Word: kiska
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...They were on Amchitka long before the main body of troops. On Attu they guided soldiers fresh from the States over trackless, snow-covered mountains. Late in June they led reconnaissance troops on Aggatu to make certain that no Jap was still there. And when the Army goes after Kiska, the Alaska Scouts will surely again be in the vanguard...
...their icy tundra dugouts the 10,000 to 12,000 isolated Jap defenders of Kiska were warmed up last week by heavy bombardments from the sea, first since the U.S. Navy raided this Jap-held Aleutian base nearly a year ago. Now, when heavy fogs had slowed up the air force's shuttle-bombing, the Navy stepped in again...
...hardly likely that bombardment alone could shake the Japs loose from Kiska. Like moles, they would have to be ferreted out with sharper weapons...
...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...
...quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed as fast as the Cheechako would diesel...