slabinski remembered his boy scout training. eyes on me, they were looking at me, no place to go, had to go back up to the spot. i am thinking sorry for what is about to come. i love you. one of the pilots, chief warrant officer alan mack, the helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team into harms way. it was out s voice, wished the team leader good luck. reporter: a team leader, technical sgt. john chapman s job was to call in air strikes. he was hit almost immediately by machine gunfire after stepping out of the helicopter.
about whether they ever should have landed on that mountain and whether they inadvertently left a fallen comrade behind. some question the decision to land so close to the objective, breaking a cardinal rule for commandos. why did you have to land there? to did break protocol by landing on the next? i was going to land at another location, and make my move on foot to the top of the mountain. there were other changes that forced me to adapt my plan. but were those changes? i was told i needed to be in position by sun up. that is what i did. new evidence as shedding light on that fateful day. while taking mne fire, petty officer neil roberts fell out into the snow. the army chinook helicopter crash landed 4 miles away. slabinski ordered his team back up the mountain to rescue fellow seal roberts, who survived the fall. slabinski, a second generation seal, remembered his boy scout
happened, president roosevelt said to the commanders out there, look, these are things getting very tough. there was a japanese representative who turned out to be a decoy in washington negotiating the relationship. they were planning the attack. and then of course we were unprepared. differences between then and now, 24 hours after pearl harbor, recruiting stations were jammed with people. mark hatfield went down the next day and enlisted. the senator. a japanese american living in hawaii went down as a boy scout to use his boy scout training to help his fellow americans. and then later his cousins were sent to camps back here. he enlisted in 442nd. most heavily decorated division in world war ii. as he left, his father said you may have to sacrifice your life for this country. if you do, it will be an honor
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