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When a U.S. Battalion is
surrounded by Germans,
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Soldiers of a segregated Japanese-American
unit fight to reach them.
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Pinned at the base of what
they would call Suicide Hill,
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No one moves when
given the order to charge.
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Until an unlikely hero
steps up to lead the way.
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On June 6th, 1944,
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Allied forces finally land
troops in Normandy
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to open the western front.
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But Nazi fanatics and diehards continue
to fight ferociously for survival.
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D-day was a battle.
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They still need
to win the war.
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Friday, October 27th, 1944.
The Vosges mountains, France.
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American sergeant Shiro Kashino
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leads his soldiers along a narrow
path deep in the forest.
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At 0300 hours they
struggle to see their route.
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It's almost unimaginable
how dark it is.
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The overhang of the trees,
the blackness.
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The total absence of any kind of city
lights that would illuminate the sky
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{\an8}makes it seem like you're
in the middle of a nightmare.
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Afraid the men of the 442nd
regimental combat team
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will lose their way in the forest,
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they pin squares of white paper to their
backs for the soldier behind to follow.
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Their mission is to rescue part
of a battalion of American soldiers
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completely cut off by German forces.
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The other battalion is five
miles away as the crow flies,
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but the valleys dip and peak,
to greatly increase the distance.
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When they volunteered for the army,
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many soldiers of the 442nd lived as
detainees in incarceration camps.
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After the bombing
of Pearl Harbor,
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an executive order signed by
President Franklin Roosevelt
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forced Japanese-Americans on
the mainland from their homes.
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Anyone with 1/16th Japanese
heritage is incarcerated,
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Including thousands of children,
the elderly and disabled.
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The government built ten
so-called permanent relocation camps
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spread across the United States and these
were basically army shelters.
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They were big barracks
with common latrines,
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set in the middle of nowhere,
and surrounded by barbed wire,
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and this would be the home for more
than 100,000 Japanese Americans
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for the next three
years of their lives.
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Japanese-Americans serving in
the military on December 7th, 1941
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are discharged or
reassigned in February 1942.
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But many young men in the
camps still volunteer
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when Roosevelt activates the segregated
442nd regimental combat team a year later.
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Well you have to
remember, these were boys.
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They were youth ranging from 17,
18 years old to 21, 22 year old.
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Some of them were patriots.
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They wanted to fight to prove
themselves to their country.
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Some of them just wanted to get out of the
camps. It was a terrible environment.
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After training, the
442nd fights in Italy,
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and then lands in
southern France.
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They were literally
dodging bullets abroad
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and they knew they had to
win to save their lives.
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On the other hand they also knew they were
representing something about themselves
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and their people who were still in
the camps or were still in Hawaii.
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And they understood that this was
a test of who they were as Americans.
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After their 3:00 am start,
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the 442nd arrives at their jump off
point in the late morning.
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The unit they must rescue
is still three miles away.
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The lost battalion is from
the 141st infantry regiment,
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a sister regiment to the 442nd,
within the 36th infantry division.
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{\an8}The 36th Division was pretty highly
combat experienced by this time.
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It had led the way in the invasion
of South France in August 1944.
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It had plunged into the
Vosges by September.
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And here's where the figurative
fun began to kind of end.
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{\an8}As the 141st
attacked to take hill 5-9-5,
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{\an8}First battalion
pulls too far ahead.
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{\an8}Germans close in from behind and separate
them from their regiment,
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{\an8}Cutting them off from reinforcement,
resupply and relief.
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The encirclement kicks off the
Second World War version
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of the Lost Battalion saga.
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It was a term left over
from World War I,
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when you had a similar kind of situation,
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where you've had a unit,
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not really lost because loss
would indicate that, you know,
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they're gone, or you never
know what happens to them.
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No, you know precisely where they are.
You just can't get to them.
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Lieutenant Martin
Higgins establishes
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a defensive perimeter to
secure their position.
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For three days, the cut off battalion
fends off a series of German attacks.
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All attempts to fight their way out, or
for the regiment to fight their way in,
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have failed.
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As their remaining rations
and ammunition run low,
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the situation for the Texan
regiment grows desperate.
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It's not clear how long they can hang on.
