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Alaska Scouts Led Early Amphibious Ops in North Pacific
The Alaska Scouts formed Nov 19 1941 under Col Castner with four men progressing to a 24 member platoon led by Lt Col Verbeck. They trained in harsh Alaska conditions and conducted reconnaissance in the Aleutians including Adak Amchitka Attu and Kiska as American forces prepared for combat.
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Eadquarters
Alaskan Department
Aleutians
Alaska Scouts
Aleutian
North Pacific
Adak
Amchitka
Attu
Kiska
Alaska
Chilkoot
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Alaska Defense Command
Ing
Lawrence Vincent Castner
ADC
Norton M. Olshausen
San Francisco
Calif
James H. Radford
Tennessee
Donald O. Spaulding
Rexburg
Idaho
William B
Sam) Bates
Ogden
Utah
Corregidor
Col. Castner
William J. Verbeck
Col. Verbeck
Robert H. Thompson
Moccasin, Mont
Thompson
Earl C. Acuff
Acuff
Moscow
Dutch Harbor
Kodiak
Pribilofs
Cold Bay
Umnak