Bloody but forgotten WWII battle still haunts soldiers
Mark Thiessen and Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press, Sunday, May 27, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — William Roy Dover's memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it's been long forgotten by most everyone else.
His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific.
"He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said.
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A lot of people know we did have some battles in the Aleutian islands. I didn't know it was this bad though. See story.
We lost 550 soldiers, Japan about 2500.