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Sergeant Shiro Kashino and
the members of "I" company
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fight for every advance in the forest
during the rescue attempt.
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As they lead the American assault, the
Germans launch a fierce counter-attack.
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"I" company's left
flank becomes exposed.
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Kashino identifies a platoon pinned by a
machine gun nest on the slope above.
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Kashino was a Japanese American
who grew up in Washington State,
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and he was by all accounts
a kind of all-American boy.
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He played on the football team.
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He found himself uprooted and sent to the
Minidoka relocation camp in Idaho.
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And I think he was impatient
to get out of Minidoka,
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and he saw the army as an
opportunity to prove himself.
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Suddenly, Kashino bursts out to
relieve pressure on the trapped platoon.
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He rushes uphill giving
the Germans a moving target.
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Kashino distinguished himself as
consistently rising to the challenge.
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If that meant risking his own
life for the soldiers he was serving,
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he would do it and he did it,
time and time again.
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Kashino succeeds.
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He draws the German fire to himself, so
the other men are able to advance.
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He motions for them to loop around
and take out the machine gun nest.
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Still under intense fire himself,
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he uses his Thompson submachine gun
to cover their attack.
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I think that kind of action both
endeared him to his men
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and proved that soldiers were
capable of doing things,
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you know, beyond their imaginations.
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With the Germans
distracted by his fire,
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the others can eliminate
the machine gun nest.
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As the Americans fight ahead,
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a German tank creeps into
position above them.
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The noise and chaos of the
battle have masked its arrival.
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Tech sergeant Al Takahashi spots
the beast at the last second.
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- As its muzzle flares...
- Feuer!
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He throws himself to the side.
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The shell fired by the tank
lands in the dirt beside Al Takahashi,
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but does not explode.
Thankfully it's a dud.
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But had he jumped in the other direction,
the impact would've surely killed him.
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The Americans fight an entrenched enemy,
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spurred to make any Allied
advance as costly as possible.
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{\an8}It's relatively rare in the
war in 1944
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{\an8}that the Germans encircle an
entire Allied battalion.
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And this chance now is too
good for the propaganda to lose.
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So, German troops are ordered
to stop any rescue attempts
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from the Americans of this battalion.
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Special mountain units are
assigned to reinforce German positions.
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Gebirgsj�ger, or Mountain Troops,
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were already founded in the First World
War to defend the Austrian Alps.
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They are trained to fight under
severe weather conditions.
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To fight at high altitudes.
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The peculiarity of the Gebirgsj�ger
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is that they are mostly
recruited from the alpine areas,
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from Austria and from Bavaria.
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Major Franz Seebacher commands
the Heeres-Gebirgsj�ger battalion 2-O-1.
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Franz Seebacher is a relatively
young battalion commander.
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He's only 26 years old
when he takes over command.
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He is an Austrian, initially
enters the Austrian army,
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later is transferred into the German Army,
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and pursues a distinguished career
in the Second World War.
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Seebacher moves into
position with 1,000 men
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armed with machine guns,
light artillery, and mortars.
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The Germans have got the maps.
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They know the region, they know the
strength and weaknesses of the terrain,
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and they position their troops on the
defense line on the top of the hills
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and can fire down on
the Americans in the valley.
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The German
counter attack continues
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with more tank and
artillery fire.
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Feuer!
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Trees explode
around the soldiers
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of the 442nd
regimental combat team.
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Without exception, every soldier I
spoke to spoke about the tree bursts.
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They were terrified of them.
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{\an8}If you can imagine being
in a forest with pine trees
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{\an8}stretching 60, 70 feet
above you, and then suddenly,
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{\an8}out of nowhere, artillery
fire opens up and explodes in the trees,
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so you're vulnerable not just
to the hail of lead,
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but to the branches that had been
burst off by this explosion.
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Under intense pressure from
German snipers and shells,
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the Americans must withdraw.
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Fall back!
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They halt the German
counter attack,
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but also cede some of the hard fought
gains of the day's fighting.
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It's a painful set back.
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Saturday, October 28th, 1944.
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With their rescuers still
three miles away,
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Lieutenant Martin Higgins and
the remains of his battalion
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of the 141st infantry regiment
face mounting challenges.
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After four days of isolation with very
limited rations, they're slowly starving.
