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| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2018 12:39 p.m. PST |
…battle for the Aleutians. Only 28 survived. "The williwaw gusts swirled thick fog among transport ships off Attu Island, and the waiting infantrymen nervously mulled the name of their landing site: Massacre Bay. Native Unangans were slaughtered there by Russian traders in the 18th century, and few who had survived disease were left when Japanese troops captured the island in June 1942. Nearly a year later, 2,000 U.S. troops waded onto the icy shore, bracing for the dreaded shriek of artillery on the westernmost edge of the Aleutian Islands chain. Weeks before it would become one of the deadliest battles in the war, capped by a barrage of suicidal, grenade-wielding Japanese, Americans there found eerie quiet as they marched on the boggy soil on May 11, 1943…"
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 Legion 4  | 16 Aug 2018 3:37 p.m. PST |
Yes, this is often a "forgotten front" of the war. And the islands that the IJFs occupied there was considered US soil. |
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