Bombardment of Fort Stevens
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The Bombardment of Fort Stevens occurred in June 1942, in the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Imperial Japanese submarine I-25 fired on Fort Stevens, which defended the O
American servicemen inspecting a shell crater after the Japanese attack on Fort Stevens
Lt. Cmdr. Meiji (Akiji) Tagami
I-25
The wreck of the Peter Iredale
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
Bombardment of Fort Stevens
…States was attacked by the Axis powers during World War II, and was the second time a continental U.S. military base was attacked by an enemy since the bombing of Dutch Harbor two weeks earlier. Attacks on the United States…
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