Talk:Attu Island

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On May 11, 1943 during World War II, American troops invaded Attu in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

Were they sucessful?--Lucky13pjn 20:57, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to read a whole library of books about this island... Gringo300 05:48, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Technically, since Attu is in the eastern hemisphere, wouldn't it be the eastern-most island in Alaska? Like the good trivia question - What's the easternmost state in the US? Not Maine! calhoun 6:08, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

No. Attu is the westernmost point in the US in the eastern hemisphere. Semisopochnoi Island is the easternmost point in the US in the eastern hemisphere, at 179° 46' east. Amatignak Island is the westernmost point in the US in the western hemisphere, at 179° 06' 31" west. --Pascal666 06:53, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

"This, as well as the invasion of nearby Kiska a day earlier, constituted the only foreign occupation of American soil during the war."

I mentioned this to a friend, who asked, "What about the Philippines? Weren't the Philippines American soil when Japan occupied them?" I think he has a point. Neither Alaska nor the Philippines was a state of the U.S., but residents of both were U.S. citizens. Japan occupied both Attu and the Philippines (as well as other Pacific islands).

I think the quoted statement is false. Discussion? --jedwards05, 22 Aug 05

On the other hand, the Philippines are not currently part of the U.S., whereas Attu and Kiska are currently American soil. So perhaps the sentence could be amended to read: "This, as well as the invasion of nearby Kiska a day earlier, constituted the only foreign occupation of what is currently American soil during the war." --Toby Ovod-Everett, 27 Oct 2005

not a diversion

Parshall and Tully, Shattered Sword, have presented a strong case that the Aleutians operation was not a diversion, but a secondary operation pursued on its own merits. For one thing, had Nagumo been on schedule leaving port, the first Dutch Harbor and Midway raids would have coincided in time. In effect, the Japanese were so confident of victory at Midway that they hoped to sneak in the Aleutian operation "on the cheap" at the same time. Midway would tie up any U.S. forces that might otherwise have been sent to the Aleutians. 128.165.87.144 16:37, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree, i read the same thing in the book I cited in the article and changed it accordingly. pw 12:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Map coordinates

Not sure how to change the map coordinates on the AK map, but that isn't Attu (should be 172 E not W. Can anyone change this? Albnd (talk) 12:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Massacre Bay

Was Massacre Bay named after the WWII battle that took place there? If not, then what was the "massacre" it was named for? 204.52.215.14 (talk) 15:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Guentanemo

The article mentions "Guentanemo", but this article is the term in Wikipedia, and most other references in Google appear to be misspellings of "Guantanamo". Is it an error? GCL (talk) 08:20, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I checked it up. The actual place the supplies came from was a landing point near the island. Not a place on the other side of CONUS. It was an error outright.

--Kyanwan (talk) 05:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Postwar

Last line has reference to CNN's article "Japan seeks WWII soldiers' remains on U.S. soil" but link returns 404. Search of CNN.com returns no hits. Xitit (talk) 19:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

UHHHH - Plagarism?

Who wrote this?

Because [on this page: http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/attu-homepage.htm] I see a literal WORD FOR WORD copy-paste of the content - less some additional content on that other page.

NOT COOL.

--Kyanwan (talk) 05:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

West of the Line?

At present the article contains the statement:

"Attu is nearly seven degrees east of the 180° longitude line"

I presume that should be west, since Attu is in the Eastern Hemisphere. Todowd (talk) 17:48, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Lack of accuracy in the infobox

20 mi (32 km). The conversion in the infobox is short by 2 km! Peter Horn User talk 16:05, 17 August 2011 (UTC)