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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...
...Attu the fighting was over except for the last cleanup, and U.S. fighting men were getting soldiers' burial. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod (one of nine correspondents officially commended for their behavior under fire), wrote the following description of the grim epilogue to one of the hardest battles U.S. soldiers ever fought...
...night long the caterpillar tractors have towed their trailers over the valleys and plateaus between Attu's high peaks. Today 125 of our dead are lined up for burial in the Little Falls Cemetery (named for a nearby waterfall) near Massacre Bay - one of our two graveyards on Attu...
...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...