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But drinking water is
their biggest concern.
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You just simply
have to have access to it.
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If your soldiers are
dehydrating over time,
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it doesn't necessarily mean
they're going to keel over dead any minute
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{\an8}but it does mean as they're
more and more dehydrated,
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{\an8}they become less combat effective.
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Just beyond their perimeter,
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a muddy puddle provides their only
source of drinking water.
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And worse, they have to
share it with the enemy.
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A dead body would
contaminate the supply.
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So, both sides avoid
shooting any one nearby.
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But even without a corpse,
it may not be safe to drink.
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There's a recognition,
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that you're going to have to get
stream water, river water,
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all those kinds of things where there are
microorganisms that can make you sick.
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So, Halazone tablets were vital to
purify the water that you're drinking.
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Halazone is a
chemical compound,
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that uses chlorine to kill
bacteria and parasites.
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Debate over the effectiveness of chlorine
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delayed Halazone's
widespread use until 1944,
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when research proved
it safe and effective.
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Two dissolved halazone tablets
make a canteen of water drinkable
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in about 10 minutes.
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Four tablets can be
used for muddy water.
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It's a low tech, portable
water purification system.
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The lost battalion's initial
supply of tablets only lasted for one day.
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They desperately need more Halazone, food,
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medical supplies for the wounded,
and batteries for the radio.
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The first attempt to
resupply by air failed
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when cloud cover made it
impossible to identify their location.
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But the pilots remain determined.
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- Now with the sound of P-47s in the air...
- Alright, guys.
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Higgins and the men get ready for
the delivery of provisions.
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They've prepared a visual cue to alert
the aircraft of their position.
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They're going to try and
signal by taking off anything
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that's light colored or white colored that
they can use to string together
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that might catch a
pilot's eye as he's flying over.
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The fabric creates a signal.
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With the lost battalion
surrounded by Germans,
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the pilots must drop the
canisters in the right spot.
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Higgins and the men watch as
the containers float down from the sky.
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And one by one, they
land in enemy territory.
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All the supplies
fall into German hands.
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You talk about going
from the high to the low,
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Here comes the planes,
here comes our supplies.
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Awesome. I'm going to get to eat,
I'm going to get maybe some water
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and it's like, "No, I'm not getting that.
My mortal enemy is getting that."
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Without re-supply,
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the lost battalion's situation
grows more desperate.
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Higgins is probably worried about
the steady decline of his command.
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He's got more and
more people wounded.
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Fewer medical supplies
to take care of them.
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He's probably worried about conserving
his ammo. And there's the unknown.
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Is help going to be
able to get to you?
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Suddenly, the
Americans in the perimeter
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hear the sound of an
incoming artillery shell.
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As part of the
36th infantry division,
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the lost battalion is under the command of
American Major General, John Dahlquist.
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The 141st is pinned down, sir.
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Annoyed that the 141st could
not rescue their own men,
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Dahlquist had called in the 442nd
regimental combat team to do the job.
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He continues to be frustrated by
the failure of the rescue
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and floundering relief attempts.
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Let's go! Let's go!
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I think his impatience
is pretty understandable.
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He's got a battalion of
his guys that's cut off.
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He's got other units that need
to fight their way to them.
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The last thing on Earth that he wants
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is one of his battalions to be destroyed,
obviously for its own sake,
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but this also can be devastating
to a division's morale,
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to its fighting prowess.
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To deliver essential
rations and supplies,
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Dahlquist plans to fire
artillery shells on his own men.
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Well behind the line, items like
concentrated food rations,
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water purification tablets
and medical supplies,
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are carefully wrapped and
inserted into hollow shells.
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You fire them into the perimeter,
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because you don't really
have to worry about weather
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and your observers know where the
isolated battalion is.
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{\an8}But it is, you know, a reasonably
ingenious kind of solution to this,
250
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but it's only a very temporary patch,
251
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{\an8}it's designed to get you by for a few more
hours until you figure out a better way.
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A smoke shell lands outside the
lost battalion's defensive perimeter.
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It has been fired to confirm
the coordinates of their camp.
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With a series of adjustments
from their artillery observer,
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The shells start to
explode overhead.
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They land in the trees and spill
rations on to the ground.
