Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached a decisive stage. . . . The enemy must be destroyed. . . . The situation in Attu was . . . very regrettable. ... It depressed his Imperial Majesty a little. It is Japan's immutable policy to .free Greater Asia from agelong Anglo-Saxon domination. . . . Enemy plans for a counteroffensive have been foreseen. . . . We are meeting them wherever they come. . . ." There was much more, but still nothing to explain convoking the nation's No. 1 sounding board...
...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...
...Navy said last week that there was no further enemy resistance on Attu Is land. A few Japs remained. They would probably die. Score so far: Japanese dead or wounded, 1,791 ; Japanese prisoners...
Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It takes guts...
...fairly high proportion of the Japs on Attu have already been killed. The rest will be killed as soon as they can be reached. So far no Jap has surrendered...