Massacre Bay is an inlet on the southeast coast of the island of Attu in the

Aleutian Islands The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of 14 large v ...

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

. Massacre Bay was among the landing sites of

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troops in the

Battle of Attu The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab), which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was a battle fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coas ...

in May 1943, which led to the recapture of the island from the Japanese during

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.''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition'', p. 716. Loaf Island is a small island in the bay, named by the U.S. Army during its occupation of Attu during World War II.

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*''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. . Landforms of the Aleutian Islands Bodies of water of Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska Bays of Alaska Attu Island {{AleutiansWestAK-geo-stub