World War Two battlefield on a remote Alaskan island shows the scarred landscape where thousands of soldiers died fighting in hand to hand combat.Satellite imagery discovered on Google Maps of the island of Attu shows the chilling remnants of a bloody battle between the American and Japanese forces in 1943.The Battle of Attu was a bloody, two-week campaign that involved bombing raids.
Thousands of Japanese soldiers were slain in this battle, many of them in hand-to-hand combat.The island Attu lies at the westernmost point of Alaska.
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