Word: kiska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo Rose is sometimes uncomfortably close to the truth. Last Aug. 5 she announced that U.S. forces would land on Kiska on Aug. 17. The landing was Aug. 15. Her broadcasts almost-never exaggerate U.S. losses. She has built a reputation on accurate broadcasts like the following: "Well, you boys in Moresby, how did you like that ack-ack last night over Rabaul? Your communique didn't say anything about losing those two Fortresses, did it? But you fellows know, don't you? You know what did not come back...
...less about Jap subs than the public knows about U.S. subs. Jap sub production is a mystery. So is the use of the Jap sub fleet. It has never very seriously menaced U.S. shipping. Jap subs have been used for supplying outposts in tight spots or for evacuation (e.g., Kiska). Probably the Japs use their undersea craft mostly for reconnaissance. One theory: Admiral Shimada is saving his torpedoes for the all-out battle with the U.S. Pacific Fleet...
...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...
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...
...technical sergeant who said he was Stanley Hawrylytz turned up on the first show with a tale of knocking off a igman Jap patrol on Kiska, for which (he said) he got a Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Purple Heart and a serious foot wound. He said his home was in Erie, Pa. He wanted a job in Alaska. He got an offer. U.S. Army records later disclosed that his right name was Harvilick, his home address was actually Springboro, Pa., there was no record of overseas service or citations. And there were, of course, no live Japs...