Word: kiska
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Force's first mission was Kiska, where two regiments went ashore in rubber boats with instructions to use nothing but their icepick-shaped stilettos on the Japs. There were no Japs there, but the Force made the most of it, learned more about living and marching in the field, refused to be tempted into "trigger-happy" firing...
...Cost. Before the S.S.F. reached Rome, it had lost more than half the men who sailed from Kiska, including two regimental commanders and nearly all battalion C.O.s. At Levant, where the Germans fought bitterly from their camouflaged hideouts, the casualties struck deep again. By then, because Canadian replacements were fewer, the outfit was more than two-thirds U.S. and many of its officers were ex-noncoms commissioned on the battlefield...
...single dissenting vote, a bill for Canada's one million World War II veterans zipped through the House of Commons. Eligible for its benefits were all soldiers who volunteered for service overseas (whether they went over or not) plus those Home Defense Army "zombies" who served in Kiska. Uneligible: all other "zombies...
Major Paul Triquet, who won his decoration before Ortona (TIME, March 20), spoke to 15,000 fellow French Canadians in le régiment de Hull. They had participated in the bloodless occupation of Kiska with the U.S. forces. Now, he said, it was their duty to stand by fellow Canadians overseas. General Pearkes followed up: "The work you did at Kiska made your names honored. Your experience makes you invaluable as invasion forces. Play the man's part. . . . Volunteer now [for overseas service...
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...