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Secrets of the Dead
The Airmen and the Headhunters
Season 9
Episode 2
In 1944, a U.S. bomber was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, and the crew ejected and parachuted into the wilderness. They were taken in and protected by members of the Dayak tribe — the "wild men of Borneo," infamous for their custom of hunting and smoking enemy heads. Months later, the airmen were found by an eccentric British Major who devised an ingenious plan to rescue them.
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Discover the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World.
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Learn why Franklin held human skeletal remains in the basement of his British residence.