Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Division. But when the doughboys fought well on beach heads in Africa, Sicily, Italy, General Smith only read about it. In 1942 he was transferred to the West Coast, where he gave postgraduate training courses in amphibious warfare to the 7th Army Division (before it went to Attu), the 3rd Marine Division (which took Bougainville), the five regiments which landed on Kiska...
This time when his pupils went into action on Attu, Holland Smith was allowed to watch them from an airplane. Before the troops sailed for Kiska, Smith wanted a patrol sent in to find out if the Japs had really pulled out. The patrol was not sent...
...evacuation, "the guardian deities of Attu" also calmed the seas and temporarily hoisted the fog to provide a convenient 15 feet of perfect visibility...
...departing force passed south of Attu, some of the men suddenly saw the heroes of Attu coming out to give them a sendoff, waving Rising Sun flags from small boats. Others heard a distant roar of "Banzai...
...Even though Kiska was cleaned out to the last carrier pigeon, "foreign reports" indicated that the occupying Americans had to fight bitterly for three weeks against a spirit army which moved in from Attu. In the South Pacific, too, Japanese spirits "have tangled with the enemy, causing many of them mental derangements and others to kill themselves as a result of nervous breakdown and morbid fear...