Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They landed on Adak four days before the infantry. They were on Amchitka long before the main body of troops. On Attu they guided soldiers fresh from the States over trackless, snow-covered mountains. Late in June they led reconnaissance troops on Aggatu to make certain that no Jap was still there. And when the Army goes after Kiska, the Alaska Scouts will surely again be in the vanguard...
...will be just dandy if the Japs persist in their battle technique demonstrated at Attu Island (TIME, July 5), viz. killing themselves rather than surrendering...
...another example, day after day Bob Sherrod sent us fine dispatches from Attu, all of them important because they gave our editors such a clear understanding of how and why the Americans won. From all those reports we quoted only two columns directly in TIME-but all of them were fascinating newscast material...
Lesson from Attu...
After reading TIME, June 28, "Burial in the Aleutians" by Robert Sherrod, I wish that every man & woman . . . could read these lines. . . . TIME'S reporters have brought the war on Attu so realistically to us that I know those who read about it will never kick about rationing points or gasoline, but will give up willingly former comforts and help materially and spiritually to end this...