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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Huston in his narration claims that at the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, American planes sank "two troop-filled transports, three heavy cruisers, two destroyers, and one aircraft carrier." Not only did the American Air Force not sink any Japanese ships at Dutch Harbor, there weren't even any troop transports there, as it was only a raid and the Japanese had no plans to invade and occupy the island.
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* NoseArt: One fighter has its entire nose cone painted up to look like a tiger.
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* PropagandaPiece: An American featurette about the war in the Aleutians, meant to boost morale.
* PropagandaPiece: An American featurette about the war in the Aleutians, meant to boost morale.
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Compare Huston's other World War II documentaries, ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' and ''Film/LetThereBeLight''. Also see Creator/WilliamWyler's ''Film/TheMemphisBelle'', a similar documentary about an American bombing squadron in the European theater.
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Compare Huston's other World War II documentaries, ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' and ''Film/LetThereBeLight''.''Film/{{Let There Be Light|1946}}''. Also see Creator/WilliamWyler's ''Film/TheMemphisBelle'', a similar documentary about an American bombing squadron in the European theater.
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* DisturbedDoves: Ravens. "The thunder of the engines makes the earth tremble and the ravens rise," and we see some agitated birds flying away.
* FighterLaunchingSequence: Bomber launching sequence, but we do see the American bombers take off and head to Kiska.
* HardWorkMontage: The film shows the hard labor that was involved in creating a runway for bombers and fighters on Adak.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Loading up a bomber for a combat mission, namely with bombs for dropping on the Japanese and bands of anti-aircraft ammunition for shooting at Japanese fighters.
* FighterLaunchingSequence: Bomber launching sequence, but we do see the American bombers take off and head to Kiska.
* HardWorkMontage: The film shows the hard labor that was involved in creating a runway for bombers and fighters on Adak.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Loading up a bomber for a combat mission, namely with bombs for dropping on the Japanese and bands of anti-aircraft ammunition for shooting at Japanese fighters.
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''Report from the Aleutians'' is a 1943 documentary feature (technically a "feature" at 47 minutes long) from Creator/JohnHuston, then in wartime service with the Army Signal Corps.
It is a documentary about the Aleutian Islands campaign, specifically, the U.S. Army Air Force base on the island of Adak. Opening narration explains just what the heck the Aleutian Islands are--a long chain of volcanic islands that extend out a thousand miles from the Alaskan mainland--and recounts the Japanese attack on the American base at Dutch Harbor, and the Japanese occupation of the islands of Attu and Kiska near the end of the chain. The United States responded by building a base on the island of Adak, further west than the Dutch Harbor base. Huston's crew films the daily lives of the soldiers at the Adak installation, concentrating on the boredom and tedium of life on a remote, windswept, treeless outpost. Finally the film ends with a combat mission to Kiska, showing nine bombers dropping their bombs on Japanese installations on the island.
Not long after this film was completed, the Americans took back Attu and Kiska, the former after a vicious 18-day battle that saw the Japanese garrison annihilated, the latter with no battle as the Japanese had already evacuated.
Compare Huston's other World War II documentaries, ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' and ''Film/LetThereBeLight''. Also see Creator/WilliamWyler's ''Film/TheMemphisBelle'', a similar documentary about an American bombing squadron in the European theater.
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* TheDeadHaveNames: One sequence shows pictures and names of the American pilots killed in the Japanese raid on Dutch Harbor.
* {{Narrator}}: Narrated mostly by John Huston, with some additional narration by his father [[Creator/WalterHuston Walter]].
* NoseArt: One fighter has its entire nose cone painted up to look like a tiger.
It is a documentary about the Aleutian Islands campaign, specifically, the U.S. Army Air Force base on the island of Adak. Opening narration explains just what the heck the Aleutian Islands are--a long chain of volcanic islands that extend out a thousand miles from the Alaskan mainland--and recounts the Japanese attack on the American base at Dutch Harbor, and the Japanese occupation of the islands of Attu and Kiska near the end of the chain. The United States responded by building a base on the island of Adak, further west than the Dutch Harbor base. Huston's crew films the daily lives of the soldiers at the Adak installation, concentrating on the boredom and tedium of life on a remote, windswept, treeless outpost. Finally the film ends with a combat mission to Kiska, showing nine bombers dropping their bombs on Japanese installations on the island.
Not long after this film was completed, the Americans took back Attu and Kiska, the former after a vicious 18-day battle that saw the Japanese garrison annihilated, the latter with no battle as the Japanese had already evacuated.
Compare Huston's other World War II documentaries, ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' and ''Film/LetThereBeLight''. Also see Creator/WilliamWyler's ''Film/TheMemphisBelle'', a similar documentary about an American bombing squadron in the European theater.
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* TheDeadHaveNames: One sequence shows pictures and names of the American pilots killed in the Japanese raid on Dutch Harbor.
* {{Narrator}}: Narrated mostly by John Huston, with some additional narration by his father [[Creator/WalterHuston Walter]].
* NoseArt: One fighter has its entire nose cone painted up to look like a tiger.
