Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The attack on Pearl Harbor and beginning of the Pacific Theater in World War II, coupled with Japanese threats to mainland Alaska along with the rest of the United States West Coast, had already made the construction of a defense access highway to Alaska a priority.
September 4 – 1995 Okinawa rape incident: Three U.S. servicemen serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa kidnap and gang rape a 12-year-old Japanese girl. The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan. October 26 - Mitsubishi Motors releases the Mitsubishi Pajero Junior mini SUV.
The Japanese planned to occupy islands in the Aleutians in order to extend their defensive perimeter in the North Pacific to make it more difficult for the U.S. to attack Japan from that area. The air raid on Dutch Harbor was conducted to support the invasions on Kiska Island and Attu Island by the Japanese military under Operation AL.
October 25 – 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision: A Metra commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. October 28 – The Atlanta Braves defeat the Cleveland Indians , 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title in Atlanta .
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The helicopters were from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment based at Fort Wainwright. The names of the soldiers were not immediately released, pending notification of next of kin.
Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 978-0-88240-810-1. Mason, Rachel. "Attu, A Lost Village of the Aleutians." Alaska Park Science, Volume 10, Issue 2; Office of war history (1968a). Senshi-sosho [the Japanese War History Series Vol. 29. "Navy operations in the Northeastern"] (in Japanese). Asagumo Newspaper Publishing. Office of war history (1968b).
Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign.On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japanese forces since June 1942.