Word: kinkaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attu, the desert-trained U.S. soldiers showed little dash, though outnumbering the suicidal Japanese more than four to one. Off Kiska, a naval task force wasted more than 1,000 rounds of 14-and 8-inch shells, shooting at phantoms on their radar screens; after that, Admiral Kinkaid launched an invasion by 34,426 troops, only to find that the enemy had pulled stakes and cleared out 18 days earlier. After the trigger-happy U.S. soldiers landed in the Kiska fog, they began shooting at each other, killing 25 and wounding...
While a band sounded ruffles and flourishes, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, 62, commander of the Seventh Fleet at the crucial battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 25, 1944), solemnly stepped for the last time off his flagship, the carrier Enterprise, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, went into retirement after 46 years of Navy service...