Searchers digging for days recently found the remains of two Japanese soldiers buried in mass graves on the Aleutian island of Attu, victims of one of the harshest battles of World War II.
At first, old bullets and bits of barbed wire were all that emerged from beneath the grassy tundra — until the end of the two-week mission by U.S. and Japanese representatives who traveled to the remote resting place of nearly 2,500 soldiers.
On May 23, searchers struck their shovels on decaying wood boxes and found the well-preserved bones of the two Japanese soldiers probably buried by their comrades during the 1943 Battle of Attu.