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...their icy tundra dugouts the 10,000 to 12,000 isolated Jap defenders of Kiska were warmed up last week by heavy bombardments from the sea, first since the U.S. Navy raided this Jap-held Aleutian base nearly a year ago. Now, when heavy fogs had slowed up the air force's shuttle-bombing, the Navy stepped in again...
...battle lines was to walk over mountains where a mile an hour was fair speed. Most of the fighting was done on mountain peaks a thousand feet or more straight up. Some reporters did not get to take their shoes off for days, and the icy Aleutian winds numbed an ungloved hand so quickly that taking notes outdoors was all but impossible. The wind was worse than Jap bullets whistling overhead. You get used to bullets...
...Robert Sherrod, who spent seven critical months last year with General MacArthur's men in Australia and New Guinea, has flown off to the front again-this time to the Aleutians. He arrived at U.S. Aleutian Headquarters just in time to cover the final round of the battle for Attu-and report how U.S. soldiers there were prying out the last Jap snipers with bayonets and blasting out the few remaining Jap machine gunners...
...Japanese admitted the loss of Attu this week. Tokyo reported that the Jap forces perished in a desperate counterattack. The U.S. Navy, more reserved, believed there were still last-ditch snipers around Chichagof Harbor. This belief was borne out by an account of the fighting sent from U.S. Aleutian Headquarters by TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod late last week...
Remnants of Attu's Jap defenders were herded this week into three tiny pockets of bitter-end resistance on the northeast tip of the Aleutian outpost. Because most of them would probably choose death to surrender, several days of mopping-up operations were in prospect; but U.S. troops, in less than two weeks of fighting, had won their most important victory in the Pacific since Guadalcanal...