Episode 245-Operation Landcrab

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Americans continue to bomb Kiska, but the Japanese troops are not leaving. Worse, the Imperial Japanese High Command has sent reinforcements. So the US 7th Division from California, along with parts of the 13th Canadian Infantry Brigade have been chosen to land on Attu, to capture the enemy or push them into the sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to the History of World War II podcast, Episode
0:14.9	245 Operation Land Grab.
0:19.2	Last time, as Kiska followed at two in becoming a Japanese possession, the US military evacuated
0:26.2	the residents of nearby islands as the enemy seemed to be coming ever eastward.
0:32.6	Patrol Wing IV and its leader, Captain Leslie Gares, kept up the bombing raids from Atka
0:38.9	356 miles or 572 kilometers due east of Kiska for three days, and in that time 65,000
0:48.2	tons of bombs were dropped.
0:51.5	But it seemed to make little difference.
0:53.6	In fact, the natives of Atka were soon shipped off as well.
0:58.2	No the Japanese had won another round.
1:02.4	On July 26, 1942, Charlie House, the lone survivor of Kiska, as far as he knew, slowly came
1:10.2	out of the hills towards the Japanese camp.
1:13.5	He was soon spotted, but as he was skeletal by this point, the enemy troops surrounded
1:19.7	him, yet treated him with shock mixed with all.
1:24.1	They had assumed the island had killed him weeks ago.
1:28.6	He was given biscuits in tea, but before he could allow himself to relax, a group of
1:33.5	B-17s flew over, dropping their bombs.
1:37.2	The men on the ground shot back at the planes, missing him.
1:41.5	As much as the bombers had missed their targets, but Charlie was forgotten for a few minutes.
1:48.6	The Japanese troops slowly led their captive back towards his original settlement, but
1:54.3	when he laid eyes on it, it was his turn to be shot.
1:58.7	The three original huts were now surrounded by a small town that included a fire hydrant,
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