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Amphibious assault on Attu
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| Title | Amphibious assault on Attu |
| Creator | Bartoletti, Lee F.
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| Subject | World War, 1939-1945--United States
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Alaska
Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943
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| Description | Article about the 1943 American attempt to retake Attu Island, Alaska, from the Japanese during World War II. |
| Contributors | Bradshaw, Earl L., 1923-
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| Date | 2003 |
| Type | Text; Image |
| Source of Digital Manifestation | Digital Collections, James G. Gee Library, Texas A&M University-Commerce |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | All rights to materials within this collection are held by respective holding institutions or individuals with the exception of public domain items. The materials contained within this collection are made available online for educational and/or personal research purposes only. |
| Transcript | In his classic Hisotry of united States Naval Operations in World War Ii, navy Lieutenant Commander Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that the Aleutian Islands campaign could well have been labeled the "Theater of the Military Frustration." This phrase aptly describes the American effort to retake the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese in 1943. It was a campaign handicapped not only by the island's fanatical defenders and the bitter Alaskan cold but also by the many miscalculations made by the Army itself. Yet this important campaign to take back U.S. soil, which witnessed the first American amphibious assault in the North pacific as well as one of the first Japanese banzai attaacks of the war, has been pushed into the background by many historians. Such obscurity is unwarranted and an injustice to those... |
| Date created | 2008-10-24 |
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