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Once collected, the meagre supplies are
shared amongst more than 200 soldiers
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who continue to hold
out on the hilltop.
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Meanwhile, the rescue force
continues their approach.
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With little ground gained,
Sergeant Shiro Kashino
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and the other men of the 442nd
regimental combat team
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dig in for the second night
of their relief mission.
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In contrast to the Sergeant,
Private Barney Hajiro grew up in Hawaii,
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and was not incarcerated.
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And unlike Kashino, Hajiro's
considered a problem soldier.
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Barney Hajiro was a
fascinating character
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because he had a reputation from
the day he was in the army
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{\an8}of being both a kind of slacker
and a kind of trouble maker.
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He was a fiery youth
who got in fist fights,
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and constantly was in trouble both with
his peers and with his commanders.
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Okay guys.
Prepare to move out.
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Now he and the others face
another long, wet night.
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In the middle of the forest
there are no comfortable billets,
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comfortable billets, or
structures of any kind.
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It was the end of October.
It was starting to turn into winter.
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It was cold, it started to
rain, and their nightly routine
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was to dig a trench,
huddle into it,
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hope they were protected against tree
bursts, and just tuck in for the night.
279
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Another ongoing problem is
supplying the 442nd with food.
280
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As with the lost battalion, the rescuers
also have had an unstable supply line.
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The isolation and the terrain makes it
difficult for trucks to reach the front.
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3rd battalion commander,
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Pursall
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calls for volunteers to retrieve
rations delivered to a nearby road,
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Kashino agrees to lead the supply run,
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but is reluctant to depart immediately.
286
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Kashino sensibly pointed
out that the noise of the supply trucks
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would attract the
attention of the Germans.
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He wants to wait for an hour,
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in case the Germans target
the delivery location.
290
00:22:52,454 --> 00:22:56,333
But Pursall disagrees
and issues a direct order.
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Alright guys, listen up!
I need five volunteers.
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So, he got up and gave his men the
order to follow him down the trail
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to the supply trucks.
294
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Kashino leads his men
through the dark, quiet forest.
295
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In the distance, the supply
trucks make their way up a narrow road.
296
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Before the soldiers can advance more than
200 yards, there is a massive explosion.
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As Sergeant Shiro Kashino leads
his men down a dark mountain path
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to meet their supply trucks,
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the forest around them
bursts into flames.
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{\an8}Exactly what Kashino predicted
would happen did happen.
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The Germans were able to locate the troops
from the noise of the supply train
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and they opened fire.
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The soldiers of the
442nd regimental combat team
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do not have time
to find cover.
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The barrage is too intense.
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The blast injures eight men.
307
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When the fire lifts, Kashino
and the others less injured
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help the wounded
to the aid station.
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Later, when Kashino arrives at
the battalion command post,
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he finds Lieutenant
Colonel Alfred Pursall.
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Kashino calls out his commanding officer
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for putting them in a needlessly
dangerous situation.
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Those men died out
there because of you!
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He adds that any of
the men would rather starve
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than for others to suffer the
casualties caused by the order.
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From a military perspective,
Kashino crosses a line.
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Sergeant,
that's how the army works.
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It's a complete
violation of military law.
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A junior ranking
non-commissioned officer
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cannot question the
direct orders of a superior.
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With the attack
on the supply detail,
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casualties amongst the Japanese-American
soldiers continue to mount
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across their front, after two
days of fighting to rescue
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the members of the 141st
infantry regiment.
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{\an8}And the lost battalion still remains about
two miles past their present location.
326
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They would advance
through the dark forest,
327
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they would meet a hail of
machine gun fire, duck for cover,
328
00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:18,285
and then they would crawl up
the hill a little bit more.
329
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:25,875
As a result, the men really
never knew where they were.
330
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They just knew that somewhere out there
someone was firing a gun at them,
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and they had to keep going.
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Sunday October 29th, 1944.
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In the morning fighting,
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the soldiers from the Japanese
American unit gain a little ground
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against the entrenched German defenses.
336
00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:59,326
But for 36th infantry division commander
Major General John Dahlquist,
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this is not good enough.
338
00:27:03,371 --> 00:27:06,041
Dahlquist believes that there
should be more progress.
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He takes the unusual step of visiting
the front during the battle.
