Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These reports told of the Japs successfully digging in on fogbound, rocky Kiska and Attu islands, withstanding 31 U.S. bombings in three days, and even using rock crumbled by the bombs to forward the construction of bomber and fighter runways on Kiska...
...opposing warcraft dueled at long range west of Attu Island, westernmost of the Aleutians and itself some 210 miles west of the Jap base at Kiska--which has been under steady American aerial pounding during the past month...
WASHINGTON--American forces on Guadalcanal are pushing a two-front offensive east and west of Henderson Airfield, the Navy said today in a communique which also disclosed the Japs have returned to Attu Island in the Aluetiana...
...Japanese, who had some idea three months ago of chewing up the Aleutians, last week faced the prospect of having to let go their hold on Kiska, Attu and Agattu...
...Minus. The principal loss to the U.S. was some 600 miles west of the scene of battle: the three islands of Attu, Kiska and Agattu, seized by the Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...