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Attu Island, the Aleutians, May 11, 1943, on the tail winds of a
violent williwaw, the U.S. army and naval invasion force consisting
of 15,000 American boys began the amphibious assault of Attu to
drive out the Japanese garrison of a mere 2,500 still holding the
island. Attu, at the western tip of the Aleutian island chain, was
halfway to Japan. President Roosevelt wanted them out at any cost.
This was to be the pivotal battle of the campaign to finally drive
the Japanese monster off America's soil and prevent a possible
future invasion of North America through Alaska. To the war
planners of Western Defense Command, the odds were overwhelmingly
favorable. Many of the boys were not even equipped with winter
gear. The assault would be a quick thirty-six hour operation. It
turned into a frozen, hellish nightmare that lasted twenty days.
The Battle of Attu ranks second only to Iwo Jima in terms of the
ratio of casualties to the number of combatants engaged for a
single battle campaign operation. In the annals of WWII history, it
was to become known as America's Forgotten War. The author's father
was one of those boys who rode the assault wave that landed at
Massacre Bay and marched up the hogback to engage the Japanese in
one of the bloodiest and costliest battles of WWII. He would become
a casualty, but one who would survive. This book is his story, as
told to his son, the author. It is the story of an army soldier's
journey from a depression era coal region town in eastern
Pennsylvania to the Aleutian Islands half a world away and back
again. It is not only his story, but about the many unsung heroes
of the Aleutian Campaign who sacrificed so much to preserve
America's freedom during the dark days of WWII.
The colony... it was an unexpected connection to mankind's past.
Antarctica. Beneath eternal ice, mysteries humans cannot yet
imagine. When a U.S. scientific research team discovers strange
artifacts out on the ice fields, the government's investigation
leads to an ancient alien colony buried deep below, long abandoned.
Or so it seemed. The tenants, however, had not yet deemed humankind
ready for such a discovery.
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