Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...