JAPANESE ON ATTU
ESTIMATE OF POSSIBLE LOSSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 2. A Navy Department spokesman said the figure of 1,500 Japanese dead on Attu was based on an actual count of bodies, but the total of enemy killed possibly was fifty or a hundred per cent greater, since it was unknown how many had been killed by naval shelling or buried by their comrades. Thus the exact number of Japanese remaining on Attu could not be estimated. The Japanese had reported that their - men numbered 3,000 at the beginning of the campaign.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 4
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