Bangkok--13 May--Image Impact
Title: WWII LOST FILMS #7- Striking Distance Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D18
Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8.00 p.m.
By the fall of 1944 America is ready to liberate the Philippines and the POWs who have been stranded there since 1942. Sgt. Jack Werner storms the beaches of Leyte, while Seaman Jack Yusen's ship is sunk in the naval battle off Samar. Tuskegee airman Shelby Westbrook is accompanying bombers on runs over German oil fields and is shot down in Yugoslavia. He is rescued by Tito's partisans, but must find a way home. Japanese-American medic Jimmie Kanaya is captured by the Germans while fighting in France.