows the quality of every other's marksmanship and courage.
29:04The navigator can plot a thousand-mile course over open sea
29:07and make a landfall,
29:09and eight men can testify.
29:11Trust and respect for the bombardier,
29:14the radio operator,
29:15the engineer, co-pilot,
29:17and trust and respect for the ship they fly.
29:20A monument ought to be put up
29:26to that pre-war fraternity of high school speed maniacs,
29:30for out of their ranks,
29:31our fighter pilots are largely drawn.
29:35They bring to their hazardous undertaking
29:37split-second judgment,
29:39inspiration, daring.
29:42Lieutenant George I. Riddell,
29:4512 straffing missions over Kiska.
29:47Lieutenant Hawley P. Mills,
29:5014 missions.
29:54Lieutenant Lyle A. Bean,
29:5613 missions.
29:58Major Milton Ashkin,
30:0015 missions.
30:04Lieutenant Henry J. Strankowski,
30:0711 missions.
30:09Colonel Jack Chenault,
30:11son of General Chenault of the Flying Tigers.
30:13Colonel Jack has a zero on a submarine to his credit.
30:17A last-minute weather observation is made.
30:24The word is given to go.
30:30It's good luck and over the hill.
30:37The aerial camera goes aboard.
30:40The bomber pilot informs his crew
30:52the exact part their ship is to play in the mission.
30:56Your bomber pilot is of a different breed to your fighter,
30:58where the fighter is reckless and inspired.
31:01The bomber pilot is responsible, determined.
31:04Because 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
31:14that a heavy bomber is,
31:16he has the lives of six or eight others to think about.
31:18One hundred men.
31:23Nine bombers, twelve fighters,
31:26are setting out to attack and immobilize
31:2910,000 men
31:31behind naval and military defenses.
31:34This is the significance of aerial supremacy.
31:38But behind this supremacy
31:41lies the enormous system
31:43which makes it possible for the ships to take off.
31:47ASF,
31:49naval convoy,
31:51army air transport,
31:53the Corps of Engineers,
31:55Army and Navy intelligence,
31:58signal corps,
31:59ordnance,
32:00and ground forces.
32:02These have done their part for today.
32:06The stage is set.
32:08Rehearsals are over.
32:10The actors are ready.
32:13The curtain is going up.
32:15But this is no make-believe drama.
32:18They will be playing for keeps.
32:20Keeps.
32:35And this is noúng granularity.
33:05Colonel William O. Erickson, who sat the first bomber down on ADAC and led the original mission over Kiska.
36:13The thunder of engines makes the earth tremble
36:22and the ravens rise.
36:39The echelon proceeds toward Kiska.
36:41It's about an hour and three quarters from Adak to Kiska.
36:46One of the most hotly defended of enemy-held areas,
36:49Kiska is also one of the most strongly fortified.
36:52The Japs have dug in like so many moles.
36:56An estimated force of 10,000 goes underground
36:59at the sound of our approaching engines.
37:02We cannot, by air attack, hope to annihilate.
37:05We can only harass the force on Kiska.
37:08Cripple the island's defenses.
37:09Keep the enemy from adding to its resources
37:12while we build our own fighting strength
37:15to the day and the hour when we shall undertake a landing operation.
37:19Radio contact is maintained between the bombers and Adak
37:34throughout the flight,
37:36which proceeds at military speed,
37:38165 miles per hour.
37:40During the first part of the journey,
38:03the waste guns are swung into position.
38:07Turret mechanisms tested
38:08and trial rounds fired.
38:18Time moves slowly going out to the target.
38:21Crew members have even been known to play stud poker.
38:25The route is quite familiar by now.
38:27Many pilots and crews have made the flight 25, 30 times.
38:39Along about the time Amchipka is sighted,
38:43they begin to look out for enemy planes.
38:46The men whose regular job it is say
38:48no matter how often a fellow's gone over,
38:50he always feels funny up there over Kiska.
38:53At a signal from the squadron leader,
38:56the pilots will open throttle
38:57and the planes will go into the bombing run.
39:01For a minute and a half to two minutes,
39:03they will proceed at level flight
39:04in an absolutely straight line toward the target,
39:08thereby enabling the bombardier to make his computations.
39:12Wind velocity, speed, temperature, altitude, drift.
39:16There can be no deviation whatever in the flights
39:19if the bombs are to find the target.
39:21Ten miles and three minutes from the objective.
39:26Before Kiska volcano, the mission deploys,
39:29each flight going to its designated altitude
39:31in preparation for the run.
39:34The enemy will endeavor to throw the flights off their runs,
39:37and to this he will bring all his firepower to bear.
39:41The 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.
39:50How do you see they open up holes big enough
39:53for a man to crawl through?
40:06Little Kiska, outer defense of Kiska Harbor.
40:11Bombay door's open.
40:12Bombay door's open.
40:14Six degrees right on doors.
40:16The object is to hit the target, not to avoid anti-aircraft.
40:19Remember this.
40:20You're just as liable to run into it as away from it.
40:23The best way is to forget what's happening outside
40:25and make the run by instruments.
40:26That way, if it comes, well, you just look over your shoulder
40:29and see a man with a long beard, and you say,
40:30Good 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.
40:39Fire straight at the gunplashes until they stop.
40:42If we're ahead and have to bail out,
40:44there'll be plenty of Navy around to pick us up.
40:47Okay, shall we give it to him?
40:53Kiska.
40:54On the way.
41:07On the way.
41:07I don't know.
41:37What results?
41:41A plane hit.
41:44Enemy aircraft has been locked.
41:55Second flight, low altitude.
42:07Once again, over lightly.
42:10Let's go.
42:40On target.
42:47Let him hit.
43:10Make him like it.
43:15Third flight at 4,500 feet.
43:40Found the way.
43:47Here it goes.
44:05Follow the way.
44:18Here it goes.
44:48Check in, Tim, better.
45:00Okay.
45:02Wait a minute.
45:03Okay.
45:04Radio man.
45:06Okay.
45:07Talk to her.
45:08We're going to slug in more, but I'm okay.
45:11Silly turret.
45:12Okay.
45:13No.
45:13Okay.
45:17Piscis hangars are destroyed, burning.
45:20Our bombs found the target.
45:23Nine bombers came out and nine are going home.
45:27Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
45:29Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
45:31Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
45:33The night of the hill.
45:34The road in the day, the air is yet to say.
45:38Let's meet, our ro, ho, ho.
45:41Ho, ho, ho, ho.
45:45Ho, ho, ho, ho.
45:47To life in all my life
45:49I've got thousands to send
45:51And thousands to lend
45:53And thousands to send home to my wife
45:56So care have I to free me
46:00From pretty little girls to deceive me
46:04Like a sassy and a king
46:06Believe me
46:08And take a rolling home
46:11Rolling home, rolling home, rolling home
46:15Caught in home by the light of the still that we hold on
46:20Happy is the day when the year is given to stay
46:24As we go rolling home