[PAR35]

I read that the U.S. Soldiers that were sent to retake Attu Island were trained for Desert Warfare and not fully-equiped at all for the Winter-Tundra like climate.

That's fair enough, as the armored troops sent to North Africa were the only ones not trained in desert warfare, as I recall.

[ExcursionGuy84]

And, my biggest guess mainly, those Soldiers that weretrained for Winter warfare had their deployments cut out and firmly-set on the Mountains of Italy when the Allies jumped into that theater.