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Forward!
Come on!
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He does not trust his leaders.
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00:27:15,383 --> 00:27:19,054
And in that sense, perhaps he's more of
a micromanager than is necessary.
343
00:27:21,264 --> 00:27:24,684
This is something that
should be an incredible force multiplier,
344
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{\an8}to have a two-star general right
there in the front line saying,
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{\an8}"Hey, you know what? I'm not just telling
you guys to go forward.
346
00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:32,525
{\an8}"I'm leading you forward."
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As barrages descend, the men are
forced to take cover.
348
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,997
Dahlquist never really adjusts to
the reality of the moment,
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of saying, "Oh, now I see what
you guys are up against."
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00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:53,463
Instead, he causes confusion by
ignoring the chain of command.
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He engages directly with the soldiers
and badgers them to advance.
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00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:00,804
Finally, 3rd battalion commander,
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Lieutenant-Colonel Pursall
reaches a breaking point.
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These are my boys!
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00:28:04,974 --> 00:28:07,018
He shouts for
Dahlquist to get off his front.
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00:28:11,898 --> 00:28:14,984
For Lieutenant Colonel Pursall to turn on
the General this way,
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he would have to be
completely at his wits end.
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00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:20,156
And from an enlisted
soldier's perspective,
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to see these two key authority
figures bickering in this way
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does nothing for your unity and morale
to go forward on this mission.
361
00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,840
Within the lost
battalion's defensive perimeter,
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00:28:38,049 --> 00:28:40,343
The sound of planes
again fills the air,
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00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:43,430
with the goal of dispensing
lifesaving supplies.
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00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:50,562
It's the third attempt to deliver goods by
air drop, and it proves successful.
365
00:28:53,022 --> 00:28:57,152
Food, medical supplies, and
ammunition spill out from canisters.
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00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:02,115
It all buys Lieutenant Martin
Higgins and his men some relief.
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00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:08,997
It's gotten better. It's gotten more
manageable, but it is not at an end.
368
00:29:09,247 --> 00:29:10,707
You hope in that time,
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that friendly forces are going to be
able to fight their way to you.
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00:29:13,501 --> 00:29:16,546
Until that happens,
your crisis has not ended.
371
00:29:22,218 --> 00:29:24,804
In the meantime, Sergeant Shiro Kashino
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and the soldiers of 3rd
battalion of the 442nd
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00:29:28,141 --> 00:29:30,685
have fought to close in
on the lost battalion.
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00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:38,318
{\an8}They face another advance
across treacherous terrain.
375
00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:42,030
{\an8}At the end of the ridge,
just over a mile away,
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00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,532
{\an8}Higgins and his men
wait for rescue.
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00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:51,915
But to get there, third
battalion must clear the slope.
378
00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:58,922
The dug in German soldiers
exact a toll for every gain.
379
00:30:04,385 --> 00:30:11,059
Even as they try to ascend, the German
fire closes in from all around them.
380
00:30:18,733 --> 00:30:20,527
After trying to outflank
the Germans,
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00:30:21,236 --> 00:30:26,199
members of the 442nd regimental combat
team have stalled along a narrow front,
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00:30:26,199 --> 00:30:28,868
in their quest
to reach the lost battalion.
383
00:30:33,873 --> 00:30:36,709
The battle was really
one of inches,
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00:30:36,918 --> 00:30:40,171
and they were almost
helplessly pinned down.
385
00:30:40,547 --> 00:30:44,092
{\an8}And not knowing where the next
explosion would come from,
386
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:46,469
{\an8}not knowing where the next
grenade would be thrown,
387
00:30:46,469 --> 00:30:49,222
{\an8}not knowing where the next
machine gun fire would open up.
388
00:30:52,642 --> 00:30:53,643
Fix bayonets now!
389
00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,856
An order comes
down the line: Fix bayonets.
390
00:31:00,024 --> 00:31:04,070
A bayonet is a knife blade attached
to the end of a military rifle.
391
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:08,366
Soldiers train to wield
bayonets in a thrusting motion
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00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:10,869
to cause deep and
fatal internal wounds.
393
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:12,871
But they're rarely used.
