Attu Battle Of Series738

Top Left: Aboard the USS Transport North Coast while en route to Attu Island. Having just finished an appendectomy, Captain Hollingsworth, Captain Cantley, Staff Sergeant McDonald and Lieutenant Klatman are shown her examining the removed appendix. Attu Island, 4/25/43 Top Right: T/4 Edward Griffith is reveiving first aid for a gunshot wound from T/4 Don Willis and T/5 Albert J. Schindler at Aid Station #12 located on the high knoll overlooking the bay. Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands. May 20, 1943 Bottom Left: Japanese soldiers killed during the battle for Holtz Bay. Attu Island, in the Aleutians, May 19, 1943 Bottom Right: A Japanese soldier killed during the battle for Holtz Bay. Attu Island, in the Aleutians, May 15, 1943

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