Most Americans won’t have heard of the Battle of Attu, however this week a joint team of American and Japanese searchers have travelled to remote Attu in the Aleutian Islands to try to recover the remains of over 2500 Japanese WW2 victims from the Battle of Attu.
Attu was the only part of America invaded during WW2 when the Japanese took over the remote island and interred the 45 residents of an Aleut village who lived there. 1/2 of the Aleuts never returned from Japan. Of the 2500 Japanese involved in the fighting only a handful were captured the others either died during the battle or committed suicide when the battle was lost. On the American side there were over 500 casualties out of 15,500 troops. To this day the tundra of the remote sub-Arctic Island is pockmarked with foxholes and pieces of barbed wire can still be found.

Many of the dead were interred in mass graves built using machinery. The modern day teams are using only hand tools to avoid damage so the work is slow and difficult in the harsh Alaskan landscape . This year is the 65th anniversary of the so-called forgotten “Battle of Attu” which both sides saw as a strategic stepping stone between North America and Japan. The resulting battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific, second only to Ito Jimo

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