Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catalina patrol bombers had been circling for hours over a pair of bright yellow rafts in the freezing, gale-whipped sea 90 miles off Attu. On the rafts were six young naval airmen who had crashed. It was dusk and still no surface craft had answered radio calls for help. Now the fuel was beginning to run low in the Catalina's tanks...
...sister-accord, Russia renewed for five years her fisheries pact with Japan. Here too Moscow was tough. It withdrew from Japanese use 24 fishing "lots," upped the rent 6%, banned Japanese fishermen from the east side of Kamchatka (facing Attu...
...fact. Most air men who have been in combat will agree with a B-24 pilot in the Pacific who said recently: "Those poor muddy, miserable bastards* go through more hell in one battle than we could possibly go through in a whole war." Said a Naval officer off Attu: "It makes me feel guilty when I think of what the soldiers are suffering out there, climbing up mountains in the face of machine-gun fire. And here I sit on a warm ship, eating a steak...
Cups That Cheer. In Fairbanks, Alaska, Attu veterans, knocked out of the first round of a basketball tournament, left for their posts with a long winter's supply of panties and brassieres. Explained their captain: "We'll hang them up outside our huts back home and charge the boys at least a dollar a touch...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...