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Cups That Cheer. In Fairbanks, Alaska, Attu veterans, knocked out of the first round of a basketball tournament, left for their posts with a long winter's supply of panties and brassieres. Explained their captain: "We'll hang them up outside our huts back home and charge the boys at least a dollar a touch...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...
...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...
...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...