ATTU ISLAND LANDING
THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION HEAVY JAPANESE LOSSES (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. The United States Secretary of War, Mr H. L. Stimson, said: “We have reason to believe the Japanese''losses on Attu Island are much heavier than the American. The Americans, aided by the clearing weather, are steadily destroying pockets of Japanese resistance. \ , i , j “The enemy has been cleared from> the Sarana Bay region by the Americans, who hold both sides of Chicago Bay and are attacking along the ridge dominating the remaining Japanese position. Fighting is mostly between small patrols using bayonets and handgrenades.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 5
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