394
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:15,999
A lot of people would rather be in a
gunfight than a knife fight,
395
00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:19,544
because a knife fight is very personal,
and very much physical and all that,
396
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:21,880
versus just trading bullets with
someone in the abstract.
397
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:25,383
The bayonet is really the
desperation kind of weapon.
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00:31:25,758 --> 00:31:28,136
{\an8}An officer gives an order to
fix bayonets only under
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00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:29,888
{\an8}the most desperate circumstances.
400
00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:33,308
As the soldiers
attach the blades,
401
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,270
they discover that any discernible
movement attracts a hail of bullets
402
00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:39,230
from the German defenders above.
403
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:45,904
Trapped and exposed,
more men are shot,
404
00:31:47,822 --> 00:31:50,408
including sergeant Shiro Kashino.
405
00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:55,246
We don't know a lot except that he
was constantly exposing himself to fire,
406
00:31:56,164 --> 00:32:00,627
and at a certain point he was wounded for
the third time within a matter of days
407
00:32:04,130 --> 00:32:07,175
Barney Hajiro sees that his
platoon leader is bleeding.
408
00:32:07,717 --> 00:32:10,261
He insists that
Kashino seek medical care.
409
00:32:12,055 --> 00:32:17,393
Years later Hajiro would tell me, almost
with incredulity that, you know,
410
00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:22,357
"Here I am, I'm a private and I'm telling
a sergeant he's gotta go back,"
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00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:28,404
and he was amazed that Kashino, who had
never turned away from any challenge,
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00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:33,117
must've been so wounded that
he in fact did go back.
413
00:32:53,179 --> 00:32:56,099
Overlooking the ridge,
Major Franz Seebacher
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00:32:56,099 --> 00:32:58,893
observes the American
forces amassing below.
415
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:03,523
{\an8}The Americans don't receive
a lot of support from the air
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00:33:03,773 --> 00:33:05,942
{\an8}or support of armor or artillery.
417
00:33:06,526 --> 00:33:07,986
They are fighting
like the Germans.
418
00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:14,784
A battle of attrition and both sides
are low on ammunition and men.
419
00:33:16,035 --> 00:33:18,830
In the end, it is a
brutal place to fight.
420
00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:22,750
But Seebacher knows
he has no choice.
421
00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:25,169
They must protect these heights of land,
422
00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:29,757
to have any chance of halting the Allied
advance before they reach the Rhine river.
423
00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:41,728
Still pinned down on the ridge
by heavy machine gun fire from above,
424
00:33:42,061 --> 00:33:44,397
the Americans receive the order to charge.
425
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:51,404
But for an instant, no one, including
Private Barney Hajiro, advances.
426
00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:58,953
Hajiro told me many years later
that you can't go backwards,
427
00:33:58,953 --> 00:34:00,496
you can only go forwards.
428
00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:04,500
He looked at his men, he saw
that they were pinned down,
429
00:34:05,126 --> 00:34:08,463
he knew that they would all die on
that hill if they didn't do something.
430
00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:11,340
With his Browning
automatic rifle ready,
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00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:13,926
Hajiro locates extra ammunition
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00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:18,389
and turns to his assistant B.A.R. man,
Private Takeyasu Onaga.
433
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:22,560
Onaga tells Hajiro to
take his P-38 if he gets shot.
434
00:34:25,855 --> 00:34:28,858
Hajiro remembered
that very vividly,
435
00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:33,863
that a look of sadness just crossed
his fox hole buddy's face.
436
00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:38,534
And it was probably in that
split second before Hajiro stood up
437
00:34:38,534 --> 00:34:40,661
and started leading the charge.
438
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,005
With Hajiro in the lead,
the rest of "I" company follows.
439
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,886
I think the best part
of him came out in battle,
440
00:34:57,136 --> 00:35:02,725
and it's one of those strange
circumstances that men can be tested,
441
00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:07,396
and find within themselves resources
that they never knew they had.
442
00:35:08,147 --> 00:35:11,067
And I think that was
very true of Barney Hajiro.
443
00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:19,534
Men are immediately cut down by
machine gun fire and artillery blasts.
444
00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:31,003
Close on the heels of his
friend, Assistant B.A.R. man Onaga
445
00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:34,090
stops to lift a tree that
has fallen on a fellow soldier.
