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Rather than assign the Thirty-fifth Infantry to the Attu landings, planners in Washington gave the job to the Seventh Motorized Division. Until then, the Seventh Division had been training in the California desert for deployment against Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Scrap the tanks, they were told. Instead of a desert-warfare tank division, the Seventh was going to become an Arctic infantry force.
