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...They talk" with privates, corporals and sergeants, who cuss about this & that, but quite often come up with a suggestion which even a brass hat can see is right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice...
...first time Jap resistance cracked under Allied pressure: a garrison was evacuated before the final attack. The cold rocks of Kiska had been gavelled under 106 bombings and 15 shellings from the sea since the first of the month. When U.S. and Canadian troops landed on Aug. 15-expertly primed for perhaps the strongest single operation the U.S. had yet undertaken in the Pacific-they found no living creature except a lonesome dog. The timing must have been hairline: invading Allied troops found a container of hot coffee. Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such...
...American soldiers found no Japs, but they did get a good look at the installations our planes and naval guns had been shooting at. What they found: gun emplacements, ammunition, living quarters and other evidence which indicated that at one time nearly 10,000 Japs had been on Kiska. There was a submarine base (evidently abandoned weeks ago) and a long-neglected seaplane base and hangar. Telephone lines strung around the eastern side of the island led to a fair-sized power plant. Crude roads in some sections could accommodate the 50 or more trucks, some Fords, some Jap brands...
...showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
When the U.S. felt strong enough to move into the Aleutians, Major General Eugene M. Landrum was picked to do the moving. In difficult terrain and weather and within easy bombing range of Kiska, he built strong bases in the Andreanof Islands. For this Gene Landrum won the Army's D.S.M. His next assignment was driving the Japs out of Attu. For vigorous execution of a soundly planned offensive, the Navy last week added its D.S.M...