446
00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:46,853
Onaga then continues his
advance up the hill,
447
00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:54,235
targeting enemy
soldiers with a grenade.
448
00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:07,206
Without warning, a
bullet rips into his throat.
449
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,091
Hajiro sees his friend fall.
450
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:26,767
I think he was angry.
I think he was horror stricken,
451
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:32,064
and also remember he was
losing his ammunition man.
452
00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:35,943
So he knew he had a
magazine to make his point,
453
00:36:44,493 --> 00:36:47,622
and he ran like a mad man
firing all the way.
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00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:00,301
The soldiers of the German
201st mountain batallion
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00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:02,595
hold steady against
the American attackers.
456
00:37:06,307 --> 00:37:08,434
It's undoubtedly unnerving to see
457
00:37:08,434 --> 00:37:12,021
men coming up the hill,
screaming and shouting.
458
00:37:12,521 --> 00:37:16,817
{\an8}This is a situation when the
war gets purely emotional
459
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:18,527
{\an8}and totally unpredictable.
460
00:37:24,992 --> 00:37:26,494
Pinned down for days,
461
00:37:26,494 --> 00:37:30,122
the stalemate breaks
and taking prisoners isn't a priority.
462
00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:36,087
Private Barney Hajiro
continues his charge up the hill,
463
00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:37,588
and locates another machine gun nest.
464
00:37:41,217 --> 00:37:44,595
A BAR weighs 15 or 20 pounds,
you're wearing you're helmet,
465
00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:47,807
you're carrying this equipment.
You're running up a steep hill.
466
00:37:48,557 --> 00:37:49,475
I don't know how he did it.
467
00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:54,480
{\an8}You have to have a rush of adrenaline that
just powers you through these things.
468
00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:06,117
He continues to climb, but as he
approaches a third machine gun nest,
469
00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:07,743
his luck runs out.
470
00:38:11,998 --> 00:38:14,834
Barney just felt this
bullet rip through his arm,
471
00:38:15,918 --> 00:38:20,715
and he had to fall but by that
time you know his men were behind him,
472
00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:22,174
they were taking out the Germans.
473
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,223
What he set out to do he accomplished.
That is lead this charge up the hill.
474
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,483
The medic wants to send
Hajiro down to the first aid post,
475
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:42,028
but he refuses.
476
00:38:44,530 --> 00:38:48,659
He lost his BAR, but
his fighting spirit was still there,
477
00:38:48,868 --> 00:38:51,662
he said, "If I had a
gun I would've kept firing".
478
00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:54,665
- Get outta here!
- I'm okay! I'll keep fighting!
479
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:58,210
In the end, Hajiro acknowledges
the gravity of his injury
480
00:38:58,210 --> 00:39:02,131
and agrees to withdraw,
though he refuses help.
481
00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:15,227
He wanted to make sure that the
people who needed help more than he did
482
00:39:15,227 --> 00:39:16,145
could get it,
483
00:39:17,772 --> 00:39:22,985
and I think it's a kind of
badge of honor to be the last man
484
00:39:22,985 --> 00:39:26,739
and to make sure that everybody
else is taken care of before you are.
485
00:39:29,158 --> 00:39:33,704
After losing Shiro Kashino and
Barney Hajiro, along with numerous others,
486
00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:37,416
the 442nd pushes the Germans back.
487
00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:43,214
But they've not yet made contact
with the lost battalion.
488
00:39:46,592 --> 00:39:49,220
The next morning, on Monday, October 30th,
489
00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:54,266
a patrol of Japanese-American soldiers
advances through the woods.
490
00:39:57,269 --> 00:39:59,897
The battlefield was deserted,
there was a strange calm,
491
00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,608
and so they inched forward,
492
00:40:02,608 --> 00:40:04,902
not knowing exactly what to expect,
493
00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,822
being afraid that maybe there were
machine guns awaiting them.
494
00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:09,490
Maybe there was more mortar fire.
495
00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:17,873
They discover a communications
wire and decide to follow it.
496
00:40:23,754 --> 00:40:28,592
{\an8}When you've got two friendly units in
such close proximity, it's always dicey.
497
00:40:28,592 --> 00:40:33,055
I think now also within the forest, given
what's happened for almost a week,
498
00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:35,766
I think that only adds
to the stress level.
