Trailer: Jerry's Last Mission
Preview: 1/3/2024 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
This is the story of how a P-51 fighter pilot overcame PTSD and faced his enemy once again.
P-51 fighter pilot Jerry Yellin flew combat missions on Iwo Jima and over Japan, including the last combat mission of World War II. He returned home with PTSD, suffering with survivor's guilt and daily thoughts of suicide, and with a deep hatred for the Japanese. This is the story of how Yellin overcame PTSD and was forced to face his enemy once again when his youngest son moved to Japan.
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GI Film Festival San Diego is a local public television program presented by KPBS
Trailer: Jerry's Last Mission
Preview: 1/3/2024 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
P-51 fighter pilot Jerry Yellin flew combat missions on Iwo Jima and over Japan, including the last combat mission of World War II. He returned home with PTSD, suffering with survivor's guilt and daily thoughts of suicide, and with a deep hatred for the Japanese. This is the story of how Yellin overcame PTSD and was forced to face his enemy once again when his youngest son moved to Japan.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) (planes whooshing) - I flew 19 combat missions over Japan.
(plane whooshing) Not once did I think that they were people on the ground.
They were Japanese.
They were our enemy.
(gentle music continues) When I came home from the war, I was not a decent human being.
I was a killer.
And 42 years after the war, my youngest son was in Japan and wanted to marry the daughter of a Japanese kamikaze pilot.
(gentle music continues) I was a happy guy killing people, killing my enemy, then.
Now they're my family.
I can only tell my story of hatred to love because of family.
And I wanna tell that story.
(gentle music continues)
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GI Film Festival San Diego is a local public television program presented by KPBS