But how nice to enter a clean environment. I was 25 and I heard the word “whippersnapper” and “wonder boy”. On a rare nice day, I ordered a house cleaning with sleeping bags aired outside and at this time, Cpl. We slept in cots with sleeping bags that after some time, when stepping from the outside air into a dank smelly hut, was quite a shock. Hammett, there were no officer inspections of these huts as we had in the lower 48. Rumor had it that a Colonel received a commendation for the hut’s location.īeing the ranking NCO in the hut that housed many soldiers including D. Farther down the gully, some huts were flattened by the weight of the snow and we heard of a death by suffocation.
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One night with an Adak snowstorm in full fury and while we were all asleep, a soldier loudly announced that we were to grab personal items and leave immediately to a hut near the headquarters building. We lived in quonset huts that were located in a huge gully, situated so that the tops were even or lower than ground level. One was Errol Flynn and another was Olivia de Havilland who was just as gracious in person as she was in “Gone with the Wind.”
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When Hollywood movie people visited the Aleutians, they first visited Cpl. Dashiell Hammett and Robert Kolodny to use in the Post’s daily newssheet called the Adakian. Master Sergeant Carnes outranked author Corporal Dashiell Hammett, which led to Carnes being called "whippersnapper" and "Wonder Boy."Ĭourtesy of Frank Carnes Quonset Hut Living, Adak, AleutiansĮventually, I was transferred back to Adak to maintain the base radio stations with the outposts and copy in code the 10-11:00 PM news from Washington DC. Then it was build quonset huts, move in, and experience a year and a half of dull living. Later, one of our men used grappling hooks to raise one of the rifles. They boarded a ship in the harbor, throwing their rifles overboard. The Japanese had vacated during a prolonged weather storm and a great deal of fog. He was an aide to General Corlett who had us contact all island outposts before the Commanding General would land on the island. Three others and I went down a rope ladder to the landing craft loaded with a snow jeep which had a mounted radio. Then load again, back on the Grant and to the landing on Kiska, August 15, 1943. We watched our aircraft take off and land from their bombing and strafing trips to Kiska Island – especially the P-38’s. The news was that their Navy would sink the Grant and being thrown into the cold water, a soldier would live for only a few minutes.Īrriving in Adak and using two-man tents for several days, again, it was very crowded. One day she had a message addressed to the U.S. And, also listening to Domei radio in Tokyo and the news there by Iva D. It was so crowded that I spent days in the radio room copying news from the USA in Morse code. We were bunked in cots several layers deep with personal possessions and large blue barracks bags. The ship was accompanied by a destroyer escort that zig-zagged ahead of the Grant. She was originally a German ship acquired after WWI. Carnesĭeparting San Francisco in early August 1943 and sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, we were aboard the troopship Ulysses S. Courtesy of Frank Carnes Memories of the Aleutians Campaign, WWII MSgt Frank F.
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