Director John Huston, while a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1943, creates an Academy Award winning doc, which he narrates with assistance from his actor father Walter, treating of the Armed Forces’ successful effort to prevent the fall of the Aleutian Islands to advancing Japanese troops who had captured several islets. Although no claim can be reasonably made that this location was of major strategic importance during the War, it presented enormous tactical and logistic difficulty for those assigned there, and Huston’s color film demonstrates the determined ensemble work upon the outpost of Adak by a wide range of military specialists who combat loneliness and boredom along with notably severe weather conditions.
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