Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the fire-fight. It would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island.
(Kiska was in the Aleutians)
And fatal farts, and more, at
We have had the fact list before. It was somewhat disputed on some issues. Ill see if I can dig it up. Please feel free to search yourself in the archive section.
Hence the “- or maybe not?”.
Delete this thread if it doesn’t add anything to the site.
Well the one you mentioned would be totally understandable. Just bad intelligence.
Here’s a link to someone who’s gone to a lot of trouble to try to verify the ‘facts’.
http://www.rglobal.net/user/padagge/WWII.htm