...to this region of almost perpetual mist and snow as little better than penal serviture. Both sides would have done well to have left the Aleutians to the Aleuts for the course of the war." Yet, the North Pacific theater had the lowest admission rate for both physical and mental illness of...

...than penal servitude." In fact, Morison went so far as to argue that both the Japanese and Americans "would have done well to have left the Aleutians to the Aleuts for the course of the war."4 Attu s rendezvous with destiny began as a diversion intended to win Japan a much more valuable...