Thanks for all that good information and the good points you make. You are very knowledgeable.
My Dad was a young captain who was Lt. General DeWitt’s aide de camp at the Presidio. Gen. DeWitt was the CO for part of the Aleutian campaign. Dad never made it to Alaska because he was sent to India. He had been in the Cavalry and was needed to transport mules and communication equipment for the CBI build up.
Wow! He was probably on those mule teams to transport stuff over The Hump!
Your dad had some unique mid-Twentieth Century duty there! (of course, the axis powers used more horse and mule transport than we did, of that I am certain)