Aleutian Islands campaign
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[edit] General
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Aleutians theater
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USS Triton (SS-201) at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 16 July 1942
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US Army lands on Adak in August, 1942.
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Casco beached on Adak during August 30, 1942 landings.
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US military base on Adak 18 months after August, 1942 landings.
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Unopposed US military landing at Constantine Harbor, Amchitka, Aleutians, 12 January 1943.
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PBY at Aleutians airfield during rough, winter weather.
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Boxing match outside of mess hall, Allied forces base, Adak Island, July 4, 1944.
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[edit] Dutch Harbor attacks
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Anchorage Daily Times June 3, 1942
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U.S. Marines on alert at Dutch Harbor after the Japanese air attacks on June 3, 1942.
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Buildings burning after the first enemy attack on Dutch Harbor, 3 June 1942
[edit] Komandorski Islands
[edit] Commanders
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Thomas Kinkaid
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Charles McMorris (third from left)
[edit] US Ships
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USS Salt Lake City
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USS Richmond
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USS Bailey
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USS Dale
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USS Monoghan
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USS Louisville
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[edit] Japanese Ships
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HIJMS Nachi
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HIJMS Maya
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HIJMS Abukuma
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HIJMS Hatsushimo
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HIJMS Ikazuchi
[edit] Maps
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Battle area
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Overall track chart
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Ships at 0730
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Ships at 0840
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Ships at 11:55
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U.S. destroyer's torpedo attack at 11:58
[edit] Action and aftermath
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Salt Lake City in action during the battle.
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Salt Lake City at Dutch Harbor three days after the battle.
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[edit] Attu
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Map of Attu.
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Japanese war art entitled "The Landing in the Aleutians" (7-8 June 1942). Japanese Naval personnel move over grassy area carrying a Japanese flag".
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Japanese troops on Attu in the winter of 1943.
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Japanese officers on Attu sometime in 1943.
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Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.
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Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.
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A Japanese tank crew poses with their tank on Attu (allegedly, see photo for note) sometime in 1943.
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Japanese barrack interior on Attu.
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USS Louisville (CA-28) steams out of Kulak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, bound for operations against Attu, 25 April 1943.
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Japanese Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki
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Map of US landings on Attu, May 12, 1943.
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Map of the capture of Attu in the Aleutian Islands, 1943.
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US landing craft approach the beach at Massacre Bay on 13 May, 1943.
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Attu Invasion - Soldiers unload landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 13 May 1943. LCVPs in the foreground are from USS Zeilin (APA-3) and USS Heywood (APA-6).
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Soldiers unloading LCPR and LCM type landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 12 May 1943. Boats are from USS Heywood (APA-6).
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United States troops hauling supplies on Attu in May 1943
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US troops on Attu during the battle
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Attu, Aleutian Island, June 4, 1943. Soldiers hurling their trench mortar shells over a ridge into a Japanses position.
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USS William D. Porter (DD-579) in Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, with other destroyers, 9 June 1944.
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Japanese soldiers killed during the final "banzai" charge on May 29, 1943.
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Dead Japanese are prepared for mass burial after the battle.
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Sign on Attu reads: "Colonel Yamasaki: Yamasaki, a Colonel in the Japanese Army, was killed in action near this point. Colonel Yamasaki commanded all Japanese Troops on the Island."
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Japanese fire balloons shot down near Attu in the Aleutians shown on gun cameras. P-38 in lower right frame.
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[edit] Kiska
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Map of Kiska
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Japanese troops raise the Imperial battle flag on Kiska Island in the Aleutians on June 6, 1942.
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Japanese transport burns after US air attack on June 18, 1942.
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US warships bombard Kiska in July, 1943.
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1943 aerial reconaissance photo
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USS St. Louis bombards Kiska in August, 1942.
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Kiska Operation - Troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943.
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Kiska invasion force assembles at Adak.
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USS Nashville (CL-43) bombarding Kiska Island, Aleutians, on 8 August 1942
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US battleship Pennsylvania bombards Kiska on May 11, 1943.
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Map of US Kiska landings, August, 1943.
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US lands on Kiska.
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LSTs unload on Kiska, August 1943.
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