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Perhaps you noticed last week that Robert Sherrod of TIME was one of the nine correspondents commended by the Army for their conduct during the 20-day fighting on Attu...
...this week I thought you might be interested in reading something of what Sherrod sent home to News Bureau Chief David Hulburd about a war correspondent's life on Attu...
...Sherrod was in the front lines with our boys on Buffalo Nose ridge, where one of the bitterest battles of the campaign was fought. He saw U.S. soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...
...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...
...Robert 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...