Good write up but some innacuracies: the US Army had been

by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Sunday, May 05, 2013, 16:38 (4165 days ago) @ AkRay

been conducting amphibious landings in north Africa and New Guinea before Attu and had fight the Imperial Japs on new Guinea and Guadalcanal. that this Division had been trained and equipped for the North African Campaign was a major reason they had such a hard go of it in AK. That, and their refusal to listen to the Alaskans sent to assist them in the Mojave.

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