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	Attu Homepage
		Attu, the westernmost Aleutian island, is nearly 1,100 miles from the Alaskan mainland and 750 miles northeast of the northernmost of the Japanese Kurile Islands.
		Attu is about 20 by 35 miles in size, and is today the home of a small number of U. Coastguard personnel operating a Loran station.
		Attu was occupied on June 6th, 1942 by the Japanese, and was the site of some of the bloodiest fighting during W.W.II (second only to Iwo Jima) commencing on "D-Day," 11 May 1943.
	www.hlswilliwaw.com /aleutians/attu-homepage.htm (756 words)

	surfbirds.com - Birding Attu; Fall 2000
		Attu is the westernmost island in the Aleutian chain, the undersea volcanic mountain ridge that separates the North Pacific from the Bering Sea.
		Attu is one of four Near Islands, so named by the Russians in the 1700s because they were the Alaska islands nearest to Russia.
		Attu is a fairly large and rugged island, about 40 miles east-west and 16 miles north-south with craggy mountain peaks in excess of 4,000 feet.
	www.surfbirds.com /Features/lastattu1.html (2290 words)

	Logistics Problems on ATTU
		The attack on Attu was a force-projection operation that provided logisticians with many lessons on the effects of terrain and weather on military operations and on soldiers and their equipment.
		Attu is shrouded year round with fog that varies in density and can cover the island from the bays to the mountains, creating extreme overcast conditions that limit sunshine to a few days a year.
		The invasion of Attu demonstrated that indirect fire was useful primarily for neutralization and not for the intended destruction of enemy forces.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/MayJun03/MS778.htm (2494 words)

	Attu
		Attu (CVE-102) was laid down on 16 March 1944 at Vancouver, Wash., by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1139); launched on 27 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Attu was steaming in a fueling area south of the Japanese home islands when word of Japan's capitulation arrived.
		Attu was decommissioned at Norfolk on 8 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a14/attu.htm (553 words)

	ASTER Image Gallery: Attu, Alaska
		Attu, the westernmost Aleutian island, is nearly 1760 km from the Alaskan mainland and 1200 km northeast of the northernmost of the Japanese Kurile Islands.
		Attu is about 32 by 56 km in size, and is today the home of a small number of U. Coast Guard personnel operating a Loran station.
		Attu was occupied on June 6th, 1942 by the Japanese, and was the site of some of the bloodiest fighting during W.W.II.
	asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery/gallery.htm?name=Attu (157 words)

	surfbirds.com - Birding Attu; Fall 2000
		To seasoned Attu birders, all of who carry their own radios, the last transmission was a four-alarm, "general quarters", battle call.
		Attu will likely continue to be a "port of call" for the tour boat, World Discoverer, on the Victor Emmanuel Nature Tours’, "Fire and Ice" birding cruises that depart from Kamchatka in May and sail along the Aleutian Chain.
		The Shemya airport and facility sits on a flat unprotected bluff, whereas Attu is in a cove that is protected by mountains to the north and west.
	www.surfbirds.com /Features/lastattu2.html (3673 words)

	Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
		Attu was listed in the 1880 Census with 107 people; 101 in 1890; 29 in 1930; and 44 in 1940.
		Attu and Kiska Islands were occupied by Japanese forces during World War II.
		Attu was virtually destroyed in 1943 when the U.S. Army mounted a successful offensive from Adak against the Island.
	www.apiai.com /tribeDesc.asp?page=tribes&tribe=Attu (324 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Battle of the Aleutian Islands: Recapturing Attu
		Attu is the westernmost island of the Aleutians, a chain of some 70 islands stretching 1,700 miles from the southwest coast of Alaska and reaching out to within 650 miles of the Kurile Islands.
		Attu was chosen as the first objective, since reconnaissance seemed to show that is was less heavily fortified than Kiska.
		The Attu garrison was put on alert on May 3, and for six days the men stayed in their battle positions.
	historynet.com /wwii/blattu (1210 words)

	Attu
		The ABA area encompasses the 49 continental United States, Canada, the French islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon, and adjacent waters to a distance of 200 miles from land or half the distance to a neighboring country, whichever is less.
		Attu is the farthest out island of the Aleutian chain and being a part of Alaska, birds found there count on the ABA list.
		Attu is the southern most known nesting sight of the Snowy Owl.
	members.aol.com /PbowenD4/Attu.html (7645 words)

	USS Attu (CVE-102)
		The USS Attu (CVE-102) was a Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, named after Attu in the Aleutian Islands.
		She was laid down on 16 March 1944 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1139), launched on 27 May 1944, sponsored by Mrs.
		The escort carrier sailed to Norfolk, Virginia, via the Panama Canal and Jacksonville, Fla. Attu decommissioned at Norfolk on 8 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_attu__cve_102_.html (544 words)

	CVE-102 USS Attu
		Attu was assigned the role of supplying replacement aircraft and pilots to the fast carrier task forces operating in the forward area.
		The carrier sailed back to the west coast on 11 November and, on the 25th, began her participation in Operation "Magic Carpet." In this capacity, Attu made voyages to numerous points in the Pacific to shuttle troops back to the United States.
		The escort carrier sailed to Norfolk, Va., via the Panama Canal and Jacksonville, Fla. Attu was decommissioned at Norfolk on 8 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946.
	www.multied.com /navy/ecarrier/Attu.html (514 words)

	Attu - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Attu, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, in south-western Alaska.
		In June 1942 the Japanese occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska in...
		In the Pacific, US troops retook Attu, in the Aleutians, in a hard-fought, three-week battle beginning on May 23.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Attu.html (90 words)

	Attu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Attu Island is the westernmost of the U.S. Aleutians, actually located in the eastern hemisphere.
		Station was reopened 7/1/38 with thermometers at 5 feet height and moved slightly northwest and 1 foot uphill 9/21/41.
		Attu was occupied by the Japanese in June 1942 and liberated in May 1943, but the climatological station did not resume operations (under the U.S. Navy) until 7/1/46.
	climate.gi.alaska.edu /history/Aleutians/Attu.html (264 words)

	Attu Ski Hill
		Attu Island was the site of a brutal 20 day battle in 1943 as the US fought the Japanese to regain control of this island.
		Attu is so far west, but is only 1 hour off from Anchorage time, so "solar noon" is about 2:30 pm, so even in the winter, there was daylight past 6 or 7 pm.
		Attu was re-taken in June 1943 and was mostly disserted by 1949, so the longest that it could have been in business for Alpine skiing as 5 or 6 years.
	www.alsap.org /Attu/Attu.htm (2446 words)

	Attu--Reading 1
		When the magnitude of their naval defeat became clear, the Japanese canceled the raid on Adak, but proceeded with the invasions of Kiska and Attu; both were occupied on June 7.
		Attu remained unoccupied until the end of October, when fresh troops, including the 303rd Independent Infantry Battalion, arrived from Japan.
		At Austin Cove on Attu's north shore, a provisional battalion landed and began a torturous ascent to the passes west of Holtz Bay--a five-day ordeal resulting in many cases of frostbite.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/TWHP/wwwlps/lessons/7attu/7facts1.htm (1601 words)

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