Year Long Battle
Ends In Victory
ATTU ANNIVERSARY
“Today we’re assembled in front
of headquarters.”
Thus started the entry for May
29, 1943 in the diary of a Japanese
officer who lost his life in the last
engagement of the Aleutian Cam
paign on the Island of Attu.
The text of the diary for that
date is as follows:
“Today we are assembled in
front of headquarters. The field
hospital took part too. The last
assault is to be carried out. All
the patients in the hospital were
made to commit suicide. Only 33
years of living and I am to die
here. I have no regrets. Banzai to
the Emperor.
“I am grateful that I have kept
peace of my soul which Enkist
bestowed on me. Goodbye, Gaeko,
my beloved wife, who loved me
to the last. Until we meet again,
grant you God speed, Miseka, who
just became four years old, will
grow up unhindered. I feel sorry
for you, Fokiko, born February of
this year and will never see your
father.”
Shortly afterwards, 1,000 Banzai
dedicated Japanese stormed from
the last line of defense to attack
and die. The desperation launched
attack came very near to succeed
ing. The Japanese overwhelmed
American outposts and swarmed
up a hill. They came under the
cover of darkness and a snow
storm.
Their objective was the Ameri
can beachhead at Massacre Bay
beyond the ridge. All that stood
between them and their goal was
a contingent of road-building GI
Engineers.
They managed to throw up an
improvised breastworks of equip
ment and supplies including cases
of dynamite and laid down a with
ering firepower. The Japanese
first assault was broken and then
the second and last assault of the
Aleutian campaign came to a bitter
crushing end.
Within a few hours the Engi
neers were back at their task of
building the road, a job they un
derstood very well. Under combat
conditions during the preceding 17
days of battle, the Engineers had
biult more roads on the island than
their Japanese counterparts had
managed during the 11 months of
their stay.
Later the ridge where the at
tack was stopped was named ap
propriately enough — “'Engineer
Kill.” The entire Aleutian cam
paign of World War II has come
to be known as the Engineer’s War
because all the installations on the
Chain had to be built from scratch
under the constant menace of Jap
anese guns to say nothing of the
handicaps imposed by gale-like
winds, rugged terain and long sup
ply lines.
The campaign, for all the diffi
culties, was completed with a
smashing victory for the Ameri
cans within 12 months after it
started, almost to the day.
Bob Hall Family
On Trip Outside
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Anne, Jean, Betty and Robby letf
last Saturday morning for Seattle.
They planned to spend a few days
in Washington, D. C. where Hall
attended CAB hearings.
They will visit relatives and
friends in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
North Dakota, Colorado, Oregon
and Washington before returning
to Kodiak.
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