Word: chichagof
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...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...
...friend. All the other suicides had chosen the grenade. Most of them simply held grenades against their stomachs or chests. The explosive charge blasted away their vital organs. Probably one in four held a grenade against his head. There were many headless Jap bodies between Massacre and Chichagof. Sometimes the grenade split the head in half, leaving the right face On one shoulder, the left face on the other...
...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 are pinned on and around a nameless little peninsula that sticks out into Chichagof Harbor - an area from three to seven thousand yards deep and maybe four thousand yards wide. The battle now is a matter of yards...
Such fighting also entails losses. But losses to weather on the slopes of Chichagof ridge may top losses to Jap bullets...