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60 Minutes

Sunday, May 26, 2019

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this Memorial Day weekend, we go back to a story from November 2017. Bill Whitaker talks to three U.S soldiers who disputed a report that blamed human error on an incident that was responsible for the death of five Americans and one Afghan. Jon Wertheim shares the story of how a Japanese medic and and American soldier became linked by the World War II Battle of Attu. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:08.0

Tonight on this special edition of 60 Minutes Presents, Under Fire.

0:13.0

Bullets, Wiz and Baa kicking up all around you.

0:17.0

All you can do at that point is return fire and hope the next one, you know, doesn't get you.

0:24.0

Members of a special forces A team were pinned down by the Taliban, and by the time it was over, five US soldiers were killed.

0:33.0

Not by the enemy, but by American bombs.

0:37.0

It was all of a sudden this shock moment of, oh my god, they just hit our heel.

0:46.0

Tonight, what our 60 Minutes investigation has uncovered.

0:51.0

When we send our soldiers into battle, it's wrong to have them using a weapon system which isn't capable of doing what it's supposed to be doing.

1:00.0

It's not murder, but it's close.

1:05.0

It was the only ground campaign waged in North America during World War II.

1:10.0

The Japanese strike.

1:12.0

After the Japanese stormed an island in Alaska called Atu.

1:15.0

Why haven't you heard about this battle? Maybe it's because the place is so isolated.

1:21.0

But tonight we'll tell you the story of the Battle of Atu, and how a Bible, a diary, and two soldiers from opposite sides of the war came to define this impossibly remote island.

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