Notes:

Whimsical Warfare came about from a discussion on /tg/ on taking well known events in military history and subjecting them to disneyfication in order to make them as innocuous and cuddly as possible. Due to the more general nature of the content, and the lack of a /his/ entry, I felt they belonged here instead of being in the /tg/ entry.

Operation Cottage was a military operation carried out by the Allies in the Pacific Theatre during World War 2 with the goal of capturing the island of Kiska from the Japanese. Unbeknown to the allies however, was that the island had been abandoned by the Japanese 2 weeks prior to the invasion and was completely undefended.

Despite this, the combined American/Canadian force suffered around 300 casualties, with about a 100 dead and a further 200 wounded; which includes a destroyer that was sunk by a mine near Kiska itself.

For more information, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage