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Title The airmen and the headhunters [videorecording] / produced by Icon Films for Thirteen in association with Channel 4, National Geographic Channels International, and WNET.org ; producer/director, Mark Radice.

Imprint [Arlington, Va.?] : PBS Distribution, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  940.5425983 A77 2009    ---  Available
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; stereo.
Language Closed-captioned.
Note Originally broadcast as an episode of the television series Secrets of the dead.
Audience Not rated.
Summary This long-lost story of heroism, perseverance, and ingenuity follows the tale of lost WWII soldiers, their unlikely rescue and companionship with the Dayak tribe in Borneo, and their eventual rescue conceived by an eccentric British major: an airway built out of bamboo in the middle of the jungle.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- Borneo.
United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 5th. Squadron, 23rd -- History.
Dayak (Bornean people)
Genre/Form Historical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Radice, Mark, 1973-
Added Title Secrets of the dead (Television program)
ISBN 9781608831371
160883137X
Standard No. 841887011402
Music No. SEDE692 PBS Distribution

 
    
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