Word: kiska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
...Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft pictured on p. 29 of your May 17 issue will not, as captioned, "Shuttle Steel to Kiska" or anywhere else. ... Its lack of armament and the odd-shaped "holes" in the hood door and fuselage stamp it unmistakably as something other than the P-38 interceptor pursuit or fighter bomber...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
...attacking Attu, the Army & Navy simply cut around the Jap forces on strongly held Kiska, presumably proposed to deal with them later or to starve them out. Although the Japs apparently had a relatively small force on Attu, they had a strong position. Only 35 miles long and 20 miles wide, Attu is fiercely rugged. Its swampy beaches offer no natural cover, few places for landings. The Japs would have to be blasted from every rock and shelter...
...Kiska, now between Americans on Attu and Americans on Amchitka, the Japs have a fighter strip, several thousand bomb-harried troops, a seaplane base, and a haven for submarines. The Japs' General Baron Sadao Araki was not sanguine. Said he: "Setbacks there and at home will only increase our strength...