Ed Helms

And while the U.S.

was shooting at the pips, the Japanese ships sailed by in the opposite direction in a super tight formation under complete radio silence.

The logistics of the Japanese evacuation is also fascinating.

It was an incredibly disciplined and well-planned operation.

The ships had reached Kiska, picked up all 5,000 or more of their troops and sailed away again while the U.S.

Navy was busy shooting at Phantoms.

I have ADHD and logistics just...

make me crumble.

Like the more complex and the more people and the more things are involved in a logistical plan, the more I just like implode.

I can barely comprehend it, let alone plan it and then let alone execute it.

I sort of like freeze.

And so all of these like mass, like just the logistics of war are so overwhelming.

It's your, to your point, it's crazy.

And it was OK with everybody.

So obviously this was a huge, colossal sort of military fail, but the soldiers themselves...

maybe didn't mind so much because one soldier said afterwards that he felt the most horror imagining what would have happened if the Japanese forces had been there and had not abandoned the island.

He said, quote, I think few realize how close to a suicidal assignment our part of the operation was.

Another soldier later told reporters, quote, my reaction, since I didn't have a strong death wish at age 21, was relief.

American and Canadian troops spent the next few days kind of just shaking it off.

They reportedly were riding around the beaches on left behind motorcycles and trucks.