Japanese occupation of Kiska
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The Japanese occupation of Kiska took place between 6 June 1942 and 28 July 1943 during the Aleutian Islands campaign of the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japanese occu
Japanese troops raise the Imperial battle flag on Kiska after landing on 6 June 1942.
Japanese Type 96 anti-aircraft gun abandoned on Kiska, seen in 2016
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
Japanese occupation of Kiska
…The Japanese occupation of Kiska took place between 6 June 1942 and 28 July 1943 during the Aleutian Islands campaign of the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japanese occupied Kiska and nearby Attu Island in order to protect the northern…
American troops hauling supplies through Jarmin Pass on Attu in May 1943. Their vehicles could not move across the island's rugged terrain.
The Navy radio station at Dutch Harbor burning after the Japanese attack, June 4, 1942
Killisnoo Reduction works (1915)