Word: attu
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...another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were new names to raise a challenge to the old, Attu was such a name, and Corregidor, and Guadalcanal, Midway and Buna. There were others and there would be more. They too would be long remembered...
...Japanese admitted the loss of Attu this week. Tokyo reported that the Jap forces perished in a desperate counterattack. The U.S. Navy, more reserved, believed there were still last-ditch snipers around Chichagof Harbor. This belief was borne out by an account of the fighting sent from U.S. Aleutian Headquarters by TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod late last week...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It takes guts...
...fairly high proportion of the Japs on Attu have already been killed. The rest will be killed as soon as they can be reached. So far no Jap has surrendered...