American filmmaker John Huston directed this documentary while serving with the Army Signal Corps as a captain during the war. Shot in Technicolor, it focuses on the daily lives of soldiers on Adak Island. This excerpt follows them on an aerial attack against a Japanese base on a nearby island. For photographs of the Aleutians, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective.
To watch this film in its entirety, visit the Internet Archive.
Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More
Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.
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