On Attu the fighting was over except for the last cleanup, and U.S. fighting men were getting soldiers' burial. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod (one of nine correspondents officially commended for their behavior under fire), wrote the following description of the grim epilogue to one of the hardest battles U.S. soldiers ever fought.
All night long the caterpillar tractors have towed their trailers over the valleys and plateaus between Attu's high peaks. Today 125 of our dead are lined up for burial in the Little Falls Cemetery (named for a nearby waterfall) near...
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