499
00:40:40,813 --> 00:40:42,773
They detect movement
and ready themselves.
500
00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:47,862
A figure emerges
from behind a tree.
501
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:52,199
It's a fellow American
from the lost battalion.
502
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:59,415
Mutt Sakumoto, who was the first
one to encounter the Los Battalion,
503
00:40:59,415 --> 00:41:03,377
didn't know what to say and so he
just sort of fumbled and said,
504
00:41:03,377 --> 00:41:04,962
"Hey, you guys want some cigarettes?"
505
00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:09,717
And that turned out to be a
just a great, humble,
506
00:41:09,717 --> 00:41:14,013
wonderful acknowledgement of what
both sides had been through.
507
00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:19,185
A cigarette was just a great relief after
the horrors they had experienced.
508
00:41:27,151 --> 00:41:29,570
After seven days of isolation,
509
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:35,242
the surviving members of first battalion,
141st infantry regiment, are rescued.
510
00:41:35,784 --> 00:41:40,789
Of the original 274 soldiers,
211 descend the hill,
511
00:41:41,081 --> 00:41:42,541
Including 32 wounded.
512
00:41:46,462 --> 00:41:47,546
There's much press coverage,
513
00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:50,966
but the images released by
the United States Army
514
00:41:50,966 --> 00:41:54,011
do not acknowledge the role of
the Japanese-American soldiers
515
00:41:54,011 --> 00:41:56,555
who sacrificed so much.
516
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:05,940
From the segregated 442nd,
52 are killed during the mission
517
00:42:06,398 --> 00:42:08,150
and 280 are wounded.
518
00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:12,029
Their casualties likely exceed
the number of men rescued.
519
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:20,829
Two weeks later, Major General
John Dahlquist orders the 442nd assembled
520
00:42:20,829 --> 00:42:24,250
to award a presidential unit
citation for the action.
521
00:42:25,751 --> 00:42:29,838
He's angry when the number of soldiers
present was lower than he expected.
522
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:32,633
One of his officers
has to inform him:
523
00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:36,387
"That's all that's
left of the 442nd, sir."
524
00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:45,271
After he recovers, Sergeant Shiro
Kashino continues to fight.
525
00:42:45,771 --> 00:42:48,691
He will earn a Silver Star,
two Bronze Stars,
526
00:42:48,691 --> 00:42:51,360
and six Purple Hearts
for his service.
527
00:42:52,152 --> 00:42:54,488
While nominated for a
Distinguished Service Cross,
528
00:42:54,863 --> 00:42:58,409
He's wrongfully convicted by
court martial and stripped of his rank
529
00:42:58,409 --> 00:43:00,286
and disqualified for the medal.
530
00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:06,584
More than 50 years later, a military
investigation clears Kashino's name.
531
00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:09,753
His fellow soldiers
petitioned the army
532
00:43:09,753 --> 00:43:11,714
for some recognition
after many years,
533
00:43:11,714 --> 00:43:16,302
which he finally got, but unfortunately
about six months after he died.
534
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:22,057
While Private Barney Hajiro
535
00:43:22,057 --> 00:43:24,476
is nominated for the Congressional
Medal of Honor,
536
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:27,646
He receives the Distinguished
Service Cross instead,
537
00:43:27,896 --> 00:43:29,815
because of his
Japanese heritage.
538
00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:34,820
It would take more than
55 years for the American government
539
00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:36,780
to acknowledge that
he had rightfully earned
540
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:39,116
the nation's highest military award.
541
00:43:40,117 --> 00:43:44,622
{\an8}It was conferred on June 21st, 2000
by President Bill Clinton.
542
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:49,960
{\an8}By the end of World War II,
543
00:43:50,210 --> 00:43:53,756
{\an8}the 442nd regimental
combat team proves to be
544
00:43:53,756 --> 00:43:57,259
{\an8}one of the most highly decorated
units in the United States Army.
545
00:44:00,304 --> 00:44:05,392
{\an8}They would return to Italy to break the
Gothic Line in the spring of 1945,
546
00:44:05,768 --> 00:44:07,853
{\an8}while the war in Europe still raged on.
547
00:44:10,853 --> 00:44:14,853
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