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Can you feel that? i can feel it but it doesn't feel the same as... it doesn't feel the same as the other fingers. it feels a bit numb. frostnip is a freezing of the tissue but not a permanent freezing of the tissue. no ice crystals in the deep tissue like you would with full frostbite. so i haven't actually killed the top of my thumb just yet? not just yet. for the next couple of days, it's going to be more likely to get frostbite. the cold and the wind and the vast distances here make the logistics of a project like this very challenging. two ice—hardened ships brought hundreds of tons of ...

An historian says it was traced to other army camps where it flourished. it spread to ships heading to europe. >> raf thalf the military camps the spring did have significant outbreaks. according to a man who spend his life studying influenza, could you follow the disease with american troops crossing the ocean and arriving in france. >> ov"over there, " that's what everyone was singing. a million young men land in france. that's when the flu really exploded. >> looking back, historians can trace the spread of the flu to the movement of troops.

>> absolutely. the port in france where most of the american troops landed became like a ground zero for the spread of this. the speed with cl which it spre was breathtaking. it became a worldwide pandemic because the war was going on. millions of soldiers going from the united states to europe carrying infection. >> this would turn out to be just the first wave of the influenza. it would last through the beginning of the summer of 1918. where this outbreak originated is still unknown. it wasn't in spain. how it started is more clear. did it cross from animals to humans? do we know the origins...

Camps where it flourished among the men housed in close quarters. it also spread onto troop ships heading to europe. >> roughly half the military camps in the spring in 1918 did have significant outbreaks. and according to a nobel laureate who spent most of his life studying influenza, you could follow the disease with american troops crossing the ocean and arriving in france. >> "over there." that's what everyone was singing "over there, the yanks are coming. ♪ the yanks are coming the yanks are coming ♪ >> by may of 1918, a million young men, doughboys as they were called, land in france...

Young people. so quantitateively in who were affected was really extraordinary and unprecedented. this was something very special. it occurred in a way that crept up on us. >> you called the 1918 pandemic the mother of all pandemics. >> the global impact it had was unprecedented in recognizable history. it was a pandemic that gripped the planet. it was truly an enormously devastating pandemic. >> in 1918, the cdc didn't exist, and there were no requirements for doctors to report flu outbreaks to any officials. but by the end of march, the cases in kansas were so unusual, a local doctor decided...