Aleutian Islands campaign

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General [edit]

  • Aleutians theater

  • USS Triton (SS-201) at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 16 July 1942

  • US Army lands on Adak in August, 1942.

  • Casco beached on Adak during August 30, 1942 landings.

  • US military base on Adak 18 months after August, 1942 landings.

  • Unopposed US military landing at Constantine Harbor, Amchitka, Aleutians, 12 January 1943.

  • PBY at Aleutians airfield during rough, winter weather.

  • Boxing match outside of mess hall, Allied forces base, Adak Island, July 4, 1944.

Dutch Harbor attacks [edit]

  • Anchorage Daily Times June 3, 1942

  • U.S. Marines on alert at Dutch Harbor after the Japanese air attacks on June 3, 1942.

  • Buildings burning after the first enemy attack on Dutch Harbor, 3 June 1942

Komandorski Islands [edit]

Commanders [edit]

  • Thomas Kinkaid

  • Charles McMorris (third from left)

US Ships [edit]

  • USS Salt Lake City

  • USS Richmond

  • USS Bailey

  • USS Dale

  • USS Monoghan

  • USS Louisville

Japanese Ships [edit]

  • HIJMS Nachi

  • HIJMS Maya

  • HIJMS Abukuma

  • HIJMS Hatsushimo

  • HIJMS Ikazuchi

Maps [edit]

  • Battle area

  • Overall track chart

  • Ships at 0730

  • Ships at 0840

  • Ships at 11:55

  • U.S. destroyer's torpedo attack at 11:58

Action and aftermath [edit]

  • Salt Lake City in action during the battle.

  • Salt Lake City at Dutch Harbor three days after the battle.

Attu [edit]

  • Map of Attu.

  • Japanese war art entitled "The Landing in the Aleutians" (7-8 June 1942). Japanese Naval personnel move over grassy area carrying a Japanese flag".

  • Japanese troops on Attu in the winter of 1943.

  • Japanese officers on Attu sometime in 1943.

  • Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.

  • Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.

  • A Japanese tank crew poses with their tank on Attu (allegedly, see photo for note) sometime in 1943.

  • Japanese barrack interior on Attu.

  • USS Louisville (CA-28) steams out of Kulak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, bound for operations against Attu, 25 April 1943.

  • Japanese Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki

  • Map of US landings on Attu, May 12, 1943.

  • Map of the capture of Attu in the Aleutian Islands, 1943.

  • US landing craft approach the beach at Massacre Bay on 13 May, 1943.

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • United States troops hauling supplies on Attu in May 1943

  • US troops on Attu during the battle

  • Attu, Aleutian Island, June 4, 1943. Soldiers hurling their trench mortar shells over a ridge into a Japanses position.

  • USS William D. Porter (DD-579) in Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, with other destroyers, 9 June 1944.

  • Japanese soldiers killed during the final "banzai" charge on May 29, 1943.

  • Dead Japanese are prepared for mass burial after the battle.

  • 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."

  • Japanese fire balloons shot down near Attu in the Aleutians shown on gun cameras. P-38 in lower right frame.

Kiska [edit]

  • Map of Kiska

  • Japanese troops raise the Imperial battle flag on Kiska Island in the Aleutians on June 6, 1942.

  • Japanese transport burns after US air attack on June 18, 1942.

  • US warships bombard Kiska in July, 1943.

  • 1943 aerial reconaissance photo

  • USS St. Louis bombards Kiska in August, 1942.

  • Kiska Operation - Troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943.

  • Kiska invasion force assembles at Adak.

  • USS Nashville (CL-43) bombarding Kiska Island, Aleutians, on 8 August 1942

  • US battleship Pennsylvania bombards Kiska on May 11, 1943.

  • Map of US Kiska landings, August, 1943.

  • US lands on Kiska.

  • LSTs unload on Kiska, August 1943.

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