For the first time Jap resistance cracked under Allied pressure: a garrison was evacuated before the final attack. The cold rocks of Kiska had been gavelled under 106 bombings and 15 shellings from the sea since the first of the month. When U.S. and Canadian troops landed on Aug. 15—expertly primed for perhaps the strongest single operation the U.S. had yet undertaken in the Pacific—they found no living creature except a lonesome dog. The timing must have been hairline: invading Allied troops found a container of hot coffee. Victory it was, but...
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