[Kathy in Alaska]

Brostrum and the rest of the soldiers from the 17th Regiment were not trained or equipped for artic combat on Attu. Soaked boots, cold weather and was neither properly equipped nor clothed for a northern campaign, for in those days the U.S. Army knew practically nothing about waging extensive winter warfare. Nevertheless, Brostrum and his fellow soldiers from the 17th carried on, and for this action they won a Distinguished Unit Citation.

The cold is so debilitating, but they persevered! God Bless them all.

[ConorMacNessa]

Amen to that, Kathy! They soldiered on through conditions our military had never faced before. God Bless them - they set the standards we have tried to match in later campaigns.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)