Japanese book on the Battle of Attu

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Happy New Year's Eve!
I wanted to share this book I just received today, and appreciate any help with translation. It is a memorial book on the Battle of Attu (1943). Can anyone tell if it was made during the war, or postwar?
It has over sixty pages of portraits of the fallen. There are about 2800 soldiers depicted, with their names and information that I presume details their units, ranks, etc.

I have three helmets with provenance from Attu. Unfortunately, only one has the soldier name inscribed in the helmet. "Higuchi".

I would love to locate the portrait of Mr. Higuchi, if possible, in this book. Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese. Would anyone be willing to help? I can scan the 60 plus pages, and send it by PDF if someone is willing to help. It is possible that there was more than one Higuchi at Attu. Does anyone know if there is a searchable roster of the fallen that could help to confirm that one or more soldiers named Higuchi were at Attu? I am going on the assumption that the Higuchi helmet was picked up at Attu because of an inscription inside the helmet, written in pencil.

Thanks!

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[GeorgeP]

I would be very happy to help for i have two id'd techo from attu and would like to match up the names. Please pm me.

Tom

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[keith]

fascinating. My mother had a cousin named Jewel Washburn who was bayoneted and left for dead there.

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The book is dated 昭和十九年一月五日
Shouwa 19 (1944), 5 January.

I'm on an iPhone now but will take a look on the computer later.

As you may or may not know, my late father-in-law was on Attu and Kiska as an artillery officer; so, I also have a vested interest.

--Guy