Word: andreanofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Franklin Roosevelt weighed anchor. As his ship headed north and west into the North Pacific fogs, the President cast a line overboard. His catch: one halibut, one flounder. At Adak, an as-yet-uncompleted base in the Andreanof Islands, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore, amid fog and mud, for a six-hour stay...
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...
...break that weather-bound U.S. pilots in the Aleutians had been praying for-some action-came last week. Up from steel-mat runways as far westward as the Andreanof Island group rose Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Lightning fighters, joyfully heading toward Kiska. On the first day they attacked Kiska submarine installations and camp buildings four times. The second day Kiska was raided six times. On the third day, twice more...
From a powerful radio on Kiska Island came a Jap voice warning U.S. troops on the nearby Andreanof Islands that they were doomed unless they got out in 24 hours. "You all die, you all die!" screeched the radio. From an airdrome in the Andreanofs U.S. planes took to the air, flew to Kiska. The Jap voice still chattered. A plane peeled off, went into a power dive, machine guns and cannon spitting. The voice ceased...
Last week the Navy command lifted a corner of the censorship that has been as thick as the Aleutian fog bank. U.S. forces, said the Navy, had been entrenched on one of the Andreanof Islands since Sept. i. Which island was not disclosed, but any one of the Andreanofs (which are part of the Aleutians) is well within fighter range of the main Japanese base at Kiska...