Massacre Bay (Alaska)

Massacre Bay is an inlet on the southeast coast of the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.[1] Massacre Bay was among the landing sites of United States Army troops in the Battle of Attu in May 1943, which led to the recapture of the island from the Japanese during World War II.[2]

Notes
  1. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 716.
  2. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 716.
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gollark: Even an efficiency maximiser has an ethical system. Broadly speaking. A goal system, at least.
gollark: Also convenience.
gollark: I, of course, do ethical things based on averaging various philosophy-derived ethical systems, arbitrary human intuition, and a neural network thing which weakly approximates average human judgements.
gollark: You can ignore those, but good luck spreading your preferred ethical behaviour patterns in that case.

References
  • Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. ISBN 0-87779-546-0.


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