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Source In this May 26, 1943, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, American soldiers and equipment land on the black volcanic beach during World War II at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, part of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. May 30, 2018 will mark the 75th anniversary of American forces recapturing Attu Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain from Japanese forces. It was the only World War II battle fought on North American soil. (U.S. Navy via AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — William Roy Dover’s memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it’s been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the north Pacific. “He was shouting, ‘Get up! Get out!‘” Dover said. Dover and most of the American soldiers rushed to an embankment

The SVOD service is to air Greatest Events of World War Two in HD Colour in 190 territories and will badge it as a Netflix Original. The series, which is a co-production between WMR and Germany’s ZDF Enterprises, which owns a stake in the UK business. The series, which is the follow-up to Robert Powell-narrated World War Two in HD Colour , uses archive footage, much of it previously unseen, acquired from nearly 40 sources including rare library footage from Japan and Russia and processed with state-of-the-art colorization software. From the Blitzkrieg of Germany’s tanks across Europe to the Battle of Britain; from the War in the Pacific to D-Day and the horrors of Hiroshima, this series documents the conflict in unflinching detail, once again bringing the greatest global struggle the world has ever known to a new generation in vivid color. Exec produced by World Media Rights’ Alan Griffiths and David McNab, series also airs on Discovery in the UK, N-TV in Ge