Attu – The Diary of a Japanese Soldier

 

This video is about Paul Nabuo Tatsuguchi, a graduate of the 7th Day Adventist Pacific Union College who studied at the College of Medical Evangelists (now known as Loma Linda University). After graduation, he returned to Tokyo to practice medicine at the Tokyo Adventist Sanitarium, but was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to the Japanese occupied Aleutian Islands in late 1942.

The United States Army initiated the Battle of Attu to retake the island in May  1943. Throughout the battle, Tatsuguchi kept a diary , recording events and his difficulty caring for wounded Japanese soldiers in a field hospital.

Tatsuguchi was killed on the battle’s final day after the remaining Japanese conducted one last, suicidal charge against the American forces.

 

 

 

 

 

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