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"My job was to kill Japanese, and that's what I did." Bill Jones and Andy Petrus are the two toughest 85-year-olds you've ever met. Together, these life-long friends fought 3,000 Japanese in a secret Alaskan invasion during World War II. Now, 60 years later, these two forgotten h...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Watertown, Mass.
Documentary Educational Resources
2007, 2007
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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| Collection: | Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "My job was to kill Japanese, and that's what I did." Bill Jones and Andy Petrus are the two toughest 85-year-olds you've ever met. Together, these life-long friends fought 3,000 Japanese in a secret Alaskan invasion during World War II. Now, 60 years later, these two forgotten heroes embark on an intense and emotional journey back to the remote Aleutian island of Attu, where they relive the brutal 19-day battle that the American government kept secret |
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| Item Description: | Previously released on DVD.. - Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2010). - Recorded in Attu Island, Alaska |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (86 min.) |