Battle of Dutch Harbor
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The Battle of Dutch Harbor took place on 3-4 June 1942, when the Imperial Japanese Navy launched two aircraft carrier raids on the Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Fort Mears at Dutch H
Buildings burning after Japanese air attacks on Dutch Harbor, circa 3 June 1942.
Barracks ship Northwestern engulfed by flames in Dutch Harbor after the second Japanese airstrike, June 4, 1942
Front page of the June 3, 1942 Anchorage Daily Times featuring the attack
U.S. Marines observing the battle from trench positions, June 3, 1942
Aleutian Islands campaign
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The Aleutian Islands campaign was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands, part of the US Territory of Alaska, in the American Theater of W
Battle of Dutch Harbor
…launched two aircraft carrier raids on the Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Fort Mears at Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island, opening the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II. The bombing marked the first aerial attack by an enemy on North America, though Amaknak island is not part of the continental US and…
American troops hauling supplies through Jarmin Pass on Attu in May 1943. Their vehicles could not move across the island's rugged terrain.
Japanese troops raise the Imperial battle flag on Kiska Island in the Aleutians on June 6, 1942.
The Navy radio station at Dutch Harbor burning after the Japanese attack, June 4, 1942
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