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On May 26, 1943, Private Joe Martinez stood up alone in the Aleutian fog and did the impossible. While 200 American soldiers lay pinned down by invisible Japanese machine gun fire on Attu Island, this 22-year-old sheepherder from Colorado walked uphill toward the enemy—solo. What happened in the next 30 minutes defied every rule of infantry combat and became one of the most extraordinary Medal of Honor actions of WWII. This is the story of how one man's "trick" from hunting mountain lions broke an entire Japanese defensive line, saved his company, and changed the course of the Battle of Attu. The forgotten campaign. The invisible enemy. The last stand of Joe Martinez.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction: The Fog That Swallows Sound
1:15 - Understanding Attu: America's Most Hostile Battlefield
3:45 - June 7, 1942: The Silent Invasion
6:30 - Operation Landcrab: The Forgotten Invasion
8:20 - Hell on Earth: The Reality of Fighting on Attu
10:10 - May 26, 1943: Pinned Down on Fish Hook Ridge
12:35 - The Decision: One Man Stands Up
14:50 - The Hunter's Trick: Making the Invisible Visible
16:25 - 75 Yards of Hell: The Solo Assault
18:40 - The Final Bunker: Martinez's Last Stand
20:55 - The Aftermath: Victory at Terrible Cost
24:30 - Legacy: The Medal of Honor and Forgotten Memory
28:45 - Closing Thoughts

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BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES

Medal of Honor Citation for Private Joe P. Martinez, U.S. Army, May 26, 1943
After-Action Reports, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, May 1943
War Department, Official Battle Casualty Lists, Battle of Attu, 1943
U.S. Army, Alaska Defense Command Records, 1942-1943

Books:

Cloe, John Haile. The Aleutian Warriors: A History of the 11th Air Force and Fleet Air Wing 4. Anchorage: Anchorage Chapter – Air Force Association, 1990.
Garfield, Brian. The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1995.
Hays, Otis. Alaska's Hidden Wars: Secret Campaigns on the North Pacific Rim. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VII: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
Perras, Galen Roger. Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.