Japanese Soldiers Use Grenades to Commit Suicide
Ridge between the East Arm of Holtz Bay and Chichagof Bay, Attu, May 31, 1943. (US Army Signal Corps)
Japanese soldiers used hand grenades to commit suicide when it was clear that their final banzai attack on Attu on May 29, 1943, would fail. This photograph shows a group of approximately 40 Japanese soldiers who died in this manner; the rest were killed by Americans. The photo shows just where the soldiers fell. Later these bodies were removed and buried.