Henry Suyehiro was already studying at the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) in the Presidio at San Francisco when the war began. After graduation, he served in Umnak, Dutch Harbor, and Attu in the Aleutian Islands.
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I was there (Attu) when the last remaining Japanese made their final push at night, their <i>banzai</i>attack. It was either that or commit suicide or just give up. They don't give up, especially if there is a leader there.
<br><br>And so they came roaring through the valley. The last few came to within about 300 yards of our headquarters. We had gasoline cans ready to destroy any records we had just in case they overran us. But the engineers, the heavy equipment engineers, finally got them stopped....Of course, there weren't that many left that were coming through anyway. But the engineers made the final kill.
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