The Aleutians - Isles of Enchantment (Oh Brother!)

[Music] the uan are a string of Island bases extending over a th000 mil Westward from the Alaskan Peninsula these Islands the Japs once considered a back door to the United States but when the door was open o regrettable incident and now our back door is a front door to Tokyo Bountiful Mother Nature has endowed these islands with all the rich variety of weather from her abundant stor house in fact the old bag blew her [Music] top my gracious such conditions are almost unbelievable nevertheless that's the conditions that Prevail due to these rapidly changing weather conditions the GI is constantly faced with a problem of what to wear here a soldier sets out on an important [Music] Mission the only vegetation on the island is the Tall Grass covering the marshy Tundra there are no trees you tell tell in me another factor that complicates life here is the thick gummy mud mud but George hates it Claude don't like it neither o to the volcanic origin of the islands there are frequent earthquakes which are uh uh far reaching in their effect Geronimo [Music] [Applause] [Music] it often gets um quite Breezy up here however these Willy WS as they are called die down as suddenly as they [Applause] arise but wind or no wind nothing can stop this man from the accomplishment of his mission the problem of getting over snowy terrain has been solved by converting Vehicles into so-called snow goes one of the greatest hazards to Flyers in the Arctic is the sudden formation of ice on the [Music] planes well what's this oh it's him again air strips present a serious problem it's almost impossible to keep their surface entirely free of moisture [Applause] [Music] ah life in the Illusions but that's the way things are up here unbelievable conditions unbelievable nevertheless that's the conditions that prevail