Castner's Cutthroats
A forgotten band of frontiersmen, fishermen, and trappers — the first Americans called to defend Alaska's western shore during the Second World War. A story of unlikely men in an unforgiving country.
In the summer of 1941, Colonel Lawrence Castner formed a reconnaissance unit unlike anything the Army had ever fielded — sixty-odd Alaskan natives, prospectors, hunters, and fishermen who knew the islands the way other men knew their own streets. They were called Castner's Cutthroats. They were the first to walk back onto American soil after the Japanese took it.
Our limited series follows that handful of men through the fog, the tundra, and the long silence between firefights — a story about the country that gets left off the map, and the people the country tends to forget.