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(Editor’s Note: This is the
first in a series of articles telling
the story of the Fourth Infantry
regiment’s three years in Alaska
The second will appear next
week.)
By Cpl. Allan Merritt
(Army Correspondent)
Headquarters, Alaskan De
partment — Veterans of three
long years in the bitter cold of |
Alaska and the lashing winds of
its Aleutian Islands, the “Fight
ing Fourth Infantry’’ which
pioneered military development
of tin strategic territory has re
turned to the United States af
ter one of the war’s longest
tours of overseas duty.
The first units of the famed
regiment, which dates back to
the time of George Washington,
disembarked from a ship at.
SewarJ in June, 1940—the very
month the world was stunned
by the fall of France to German
military might. As the remain
der of the regiment arrived and
started clearing ground for what
is now Fort Richardson, Con
gress passed the Selective Ser
vice Act
It was the first organization
of such size to arrive in AlasKa
and form the nucleus for the old
Alaska Defense force. Since that
time, the regiment has written
another colorful chapter to its
history.
Its first battalion, the first to
arrive in Alaska, played a de- j
cisive role in the bloody Battle
of Attu. The graves of many of
its officers and men are marked
by wooden crosses in that bleak
island’s Little Fa Is Cemetery.
The second battalion took!
part in what was perhaps the
largest movement of troops and
equipment by air up to that
time That was last year when
the Japanese moved into the
Aleutians and it appeared th y
might attacK Nome, on the
mainland in the far north. More
than 2,000 fully-equipped troops
were moved there by Army and
civilian planes in an 18-day
period.
Few of the regiment's soldiers
had furloughs during their long
stay in Alaska - - the job they
were doing was too important - -
and today they are seeing their
wives, friends and relatives for
the first time in three years.
Some of them meeting young
sons and daughters they had
never seen.
A few of them, who have
come to know Alaska as home,
asked to rema n in the territory
and were transferred to other
Alaskan organizations. In a few
cases, they had bought property
here and married Alaska girls.
When they bade Alaska good
bye, none had the slightest idea
what the future held in store
for them. Many who spent years
at isolated points, naturally
enough, hope to be stationed in
the States near a fair-sized city
where they can once again enjoy
the comforts and entertainment
offered by civilization A num
ber of them expressed a desire
that the regiment be attached
to a division for duty in a more
active theater of war.
(The next article tells the
part this organization played in
the Battle of Attu.)
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funds to maintain the hospital
legal action for collection of de
linquent debts will be instituted
where necessary.
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