ATTU ISLAND: THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD WAR II BATTLE YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
Nov 7 · 15 min read

Attu Island is a tiny speck of land thirty-five miles long and twenty miles wide. Rising out of frigid northern Pacific waters, it occupies the westernmost spot of the Aleutian Island chain. It lies so close to the International Date Line, the Aleut indigenous people who once lived there used to joke ‘from here you can see tomorrow.’ In early 1943 it became the…
