Word: attu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never saw their first person reports of these raids in TIME (they did not clear in time to catch our issue deadlines)-but still I think knowing about these never-printed stories might make TIME more valuable to you. For it might help you understand better how-from Attu to Salamaua, from Burma to Salerno -we always try to have one of our own men at every probable scene of battle-even if he has to spend silent weeks and sometimes months waiting for the news to break...
Robert Sherrod spent three months in the dreariest hole in northern Australia last year waiting for the Jap invasion to come (one story we're mighty glad he never did have to cover)-and this spring after his part in the fighting at Attu he shivered for ten more weeks in the Aleutians waiting to go into Kiska with the invasion that found the Japs were gone. (Last week Sherrod took off on still another battlefront assignment...
...swamps and jungles so thick that one force of Pioneers, unopposed, could make only four miles in two days. Enemy resistance was spasmodic but fierce. Japs, as before, had to be dug out of holes. Japs leaped from the dark tangled jungles on stretcher-bearers carrying wounded. As on Attu, Japanese hugged grenades, blew themselves and their attackers to bits...
...been mounting steadily since Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. Propagandists deliberately played on the dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses are "ideal for defense," for "there is no danger...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...