Attu Station is a census-designated place ( CDP ) located on Attu Island in the Aleutians West Census Area in the U. S. state of Alaska.

Although often considered the westernmost place in the United States due to its location relative to the rest of the country, Attu Station is actually one of the easternmost points in the United States, located at, on the opposite side of the 180th meridian from the rest of the United States.

There is a single North American record of this species on Attu Island in September 2000.

Kiska is shown as Island # 7 ; Attu Island is shown as Island # 1.

With an all-F4F Wildcat airwing consisting of 26 F4F-4 fighters and three F4F-3P photographic reconnaissance aircraft, the escort aircraft carrier supports operations on Attu until May 20 ; it is the first time that the U. S. Navy employs carrier-based photographic reconnaissance aircraft and the first time in the Pacific Theater of Operations that an escort carrier engages in combat.

Chirikov's name is given to Capes of the Kyūshū Island, Attu Island, Anadyr Bay, Tauyskaya Bay, an underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, Chirikof Island and Cape Chirikof at the westernmost point of Baker Island.

However, if the border between east and west is defined by the 180th meridian, the westernmost point is the the West Point of Amatignak Island, as Attu Island is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Eareckson Air Station is located on the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian islands near the larger island of Attu, and is located approximately 1500 miles southwest of Anchorage.

It is the second largest of the Near Islands, after Attu Island.

* Peaked Island, offshore from Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska — westernmost point in the 50 states, by direction of travel, and last sunset ( at equinox ) in all U. S. territory

* Cape Wrangell of Attu Island, the westernmost point of Alaska ( and the USA )

* The westernmost point on land, according to the path of the International Date Line, would be Attu Island, Alaska

Hosogaya's troops were to return to their ships and become a reserve for two additional landings: the first on Kiska, 240 miles west of Adak, the other on the Aleutian's westernmost island, Attu, 180 miles west from Kiska.

The largest of the Near Islands are Attu and Agattu.

After the Japanese invasion of Attu Island and the battle to retake it, the United States government constructed a LORAN station on the southern tip of the island, at Theodore Point.

* May 1 – 7 – The U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force drops 200, 000 pounds ( 90, 719 kg ) of bombs on Japanese forces on Attu in the Aleutian Islands in support of the upcoming American invasion of the island.

The island was uninhabited until the early 20th century, when Aleuts came from Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands to Medny Island.

On 28 May 1943, a small detachment of Alaskan Scouts began reconnaissance of Shemya, a small, flat, uninhabited island 35 miles to the west of Attu.

After a month, in which the Eleventh Air Force units on Shemya and Attu concentrated on attacking Kiska and forcing the Japanese to withdraw from the island, the next mission against the Kuriles was flown on 11 September 1943.

Next Michael journeys to Kodiak Island, aiming to catch a flight from the U. S. Coast Guard to the western island of Attu.

Throughout the winter of 1942 – 43, the Eleventh Air Force bombed Kiska and Attu whenever possible, although the flyers were extremely handicapped by the almost constant fog which covered the island.

Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Near Islands on the left: Attu Island ( 1 ), Agattu Island ( 2 ), Alaid Island ( Alaska ) | Alaid Island ( 3 ), Nizki Island ( 4 ), and Shemya Island ( 5 ).

File: Attu Island, part of the Near Islands. jpg | Near Islands in 2008

By the 1760s, all Near Islanders had moved into a single village on Attu Island.

In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska Islands in the western Aleutians, and later transported captive Attu Islanders to Hokkaidō, where they were held as prisoners of war.

* 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

* 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

* May 11 – WWII: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands, in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

The first Higgins boats for the U. S. Navy were used in the Battle for the Aleutian Islands ( Attu and Kiska ) as part of Squadron 13 and 16, and others ( RON15 and RON22 ) in the Mediterranean against the Germans.

It contains most of the Aleutian Islands, from Attu Island in the west to Unalaska Island in the east, as well as the Pribilof Islands, which lie north of the Aleutians in the Bering Sea.

In March 1943, TG 16. 6 fought the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, then bombarded Attu in April, and the whole force supported the recapture of the Aleutians.

Though comparatively quiet, there was some action with the attack on Dutch Harbor ( 3 – 5 June 1942 ), the Japanese seizure of the islands Kiska and Attu ( June 1942 ), Battle of Attu ( Operation Landcrab, May 1943 ), and " invasion " of Kiska ( August, 1943 ) ( see Aleutian Islands campaign ).

W Aleutian Islands ( Attu to Atka Island ), resident.

* The Battle of Attu, the primary land battle in the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II, which took place on Attu Island in May 1943.

* January 5 – In support of the American occupation of Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands scheduled for the next day, U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft fly photographic reconnaissance missions over Amchitka and strike Japanese forces on Attu and Kiska, sinking two fully loaded Japanese transports approaching Attu and Kiska.

** During a single 12-hour period, the U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force flies 112 sorties against Japanese bases in the Aleutian Islands, dropping 180, 000 pounds ( 81, 653 kg ) of bombs on Kiska and 4, 000 pounds ( 1, 814 kg ) on Attu.

* April 30 – In preparation for the upcoming American invasion of Attu, the U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force has flown 1, 175 combat sorties against Japanese bases in the Aleutian Islands during April, including a two-week period in which 60 aircraft per day attack Kiska.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

* June 3 – In an effort to decoy U. S. forces away from planned Japanese landings on Midway Atoll and to cover planned Japanese landings on Attu and Kiska, aircraft from the carriers Junyo and Ryūjō strike Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands.

* November 7 – A U. S. Army Air Forces bomber discovers that Japanese forces are occupying Attu in the Aleutian Islands.

The village was founded in the 19th century by Aleut ( Unangan ) settlers from Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands.

As part of the Battle of Midway, Hosogaya directed the Battle of the Aleutian Islands and in the invasion of Attu and Kiska and the bombardment of Dutch Harbor.

From 1941 to 1943, Colonel Eareckson personally led all of the difficult missions against the Japanese which were located on two other Aleutian Islands, Kiska and Attu.