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

Attu Station, a former Coast Guard LORAN station, is located at 52°51′N 173°11′E, making it one of the westernmost points of the United States relative to the rest of the country.

Owned by the United States Coast Guard, [1] Casco Cove CGS is located 1,481 miles (2,383 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska. Also known as LORAN Station Attu, the facility was closed on August 27, 2010, [3] but the airfield remains available for emergency use. [1]

from Washington DC. Attu is about 20 by 35 miles in size, the highest elevation being 2,946 feet (Attu Mountain), and until 1 August 2010 was the home of a small number of U. S. Coastguard personnel operating a LORAN station. The western international date line on average lies at the 180 degree line of longitude in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Dec 11, 2023 · The residents of Attu, the most remote Aleutian village, had a different and especially tragic wartime experience. They were taken by the Japanese in 1942 and held as prisoners in Otaru, on Hokkaido, for the duration of the war. Almost half of them died, many from malnutrition and starvation.

Mar 20, 2024 · World War II came to Alaska with the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor and the invasion of Attu and Kiska islands in 1942. Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy Airfields is one of eight historic landmarks that commemorate World War II in Alaska.

At the Coast Guard station on Massacre Bay is a memorial dedicated to the American naval, air, and ground forces that recaptured Attu. American army engineers and naval Seabees quickly constructed airfields, roads and camps over the eastern end of the island, of which vivid evidence remains today on the slow-to-heal tundra.

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.

Casco Cove Coast Guard Station (IATA: ATU, ICAO: PAAT, FAA Location identifier: ATU) is a military facility and private use airfield on Attu Island, one of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Complete aeronautical information about Casco Cove Coast Guard Station (Attu, AK, USA), including location, runways, taxiways, navaids, radio frequencies, FBO information, fuel prices, sunrise and sunset times, aerial photo, airport diagram.