Word: kiska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines' confidence rose. They wondered if the Japs, who undoubtedly knew that the Americans were coming, might now have evacuated Tarawa as they had Kiska. Then, suddenly, a great splash kicked up the sea a few hundred feet from one transport, only 50 feet from another. The Japs were firing their coastal guns. Betio would not be another Kiska, after...
...great war. Twenty-five years ago the ambulances were rolling along the hard-surfaced driveways of Walter Reed Hospital, bringing the men out of the foreign valleys-from St. Mihiel, the Meuse, the Somme. Today the ambulances roll again, bringing young men from other valleys-from Nicosia, Salerno, Kiska, Guadalcanal...
...northern Australia last year waiting for the Jap invasion to come (one story we're mighty glad he never did have to cover)-and this spring after his part in the fighting at Attu he shivered for ten more weeks in the Aleutians waiting to go into Kiska with the invasion that found the Japs were gone. (Last week Sherrod took off on still another battlefront assignment...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...
...great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova...