Visit Engineer Hill, Attu Island, Alaska

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This hill was so named in honor of the 50th Engineer Regt. (combat) who repulsed the last desperate counterattack launched by the Japanese. Here, early on the morning of 29, May 1943 the bloodiest engagement of the Battle was fought. "In a shrieking banzai charge, the Japanese raced up Chichagof Valley in the dead of night and overran U.S. positions. Killing and being killed as they went, they swept through a U.S. aid station where the wounded were bayoneted in their sleeping bags. Yamasaki's wild onslaught carried to near the top of Engineer's Hill before it faltered." ~Paul E. Carrigan, U.S. Navy

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