June 23, 1943: U.S. Army reinforcements land on a beach in Attu, Alaska on during World War II.  -  U.S. troops invaded Attu on May 11 to expel the Japanese from the Aleutians.

Reinforcements

May 11, 1943: American invasion troops of the 7th Infantry Division approach a landing area code-named Beach Red in the western arm of Holtz Bay, on Japanese-occupied Attu island in Alaska. 


Assault on Attu island

42nd Field Hospital, June 1944. 261st Medical Battalion medics are checking litter patients. Note the discarded life belts. 