ON ATTU ISLAND
LAST JAPANESE REMNANTS BEING MOPPED UP NOT MORE THAN 200 MEN HOLDING OUT. SNIPERS IN ISOLATED NESTS. LONDON, May 31. On Attu Island, in the Aleutians, American forces are continuing to mop up Japanese remnants. The island is now virtually back in American hands. Not more than 200 Japanese troops, mostly snipers in isolated machine-gun nests, remain to be mopped up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 3
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64ON ATTU ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 3
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