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Rewrite needed

This is a good article about an interesting guy, but it does need a rewrite. There is one paragraph that I have been struggling with:

"Corlett was promoted to the rank of Major General on September 6, 1942, and placed in command of the Kiska Task Force, consisting of the 7th Division, together with amphibious forces, combat teams, special forces, mountain forces, parachute forces, winter forces, and the Canadian 13th Infantry Brigade—a total of 35,000 men. The task was to plan an attack and take Kiska back from the Japanese, who occupied the only US soil of WW II, both Kiska and Attu, two of the western-most islands in the Aleutian Chain, posing a threat to the U.S. mainland and Canada. Kiska was a Japanese seaplane and submarine base with a well-established infrastructure and an estimated force of 10,000."

Altho' the whole article needs a rewrite, the sentence that begins, "The task was..." is especially poor. I suspect there was more US soil than just Kiska in 1942 -- after all, the lower 48 were not attacked at all ;) . Can anyone help out here? CsikosLo (talk) 13:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]