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...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...
...ridge cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
Such fighting also entails losses. But losses to weather on the slopes of Chichagof ridge may top losses to Jap bullets...
...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...
...Successes. During the fierce battle of the Santa Cruz Islands last October Enterprise was blasted by enemy bombs and menaced by torpedoes, but fought right through and destroyed at least 63 Jap aircraft - 30 winged by her AA guns and 33 shot down by her planes. Her flyers also laid two 500-lb. bombs on a Jap carrier of the Syokaku class and 2,000 lb. of bombs on a battleship of the Kongo class. That was only one of her busy days...