Word: kiska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers retook Attu; in July the Japs deserted Kiska, abandoned the Aleutians...
...helmet left behind when the Japanese stole quietly away from jog-bound Kiska...
Impatiently Buckner had stamped over the tundra, tended Alaska's defenses and watched the war. He played no part when U.S. forces cleared the lower Solomons. He and his men stood aside while troops and ships put out from California to drive the Japanese off Kiska and Attu islands, in his own front yard...
Close, But . . . The war which struck the U.S. at Pearl Harbor late in 1941 lapped perilously close to Buckner's domain in the following six months. In early June 1942, when the Japanese seized Kiska and Attu, enemy carrier-based planes attacked Dutch Harbor and troop transports bore down on the base. They turned away when land-based aircraft from Buckner's hastily constructed airfields struck at them...
Many of the cases he has listened to are the result of hasty marriages before men went overseas. But not all of them. "I know of one G.I., married ten years, who got a letter in Kiska from his wife asking him for a divorce. A pilot in the Thirteenth Air Force on Guadalcanal, also married for a long time, got a letter from his wife whom he hadn't seen for 18 months saying, 'I'm pregnant. I'll explain when...