Battle of Attu
1943 battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab),[4] which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater. Attu is the only land battle in which Japanese and American forces fought in snowy conditions, in contrast with the tropical climate in the rest of the Pacific. The battle ended when most of the Japanese defenders were killed in brutal hand-to-hand combat after a final banzai charge broke through American lines.
Battle of Attu | |||||||
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Part of the American Theater of World War II | |||||||
U.S. soldiers fire mortar shells over a ridge onto a Japanese position on 4 June 1943 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States Canada[1] | Japan | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
John DeWitt Thomas Kinkaid Albert Brown Eugene Landrum Archibald Arnold | Yasuyo Yamasaki † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
15,000[1] | 2,600 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
549 killed 1,148 wounded 1,814 frostbitten and sick[2] |
2,351 killed or committed suicide 28 captured ~200 missing or holding out[3] |