Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switched No. 1 priority for troops and material from Hawaii to the more vulnerable outposts of Alaska and the Panama Canal...
Author of the manual is Captain Roy L. Atteberry, a former enlisted man from Dallas, who got an appointment to West Point, was graduated in 1941. Captain Atteberry remembered all he had learned in his year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...
...supplies are running low and prices are noncompetitive. The town's commonest brand of blended whiskey is something called "Tom Burns," resembling the $1.49-a-quart variety of peacetime. On one side of the street it sells for $6.50 a quart, on the other side for $5. In Alaska the customer does not ask a price; he pays it. If he did ask, he would be told: "Nobody asked you to buy it." An Army officer sold his badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough for $750. A few days later the sourdough stopped...
Everette "Buzz" Buskirk, 4-43, Indiana University and Remington of that state. He played with a Chicago orchestra, and joined the Navy in November, 1941, serving a year at the Naval Air Station in Alaska before receiving his commission. He claims music as his business, and can teach any instrument; although playing the trombone for the band. He also played for a USO troupe show before joining...
...Battle of Attu, Alaska Scouts met Japs for the first time: one was killed, another wounded. But on most missions they operate separately from the Army. One result is that they do not care much about being around people. A Scout went in to see Major General Eugene M. Landrum after a long absence alone in the mountains. The General wondered if the Scout wanted a rest. "No, sir," he said, "I'll get some rations and head back to the mountains this afternoon...