File:Kiska Expedition Planning Meeting View 1, circa 1943 (48233305652).jpg

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American and Canadian military leaders in the North Pacific are shown here holding a final conference at the Aleutian headquarters of Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander, North Pacific Force, before the Allied landing on Kiska, August 15, 1943.

Seated from left: Holland Smith, Unidentified, Unidentified, Rear Admiral Francis Warren Rockwell, USN, Commander, Pacific Amphibious Forces; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN, Commander, North Pacific; Major General Charles Harrison Corlett, USA; Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr, USA; Commanding General, Eleventh Air Force; Major General George Randolph Pearkes, RCA, General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Canadian Pacific Command.

Standing, (left to right): Unidentified, Graves Erskine, An unidentified Army officer; Commander R.K. Dennison, USN, Chief of Staff to Rear Admiral Rockwell; Captain Oswald Symister Colclough, USN, Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral Kinkaid ; Colonel Carl T. Jones, AUS, Chief of Staff to Major General Corlett; Brigadier General J.L. Ready, USA, Brigadier General E.D. Post, AUS, Chief of Staff to General Buckner


From the Holland M. Smith Collection (COLL/2949) at the Marine Corps History Division

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Source Kiska Expedition Planning Meeting View 1, circa 1943
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