- Attu Island - Wikipedia
Attu (Aleut: Atan, [1] Russian: Атту) is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain) It is one of the westernmost points of the U S state of Alaska The island became uninhabited in 2010, making it the largest uninhabited island that is part of the United States politically [2]
- Attu, A Lost Village of the Aleutians - U. S. National Park Service
The residents of Attu, the most remote Aleutian village, had a different and especially tragic wartime experience They were taken by the Japanese in 1942 and held as prisoners in Otaru, on Hokkaido, for the duration of the war Almost half of them died, many from malnutrition and starvation
- Attu Homepage
Attu, the westernmost piece of American territory and largest island in the Aleutian Islands’ Near Islands grouping, is nearly 1,100 miles from the Alaskan mainland and 750 miles northeast of the northernmost of Russia’s Kurile Islands, and 4,800 miles from Washington DC Attu is about 20 by 35 miles in size, the highest elevation being
- Attu’s Lost Village: Descendants of Aleut Community Relocated During . . .
During World War II, Japanese troops overtook Attu Island and took its Aleut inhabitants to Japan The descendants of those prisoners are reuniting and reclaiming their culture
- Battle of Attu - Island, WW2 Winner | HISTORY
In the Battle of Attu, the main conflict of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II (1939-45), American and Japanese armies fought from May 11 to May 30, 1943, for control of Attu, a
- Attu’s Wartime History - NOAA Ocean Exploration
When the Battle of Attu began on May 11, 1943, the 7th Infantry Division, with the aid of a U S Naval task force, executed the first amphibious assault for the U S army during the war
- Battle of Attu - Wikipedia
Attu was the last action of the Aleutian Islands campaign The Japanese Northern Army secretly evacuated its remaining garrison from nearby Kiska, ending the Japanese occupation in the Aleutian Islands on 28 July 1943
- Attu Battlefield and U. S. Army and Navy Airfields on Attu
Located between the cold Bering Sea and the warm Japanese current of the North Pacific, Attu's volcanic mountains and tundra valleys are subjected to year-round storms and dense fog that make it one of the most forbidding regions in the world
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