Word: attu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legend has it that Spam is ham that flunked its physical. Among fed-up fighting men from Attu to Anzio, Spam became one of the most celebrated four-letter words in World War II, gave birth to a flavorsome literature of tales, odes, jokes, limericks. The story was told of a downed flyer who wandered through the South Pacific jungles for several weeks, subsisting on berries; when he finally found camp and was offered Spam, he fled back into the jungles, crying "I'm going to eat the berries...
Dynamic Chemistry. The airplane, operated by scheduled airlines as well as by oldtime bush pilots and private owners, is the tie to the cities for the thousands who live in wilderness villages. Airlines touch Point Barrow in the far north on the Arctic Ocean, Kotzebue on Kotzebue Sound, Attu in the Aleutians. Bush Pilot Don Sheldon, 36, hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives...
...incident last week (three days after it happened), claimed that the B-50, a weather reconnaissance type, had been on a "routine" weather flight. The U.S. lodged a protest. But it was quickly discovered that routine weather flights from Alaska usually do not reach farther west than the Attu area, 375 miles east of Kamchatka. In the Senate, a Democrat and a Republican questioned Air Force judgment in sending the B50 so close to Siberia and wondered how the U.S. would feel about a routine Soviet flight 25 miles off the U.S. coast...
...helplessly rotting in their bunks. Waxell, hardly able to stand, took command. The ship was falling apart beneath him for want of able-bodied men to repair her, when at last, on Nov. 5, 1741 the St. Peter anchored off the barren Komandorskie isle (250 miles northwest of Attu) now called by Bering's name...
...Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World War II's Nautilus went on 14 successful patrols, was the first U.S. sub to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier (the 10,000-ton Soryu, at Midway), and landed raiders before the invasions of Tarawa, Makin and Attu...