"Banzai Attack on Attu!: US Army Combat Engineers" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 May 2019 3:55 p.m. PST |
…in the Aleutian Campaign "Attu rises like a jagged stone from the churning waters of the North Pacific. Barren, wind-swept, and shrouded in perpetual fog, the island has little relevance to a world that is barely aware of its existence. Yet in 1943, this obscure wilderness was the scene of an epic battle between resilient Japanese occupiers and an American invasion force who were equally determined to possess the island. It was a battle fought as much against the elements as with an enemy, and where a small and ill-equipped band of US Army combat engineers found themselves squarely in the path of one of the largest Japanese Banzai attacks of World War Two…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Major Mike | 02 May 2019 6:04 a.m. PST |
A friends father was a Marine late in the war and sent to Attu. There were still Japanese hold outs in the hills. They felt bad for them so they would regularly leave food and blankets out on the perimeter. That all ended when one night a sentry was killed. He said they then went up to put an end to the thing. They expected to find a handful of starving Japanese in a cave in a depression and had lugged two drums of "chemicals" up to the rim of the depression. An officer had told them that mixing the two chemicals would create toxic fumes. Both drums were kicked over and flowed down into the depression where they mixed. Instead of a handful of Japanese, he said it was like someone had kicked over an ant hill for all the soldiers that came pouring out of the cave. None survived. In late 45, his father said they were busy teaching Russians how to fight the Japanese using amphibious assault right up to the end of the war. |
Tango01 | 02 May 2019 11:25 a.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
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