File:Planning the Kiska Expedition during Aleutian Islands Campaign (22431162748).jpg

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English: Lot-803-3: Aleutian Islands Campaign, June 1942 - August 1943. Planning for the Kiska Expedition. 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 around the table in Admiral Kinkaid’s headquarters are, (left to right):

  • 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):

  • 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.
U.S. Navy photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/11/06).
Date between June 1942 and 15 August 1943
date QS:P,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1942-06-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1943-08-15T00:00:00Z/11
Source Lot-803-3
Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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