Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you noticed last week that Robert Sherrod of TIME was one of the nine correspondents commended by the Army for their conduct during the 20-day fighting on Attu...
...this week I thought you might be interested in reading something of what Sherrod sent home to News Bureau Chief David Hulburd about a war correspondent's life on Attu...
...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...
...easy to distinguish those who had used our grenades. Their chests and stomachs were both gone. Our grenades, which probably accounted for half the Japs we killed on Attu, carry a much more powerful charge. The Jap grenade is vastly inferior. Some Jap bodies were found beside three or four duds, indicating that the victim had had an exasperating time killing himself...
Pattern of Frustration. The fantastic Battle of Attu may be a pattern in our war against Japan. The suicides obviously were an act of frustration. When the Jap knows he is hopelessly beaten he tries to kill himself, after killing as many of us as he can. But in his anxiety he presses the grenade to his stomach before the plotted time. The ordinary, unreasoning Jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing on Attu indicates...